On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 11:14:48 +0100, CJB wrote:
> Then there are VPN services - free v.v. paid for. If the Beeb offered
> such then folks would surely pay to watch or listen from overseas.
Trouble is the BBC does not hold hold the rights to world wide distribution
on all of their content.
>
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:53:16 +0100, Jim web wrote:
> But with digital LPCM transfers they should just 'pass the parcel' and
> deliver at the end of the chain what got put in at the start.
Assuming the clocks at each end are locked. If they aren't clicks are a
common side effect as the reciever
On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 23:17:46 +, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote:
>> Older stuff can, possibly a little counter-intuitively, be more
>> problematic than recent material, as, at the time it was made, there
>> was no expectation that the BBC would ever want repeat transmission
>> rights for
On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 09:57:16 +, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote:
> Thanks, but I knew that, and it seems to me rather strange that an own
> BBC 30 years' old series should be subject to such a constraint, and
> wondered if anyone happened to know anything more specific.
Depends on the rights
Just had this error reported after a pvr run:
(in cleanup) Can't call method "remove" on an undefined value at
/usr/share/perl5/Mojo/UserAgent.pm line 82 during global destruction.
No programme matches found.
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Just want to say thank you.
Downloaded the zip arcive, unpacked the script, copied to the right place on
my media server Raspberry Pi and fired off my PVR script. It "just worked"
and collected a couple of programmes. The only fuss was a request to remove
redundant rtmdump references in my
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:43:20 +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
> Apart from those who don't have a TV Licence because they don't require
> one,
Haven't the rules recently changed from only needing a licence to watch "as
broadcast", ie a live stream, to requiring a licence to watch "on demand"
On Sun, 1 Jan 2017 08:46:36 -0600, artisticforge . wrote:
>> Whether it was 50fps is irrelevant, one day we'll be downloading
>> 1920x1080 or hopefully 4K and then 6GB will be an average file size.
>
> I will be long dead before that happens.
Unless you intend to pop off very shortly and "long"
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:51:00 +0200, Dave Widgery wrote:
> Whatever blocks the bbc and other broadcasters put there will always be a
> way past the system, so why not accept this and look at ways to increase
> revenue from the millions of British people who would quite happily
> contribute but
On Sun, 3 Jul 2016 18:18:21 +0100, dinkypumpkin wrote:
> Release notes:
>
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release295
Some ones been a buzy bee. Will have to try the 5 Mbps feeds to see if the
improvement over 2.5 Mbps is worth (and if a RPi can keep up...).
Many thanks, your
On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:30:51 +0100, Chris Woods wrote:
> As I understand it, programmes are recorded with buffer time then may be
> manually reviewed and trimmed if there's too much cruft.
Several ways to interperet that.
It's a good few years since I was engineering BBC radio programmes but
On Sun, 22 May 2016 08:16:28 +0100, Mark Carroll wrote:
>> "Getting radio Index Feeds (this may take a few minutes)"
>
> get_iplayer is a Perl script. In this case you can just look for that
> text within get_iplayer itself then put a # at the beginning of that
> line to comment it out.
This
On Sun, 1 May 2016 09:32:49 +1000, Nick Payne wrote:
> I retried one of the downloads that was only 704x396, using the same
> command line with the addition of --force, and the second time it
> downloaded at 832x468, so I'm wondering how GiP determines what
> resolution to download?
Live
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:42:06 +0100, Christopher Woods wrote:
> "Upscaling" is a misnomer in this context. That implies a change of
> picture resolution, ...
Agreed.
> ... when there's no resizing going on.
Not convinced.
> 25 interlaced frames per second yields 50 interlaced fields per
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:07:33 -0500, artisticforge . wrote:
>>> NB hvfhd DOES NOT OFFER HIGHER RESOLUTION (CLARITY), only doubled
>>> framerate (25FPS x2), which results in smoother scenes where motion is
>>> involved!
>>
>> How does repeating frames improve smoothness of movement? Or does this
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 03:08:38 +0300, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
>> In addition a high bit-rate (8000kbps) 1920x1080, interlaced at 25fps,
>> full HD encode is generated, but has not yet been made available.
>
> but it has not yet been released publicly...
> At ca. 8Mps, those will be really huge
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 12:26:32 +0100, Paul Phillips wrote:
>> Nearly all downloads are hls with two to four times the bit rate.
