Thanks for letting us know about this. Would you like to make your script available for others to use?
Simon James Scholes wrote:
Hi all, I've been investigating the BBC's offerings that they're making available via MPEG-DASH today, specifically for radio content. It appears that audio is available in 320kbps AAC for most radio programs (possibly all but I wouldn't want to claim such). The files aren't DRM-protected, can be grabbed over HTTP, and joined together using ffmpeg. Example from Radio 4 Extra, using a script I whipped up: C:\Users\jscholes\dev>python radiodownload.py b0081rx2 INFO: Downloading PID: b0081rx2 INFO: Program title: Agatha Christie - The Sittaford Mystery, The Message INFO: Trying 1 program version(s). INFO: Using version: Original version (b0081rw9) INFO: Found 1 selection(s) in mediaset INFO: Using first available media selection INFO: AAC at 320kbps (stream-uk-audio_streaming_concrete_combined/audio/mp4) INFO: 2 connections available for this selection INFO: Using first available connection INFO: Connection with priority 1, URL: http://aod-dash-uk-live.edgesuite.net/usp/auth/vod/piff_abr_full_audio/ebaf54-b0081rw9/vf_b0081rw9_3b18b1b1-b5d1-48f3-b620-efb65f6ae058.ism/pc_hd_abr_v1_uk_dash_master.mpd?__gda__=1451545239_645f0c2e24c2fd8036cfa9da1c6884a4 This quality would be a considerable improvement over the current maximum of 128kbps available with RTMP streams used by get_iplayer (Radio 3 aside). However I'm a newcomer to all of this so I wondered if there were any technical reasons this shouldn't or couldn't be implemented into GiP in the future? I download a lot of radio programs so I would possibly be interested in implementing it myself. Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
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