On 03/02/2025 13:03, Jonathan Bryden wrote:
Thanks everyone for your help - Video Downloader for Chrome did the trick 😊
Jonathan, pleased to hear that!
I see quite a few "Video Downloader" extensions for Chrome.
Which one did you use in the end? Any charge?
Thanks,
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assume installing the package for ffmpeg has pulled in what's needed.
Yes. It did for me on Debian
Then I download like this
get-iplayer --type=radio --pid=p0frw494, --preset=aactomp3
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On 06/03/2024 19:42, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
Eh? Surely this film is way older than that? ISTR first seeing it in
the 70s? Let's see what IMDB says, yes, thought so, 1971.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067116/
Sorry that was a terrible example on my part! No idea what I was
ne advise?
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On Tue, 2024-02-13 at 18:13 +, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> This BBC News article has appeared today:
>
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68283165
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> The BBC's iPlayer streaming service is to end downloads for users who
> watch on desktop or laptop computers.
>
> Pr
either.
Jim
(1) No Windows, either! Our house has no Windows... 8-]
Thanks, Jim, understood.
BTW: all but one of my 20+ Linux systems all have a FAT/FAT32 partition on
their boot disc
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Jim
Jim,
It's not the FAT/FAT32 file size limit?
(send before but didn't appear)
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Jim
Jim,
I guess it's not the file size limit on FAT/FAT32 etc.?
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he frame rate
is, and another similar script to report the resolution. You could use
these in another small script of your own to conditionally re-download
only those that aren't in your desired quality:
https://github.com/DrHyde/shellscripts/blob/master/fps
https://github.com/DrHyde/shell
available on the iPlayer website. Is there ayway to get this via
get_iplayer currently or perhaps would it be possible to pick this up as
a future enhancement?
TIA.
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Hi Graham,
Glad the link to the Windows page at
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/windows
was of help.
best,
David
On 2023-04-03 17:57, GRAHAM Holliday wrote:
David,
Just to let you know, I have now successfully downloaded the new
version of get iplayer, and it seems to be
Yes, I had to update mine about the same time. For Windows see...
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/windows
for installation instructions. As you can see below I can get help by
typing
get-iplayer --help
or on your system probably
get_iplayer --help
I'm not running on Window
Ralph. I read it that you'd lied about the e-mail address as
well! I may have done the same!
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site.
Your choice, not mine, though. I've found them quite helpful.
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As far as I know conversion to mp4 is just changing the container format,
there’s no recompression.
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On 05/07/2022 21:04, Budge wrote:
On 05/07/2022 19:00, David Cantrell wrote:
$ AtomicParsley In_Our_Time_-_John_Bull_m0018nsd_other.m4a --textdata
...
Atom "©grp" contains: Factual,History,Discussion & Talk
...
Atom "©gen" contains: Factual
Not now at the machine wher
ot;©lyr" contains: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origin of this
personification of the English everyman and his development as both
British and Britain in the following centuries. He first appeared
blahblahblah ...
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ce" to override that.
Very useful to know the start/stop parameters.
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11 GB download and using the Windows Photo app to edit. First time I've used
that, but it works well at least for simple trimming.
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Twitte
hanks!
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Off-topic, but has any a full resolution link to the full Queen Meets
Paddington" video? Can't find it on the iPlayer, and the only full-length one
I can find is the Daily Mail at just 640 x 360!
Thanks,
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On 02/01/2022 15:41, Charlie Heard wrote:
Could Norton be slowing localhost websites down or causing them
to time out?
Putting it politely, Norton does not have the best reputation.
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On 07/12/2021 06:39, David Taylor wrote:
Here is the script I'm trying to run. It analyses two directories for their
total size and returns an output in a format suitable for MRTG. Perhaps I
should just substitute Win64 for Win32? I've only used Win32 before.
Folks,
Many than
$i (@files) {
$f = "$dir/$i";
if(-d $f) {
$total += dir_tree_size($f) }
else {
$total += -s $f}
}
return $total;
}
~~~~~
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https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/osx#wpm
If you've managed to install get_iplayer then surely you ought to be
able to install the PVR.
