Hi, about once per month 'get_iplayer --pvr' downloads something from Radio 4
for me, attempts to convert it mp3 and fails, leaving it as flash, which I
always have trouble playing or manually converting. I've tried manual
downloads (i.e. not cron calling 'get_iplayer --pvr') but still there are
problems. So I figured it was finally time to ask.
Here I am trying to manually download the same program:
alexis@cercis$ get_iplayer --refresh
...
alexis@cercis$ get_iplayer --long | grep -i 'the dog it was'
12998: radio, Tom Stoppard - The Dog It Was That Died - -, BBC Radio 4
Extra, Drama,Radio, 4 days 3 hours ago - Rupert is a spy, a counter-spy and a
counter-counter-spy. No wonder he's suicidal.
alexis@cercis$ get_iplayer --force --get 12998
get_iplayer v2.80, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
--warranty.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain
conditions; use --conditions for details.
Matches:
12998: radio, Tom Stoppard - The Dog It Was That Died - -, BBC Radio 4
Extra, Drama,Radio
INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
ERROR: Failed to get iphone URL from iplayer site
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: No specified modes
(flashaachigh,flashaacstd,flashaudio,flashhigh,iphone,flashstd,flashnormal,realaudio,flashaaclow)
available for this programme with version 'default' (try using --modes=)
ERROR: Failed to record 'Tom Stoppard - The Dog It Was That Died - Tom
Stoppard - The Dog It Was That Died (b007jnhb)'
alexis@cercis$
If I use '--modes=best' then I do get it:
alexis@cercis$ get_iplayer --force --modes=best --get 12998
get_iplayer v2.80, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
--warranty.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain
conditions; use --conditions for details.
Matches:
12998: radio, Tom Stoppard - The Dog It Was That Died - -, BBC Radio 4
Extra, Drama,Radio
INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: flashaacstd1,flashaaclow1,flashaaclow2 modes will be tried for
version default
INFO: Trying flashaacstd1 mode to record radio: Tom Stoppard - The Dog It
Was That Died - Tom Stoppard - The Dog It Was That Died
INFO: File name prefix =
Tom_Stoppard_-_The_Dog_It_Was_That_Died_-_Tom_Stoppard_-_The_Dog_It_Was_That_Died_b007jnhb_default
WARNING: Your version of flvstreamer/rtmpdump does not support SWF
Verification
FLVStreamer v1.9
(c) 2009 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
Metadata:
duration 4860.05
moovPosition 36
audiocodecid mp4a
aacaot 2
audiosamplerate 44100
audiochannels 2
tags:
©alb Tom Stoppard - The Dog It Was That Died
aART BBC Radio 4 Extra
©ART BBC Radio 4 Extra
©cmt Rupert is a spy, a counter-spy and a
counter-counter-spy. No wonder he's suicidal.
cprt British Broadcasting Corporation © 2012, all rights
reserved.
©gen Podcast
©nam Tom Stoppard - The Dog It Was That Died 02 07 2012
©day 2012
trackinfo:
length 214328320
timescale 44100
language und
sampledescription:
sampletype mp4a
27512.494 kB / 1683.68 sec (34.6%)
The download is much slower than normal and in any case eventually the actual
conversion still fails:
Download complete
FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.1-4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.3, Copyright (c) 2000-2009
Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.3 --prefix=/usr
--enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib
--enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora
--enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib --disable-stripping
--disable-vhook --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-gpl --enable-postproc
--enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared
--disable-static
libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
libavcodec 52.20. 1 / 52.20. 1
libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Dec 21 2011 18:37:21, gcc: 4.4.3
/home/alexis/opt/OSI/get-iplayer/var/spool/partial/Tom_Stoppard_-_The_Dog_It_Was_That_Died_-_Tom_Stoppard_-_The_Dog_It_Was_That_Died_b007jnhb_default.partial.mp3.flv:
Unknown format
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: flv conversion failed - retaining flv file
INFO: Recorded
/home/alexis/opt/OSI/get-iplayer/var/spool/partial/Tom_Stoppard_-_The_Dog_It_Was_That_Died_-_Tom_Stoppard_-_The_Dog_It_Was_That_Died_b007jnhb_default.partial.mp3.flv
INFO: Downloaded Thumbnail to
'/home/alexis/opt/OSI/get-iplayer/var/spool/partial/Tom_Stoppard_-_The_Dog_It_Was_That_Died_-_Tom_Stoppard_-_The_Dog_It_Was_That_Died_b007jnhb_default.jpg'
alexis@cercis$
My 'command mv' then moves the retained flv to a mp3, which for clarity
I manually move back to a flv. 'file' reports:
alexis@cercis$ file *Died.flv
Tom Stoppard - The Dog It Was That Died - Tom Stoppard - The Dog It Was
That Died.flv: Macromedia Flash Video
alexis@cercis$
In my config file (besides 'output', 'command mv ...' and a hideously long
'exclude' regexp) I have:
channel ^BBC (Radio (3|4|4 Extra)|(One|Two|Three|Four))$
modes
flashaachigh,flashaacstd,flashaudio,flashhigh,iphone,flashstd,flashnormal,realaudio,flashaaclow
type tv,radio
sortmatches timeadded
sortreverse 1
aactomp3 1
The 'modes' line is ancient. Should I be using something else these days or is
there
another explanation for the failing download (with the options above) or the
slow
download (when mode overruled on command line)?
This happens on only about 1 in 100 downloads, but somehow it always seems to
be the
ones I most want to listen to :-/
Advice sought please. Thanks!
Alexis
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