>> Part of that slowness is from perl doing a main part of the work.
Having started on the 'net with dialup @ 2400 baud setting something going
and letting it get on with
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:14:08 +, Budge wrote:
> I find my old pvr entry Afternoon_on_3_-_Thursday_Opera_Matinee no
> longer works.
>
> The programme is still there and now shows in the cache as :-
>
> 10139: Afternoon on 3: Thursday Opera Matinee - Massenet - Werther, BBC
> Radio 3.
The
On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 20:14:06 +, CJB wrote:
> To download Hancock's Half Hour I have the search term Name =
> 'hancock' in my Windows PVM list including Type=Radio
>
> Yet for weeks GiP has not been downloading anything.
>
> I have now checked at the iPlayer site and there are lots of Hancock
On Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:42:19 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
>> get_iplayer could do with a FLAC/"Apple Lossless" output for maximum
>> quality.
>
> There's not much point, because only lossy recordings are available on
> iPlayer.
As that stands correct but chaining lossy codecs is not a Good
On Wed, 09 Sep 2015 10:03:14 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:
> My impression is that the apparent error reports are so random that they
> are just surface signs of a more basic problem. My ignorant guess is that
> packets are arriving too fast in too irregular an order, and something
> somewhere is
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:31:18 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/clangers there are 26 available
for download.
Are those 26 episodes the 26 of Series 1 and 2 ('69/70 '72/72) or the
first 26 of Series 3 (2015)?
We will have to ask Ivor Williams that.
Eh? Oliver
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:38:55 +0100, Jon Davies wrote:
Personally I stick with --mode=best all the time, which means I can
forget about which mode is used for download - I just end up with the
best available copy of each programme.
Best avaliable at the time of download.
Occasionaly the best
On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 20:29:44 +, batguano999 wrote:
You have broadband and a computer / 'smart' sic TV. Egro, you are
equipped to access iplayer, thus require a license.
Hmmm
That's a computer license then.
:-)
Too restrictive a description, unless you want to keep the lawyers fat
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 15:52:02 +0100, Graham Temple \(gmail\) wrote:
TV should not be funded by a licence fee, but by direct grant from the
government, funded by general taxation.
Good grief we then effectively have a state controlled broadcaster. Is that
what you really want? The licence may
On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 13:06:38 +0100, michael norman wrote:
Yes but what about people who never ever watch TV at all. There are
some, believe it or not - my parents for instance. They have computers
and internet, but why should they pay a charge for something they will
never use,
That is
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:17:45 +0100, SquarePenguin wrote:
I keep meaning to sort that out, but the spec says self-signed
certificate that specifies the root certificate authority MAY be omitted
from the chain, so it's been a low priority :-)
SNI is essential for my setup as more than one SSL
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 03:25:04 +0300, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
tellyaddict has posted the right answer; to quote from the 2.93-2.94
Release Notes
(https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release293)
Thank you for the github link. My browser doesn't like the certificate that
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:21:53 +0200, tellyaddict wrote:
Just noticed that the categories field in the tv.cache file is empty for
all entries. Is this intentional, a by product of the BBC's changes or
just accidentaly dropped on the floor?
Unfortunately category's are now gone. This is due
Hi,
Just noticed that the categories field in the tv.cache file is empty for all
entries. Is this intentional, a by product of the BBC's changes or just
accidentaly dropped on the floor?
get_iplayer 2.94-ppa23, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
Bit of a pain if they have really gone. I had a
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:21:53 +0200, tellyaddict wrote:
Just noticed that the categories field in the tv.cache file is empty for
all entries. Is this intentional, a by product of the BBC's changes or
just accidentaly dropped on the floor?
Unfortunately category's are now gone. This is due
On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:56:20 +0100, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
Just to comment on a point made earlier in this thread, I have contacted
the BBC on maybe a dozen occasions using the online form, possibly a
half of them relating to iPlayer issues - each contact has been
acknowledged within an
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 23:19:13 -0700, Anthony Kehoe wrote:
[iTunes@Frontier get_iplayer]$ ./get_iplayer caribbean -g
[iTunes@Frontier get_iplayer]$ ./get_iplayer -v --pvr-single
Caribbean_with_Simon_Reeve
Different search terms?