It depends on how you installed it. It appears, for example, to not be
installed if you use homebrew.
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On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 15:32 +0100, Kevin McCarthy wrote:
> Anyone else been unsubscribed from this mailing list?
> I just got a "You have been unsubscribed" email from
>
> get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org
>
> even though I didn't post any messages.
> I'm with VirginMedia and I haven't pers
First post to list.
I already have ActiveState Perl (v5.16.3) installed and in constant use. Is
there a way to prevent the Windows installer overwriting that version of
Perl, and allowing get-iplayer to use it?
Thanks,
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ing a lossy file to another lossy format is *very* noticeable.
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been able to get it working. Can anyone help with that?
Something along the lines of ...
wget
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/master/get_iplayer.1
sudo mv get_iplayer.1 /usr/local/man/man1
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constant game of whack-a-mole with VPN end-points, but hardly anyone
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On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 12:12 +0100, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote:
> Jeez, "a couple of years ago"???!!! Don't they make backups more often
> than that???!!!
No, I didn't.
Annoyingly, I did have a friend who'd been staying with us during
lockdown — he was here "for a few weeks while his house pu
On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 10:25 +0100, CJB wrote:
> Just got the below email. It included my password in plain text
> (redacted below).
Yes. That's why when you set the password it told you that it will be
sent to you in plain text periodically as a reminder.
Didn't it always do this? The list server
ng in, maybe I'd have better luck that way
- and note that youtube-dl does support usernames/passwords for at least
some sites that require them.
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communication going on around you.
My experience is that Bluetooth interference makes the signal drop out
completely, it doesn't add pops and crackles to the sound. That sounds
more like either the player is sending dodgy data, or the headphones are
knackered.
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> I wrote the previous sentence.
How do you know that it's not being caused by your ISP? Perhaps they're
throttling some types or sources of traffic.
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 10:33:13PM +, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote:
> I thought YouTubeDownloader might have done it, but I couldn't get it to
> work.
You mean youtube-dl? That was my first instinct too but no luck. They
accept requests for new sites to support via Github.
it) also used to provide data to third-party EPGs and other internal
BBC systems.
* the one real exception I can think of is when stuff goes straight to
iPlayer without being broadcast, such as when Zoo Quest was imported
from the archive.
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On Mon, 2019-09-16 at 05:58 +0100, CJB wrote:
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7467267/BBC-start-switching-iPlayer-Radio-app-today.html
No Daily Heil links on this list please. If you can't find it in a
reputable news medium, don't post it.
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic s
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 03:11:35AM +0100, Owen Smith wrote:
> BBC Sounds is new and trendy (to BBC eyes). Podcasts are the up and coming
> thing (only at least a decade late there chaps, never mind).
The BBC has been doing podcasts for longer than that.
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On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 12:12 +0100, Mark Carroll wrote:
> On 29 Jul 2019, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> > When an individual from a domain which publishes these stupid SPF and
> > similar records saying "only accept mail from my mailserver", posts to
> > the li
he one
> provided and recommended by the software developers. David (who owns this
> list) has to make his own decision. Given that he automatically rejects any
> HTML emails outright (for which I admire his principles but can't help
> feeling it is a lost cause, especially when th
Does anyone know of any free email providers that are suitably
standards-compliant?
On 2019-07-27 9:03 a.m., Roger Bell_West wrote:
On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 09:14:40PM +1000, Steven Carr wrote:
Has an admin (not)updated settings on the list that’s causing GMail to
reject emails? I know on some
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:22:24AM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 11:17, David Cantrell wrote:
> > The current caches, which IIRC are for a month's worth of programmes,
> > are 2.3MB for TV and 5.2MB for radio. So around 90MB for a year's worth,
>
ely recent is indistinguishable from zero.
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s is what happens when the online version
has been edited either because someone said something they shouldn't
have, or because the BBC doesn't have online rights for some of the
content.
Or of course because someone ticked the wrong box.
