When I download progs from BBC radio london, they appear to become smaller than the expected size and my player (Totem Movie Player 2.30.2 on Ubuntu) claims that they're mono. They also appear as mp3. Like this:
$ get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=p01fjv45 --force get_iplayer 2.83-ppa14, 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. INFO Trying to stream pid using type radio INFO: pid found in cache Matches: 12368:Robert Elms - With Oz Clarke, Tom Hall, Philip Pittack and Martin White, BBC London, Factual,Radio INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Checking existence of default version INFO: flashaudio1 modes will be tried for version default INFO: Trying flashaudio1 mode to record radio: Robert Elms - With Oz Clarke, Tom Hall, Philip Pittack and Martin White INFO: File name prefix = Robert_Elms_-_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White_p01fjv45_default RTMPDump v2.4-n78-git3a1e20c-ppa8~lucid (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Connecting ... INFO: Connected... Starting download at: 0.000 kB 104620.728 kB / 10550.90 sec Download complete MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Playing /media/DATA/recordings/Robert_Elms_-_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White_p01fjv45_default.partial.mp3.flv. libavformat file format detected. [lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 0 Core dumped ;) Exiting... (End of file) INFO: Recorded /media/DATA/recordings/Robert_Elms_-_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White_p01fjv45_default.mp3 INFO: Downloaded Thumbnail to '/media/DATA/recordings/Robert_Elms_-_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White_p01fjv45_default.jpg' INFO: ID3 tagging MP3 file $ get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=p01fjv45 --i get_iplayer 2.83-ppa14, 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. INFO Trying to stream pid using type radio INFO: pid found in cache Matches: 12368:Robert Elms - With Oz Clarke, Tom Hall, Philip Pittack and Martin White, BBC London, Factual,Radio INFO: File name prefix = Robert_Elms_-_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White_p01fjv45_default available: Unknown categories: Factual channel: BBC London 94.9 desc: Oz Clarke on his latest pocket wine book, Tom Hall talks about cities that look good in Autumn and East London's last surviving cloth merchants Philip Pittack and Martin White. descmedium: Oz Clarke on his latest pocket wine book, Tom Hall talks about cities that look good in Autumn and East London's last surviving cloth merchants Philip Pittack and Martin White. descshort: Oz Clarke on his latest wine book and East London's last surviving cloth merchants. dir: /media/DATA/recordings dldate: 2013-09-08 dltime: 23:44:12 duration: 10800 durations: default: 10800 episode: With Oz Clarke, Tom Hall, Philip Pittack and Martin White episodeshort: With Oz Clarke, Tom Hall, Philip Pittack and Martin White expiry: 2013-09-14T11:02:00Z expiryrel: in 5 days 12 hours ext: EXT filename: /media/DATA/recordings/Robert_Elms_-_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White_p01fjv45_default.EXT filepart: /media/DATA/recordings/Robert_Elms_-_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White_p01fjv45_default.partial.EXT fileprefix: Robert_Elms_-_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White_p01fjv45_default firstbcast: default: 2013-09-07T09:00:00+01:00 firstbcastrel: default: 1 days 14 hours ago index: 12368 lastbcast: default: 2013-09-07T09:00:00+01:00 lastbcastrel: default: 1 days 14 hours ago longname: Robert Elms modes: default: flashaudio1,rtspaudio1,wma1 modesizes: default: flashaudio1=169MB,rtspaudio1=169MB,wma1=169MB name: Robert Elms nameshort: Robert Elms pid: p01fjv45 player: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01fjv45/Robert_Elms_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White/ thumbfile: /media/DATA/recordings/Robert_Elms_-_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White_p01fjv45_default.jpg thumbnail: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/images/episode/p01fjv45_150_84.jpg thumbnail1: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/programmeimages/episode/p01fjv45_86_48.jpg thumbnail2: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/programmeimages/episode/p01fjv45_150_84.jpg thumbnail3: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/programmeimages/episode/p01fjv45_178_100.jpg thumbnail4: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/programmeimages/episode/p01fjv45_512_288.jpg thumbnail5: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/programmeimages/episode/p01fjv45_528_297.jpg thumbnail6: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/programmeimages/episode/p01fjv45_640_360.jpg timeadded: 1 days 10 hours ago (1378555237) title: Robert Elms: With Oz Clarke, Tom Hall, Philip Pittack and Martin White type: radio verpids: default: p01fjv4m version: default versions: default web: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01fjv45.html $ ls -l Rob*mp3 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 105515008 2013-09-08 23:42 Robert_Elms_-_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White_p01fjv45_default.mp3 Is this expected? Is there any debugging I can do? (And no, I don't mind if "it's simple" - just point me in the appropriate direction) _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

