On 30/06/2013 17:24, James Moakes wrote:
with the sad demise of Radio Downloader I've been trying to use Get_iPlayer to download radio shows and have a few questions. Is there a way to download radio programmes in higher quality or bit rate?
You always get the best quality available for radio programmes, barring any problems, which it appears you have.
Is there a way to download radio shows in the MP3 or M4A format other than WMA?
You're only getting WMA because of problems access the Flash media servers. See below.
Also what are the various commands used to download radio shows with? Currently I've been using the get_iplayer --get --type=radio --pid=
You don't need --get with --pid, but it's harmless
command with various degrees of success. Sometime a show downloads what I would call normally, other times it is very slow and doesn't look like it's doing anything.
That is because get_iplayer is falling back to WMA recording since it can't connect to the Flash media servers. WMA recording can only be done in real time, so a 1 hour programme takes 1 hour to record. WMA is the last resort when Flash streaming fails, and you can see why.
Here are some of the programmes I've downloaded for you to see, it doesn't make any sense to me but there are error messages in there.
The error message below means the the rtmpdump utility is being denied access either to the network or to the media server:
RTMPDump v2.4 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Connecting ... ERROR: RTMP_Connect0, failed to connect socket. 10013 (Unknown error) INFO: Command exit code 3 (raw code = 768)
There is no way to know how you have configured your machine, but the above error is what you would see if the firewall was configured to deny outbound connections on TCP port 1935 or to deny outbound connections to rtmpdump. It seems unlikely you would have configured those exclusions specifically, but you may have some more general blocking rule configured. Anyway, check your firewall configuration. You also can quickly test if the problem is with the firewall by temporarily disabling it and trying a get_iplayer download.
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