Does the PVR one work if you use just caribbean or enclose the
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:27:25 + (GMT), Jim web wrote:
Maybe when you see black rectangles you should 'view source' (or
whatever NS calls it). Or use Firefox (on linux).
Far easier to highlight the text in theblock with right click drag
surely?
All that does with NetSurf here is drag
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 19:56:47 +, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
Also, eyeballing the contents of the cache files will show that the values
there are not always consistent in format (I mean I think the BBC do not
always describe successive episodes of the same show in the same way).
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:03:43 +, Jon Davies wrote:
On 14 March 2015 at 22:20, Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote:
Now if 2.92 could make it across to the Raspberry repository I'd be even
happier. B-)
รข Unfortunately my pi is dead. Again. :-(
:-( indeed, I like my Pi's
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 15:05:32 -, Don Grunbaum wrote:
As always, Grateful thanks for your continued support for GiP.
Hear hear, reading through the Release Notes some one has been a very busy
bee. Thank you.
Now if 2.92 could make it across to the Raspberry repository I'd be even
happier.
On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 16:13:20 +0800, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
Running v2.91 on Win 7 x64. Not sure if it's something I've done but
I've noticed that in the last few weeks where a TV episode used to have
an episode number and name in the title field, now just the name
appears.
All TV series or
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:52:37 +, John Adams wrote:
INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
WARNING: No programme versions found
Ditto with get_iplayer 2.91-ppa21, on a OSMC/Kodi Pi.
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 16:55:49 +, Jon Davies wrote:
On 8 January 2015 at 15:29, Al Feersum al.feer...@gmail.com wrote:
The generic XML metadata contains a lot more information than the xbmc
.nfo files generated with GiP
I've never investigated increasing the amount of data in the nfo
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:54:09 -, Charlie Heard wrote:
Just bumping this, as it's still broken. How can I force get_iplayer or
the PVR to download to the correct directory automatically without having
to manually use the --output option?
Have you tried putting the relevant line(s) in the
On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 02:04:28 +, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
I run get_iplayer on a Raspberry Pi using a NAS as the download location
and also processing the files there via SMB.
Could you download to a disk attached directly to the RPi and then move
complete
Hi,
Is it possible to pickup from the Download Completed point?
I run get_iplayer on a Raspberry Pi using a NAS as the download location and
also processing the files there via SMB. Problem is the NAS is playing silly
B's and goes into a sulk after the download completes and the next avconv
On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 22:40:30 +, Jon Davies wrote:
You could always consider using the raspberry pi to run get-iplayer -
That is were I run Gip.
another message mentioned creating an xbmc metadata file - get-iplayer
can already do this:
--metadata xbmc
Ooo, does it do that for everything
On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 23:36:27 +, Roger Bell_West wrote:
As the download_history is in the current users space what happens on a
multi user system when more than one user requests the same programme?
Does it get downloaded for each individual user request?
Tempted as I am to say try it
It's probably down to the BBC but just in case it's not.
James May's Toy Stories - Flight Club (pid b01pmbmx) is not being listed in
the tv.cache but is available on iplayer (16 odd days left to watch) and can
be downloaded using --pid=b01pmbmx. I *think* it was listed in the cache a
few days
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:06:32 -, Peter S Kirk wrote:
How does one explain Click, the entire last 12 months of episodes are in
the cache. Or HARDTalk that appears to go back to 2011. Newswatch
17/01/2014 to 13/09/2014. Prime Ministers Questions last 12 months.
Question Time 09/01/2014 to
On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 21:22:43 +, Roger Bell_West wrote:
~/.get_iplayer/download_history
snip
Configuration is stored per user, so there should be no problem.
As the download_history is in the current users space what happens on a
multi user system when more than one user requests the
On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:36:10 +, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
Does anyone else keep an eye on the number of entries in these files?
Only loosely. Just refreshed and got 1952 tv entries. That's on the low side
for recently, the high side I'd but at 2200 ish.
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 21:34:46 -, Peter S Kirk wrote:
Results from a friend:
All return 404 error on Plusnet in West Cornwall ie BBC News is 404 too
Beware the wrapped URL in the orginal message ... B-)
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:20:17 +, dinkypumpkin wrote:
I can confirm all except BBC News result in a 404 Error here too. Perhaps
it's ISP and/or region issue - Virgin Media cable, Scotchland
Very possibly, though that would suck for testing.
