Re: GiP and working abroad

2024-11-15 Thread David Cantrell
.  Some of you may understand!!! get_iplayer is not geo-blocked, but iPlayer itself is. You need to set up a VPN, or ssh into your home machine and run get_iplayer there. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
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

Re: LibXML.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched

2022-08-16 Thread David Cantrell
e same software is generally just a waste of time. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Remux TV Progs to Matroska Video .mkv

2022-07-09 Thread David Cantrell
As far as I know conversion to mp4 is just changing the container format, there’s no recompression. -- David Cantrell This electrogram was despatched by wireless field telegraph. I would therefore ask that the recipient be so kind as to excuse any failures of courtesy or linguistic

Re: Curating "In Our Time" (IOT) downloads.

2022-07-05 Thread David Cantrell
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

Re: Curating "In Our Time" (IOT) downloads.

2022-07-05 Thread David Cantrell
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 ... -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Is Web PVR installable on a Mac?

2021-07-12 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- Davi

Re: OT Question on audio downloads from youtube

2020-09-21 Thread David Cantrell
ing a lossy file to another lossy format is *very* noticeable. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Erudite is when you make a classical allusion to a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.

Re: Demise of get_iplayer PPA

2020-07-17 Thread David Cantrell
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 -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplay

Re: Syntax for grabbing all episodes of the new season of Celebrity Master Chef

2020-07-06 Thread David Cantrell
There is of course a constant game of whack-a-mole with VPN end-points, but hardly anyone actually uses those so blocking them isn't particularly important. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradea

Re: OT Downloading BBC radio shows with ANDROID.

2020-06-03 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Can

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
r > 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. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" Compromise: n: lowering my standards so you

Re: Podcast - no pid?

2020-02-05 Thread David Cantrell
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.

Re: Tidying up Radio Downloads

2019-10-15 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire

Re: Goodbye iPlayer Radio

2019-09-06 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell | top google

Re: BritBox: BBC and ITV set out plans for new streaming service

2019-07-19 Thread David Cantrell
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, >

Re: BritBox: BBC and ITV set out plans for new streaming service

2019-07-19 Thread David Cantrell
ely recent is indistinguishable from zero. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world You can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter" ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Just noticed the download title includes [legal]

2019-07-18 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "in

Re: New distro.

2019-07-02 Thread David Cantrell
m in 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. -- David Cantrell | top google result

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread David Cantrell
ing, whether it be something written in perl, or in python, or it be a video game, or anything else. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness I caught myself pulling grey hairs out of my beard. I'm definitely not going grey, but I am going vain. __

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread David Cantrell
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 -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Informati

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread David Cantrell
ode wants to use. libxml2-dev is the headers for that C library so that the perl code knows how to link it. You'll need both of those in addition to the perl code. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist EINE KIRCHE! EIN KREDO! EIN PAPST! ___ g

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
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 BBC. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers De

Re: Radio Comedy: Dad's Army et al ....

2019-03-21 Thread David Cantrell
lly, although they can still be recorded off-air for iPlayer sometimes. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Arbeit macht Alkoholiker ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: PVR/CRON Query

2019-03-08 Thread David Cantrell
g filename. > > 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

Re: Feature/Changed Behaviour Request To Exclude Option

2019-02-22 Thread David Cantrell
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 -- David Cantrell |

Re: Feature/Changed Behaviour Request To Exclude Option

2019-02-21 Thread David Cantrell
do 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. -- David Cantrell

Re: Poodcast that isn't a podcast

2019-01-17 Thread David Cantrell
e used it instead of writing mine! -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat If I could read only one thing it would be the future, in the entrails of the bastard denying me access to anything else. ___ get_iplayer mail

Re: Poodcast that isn't a podcast

2019-01-17 Thread David Cantrell
ly pick up any new episodes. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Joint UK streaming platform

2019-01-14 Thread David Cantrell
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 back-end. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Anyone willing to give up a little fun for tolerance deserves neither __

Re: BBC-wants-shows-available-iPlayer-12-months-bid-compete-rivals

2019-01-10 Thread David Cantrell
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/ -- David Cantrell | Minister

Re: BBC-wants-shows-available-iPlayer-12-months-bid-compete-rivals

2019-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
g it available. -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLFrom =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLMessage is from David Cantrell scoreFROM_DAVID_CANTRELL15.72 # This figure from experimentation ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists

Re: Slightly OT Video conversion

2018-12-10 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: Stopping a download but not a PVR run

2018-12-06 Thread David Cantrell
occasionally is there an actual problem, and it gives up after a few retries. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Nuke a disabled unborn gay baby whale for JESUS! ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradea

Re: OT VM or Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Arbeit macht Alkoholiker ___

Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
tly. Surely there's at > 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

Re: Loss of BBC HD channels on satellite

2018-10-19 Thread David Cantrell
> 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

Re: pid format changed

2018-08-23 Thread David Cantrell
a piece of software internal to the BBC or to an organisational unit of the BBC or the name of some third party whose services they use. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig You can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter" ___

Re: No Wimbledon Today?

