Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
On 01/10/2012 15:48, dinkypumpkin wrote: A Linux shell interprets those literally as well when passing arguments to a script such as get_iplayer. It's only when they're written to the console with echo, for example, that the magic happens. Fear not the backslash. You learn something new every day! Thanks for the correction. Mark -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
On 01/10/12 13:12, dinkypumpkin wrote: Valid, but unnecessary. The Windows command interpreter hands the path to get_iplayer as-is, without the need for escaped backslashes. [...] No luck involved. The Windows command interpreter just passes the path to Perl as a string, where it is interpreted as a directory path. So in other words Windows only interprets \ and \\ specially, and all the others (\r, \n, \t, etc) it treats literally? How limiting! :-) It would work (at least for Perl apps), but there's no harm in supporting native Windows conventions as well. Internally, get_iplayer uses File::Spec to handle paths portably. Absolutely, I wasn't suggesting that \ shouldn't be supported, Windows users have it hard enough already -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
On 27/09/2012 14:51, dinkypumpkin wrote: Sorry - forgot to correct a typo in your example. Remove the backslash after BBC: get_iplayer -o C:\Downloads\BBC --modes=best --type radio --pid b01mxvr5 That's it! Thanks. I have to say though that I'm surprised the last forward slash for the output option would prevent iplayer from a least finding listing the desired program. Especially when it's not that strict on other formatting in the command line, the = sign for instance. Cheers Dave F. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
On 27/09/2012 18:01, Jon Davies wrote: I'm kind of lost as to what you're actually trying to achieve. If you have a single specific programme you want to download, then finding the pid and downloading it works, but seems like a hard way of solving the problem. See earlier post by dinky' who sorted me out. In most cases downloading by searching for a programme name works fine, and repeating the same command later will get later episodes of the same programme. So taking the command line you originally gave, something like get_iplayer --type radio The Comedy Club Interviews I use my Humax to record series - it's just quicker cheaper. I use iplayer for one off programs, clips of programs that the BBC often put up or if I happen to miss an episode. Cheers Dave F. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
On 28/09/2012 12:32, Dave F. wrote: On 27/09/2012 14:51, dinkypumpkin wrote: Sorry - forgot to correct a typo in your example. Remove the backslash after BBC: get_iplayer -o C:\Downloads\BBC --modes=best --type radio --pid b01mxvr5 That's it! Thanks. I have to say though that I'm surprised the last forward slash for the output option would prevent iplayer from a least finding listing the desired program. Especially when it's not that strict on other formatting in the command line, the = sign for instance. The backslash escapes the quote character, so the value of the -o parameter isn't terminated. That means that get_iplayer never sees any of the following arguments on the command line. This means get_iplayer effectively runs without arguments and thus just returns the full list of available programmes. That's just how command line parsing works - it's nothing to do with get_iplayer. FWIW, since you don't have any spaces in that path, you don't need to surround it with quotes. Without quotes, the trailing backslash would be OK. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
On 28/09/2012 12:44, dinkypumpkin wrote: The backslash escapes the quote character, so the value of the -o parameter isn't terminated. That means that get_iplayer never sees any of the following arguments on the command line. This means get_iplayer effectively runs without arguments and thus just returns the full list of available programmes. That's just how command line parsing works - it's nothing to do with get_iplayer. FWIW, since you don't have any spaces in that path, you don't need to surround it with quotes. I see Without quotes, the trailing backslash would be OK. Thanks again. Dave F. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
On 26/09/2012 16:55, dinkypumpkin wrote: From your example, the command line should look like: get_iplayer -o C:\Downloads\BBC\ --modes=best --type radio --pid b01mxvr5 From the DOS prompt of a command window I get the same list of programs as described before. How are you running this command? Cheers Dave F. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
On 27/09/2012 14:38, Dave F. wrote: On 26/09/2012 16:55, dinkypumpkin wrote: From your example, the command line should look like: get_iplayer -o C:\Downloads\BBC\ --modes=best --type radio --pid b01mxvr5 From the DOS prompt of a command window I get the same list of programs as described before. How are you running this command? Sorry - forgot to correct a typo in your example. Remove the backslash after BBC: get_iplayer -o C:\Downloads\BBC --modes=best --type radio --pid b01mxvr5 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
Hi I haven't been able to download using PID for ages but finally got some spare time to try solve it. I'm using Windows 7. I did an uninstall using iplayers own utility loaded the get_iplayer_setup_latest.exe (2.82) I have a shortcut on my desktop with the Target command line: C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.cmd -o C:\Downloads\BBC\ --modes=flashaaclow,flashaacstd,rtspaaclow,rtspaacstd,wma --pid b012klt2 I've tried it without the --modes option, also with/out the --type=radio (is that required when using the specific --pid?). Hope you can help Cheers Dave F. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
On 26/09/2012 13:42, Jon Davies wrote: On 26 September 2012 12:59, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages but finally got some spare time to try solve it. [...] C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.cmd -o C:\Downloads\BBC\ --modes=flashaaclow,flashaacstd,rtspaaclow,rtspaacstd,wma --pid b012klt2 You should read the messages that get_iplayer gives you, specifically this one, which appears at the end after a long list of episodes: I'm not getting any messages. The output file has the warranty disclaimer followed by a list of 'matched' programs ends with INFO: 974 Matching Programmes INFO: Please run the command again using one of the above episode PIDs or to get all programmes add the --pid-recursive option I may have given you a wrong PID. I wasn't trying to record a whole series/brand, just one show. Try this one: C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.cmd -o C:\Downloads\BBC\ --refresh --force -f --modes=best --pid b01mxvr5 --i -v Which should be this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mxvr5 I've added a couple of other options to hopefully help but didn't. Cheers Dave F. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
