RE: BBC Ceases To Use MP3...
Yes this switch over occurred a few weeks back for Nations programming. I've no objection per se, but unfortunately the switch over has been accompanied by a huge increase in burbling and even breaks in the recorded sound. Whether that's because m4a encoding takes more system resources and the system can't keep pace, or some other fault, I don't know enough to tell. All that I (burble) really know is (burble) that (break) Radio Nan Gaidheal (burble) keeps destroying (break) the music with incessant (burble) glitches, and it's (burble) driving me mad. -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of CJB Sent: 09 February 2015 14:55 To: get_iplayer-request Subject: BBC Ceases To Use MP3... ... well - at least for the Radio Lancashire folk prog. 'The Drift.' This used to download in MP3 format along with hundreds of #'s. Now it appears to be in M4A - the Beeb's usual format for audios. Just an observation. CJB. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Unable to download a pid
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: On Mon Feb 9 17:55:07 GMT 2015, Arthur Murray wrote: Trying to get this in HD: b04xw2x8 (snip) It fails to get (404) (snip) How do I get gip to use it? Your issue has the same root cause as the one discussed in recent thread http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2015-January/007105.html C:\Program Files\get_iplayerperl get_iplayer-291.pl --pid=b04xw2x8 --playlist-m etadata --modes=flashhd --force --raw --subtitles Thanks. I'll try that the next time this happens. And if you are still after the Level 3 HD version, as per your post: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2015-February/007108.html then TOUGH LUCK! (that is if you are accessing L3 from overseas...). I have solved the flashhd2 mode mystery: In the previous week, (almost all) L3 streams were failing (if the servers were accessed from non-UK IPs) with the infamous: ERROR: Closing connection: NetStream.Failed However, many of those were still failing even from within the UK... It has now become evident the Beeb were messing with L3 CDN servers configuration... This week, L3 streams are failing from non-UK IPs with a related error: ERROR: Closing connection: NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound that would suggest the file hadn't been uploaded to the server; however, the same L3 streams DO DOWNLOAD FINE from within the UK (physically or virtually). The Beeb have re-configured the Level 3 CDN servers and have implemented some new kind of geo-filter; in contrast to the geo-block on the Akamai CDN servers, where you are denied access to the stream early on in the download attempt ([ AccessManager.Reject ] : Access denied! shows up in a rtmpdump -V log), with this new geo-filter on the L3 CDN you are allowed to connect to the server, however createStream play error out, hence the StreamNotFound message... This new protection method affects uploads after Feb 1st; older ones (while still available) do not suffer from it... I don't know if that makes sense. Some streams are not found, but some die at some random percent. Why send any data? Why cut off at random times? No one would deliberately design such a wacky system. There are multiple IP #s behind the L3 IP name. Perhaps some servers have more of the file than others. If you wait longer, even more of the file becomes available (sometimes), so it could just be slowly syncing, and maybe sometimes it fails to sync leaving the file incomplete. Prime time shows have a higher percent chance of being incomplete in my experience. It is a busy time with limited bandwidth to L3 perhaps. I don't know if there is a way to use rtmpdump to see if a file is complete on the server (force a resume at 99% without having any of the file?) I was able to complete a full (recent, Feb 1st) HD file 5 minutes ago. (b052tkyt) ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Unable to download a pid
On Mon Feb 9 17:55:07 GMT 2015, Arthur Murray wrote: Trying to get this in HD: b04xw2x8 (snip) It fails to get (404) (snip) How do I get gip to use it? Your issue has the same root cause as the one discussed in recent thread http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2015-January/007105.html I'll assume you are running tag version 2.91 (you fail to indicate which...). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xw2x8.rdf produces no less than 5 po:version entries, with multiple vPIDs= b04xw2x6, b04zq2w0, p02gjlp6, b051c4lc, b0520nmw. Your copy of GiP tries the second one, which fails; URL sniffing has told you that the last one is the correct one. Use the --playlist-metadata switch so that GiP uses the older (but more reliable?) method of accessing XML/JSON playlists to find the vPID: C:\Program Files\get_iplayerperl get_iplayer-291.pl --pid=b04xw2x8 --playlist-m etadata --modes=flashhd --force --raw --subtitles get_iplayer v2.91, 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: Episode-only pid detected INFO: Trying pid: b04xw2x8 using type: tv INFO: Trying to stream pid using type tv INFO: pid not found in tv cache Matches: INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Checking existence of default version INFO: flashhd1,flashhd2 modes will be tried for version default INFO: Trying flashhd1 mode to record tv: - - INFO: File name prefix = The_Super-Rich_and_Us_-__b04xw2x8_default INFO: Downloading Subtitles to 'D:\Vangelis\iPlayer Recordings/The_Super-Rich_an d_Us_-__b04xw2x8_default.srt' RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2015-01-15 (Compiled by KSV) (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Connecting ... INFO: Connected... Starting download at: 0.000 kB INFO: Metadata: INFO: duration3539.04 INFO: moovPosition36.00 INFO: width 1280.00 INFO: height 720.00 INFO: videocodecidavc1 