2018-07-09 Thread David Cantrell
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

Re: No Wimbledon Today?

2018-07-06 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of

Re: Dr. Who Downloads

2018-06-06 Thread David Cantrell
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

Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

2018-04-06 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Good advice is always ce

Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

2018-04-06 Thread David Cantrell
> to ask for! Could it be that some episodes contain archive footage that is available only in some resolutions? -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet Guns aren't the problem. People who deserve to di

Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

2018-04-06 Thread David Cantrell
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, ... -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Lingui

Re: FAO BBC: Same Series and Episode, Differents PIDs and Description.

2018-03-08 Thread David Cantrell
wheeled elephant and a > 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. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world You may now start misinterpreting

Re: Format of options file

2018-03-06 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world If yo

Re: Format of options file

2018-03-05 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Immigration: making Brita

Re: Format of options file

2018-03-05 Thread David Cantrell
they went Unixy. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig You know you're getting old when you fancy the teenager's parent and ignore the teenager -- Paul M in uknot ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplaye

Re: Downloading Podcast?

2018-01-02 Thread David Cantrell
when I worked on it, IIRC, BBQ, LOLCATS) concerned, a clip is just an episode with the 'is_clip' attribute set. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Arbeit macht Alkoholiker ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.in

Re: Audio Offset

2017-11-06 Thread David Cantrell
yer, it happens far more often with stuff I record off-air! -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.-- W C Fields ___ get_ip

Re: ffmpeg issue?

2017-10-09 Thread 'David Cantrell'
On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 01:52:22PM +0100, Hugh Reynolds wrote: > What empty brackets? The ones I quoted from your original email. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Immigration: making Britain great since AD43 ___ get_ipla

Re: ffmpeg issue?

2017-10-09 Thread David Cantrell
s? I expect that that directory isn't in your $PATH, or whatever the Windows equivalent is. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Did you know that shotguns taste like candy canes? Put the barrel in your mouth and pull the t

Re: Channel 4 downloading OT

2017-09-20 Thread David Cantrell
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 -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire There are two kinds of security, the one that keeps your sister out, the one that keeps the

Re: A few ffmpeg queries

2017-09-13 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mail

Re: recording quality and vpn

2017-08-27 Thread David Cantrell
deliberately breaking it for customers of your VPN provider. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

2017-08-16 Thread David Cantrell
ore you will feel at home > bloating my spam folder henceforth. Bye, bye. Awww, poor baby who can't bear to hear that he's wrong. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig I think the most difficult moment that anyone could face is seeing their domestic servants, whether

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

2017-08-16 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell | Nth greate

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

2017-08-16 Thread David Cantrell
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. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age If you

Re: A bug in get_iplayer-3.01?

2017-06-07 Thread David Cantrell
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 = $_

Re: Help text query

2017-05-11 Thread David Cantrell
x27;re released, then you pulling their packages from somewhere other > than a stable Ubuntu 2016-10, etc., that wouldn't update much once > released; that might be a PPA you've told it about in the past. Oh, so it's just Hipster for "third-party repository". -- David

Re: Help text query

2017-05-09 Thread David Cantrell
#x27;s web page is confusing, it says that it uses APT (from Debian) but also that they have loads of RPM packages. Either way, better to just add a suitable package repository and use that instead of each application supplying its own update tool. -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Sym

Re: Can't download with GiP 3.00

2017-05-08 Thread David Cantrell
films > being broadcast. Why not, if increasing the frame rate yields greater > improvement than increasing resolution on large screens? I would presume that that's because the source material isn't available in anything approaching 50fps. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South Lond

Re: Problems downloading subtitles

2017-05-02 Thread David Cantrell
date get_iplayer. -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet Guns aren't the problem. People who deserve to die are the problem. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: The XML feeds are dead.

2017-04-26 Thread David Cantrell
ata from > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjnv.xml > > ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site That appears to be a series or brand pid. If you supply the pid of an individual episode it still works. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murd

Re: BBC RSS adaptor changes

2017-03-16 Thread David Cantrell
to scraping). How did you manage to get a Nitro API key? https://developer.bbc.co.uk/nitro still says that it's only open for registration to BBC employees. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Deck of Cards: $1.29. "101 Solitaire Variations" book: $6.59.

