idevice downloads
According to the Guardian ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/04/bbc-mobile-download-iplayer-smartphone ) iPad/iPod/iPhone users will be able to download direct to their devices and play whilst offline either from today or shortly. In the comments section, get_iplayer is mentioned directly as well, so there may be more traffic on the list. Jimmy -- Jimmy Aitken jimmy.ait...@gmail.com ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Exclude category exception?
On 04/09/2012 01:42, Arthur Murray wrote: As an example, would it be possible for get_iplayer to excludecategory programmes with Sport category, unless it was Golf? Is there some regex magic that would work? Not exactly, but it should be good enough to just use --category=golf. There may be golf programmes that are not also sport programmes, but I imagine that will happen very rarely. Grisly detail: Programme categories are concatenated into a comma-separated string which is matched against each of the comma-separated regular expressions you supply to --category and --exclude-category. Although the BBC taxonomy has a hierarchical structure, which leads to a generally consistent ordering of categories in the concatenated string, with more specific content categories coming before their more general parent categories. In this example, Golf will come before Sport in the concatenated categories list. However, it wouldn't be enough to use --category=golf,sport because get_iplayer will retrieve programmes that match either of those categories. You could do something like --category=golf.*sport to get only sport programmes that are also golf programmes. And if you're mildly insane, you could use --category=(^|\x2C)golf\x2C.*\x2Csport(\x2C|$) be absolutely sure that you only retrieve programmes with categories that exactly match both golf and sport. The \x2C represents an embedded comma since the regex will be split on commas before running the search. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: idevice downloads
In the comments section, get_iplayer is mentioned directly as well, so there may be more traffic on the list. Oh good, a better class of customer from BTL. (only kidding) ;-) This may not be good news, as although I'm certain the BBC is aware of get_iplayer, we don't what to much attention as they may decide to start blocking it. Bill. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Exclude category exception?
Thanks for the details. The use case was for the webpvr frontend, get_iplayer.cgi which sends the parameters at once. I want it to return a list of all programs except certain channels (CBBC,CBeebies,Alba) and certain categories(Children's,Primary,Sport) unless the category is Golf. Doesn't sound possible. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:34 AM, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/09/2012 01:42, Arthur Murray wrote: As an example, would it be possible for get_iplayer to excludecategory programmes with Sport category, unless it was Golf? Is there some regex magic that would work? Not exactly, but it should be good enough to just use --category=golf. There may be golf programmes that are not also sport programmes, but I imagine that will happen very rarely. Grisly detail: Programme categories are concatenated into a comma-separated string which is matched against each of the comma-separated regular expressions you supply to --category and --exclude-category. Although the BBC taxonomy has a hierarchical structure, which leads to a generally consistent ordering of categories in the concatenated string, with more specific content categories coming before their more general parent categories. In this example, Golf will come before Sport in the concatenated categories list. However, it wouldn't be enough to use --category=golf,sport because get_iplayer will retrieve programmes that match either of those categories. You could do something like --category=golf.*sport to get only sport programmes that are also golf programmes. And if you're mildly insane, you could use --category=(^|\x2C)golf\x2C.*\x2Csport(\x2C|$) be absolutely sure that you only retrieve programmes with categories that exactly match both golf and sport. The \x2C represents an embedded comma since the regex will be split on commas before running the search. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Can only watch BBC Parliament and BBC Alba live
On 03/09/2012 00:51, Hawes, Mark wrote:
problems. BBC Parliament and BBC Alba will play live OK but all other
livetv channels (e.g. BBC One, BBC Two, BBC News) will not. I'm
using version 2.82 of get_iplayer (build c3aafce) running on a
slackware 13.7 linux platform and playing the stream out through
cvlc.
The commands I am using are: 'get_iplayer --stream --modes=best
--type=livetv BBC Parliament | cvlc -' which works, while
'get_iplayer --stream --modes=best --type=livetv BBC One | cvlc -'
does not.
I notice that the available modes for the two working channels are
different, with BBC Parliament and Alba playing out OK using
'flashnormal' while BBC One and the other live channels try to use
'flashvhigh2' which is unsuccessful. I have also tried explicitly
specifying each of the available modes for these channels, but again
to no avail.
Sometimes --modes=best won't work and you need to specify explicit CDN
sources in --modes. For example, with BBC One try --modes=flashstd1
and if that fails try --modes=flashstd2. Unfortunately, the 1 and
2
suffixes don't always correspond to the same CDN for successive
invocations of get_iplayer. The stream sources are generated
dynamically and get_iplayer only attempts to stream from the first one
in order. It may require a few attempts to land on a working CDN.
Why is this necessary? The main entertainment channels like BBC One
are usually available on 2 CDNs with multiple encoding qualities on
each.
However, the first CDN selected may not respond for some reason, or
the encoding quality you request may not be available on that CDN, or
you may be attempting to access a geo-locked CDN from outside the UK.
You thus have to point get_iplayer to whichever CDN is actually
available at a given time. BBC Parliament and BBC Alba are only
streamed from one CDN at a single encoding quality, so the above
shenanigans are not required.
Thanks for the quick response. I have done as you have suggested and
seem to have most Success using flashstd2. The command I used was:
get_iplayer-c3aafce/get_iplayer --stream --modes=flashstd2 --type=livetv
BBC One --debug | cvlc -
The stream plays for a very brief period (under a second) and then
stops. The log leading up to the failure looks as follows:
get_iplayer v2.82, 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:
80003: BBC One - live
INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: flashstd2 modes will be tried for version default
INFO: Trying flashstd2 mode to record livetv: BBC One - live
INFO: File name prefix = BBC_One_live_2012-09-04_220356
WARNING: Your version of flvstreamer/rtmpdump does not support SWF
Verification FLVStreamer v2.1c1
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license:
GPL Connecting ...
Starting Live Stream
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Incomplete downloads
Here is what I saw at the end of the download from get_iplayer (happend twice today on the same file): === INFO: sampledescription: INFO: sampletypemp4a 48483.243 kB / 178.24 sec (5.0%) ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header 48563.632 kB / 178.56 sec (5.0%) INFO: Connection timed out, trying to resume. Resuming download at: 48563.632 kB 48563.632 kB / 0.00 sec Download complete ffmpeg -i /dir/filename === case #2: INFO: sampletypemp4a 842113.262 kB / 2889.04 sec (81.4%) ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header 842185.474 kB / 2889.20 sec (81.4%) INFO: Connection timed out, trying to resume. Resuming download at: 842185.474 kB 842185.474 kB / 0.00 sec Download complete ffmpeg -i === So, it was 5% complete the first time, 81.4% complete the second time, but then it became a Download Complete and continued on with the conversion/tagging process. Has anyone seen this before? Is this a problem with rtmpdump (v2.4) or get_iplayer 2.82? Is there any way to ensure this doesn't happen? Once the file is ffmpeg converted it can't be resumed manually, so I had to find the file and force a complete redownload. It is worrying that incomplete downloads can be considered complete and I might not notice it before it is too late. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