INFO: audiocodecidmp4a INFO: avcprofile 100.00 INFO: avclevel41.00 INFO: aacaot 2.00 INFO: videoframerate 25.00 INFO: audiosamplerate 48000.00 INFO: audiochannels 2.00 INFO: trackinfo: INFO: length 88476000.00 INFO: timescale 25000.00 INFO: languageund INFO: sampledescription: INFO: sampletype avc1 INFO: length 169873408.00 INFO: timescale 48000.00 INFO: languageund INFO: sampledescription: INFO: sampletype mp4a 23985.530 kB / 80.00 sec (2.2%) And if you are still after the Level 3 HD version, as per your post: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2015-February/007108.html then TOUGH LUCK! (that is if you are accessing L3 from overseas...). I have solved the flashhd2 mode mystery: In the previous week, (almost all) L3 streams were failing (if the servers were accessed from non-UK IPs) with the infamous: ERROR: Closing connection: NetStream.Failed However, many of those were still failing even from within the UK... It has now become evident the Beeb were messing with L3 CDN servers configuration... This week, L3 streams are failing from non-UK IPs with a related error: ERROR: Closing connection: NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound that would suggest the file hadn't been uploaded to the server; however, the same L3 streams DO DOWNLOAD FINE from within the UK (physically or virtually). The Beeb have re-configured the Level 3 CDN servers and have implemented some new kind of geo-filter; in contrast to the geo-block on the Akamai CDN servers, where you are denied access to the stream early on in the download attempt ([ AccessManager.Reject ] : Access denied! shows up in a rtmpdump -V log), with this new geo-filter on the L3 CDN you are allowed to connect to the server, however createStream play error out, hence the StreamNotFound message... This new protection method affects uploads after Feb 1st; older ones (while still available) do not suffer from it... As Joey Tribbiani would have said: The Beeb's gotta do what the Beeb's gotta do! V. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: New Linux Installation Question
On 9 February 2015 at 23:33, Budge aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: On 02/09/2015 09:49 PM, Colin Law wrote: On 9 February 2015 at 21:39, Budge aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: On 02/09/2015 09:04 PM, Colin Law wrote: On 9 February 2015 at 20:50, Budge aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: Hi and thanks for the advice. I had understood however that -rwxr-xr-x 1 meant that user had write permissions. I could of course change ownership but why have I not had this issue before? That says that the owner has write permission. But who is the owner? ls -l /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer will tell you. Most likely the owner is root, as you probably used sudo to put the file there. Colin Hi Colin, Yes root is the owner. File is in /usr/local/bin. What is best/correct approach, to give everyone permission, change it temporarily or change ownership? You should not give everyone permission to it. Someone asked earlier what command you were running that gave this error. It should only happen if get-iplayer is attempting an update. In fact it is not a good idea to install manually into that folder anyway. If you were to install get-iplayer from the repository it would overwrite it. It would be more usual to manually install to /usr/local/bin, though that wil not affect the permissions issue. Colin Hi Colin, The problem occurred when I ran get_iplayer from my home directory for the first time, which is when the plugins are sorted out. I cannot follow your last paragraph which appears contradictory. I did install into /usr/local/bin manually as per wiki and I have sorted out problem now. Sorry, you are correct, I misread where you had installed it to for some inexplicable reason. Colin ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Multiple pids - another way, in some cases
On 11/01/2014 03:09 PM, roadcone wrote: For those new to using the command line or terminal and wanting to secure all programs from a series, there may be an alternative to harvesting and entering multiple pids. In some cases the program series may have a series web page. For example, Germany: Memories of a Nation has this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dwbwz/broadcasts/2014/11 The pid from that url is b04dwbwz but that will not --get you anything apart from a list of pids for the individual programs. Add: --pid-recursive to your command and get_iplayer will try to get each individual program. It will fail where the program is too old, not yet broadcast, already in your download history or some other BBC problem and as a consequence, you will get loads of error messages but it will get what is available that you do not already have. This is not a panacea but may help in some cases though do check the downloads are what you expect as you may need to go hunt the errant episode manually. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer Just a quick line to thank you for this brilliant tip. Just lost a bunch of files for a couple of series and this works a treat. They are being replaced as I type. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Multiple pids - another way, in some cases
Budge wrote: Just a quick line to thank you for this brilliant tip. Amen to that, amazing tool - I use it a lot on radio too. On long-running series (like DR Who TV) it will find all old episode PIDs and list them as not available, but just leave it chugging away and it'll get all available content - even the 2 minute trailers etc. Not sure if --pid-recursive is a recent addition, but thanks for it anyway - saves a helluva lot of time copying individual PIDs ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
RE: BBC Ceases To Use MP3...