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parallel, and hand each CPU a new task when it finishes. There's some
small overhead in figuring out where each chunk begins, and in wrangling
pointers so that you end up with the results in a sequence of decoded
frames. Encoding is of course similar.
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something written in perl, or in python, or it be a video game, or
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l correct
> and should solve the problem? i.e. That's the list of packages I need?
It looks plausible. apt handles dependencies, so when you tell it to
install libxml-libxml-perl it will figure out that it needs libxml2-dev
etc
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libxml2-dev is the headers for that C library so that the perl code
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You'll need both of those in addition to the perl code.
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ld Service recently,
it has historically not been funded from the licence fee. Now that it
*is* funded by the licence fee we should welcome adverts on it as a way
of offsetting that effective reduction in the funding available to the
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lly, although they can still be recorded off-air for iPlayer
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n a regular basis. So doing something
like the following crontab entry would work:
0 */2 * * * get_iplayer --pvr >> /var/log/GiP/$(date +%F)_pvr-log 2>&1
I hope that clarifies that point and helps.
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>
> Sub-shells can also be done with the back-quote character, `date +%F`
> is basically the same. I think the $(command) syntax is just more
> compatible across shells, so is best to use.
`backticks` are more compatible, but $( ... ) is easier to use as you
can more eas
x27;s home directory. Followed by other
text it means that user's home directory. Followed by nonsense that
doesn't match a username it's just a tilde:
$ echo ~
/home/dc
$ echo ~root
/root
$ echo ~macfh
~macfh
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something like this as a work-around for the latter not being present:
get_iplayer --exclude blah,`get_iplayer --prefs-show|grep exclude|sed
's/.* = //'`
which will extract the relevant line from your config file and massage
it into the appropriate format.
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D
-Original Message-
From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of Shevek
Sent: 14 January 2019 09:00
To: David Cantrell
Cc: get_iplayer
Subject: Re: Joint UK streaming platform
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 15:20, David Cantrell wrote:
>
> The original Kangaroo was scaled back (it became Youv
27;t recall ever seeing it in the wild after I did quite a bit of
annoying work to publish programme information to it from the iPlayer
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Cantrell
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s lots of content from elsewhere. For example, stuff that isn't
broadcast in London:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bwr3wl/
and stuff that was never broadcast:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04tspjl/
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e the search for something else.
Handbrake is a bit slow, but it is much easier to drive than ffmpeg, and
seems to work on files that ffmpeg either chokes on or, worse, appears
to succeed but actually produces unwatchable jerykvision.
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On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 13:34 +, George Eycott wrote:
> Yes, DMARC is a problem for mailing lists, I had a similar problem
> for some lists I run using Mailman:
>
> https://wiki.list.org/DEV/DMARC
Yeah, there are hoops that a mailing list can jump through so that it
works around this problem fo
On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 13:07 +, RS wrote:
> I have had an almost opposite problem for the last week or two. I still
> receive posts from other list server members, but I have not been
> receiving copies of my own posts. I checked my profile, and there does
> not appear to be any change in m
On Thu, 2018-11-01 at 10:43 +, RS wrote:
> My reasons for dual booting are
> 1. To learn about Linux
> 2. To escape the slowness of Windows 10, in particular the absurd delay
> in resuming from Sleep mode
> 3. To be able to continue to use not so obscure devices for which there
> are no Li
cares about
timing (video games, music and video production, controlling external
hardware), or needs to talk directly to hardware such as drivers for
obscure equipment.
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> least a module that will do the same in Perl?
In perl the default is to assume the local machine's line seperator. You
can of course change this. There's probably something on the CPAN that
will wrap it up all neat and tidy so that you don't
> Better deconstruction:
> Original poster politely communicates what could be vital information for
> people who have a shared interest in BBC programming.
>
> Second poster has a stick up his butt.
And is a hypocrite who deliberately posted an off-topic message, FORCING
all of
a piece of software internal to the BBC or to an
organisational unit of the BBC or the name of some third party whose
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 05:27:53PM +0100, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
> On 06/07/2018 13:48, David Cantrell wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 05:09:26PM +0100, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
> >>I've never known it so bad.