-Original Message- From: Dave F. Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:25 PM To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages Try this one: C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.cmd -o C:\Downloads\BBC\ --refresh --force -f --modes=best --pid b01mxvr5 --i -v Surely it's pid= not, pid , is it not? That's what I always use and it works fine. Eg, get_iplayer --mode=flashhigh --pid=b01n1tbz should download episode 2 of the BBC4 series Love and Marriage. Cheers, Chris ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
On 26/09/2012 14:25, Dave F. wrote: Try this one: C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.cmd -o C:\Downloads\BBC\ --refresh --force -f --modes=best --pid b01mxvr5 --i -v From your example, the command line should look like: get_iplayer -o C:\Downloads\BBC\ --modes=best --type radio --pid b01mxvr5 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
-Original Message- From: dinkypumpkin Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:06 PM To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages On 26/09/2012 16:31, Chris Marriott wrote: Surely it's pid= not, pid , is it not? That's what I always Either form is OK for get_iplayer Thanks for clarifying that - I didn't know! The form of the command that I posted is what I use daily, and it always works for me. Chris ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
RE: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
Using --raw obviates the transcoding (yeurgh). use FLVExtract to rip out AAC from the FLVs and then use YAMB (or MP4Box if you're not lazy like me) to remux as an M4A and get it seekable. For videos, I just leave as FLV as MPC can parse and decode them fine natively; when I remuxed as MP4 I had frame drift for whatever reason... and at that point I was happy enough anyway with the H.264 FLVs. :-) Hi Surely for m4a/mp4 files get_iplayer uses FFmpeg to do just what you're doing with FLVExtract and YAMB? Not 'transcoding', only re-packaging. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
Some interesting comments all, thanks. The reason I put --pid at the end of my string is partially to stop me from forgetting to change it ;-) And I only ever use get_iplayer to grab stuff for which I've already found the PID for, I always found its PVR features a little cumbersome for what I wanted. My explicit SWFVfy declaration was after the default player URL was removed by the BBC so rtmpdump was having problems with dropped frames and corrupt downloads, particularly on the HD content. I was under the impression get_iplayer still transcoded to MP3? I'm using 2.79 on Windows; I remember a lot of discussion a while back about the quality of the downloads and people asking how to stop it from transcoding. I left it as-is because I remember a few things being broken in updates pushed out - but if newer versions have those bugs squished and have a newer build of ffmpeg rolled in, I'll certainly give that a try. I'm a sucker for metadata. Undoubtedly YAMB is a bit long in the tooth now, I've only just got used to some of its UI quirks ;-) On 26/09/2012 19:26, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 26/09/2012 18:19, Christopher Woods (CM) wrote: Some clarification for new users - get_iplayer --raw --output G:\iplayer\raw\ --modes flashaachigh,flashaac,flashaacstd,flashaudio,flashaaclow --rtmptvopts --swfVfy http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/revisions/18269_21576_10player.swf; --rtmpradioopts --swfVfy http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/revisions/18269_21576_10player.swf; --force --get --type=liveradio --pid=pidhere The --swfvfy value is built into get_iplayer. There is no need to use it on a command line unless you know of a case where the built-in value no longer works. Also, you don't need --get if you specify --pid. Think of --pid as shortcut to download a specific programme when you already know its unique identifier. a liveradio category result for the pid you enter. My golden rule is to always have --pid or --url at the very end of the string. Specifying the 10player URL stopped frame drops in videos when rtmpdump couldn't swfvfy properly. There is no need to put --url or --pid at the end of your command line. get_iplayer's argument parsing is not sensitive to entry order. Using --raw obviates the transcoding (yeurgh). use FLVExtract to rip out AAC from the FLVs and then use YAMB (or MP4Box if you're not lazy like me) to remux as an M4A and get it seekable. For videos, I just leave as FLV as MPC can parse and decode them fine natively; when I remuxed as MP4 I had frame drift for whatever reason... and at that point I was happy enough anyway with the H.264 FLVs. :-) To echo Señor Guano: get_iplayer does not transcode. You only need to re-mux files yourself if you wish to use a different tool or different parameters. If you prefer to use --raw and stick with FLV files, that's fine. But if you prefer to re-mux files to MP4 format and get metadata tags, etc., the combination of get_iplayer and ffmpeg works pretty well. If you're using YAMB and consistently seeing drift in re-muxed video, get an up-to-date version of ffmpeg and let get_iplayer re-mux a few programmes and then compare the results. No guarantee it will be better, but ffmpeg (as well as MP4Box) has come along a bit since YAMB was released a few years ago. ___ 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: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
On 26/09/2012 23:02, Christopher Woods (CM) wrote: My explicit SWFVfy declaration was after the default player URL was removed by the BBC so rtmpdump was having problems with dropped frames and corrupt downloads, particularly on the HD content. The BBC has gone through several generations of player URLs. At one time they would delete or move old ones when a new ones came online, but that hasn't happened for quite a while. You do need the player URL for HD programmes in order to avoid continual dropping/reconnecting while downloading, but the built-in value in get_iplayer 2.80+ has been working fine for the last 18 months or so. I was under the impression get_iplayer still transcoded to MP3? I'm using 2.79 on Windows; I remember a lot of discussion a while back about MP3 transcoding was done for realaudio streams, but those are long dead, though the code remains in get_iplayer. get_iplayer 2.80+ has the --aactomp3 to give you option of transcoding national radio programmes from AAC audio to MP3 (with metadata) if you prefer that to M4A. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