I'm listening to my get_iplayer download of this right now, and, although it's not as bad as many, probably most, of the January episodes were, there were several little pops in Cathy-Ann MacPhee's unaccompanied rendering of Fath Mo Mhulad from about 6 mins in and since ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050rjwr www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html UK Residents: If you feel can possibly support it please sign the following ePetition before closing time of 30/03/2015 23:59:- http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/71556 -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of Christopher Woods Sent: 10 February 2015 20:03 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: BBC Ceases To Use MP3... If you can point me to some examples, that'd be useful. Chris On 2015-02-10 17:32, C E Macfarlane wrote: Yes this switch over occurred a few weeks back for Nations programming. I've no objection per se, but unfortunately the switch over has been accompanied by a huge increase in burbling and even breaks in the recorded sound. Whether that's because m4a encoding takes more system resources and the system can't keep pace, or some other fault, I don't know enough to tell. All that I (burble) really know is (burble) that (break) Radio Nan Gaidheal (burble) keeps destroying (break) the music with incessant (burble) glitches, and it's (burble) driving me mad. -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of CJB Sent: 09 February 2015 14:55 To: get_iplayer-request Subject: BBC Ceases To Use MP3... ... well - at least for the Radio Lancashire folk prog. 'The Drift.' This used to download in MP3 format along with hundreds of #'s. Now it appears to be in M4A - the Beeb's usual format for audios. Just an observation. CJB. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer -- CustomMade ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Help needed with BBC Collections Archive programmes
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 12:54 AM From: Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Help needed with BBC Collections Archive programmes On Sat Feb 7 15:20:59 GMT 2015, M Clark wrote: Finally, is this the correct place to report 'problems'? There are two more I'd like to bring to attention before they trap others. I have work-arounds so in no way are they critical but would be 'nice-to-haves'. Hello again... If you ask me, the best place to report problems would be the GitHub issue tracker @ https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/issues dinkypumpkin would definitely see it there; you'd have to register an account first... Then there's the Support Forum owned by Square Penguin (registration needed): https://squarepenguin.co.uk/all-forums/ which is aimed more at the average GiP user; dinkypumpkin is Keymaster there... The mailing list..., well you know that already! Dinkypumpkin DOES read it (as your latest issue proved), but recently he stays shy from posting here directly (in fact, his latest post was on Dec 29th 2014...) I am sorry I can't help you further with your issue; I am using custom filenames via the --file-prefix option, i.e. I do not rely on the auto-generated filenames for downloads. Have you explored using it too with the substitution parametres of your liking? http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/documentation#Substitution%20Parameters https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#substitution-parameters Kind regards, Vangelis. Thanks Vangelis for the documentation pointers. For some reason I thought the Options file only related to CLI. Will have a play. I feared your response suggestions :-) . Post 3 times? Hmmm. I did have a problem with broken links on https://squarepenguin.co.uk/ when trying to find out how to use g-ip on Linux. Found info eventually but still using Windows... Regards. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
RE: BBC Ceases To Use MP3...
