In article 545ecc0f.5040...@jifvik.org, Jonathan Larmour
j...@jifvik.org wrote:
On 08/11/14 23:05, Peter S Kirk wrote:
Yes, David runs the list. However, he should respect the preferences
of list members who as you say almost no-one else on the list agrees
with him in principle.
I very
For the moment I'm occupied with fixing things still broken by the loss
of the programme feeds, but HDS is a can of worms that will have to be
opened eventually. The BBC have already declared they are moving to HDS
for AOD in 2015. If they are going to use the switch to bring in DRM (a
In article 1415481888.17370.89.ca...@infradead.org,
David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote:
As Owen says, this has been discussed before.
Your email client - every email client - has (at least) two options for
*how* to reply to an email.
First there's the private reply which goes only
True, you can do that, but ...
1) It is mainly the calling of external programs that causes stuttering to
other processes
2) I often forget to start get_iplayer with nice, and it's nice to have the
fallback position of the worst offenders being controlled anyway.
If you want
On 09/11/14 10:27, Jim Lesurf wrote:
For the moment I'm occupied with fixing things still broken by the loss
of the programme feeds, but HDS is a can of worms that will have to be
opened eventually. The BBC have already declared they are moving to HDS
for AOD in 2015. If they are going to
Yes, David runs the list. However, he should respect the preferences of
list members who as you say almost no-one else on the list agrees with
him
in principle.
No. I have already explained why things are thw way they are, and the
problems we cause by doing things differently.
I am
You've evidently not seen the open data charter:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-data-charter
No, I hadn't. Thanks for the link. Wrt to the current situation, one of
the interesting paragraphs linked above reads:
13) We recognise that the term government data is
On 8 Nov 2014 22:41, Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote:
People don't always agree to their postings being published
elsewhere, or their email address being publicised outside of the
lists they have subscribed to.
The vast majority (citation needed!) of mailing lists are public and
In article 545f5658.3030...@gmail.com, michael norman
michaeltnor...@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/11/14 10:27, Jim Lesurf wrote:
FWIW I've just written an 'opinion' column for Hi Fi News magazine
about the way the BBC dropped the feeds and raising the general issue
Have you put it on your own
On 09/11/2014 11:18, C E Macfarlane wrote:
True, you can do that, but ...
1) It is mainly the calling of external programs that causes stuttering to
other processes
2) I often forget to start get_iplayer with nice, and it's nice to have the
fallback position of the worst offenders
On 09/11/14 13:18, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
On 09/11/2014 11:18, C E Macfarlane wrote:
True, you can do that, but ...
1)It is mainly the calling of external programs that causes
stuttering to
other processes
2)I often forget to start get_iplayer with nice, and it's nice to
have the
2)I often forget to start get_iplayer with nice, and it's nice to have the
fallback position of the worst offenders being controlled anyway.
Write a shell script to run get_iplayer under nice or set an alias in your
shell's config?
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get_iplayer
On 2014/11/09 13:18, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
On 09/11/2014 11:18, C E Macfarlane wrote:
True, you can do that, but ...
1) It is mainly the calling of external programs that causes stuttering to
other processes
2) I often forget to start get_iplayer with nice, and it's nice to have the
On 09/11/14 13:18, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
On 09/11/2014 11:18, C E Macfarlane wrote:
True, you can do that, but ...
1)It is mainly the calling of external programs that causes
stuttering to
other processes
2)I often forget to start get_iplayer with nice, and it's nice to
have the
On 09/11/14 13:01, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article 545f5658.3030...@gmail.com, michael norman
michaeltnor...@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/11/14 10:27, Jim Lesurf wrote:
FWIW I've just written an 'opinion' column for Hi Fi News magazine
about the way the BBC dropped the feeds and raising the general
On 4 November 2014 14:40:16 GMT+00:00, C E Macfarlane
c.e.macfarl...@macfh.co.uk wrote:
Now available for signatories. Please sign if you are a UK resident
and
feel remotely able to support it:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/71556
A little OT to get_iplayer but I thought you might
On 09 November 2014 at 13:18 Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com
wrote:
If you want that, why wouldn't you just start get_iplayer
with nice anyway?
i.e. nice -19 get_iplayer
You and a few others have mentioned nice in the last few days. I've
never heard of it
The problem I'm about to describe is affecting two programmes I was
hoping to download, BOTH of which are playing normally in BBCs iPlayer
and can be saved and played in BBC iPlayer Downloads without difficulty.
The programmes in question are from yesterday (Saturday 8th November) on
BBC1,
How about this in .profile?
alias get_iplayer=nice -19 get_iplayer
I think ...
alias gip='nice -n 19 get_iplayer'
... would be more correct(!), and also more convenient.
But the trouble is, I also sometimes like to run it in the foreground, if
I'm not expecting to be
Won't discuss it further here, because, as you say, it's OT, but, as you also
say, 'interesting'!
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240234078/Government-open-
standards-the-curious-case-of-Microsoft-and-the-minister
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get_iplayer mailing
On 09/11/2014 13:33, Tom wrote:
On 09/11/14 13:18, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
You and a few others have mentioned nice in the last few days. I've
never heard of it before. What is it and what are its benefits?
Sorry about last blank response! nice is a unix/linux command that
sets the priority
For what it's worth (and those who might need this now), the following
URLs for the 1500k HDS streams work with livestreamer at the moment:
BBC News:
hds://bbcfmhds.vo.llnwd.net/hds-live/livepkgr/_definst_/newsch/newsch_1500.f4m
BBC One:
On 08/11/2014 21:08, C E Macfarlane wrote:
1) This patches get_iplayer v2.90 to use nice with the parameter -n 19,
Others have beaten me to the punch here: nice does not belong in
get_iplayer. Use a wrapper script or shell alias to apply nice to
get_iplayer itself. Leaving that aside,
On 09/11/2014 16:21, dinkypumpkin wrote:
On 09/11/2014 14:55, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
INFO: No specified modes
(flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal,flashlow) available
for this programme with version 'default' (try using
--modes=flashaacstd,rtspaacstd)
ERROR: Failed to record
Jim Lesurf w...@audiomisc.co.uk writes:
It explores the issue that there is an
apparent conflict of interest for the BBC between its duty to its
fee-paying viewers/listeners who pay for the BBC made/commissioned content
and the legal vultures of the commercial companies whose films, etc, they
This is precisely the sorts of reason I tend not to get involved in
development lists for other people's software. The usual run of events goes
something like ...
Phase 1:You suggest what you see as an enhancement.
Phase 2:Instead of judging the SPIRIT of the enhancement on it
The tests are scattered for a reason. No need to check
binaries if they
aren't going to be used.
So instead you are not sure whether you've initialised the binary variables
and/or tested for the binary existences, and do the work twice or more. For
example:
1) In line 1362-3,
On 09/11/2014 18:05, C E Macfarlane wrote:
been quite sufficient, but you required me to submit sort of patch just so
From your response, it now seems clear you weren't submitting your code
for inclusion in get_iplayer. My apologies for considering it as such
and holding it to that
On 08/11/14 23:54, Square Penguin wrote:
[snip]
If you're using Thunderbird on Mac as I am now this is not the case by
default. Thunderbird offers 'reply' and 'smart reply' which attempts to
intelligently select the behaviour you desire.
I too very much like the existing system and thank
On 09/11/2014 23:34, James Scholes wrote:
get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=b03thc5k
get_iplayer v2.90, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
...
INFO Trying to stream pid using type radio
INFO: pid found in cache
Matches:
13161: Tommies - 4 November 1914, BBC Radio 4,
INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
30 matches
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