This is interesting, a blog that they've changed the platform for live streaming.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Building-BBC-Live On 12 February 2014 18:55, Paul Phillips <paulphillipsdidsb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Pleased to report the new HEAD successfully found the Snowboarding > live stream this evening, and recorded the whole thing (2GB). I'll > test it further tomorrow. > > On 12 February 2014 14:59, dinkypumpkin <dinkypump...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 11/02/2014 20:55, Paul Phillips wrote: >>> >>> I think the latest Git Head is picking up the live stream from the >>> player page but something wierd is happening at the end when the >>> stream finishes. That's my hunch. The player pages seem to have >>> things feeding into them - eg the main channel sometimes feeds into >>> them. It's as if they are channels in their own right with different >>> feeds going into them >> >> >> Seems plausible, but I've no real idea. It still seems strange that a >> static resource like one of the event guides would overwrite a live stream. >> I don't understand how an output file would be overwritten at all unless >> they're monkeying with the streams and rtmpdump gets confused. It's >> impossible to tell from the log what is going on. >> >> I've made another change to HEAD that refreshes the values of <dldate> and >> <dltime> for each download attempt for a live stream. Those two parameters >> are in the default value of <fileprefix> for live streams, so the effect >> would be to create a new output file every time rtmpdump croaks and >> get_iplayer restarts the download. That should probably be in get_iplayer >> anyway. I don't know if it will completely prevent files being overwritten >> on your machine, but give it a try if you're feeling brave. >> >> Another approach would be to choose a single CDN and quality (e.g., >> --modes=flashhd1) and --retries=1 to prevent additional download attempts if >> rtmpdump croaks. But if it chokes in the middle of the event, that will be >> the end of the recording. >> >> Anyway, I'm throwing in the towel on this. I'll leave the changes in HEAD >> until the Olympics are over, though. As you said, you can still use the >> "olympics" branch version of get_iplayer with playlist URLs picked out of >> Firefox web console or similar. For anyone keeping score, that means you >> can fall back to the earlier instructions here: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org/msg05225.html >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> get_iplayer mailing list >> get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org >> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > > > > -- > Paul Phillips -- Paul Phillips _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