If you can point me to some examples, that'd be useful. Chris On 2015-02-10 17:32, C E Macfarlane wrote: Yes this switch over occurred a few weeks back for Nations programming. I've no objection per se, but unfortunately the switch over has been accompanied by a huge increase in burbling and even breaks in the recorded sound. Whether that's because m4a encoding takes more system resources and the system can't keep pace, or some other fault, I don't know enough to tell. All that I (burble) really know is (burble) that (break) Radio Nan Gaidheal (burble) keeps destroying (break) the music with incessant (burble) glitches, and it's (burble) driving me mad. -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of CJB Sent: 09 February 2015 14:55 To: get_iplayer-request Subject: BBC Ceases To Use MP3... ... well - at least for the Radio Lancashire folk prog. 'The Drift.' This used to download in MP3 format along with hundreds of #'s. Now it appears to be in M4A - the Beeb's usual format for audios. Just an observation. CJB. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer -- CustomMade ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Slanty apostrophy problem ‘solved’
I'm using WebPVR on Windows and fall foul when queuing a programme that
contains a slanty apostrophy somewhere in its entry.
This abends the web interface and I have to restart Web PVR Manager.
Message is; Can't escape \x{2019}, try uri_escape_utf8() instead at
get_iplayer.cgi line 475.
Thank you Perl.
Changed line 475 from uri_escape to uri_escape_utf8.
Re-ran.
Abend.
Message; Undefined subroutine main::uri_escape_utf8 called at get_iplayer.cgi
line 475, GEN2 line 13.
Thank you Perl.
Changed 'use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape);' to 'use URI::Escape
qw(uri_escape_utf8);'
Re-ran.
Partial success.
Queued: radio: 'Witness - Finlandâs Winter War' (p02jcq3q)
No Perl, that's not what I want.
So backed out changes added the following above line 475 [ $val =
uri_escape($val); ].
$val =~ tr/\x{2019}\x{2018}/''/;
Which gives what I want.
Queued: radio: 'Witness - Finland's Winter War' (p02jcq3q).
Puts on Tin Hat and awaits flak for committing programming sin of hard-coded
magic-numbers.
Also I've had similar problem with, I think, x{2103} or x{2013}, certainly
something else, so I'll have to add to this translate sometime in the future.
So I know a little bit more about Perl but there must be a better solution
given that neither uri_escape nor uri_escape_utf8 can handle this problem
'correctly'.
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Re: Multiple pids - another way, in some cases
It's very useful, I first used it soon after roadcone posted here - thanks. I had just discovered The Infinite Monkey Cage and decided to download all of the episodes of the current series if I could get them. Imagine my surprise when I returned to the laptop to find that it had downloaded all 54 eposodes from Seriues 1 to Series 10! On 10/02/2015 11:58, Andrew Moore wrote: Amen to that, amazing tool - I use it a lot on radio too. On long-running series (like DR Who TV) it will find all old episode PIDs and list them as not available, but just leave it chugging away and it'll get all available content - even the 2 minute trailers etc. Not sure if --pid-recursive is a recent addition, but thanks for it anyway - saves a helluva lot of time copying individual PIDs ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: BBC Ceases To Use MP3...
On Tue Feb 10 03:42:48 GMT 2015, I wrote: There is one notable exception to this at the time of writing: BBC Radio 3! http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/mediaset/http-icy-aac-lc-a/vpid/bbc_radio_three/ http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/mediaset/http-icy-aac-lc-b/vpid/bbc_radio_three/ http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/mediaset/http-icy-he-aacv2-a/vpid/bbc_radio_three/ all produce still working AAC streams Sadly, tonight even those are now DEAD! V. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Unable to download a pid
On 10/02/15 08:01, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Mon Feb 9 17:55:07 GMT 2015, Arthur Murray wrote: Trying to get this in HD: b04xw2x8 (snip) It fails to get (404) (snip) How do I get gip to use it? Your issue has the same root cause as the one discussed in recent thread http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2015-January/007105.html I'll assume you are running tag version 2.91 (you fail to indicate which...). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xw2x8.rdf produces no less than 5 po:version entries, with multiple vPIDs= b04xw2x6, b04zq2w0, p02gjlp6, b051c4lc, b0520nmw. Your copy of GiP tries the second one, which fails; URL sniffing has told you that the last one is the correct one. Use the --playlist-metadata switch so that GiP uses the older (but more reliable?) method of accessing XML/JSON playlists to find the vPID: It seems I may have a couple of files which failed to download during an overnight pvr cron job. Would it be acceptable to include --playlist-metadata switch in prefs so that the pvr download will proceed or would this frustrate the downloads which otherwise would work? BTW what is a verpid please? Finally I used the git head version of GiP for a while but now I am using tag version 2.91. Is there a patched version available which obviates the need for the playlist-metadata switch? Budge ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
