On Tuesday 09 May 2017 at 21:11:00 +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: > For several years I've been enqueueing whole "brands" for radio programmes > to be recorded with a single command like: > > get_iplayer --pvr-queue --type radio --pid=b0072q60 --pid-recursive > > and then downloading new episodes automatically in the middle of the night > with: > > get_iplayer --pvr --metadata=generic > > I noticed that the files in the .get_iplayer/pvr/ directory were all named > ONCE_<pid>, yet that didn't seem to matter. I never knowingly needed to > enqueue the "brand" again for more downloads to occur in the future once > new programmes had been broadcast. > > This all worked well until I upgraded from get_iplayer v2.99 to v3.00. It > seems that the PVR ONCE_<pid> files are now being deleted once any > programme has been downloaded that matches the brand. v3.01 seems to do the > same. > > I've read through the release notes and I can't see this change mentioned. > > Looking at the code in $pvr->run() I can't see why these ONCE_ files > weren't being deleted before. Perhaps something about the download was > always failing previously, so $failcount was always non-zero for me? > Perhaps the new scraping code means that far few programmes are being > considered so it is possible to have downloaded them all, whereas in the > past there were always programmes that were too old that could not be > downloaded? > > It seems that $pvr->run() won't delete files that don't match /^ONCE_/ , > but $pvr->queue doesn't provide a way to create files with any other name. > > Is there a better way to enqueue series and brand PIDs so that they > continue to work indefinitely?
Someone helpfully responded privately to point out that I should be using --pvr-add rather than --pvr-queue. It would appear that --pvr-add only gained support for PID-based searching with 17330748fb260f7345fba7c5c1da2e87b683748e in v2.98, so it's not surprising that I wasn't using it previously. I'll fix my scripts. Thanks! Mike. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
