On 31 January 2010 21:47, Mo McRoberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 31-Jan-2010, at 20:58, Brian Butterworth wrote: > > > Hell freezes over? Or > http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/syndication.shtml perhaps. > > The latter was what I had in mind… > > > I would have a play with get_player on the command line, that shows what > other format there really out there. > > I’m well versed with get_iplayer (though I actually get the FLV, then > transcode, because it’s the best-quality version there…) :) > > 90% of the TV we watch is from the BBC; about 1% of that is watched via > linear broadcast; another 1% or so is watched via the iPlayer site itself. > The rest goes through a maze of twisty-turny passages before it ends up on > my Apple TV encoded as H.264 baseline+AAC-LC at ~3.2Mbps. >
I ended up with a few batch files (of all things), was feeling the need for a bit of teletype to offset the AV experience. Two lines are needed, one to update the internal cache of items, the second to do the dirty download deed. perl.exe get_iplayer.pl --output C:\....\iPlayer --type tv > nul: perl.exe get_iplayer.pl --output C:\....\iPlayer --get --type tv --modes *flashhd *--force --url %1 for my Michael Portillo in HD and perl.exe get_iplayer.pl --type radio > nul: perl.exe get_iplayer.pl --output C:\....\iPlayer --get --type radio --force --url %1 For things that should be podcasts and aren't. I'm sure there's a *--type iphone* - but the only other options I use is this for SD TV, don't care, just get it. perl.exe get_iplayer.pl --output C:\....\iPlayer --type tv > nul: perl.exe get_iplayer.pl --output C:\....\iPlayer --get --type tv --modes * flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh1,flashhigh2* --force --url %1 > Backstage folks may be interested in > http://nevali.net/post/336574970/my-iplayer-statistics-dump - and the > actual data, > http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiL4KfT07LDldEE1OU5KendLZ3ZZWEQ3bTZrZ3dCemc&hl=en(note > the “fetched” date is often completely screwy, ’cos that data got > reset a few times). > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
