Re: Sky at Night
As a quick check I tried again to fetch the relevant 'Sky an Night' episode last night. I was then intending to try alternatives based on previous postings here. With exactly the same default settings as I'd used earlier... it worked fine! Hooray!... but puzzled. So I guess that the programme's setup the previous morning wasn't as normal, and this was preventing my fetching. I've been able to fetch other things I want, using the method I've been using in the recent past. The only persistent recent change is that the rate at which the transfers happen is halved. Down from 60Mbps to 30. The fetches all show as being '/bi' so I'm wondering if a change of CDM might be worth a try? Anyone have any current experience of this making a difference to transfer rate? Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Sky at Night
On 30/12/2019 18:19, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Hi Jim ... On 30/12/2019 17:34, Jim web wrote: I'm having a problem with getting the most recent 'Sky at Night' programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00042l2 My normal procedure worked for that programme last night, the command given would have been : gip --type tv --tvmode hlshd,dvfhd,hvfhd,dvfsd,hvfsd,dvfxsd,hvfxsd "Sky At Night" -g The URL you give https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00042l2 works alright for me both in Firefox and as a URL to get_iplayer as a parameter to --pid. It is an unusual series in that episode 3 was broadcast on 10 April, too long ago for it to be in the cache, which is presumably why you are trying to find some of them by PID. Episode 4, the one you want, was first broadcast 2 days ago and should be in your cache if you have refreshed it. "Sky at Night" as a search string only finds 2 out of 14 episodes, but I guess that doesn't matter if you're only interested in the latest ones. hlshd is no longer a valid tvmode. Best wishes Richard ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Sky at Night
In article <6682de94-957d-ee10-3645-22f4d6597...@macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > Hi Jim ... > On 30/12/2019 17:34, Jim web wrote: > > I'm having a problem with getting the most recent 'Sky at Night' > > programme > > > > https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00042l2 > > > My normal procedure worked for that programme last night, the command > given would have been : > gip --type tv --tvmode hlshd,dvfhd,hvfhd,dvfsd,hvfsd,dvfxsd,hvfxsd > "Sky At Night" -g I've been wondering if something is odd about the actual pid.[1] One difference above is your use of the name string instead. I'll experiment later today to see what happens if I just use the --tvmod alternatives. Sees odd though that this problem seems at present unique to the specific program. Fetched some other programs this morning using my existing method, no sign of problems. That said, I've noticed over the last few days that the fetching rate has halved! i.e. until the last few days I get transfer rates for video of c60Mbps. This has become c30Mbps, which is curious. Jim [1] The problem made me wonder if I was misreading the pid because the standard font on my copy of FireFox makes l L I and 1 all look much the same to my imperfect eyes. However all variants were tried and failed. :-) -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Sky at Night
Hi Jim ... On 30/12/2019 17:34, Jim web wrote: I'm having a problem with getting the most recent 'Sky at Night' programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00042l2 My normal procedure worked for that programme last night, the command given would have been : gip --type tv --tvmode hlshd,dvfhd,hvfhd,dvfsd,hvfsd,dvfxsd,hvfxsd "Sky At Night" -g Regards, Charles. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Sky at Night
I'm having a problem with getting the most recent 'Sky at Night' programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00042l2 I'm using the same method as for earlier programs, In essence as below %s --tvmode=dvfhd --no-tag --pid %s --force --ffmpeg %s --output %s\n (That's taked from the 'C' in my gipper ROX app. The '%s' poke in the relevant values.) i.e. just specifying the tvmode. I usually get the best TV version OK. This simply fails to fetch anything. Works for everything else that has a dvfhd mode available. I've tried using the '-i' mode to fetch details of the programme and the only think I noticed is that it *only* offers one 'version' IIRC 'orginal'. But I'm not sure what in the info may be a clue to the failure. Is there something odd about this programme's data, or am I doing something wrong? Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: The Sky at Night problem