> >You've obviously not been paying attention to people
e'll update this FAQ with any further
> information. "
>
> I've never known it so bad.
You've obviously not been paying attention to people whining about
things not being instantly available before on this very mailing list.
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and video-only formats, as
well as ones that contain both. If you want to pick a particular audio
and video format and combine them ...
$ youtube-dl -f video_format+audio_format https://...
Very occasionally *only* video formats are available for radio
programmes. You want the -x option to m
ehalf.
Wherever they're getting them from may not have rights for online
dissemination to the public, which just gets us back to the previous
problem. Broadcast rights and online rights are not the same thing.
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> to ask for!
Could it be that some episodes contain archive footage that is available
only in some resolutions?
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the current owners of
the copyright in a particular out of print book that I would like to
re-publish. And for a book with only two authors and one publisher it
should be easy compared to a TV programme with writers, actors,
directors, composers, ...
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> 300-year-old desk are in the shop
My assumption would be that they are different versions of the same
episode, with one cut for length for eg a repeat.
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You may now start misinterpreting
hod is
to use the crlf I/O layer, which is documented here:
https://perldoc.perl.org/PerlIO.html
Note however that an awful lot of perl code just doesn't bother. Windows
is very much a second-class citizen in the perl world.
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If yo
On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 13:00 +, Dave Widgery wrote:
> I have yet again had a message held due to a suspicious header, all IÂ
> did was press reply?
For messages which are in response to a thread, the system is checking
that they start with either 'Re:' or 'Aw:', or some other things.
For som
ft chose a non-standard line ending
convention. In this case though we can't really blame them as they were
just copying CP/M. CP/M chose its line ending convention in 1974, a few
years after Unix chose its convention.
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On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 14:18 +, Dave Widgery wrote:
> Hi
> I have now had several get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org messages rejectedÂ
> indicating suspicious header, each time I have clicked on the link inÂ
> the returned message and deleted and resent the mail without problem,Â
> the last one
when I worked on it, IIRC, BBQ, LOLCATS)
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 01:52:22PM +0100, Hugh Reynolds wrote:
> What empty brackets?
The ones I quoted from your original email.
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I expect that that directory isn't in your $PATH, or whatever the
Windows equivalent is.
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your mouth and pull the t
et_iplayer to download Channel 4 programs.
FWIW I just opened a ticket with Youtube-dl to support Channel 4:
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14276
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There are two kinds of security, the one that keeps your sister
out, the one that keeps the
channel on Freeview called FreeSports.
But it doesn't show up in EyeTV on my Mac, using an Elgato Diversity
tuner. Anyone have any suggestions to fix that? No, re-scanning the
channel list didn't help.
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> bloating my spam folder henceforth. Bye, bye.
Awww, poor baby who can't bear to hear that he's wrong.
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David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig
I think the most difficult moment that anyone could face is seeing
their domestic servants, whether
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 04:16:33PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote:
> as for arcane-ness of language and difficulty in reading
> it's about on a par with The Bible!
That's what everyone thinks about languages that they are too damned
lazy to learn.
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David Cantrell | Nth greate
ence
> of support for it.
The first two google results for "perl regular expression" not good
enough for you :-)
BTW, it's Perl or perl, not PERL. Perl is the name of the language, perl
is the name of the interpreter.
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David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age
If you
r mind the Unix programming environment, it's fine if you have even
the slightest familiarity with perl. Shift is a keyword in the language.
You might as well complain about a C program using 'void' or 'case'.
As for readability, would you prefer this?
my $string = $_
On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 10:18 -0500, artisticforge . wrote:
> hello
>
> that is insane. any child may watch the news, read a newspaper, listen
> to the radio is exposed to the horror of Manchester, Paris, Syria,
> etc.
Yes. You're also permitted to have sex at 16 but you're not allowed to
watch *ot
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi David,
> > > If your distribution handles PPAs, there is little point, but if it
> > > does not, it could be very handy.
> > Not really. I have no idea what a PPA is so I presume that my OSes
&g
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