hello Vangelis; i would offer my programming abilities, but I have learned my lesson of programming under the influence of medications. on clearer days I look at it and wonder why i wrote code like that to begin with.
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Vangelis forthnet <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri May 12 01:02:11 BST 2017, tellyaddict wrote: > >> Flash modes seem to be vanishing as well in 2.99 >> and still just about available in 2.96. > > > Having been away all day from home, > I only recently became aware > of the breakage I posted about :-( > > But I was equally p****d to discover that > not only the quick daf modes were gone, > flashaac modes in my GiP 2.97 copy > weren't picked up either... ;-{ > Flashaac modes were very quick for me, > alas I tried GiP 2.96 but still no joy: > > perl get_iplayer-296.pl --type=radio --pid=b08njqcb -i | FindStr modes => > > modes: default: > hafhigh1,hafhigh2,hafstd1,hafstd2,hafmed1,hafmed2,haflo > w1,haflow2,hlsaacstd1,hlsaaclow1 > > Haf* modes are VERY slow compared to either daf*/flash*, > while whereas the hlsaac* ones are much quicker, they may > be corrupted for many programmes :-( > > I guess it's a safe bet to say we're in no luck getting > the flash modes back, as the maintainer has already > removed them in GiP 3.00+ and does not support > that deprecated code... > >> I'm finding it very frustrating at the moment >> since Dinky has stopped publishing fixes >> in the development version on Github >> until the final version is actually released. > > > ... Gone are those days; I can echo your feelings > completely... And he's not willing to divulge any > details in the forums either, so lose-lose situation > any way you look at it... > >> but what has actually changed? >> (snip) >> Again what's changed > > > Well, as you say both MPEG-DASH and RTMP > streams are both present inside the mediaselector API > URL for mediaset=pc, e.g. in the case of my mentioned > radio pid=b08njqcb => vpid=b08njqby => > > http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/pc/vpid/b08njqby > > I am not the most appropriate person to answer > your "what" questions, especially since it's very > late at night here... Obviously something has been changed > in the XML blocks there or in the href URLs > themselves and thus GiP can no longer parse > this data successfully because it's not in a form > expected by GiP; sadly, as I'm sure you know, > I'm not a coder or regex expert, so > can't provide solutions for you/us... > > If it comes to that, DASH manifest files can be > downloaded with youtube-dl, while for RTMP > streams one can always construct manual rtmpdump > commands (TBH though, haven't done that in a > big while...). > > I'm sorry to say this again, but what this "low-traffic" list > needs is for some serious perl coders to come forth and > share their knowledge in a more "liberal" fashion - yes, > the sole maintainer is highly commendable for his > unwanning efforts over the years, but there's a but... > > Goodnight (and Lord Knows what else'll broken > tomorrow ;-( ). > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer -- terry l. ridder ><> _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