Same result here 404 apart from News. AA via BT
You'll find that ^vent$ will only find the item you want not the
others, such as advent, Coventry etc.
Alan,
Thanks, filed for future reference. I messed around with some wildcard
options last night with no success. Is there a name for the format of
those characters in a search
I usually run GIP without -g to load the cache(s), then give a series of
bash commands separated by ';' to leave GIP downloading overnight,
but if one of them relies on an index number, I don't want the cache
reloaded by that or any of the preceding commands, as that will
change the index
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:18:50 +, Budgie wrote:
I have Rumpole set up on pvr chron job list but during the various
revisions to GiP some of the episodes have incorrect tagging and no
thumbnail. I saw that these episodes were still available so thought I
would download again with the
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:57:30 + (GMT), Jim web wrote:
Be interested to hear if anyone else has had the same sort of weird
behavior that seems to be phased with sunset!
ADSL is affected by interference from MF broadcast stations. During the day
the ionosphere is wrong for the long distance
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:46:02 +, Colin Law wrote:
I know RF interference at night can cause a resync to a slower speed
but in my experience it will not automatically resync in the morning
again, but will stay at the slower speed, so it will not need to slow
down again the next night.
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:27:36 +, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
No problems here at 06h15 - seems pretty much what I'm used to at this
time of the morning.
iPlayer is one of the few sites that can fully saturate our meagre 5 Mbps
ADSL connection anytime of day or night. No evening slow downs
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:47:26 -0600, artisticforge . wrote:
to get 60Mbps you have either fibre or coax. not going to get 60mbps
over plain old copper twisted pair.
er VDSL is delivered over an ordinary copper pair, it's only Fibre to the
cabinet. VDSL2 up to 76 Mbps ought to deliver 60 Mbps
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:46:48 -, George Eycott wrote:
5 Mbps, 11 Mbps, 60 Mbps - these are numbers I just don't recognise -:(
Here in rural Pembrokeshire, West Wales, I consider myself lucky if I get
the nominal 2Mbps that BT rate the line
Luxury.
I'm lucky, get a reliable sync speed
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:20:31 -, Peter S Kirk wrote:
Do you have a strong signal from any of the mobile networks? Plenty of
3G/4G unlimited packages available, ...
Is that using an english definition of the word unlimited or a marketing
speak definition? That is unlimited within the
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:52:46 + (GMT), Jim Lesurf wrote:
cough False assumption that there is only one mix leaving site... or
even that the same mics are being used across the different services.
Particulary for broadcasts on BBC1/2, not so sure what happens for BBC4.
cough syrup :-) I
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:41:05 + (GMT), Jim Lesurf wrote:
IMO any significant difference in sound is going to be down to relative
codec efficiency, not due to huge differences in the TX chain. iPlayer
desktop uses AAC-LC, DSAT is MP2 and AAC for HD, DTT the same albeit at
lower bit rates.
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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cough Me to. Read it in an email list or newsgroup the default reply should
be back to the list/group otherwise threads dive off into private email. The
use of Reply All means that the sender has to edit the recipient's or the
recipient annoyingly gets the posting twice.
Probably in the best
Just use reply all. If somebody doesn't like duplicates, they can go
to http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/options/get_iplayer and set
Avoid duplicate copies of messages? to yes.
Thanks for that, now set. Not an option I've seen before but then I'm not in
the habit of exploring mailman
On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:12:27 +, SquarePenguin wrote:
Only small point is that at the end of a record there are hundreds of
these - which slows down the Run PVR:
size= 116kB time=00:00:07.39 bitrate= 129.0kbits/s
size= 163kB time=00:00:10.34 bitrate= 128.7kbits/s
Aren't those
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:03:52 +, dinkypumpkin wrote:
I noticed an error message about screen scraping not working if
HTML::Parser was out of date - so I updated my Perl modules and it seems
to be working better now.
That's part of it, but there are some more changes necessary to pick
Just joined the list to say a *BIG* thank you to the maintainers for getting
the search/PVR functionality back into get_iplayer so quickly.
When get_iplayer --pvr failed to work the other day and I saw the message in
tv.cache I thought that was it. B-( Using the pid or URL method worked but
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