On 13/11/2012 15:59, dinkypumpkin wrote: This appears to be a flaw in get_iplayer. Basically, when you use --versions to request non-default versions of the programme, get_iplayer assumes that the only available alternatives are audiodescribed and signed, so it requests the metadata for the audiodescribed/signed version and bypasses the alternate default version. It does that even though it correctly generates a default2 version identifier for the 20-minute edition. This must be a very rare case, but it should be possible to amend get_iplayer to accommodate. I'll post when I have a fix. I've pushed a fix to the Git repository. Reply here if it doesn't work for you. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: The Sky at Night problem
On Wed, Nov 14, 19:35:23 GMT, 2012, dinkypumpkin wrote: This must be a very rare case, but it should be possible to amend get_iplayer to accommodate. I'll post when I have a fix. I've pushed a fix to the Git repository. Yes, snapshot get_iplayer-2.82-git-fa7d46f works nicely! :-) The following command: get_iplayer --type=tv -i --pid=b01ns1cv --versions=default2 --modes=flashvhigh --force does indeed record the short 20min edition of the programme: INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Checking existence of default2 version INFO: flashvhigh1 modes will be tried for version default2 INFO: Trying flashvhigh1 mode to record tv: The Sky at Night - The Story of Stuff - RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2012-02-24 (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: duration 1205.12 INFO: moovPosition 32.00 INFO: width 832.00 INFO: height468.00 INFO: videocodecid avc1 INFO: audiocodecid mp4a INFO: avcprofile77.00 INFO: avclevel 30.00 INFO: aacaot2.00 INFO: videoframerate25.00 INFO: audiosamplerate 24000.00 INFO: audiochannels 2.00 INFO: trackinfo: INFO: length30125000.00 INFO: timescale 25000.00 INFO: language eng INFO: sampledescription: INFO: sampletypeavc1 INFO: length28922880.00 INFO: timescale 24000.00 INFO: language eng INFO: sampledescription: INFO: sampletypemp4a 75293.457 kB / 409.44 sec (33.9%) Much obliged for your swift response and quick fix! ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
The Sky at Night problem
For anyone not familiar with this excellent monthly astronomy programme, it is first broadcast on BBC One late on a Sunday night (around midnight) as an abridged 20min version, then an extended 30min version first airs on the coming Thursday on BBC Four at 19:30. Both versions are then repeated several times among BBC One, BBC Four, BBC Two BBC HD. For the past years, the practice followed was that the 20min edition was always unavailable on the iPlayer, only the 30min edition was made available after its airing on a Thurday [and the HD version of this 30min edition is never made available, also (???)]. Now the beeb make both versions available on the iPlayer but, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen to give to both of them the SAME pid (programme ID), and just different vPID (version pid). This month's show (titled: The Story of Stuff) has pid=b01ns1cv, the 20min version has vPID=b01nthxz and the 30min one has vPID=b01ns1cq. If I run in get_iplayer this command: get_iplayer -i --type=tv --fields=pid b01ns1cv or this command: get_iplayer -i --type=tv The Sky at Night I can see that the 20min version is marked as default2 and the 30min one as default, but there's only one index in the TV cache (=970 at the time of writing), corresponding to the default version (i.e. 30min). Hence, every attempt to record The Sky at Night by get_iplayer fetches the extended edition of the show: get_iplayer The Sky at Night --get --modes=flashvhigh --force or get_iplayer --pid=b01ns1cv --modes=flashvhigh --force I have consulted get_iplayer --helplong and the obvious solution to add --versions=default2 to the download command simply does not work - it returns: INFO Trying to stream pid using type tv INFO: pid found in cache Matches: 970:The Sky at Night - The Story of Stuff, BBC One, Factual,Science Nature,TV, default INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (default are available) So, is there a way to download the short (20min) version of the show with get_iplayer? FYI, I have managed to download this specific version with another tool (FRD) or manually, by visiting http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/b01nthxz and from there getting the necessary info to construct a working rtmpdump command (with an extra help of RTMPdumpHelper, that is...). But in theory, get_iplayer should also be able to do it! ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