Re: BBC Licensing Expose

2017-02-27 Thread David Cantrell
instead of a rabidly anti-BBC scandal-sheet that likes to publish pictures of scantily-clad young teenage girls who are "all grown up now"? -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attach

Re: [OT] Crystal Palace transmitter problems?

2017-01-03 Thread David Cantrell
ng locally. Bugger. I'll try moving the aerial around and stuff when I get home. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information There are two kinds of security, the one that keeps your sister out, the one that keeps the government out and the one that k

[OT] Crystal Palace transmitter problems?

2017-01-03 Thread David Cantrell
m it looks like it's just the BBC's multiplex that's affected. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer

Re: BBC Pay to Hear

2016-11-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 08:50:21AM +, CJB wrote: > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ No, the BBC did not conspire with immigrants to cause house price cancer. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist What a lovely day! Now watch me spoil it for

Re: BBC iPlayer RSS feeds including signed/audio-described

2016-10-26 Thread David Cantrell
On 2016-10-26, 18:34, Mike Ralphson wrote: David Cantrell wrote: Even better, looks like I won't have to write any code :-) Except that ... https://bbc-rss.herokuapp.com/rss/custom/ancient%20greece.rss gives ... Application Error Sorry if it was me what broke it! Hmm, that

Re: BBC iPlayer RSS feeds including signed/audio-described

2016-10-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 04:44:10PM +0200, Mike Ralphson wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: > >And thanks for publishing the source too - I expect I'll be able to use > >that to resurrect my keyword search RSS feeds. > You can generate any keyword-search based RSS feed dynamic

Re: BBC iPlayer RSS feeds including signed/audio-described

2016-10-26 Thread David Cantrell
use that to resurrect my keyword search RSS feeds. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

2016-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
nning a a large number of versions of a piece of software and everything that surrounds it for long periods of time while also upgrading it to provide new features for new users is just not practical. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Please stop rolling your Jargon Dic

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

2016-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
On 2016-09-29, 17:19, RS wrote: From: David Cantrell As far as I am aware there are no regional or local television or radio stations which serve a single post code. You're right, but you are also, I think, deliberately missing the point. Each station serves a long list of postcodes, an

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

2016-09-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 03:22:57PM +0100, RS wrote: > >From: David Cantrell > >Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 14:07 > >>Asking for location makes no sense to me. > >Ah, right, so just because it isn't helpful for your particular unusual > >case they should

Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

2016-09-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:05:01AM +0100, Peter S Kirk wrote: > "I fetch items with gip. Play them with VLC. Update things as and when I > decide." And then there are normal people who aren't geeks. They're who smart TVs exist for. -- David Cantrell | Reality Enginee

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

2016-09-29 Thread David Cantrell
; > Asking for location makes no sense to me. Ah, right, so just because it isn't helpful for your particular unusual case they shouldn't do it. By the same argument they should close down all of those radio stations because of the unusual case of someone who is completely deaf. --

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

2016-09-28 Thread David Cantrell
r to all of those is, of course, "none of them, because all local radio is shit") -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world I think the most difficult moment that anyone could face is seeing their domestic servants, whether maid or drivers, run away -- Abdul Rahman Al-Shei

Re: So what does this really mean

2016-09-16 Thread David Cantrell
Why is this the only one out of hundreds of mailing lists I'm on where people care so much about topic drift?) -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged

Re: So what does this really mean

2016-09-16 Thread David Cantrell
German? THAT is why they want English content, and also why their own content is not worth protecting. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide under the bed -- brian d foy ___ get_iplayer

Re: So what does this really mean

2016-09-16 Thread David Cantrell
s is blocking the masses. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing There is no one true indentation style, But if there were K&R would be Its Prophets. Peace be upon Their Holy Beards. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.or

Re: Replacement for "aactomp3" option?

2016-09-01 Thread David Cantrell
n GiP on Windows 10. If you can't use AAC format files (typically ending in .m4a) then there are a zillion different tools for converting to mp3. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice "IMO, the primary historical significance of Unix is that it marks the time in computer

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

2016-08-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:44:43PM +0200, iz wrote: > > >From: David Cantrell > > >> >I'd like to rate-limit get_iplayer so that other things on the same > > >> >machine that are also talking to the internet don't run like stunned > If you

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

2016-08-18 Thread David Cantrell
used Linux or FreeBSD or Solaris instead. It's the problem that the --bwlimit option on rsync exists to solve. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg wh

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

2016-08-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:46:51PM +0100, RS wrote: > >From: David Cantrell Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 23:37 > >I'd like to rate-limit get_iplayer so that other things on the same > >machine that are also talking to the internet don't run like stunned slugs >

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

2016-08-15 Thread David Cantrell
On 2016-08-15, 18:08, John Bingham wrote: On 15/08/16 17:42, David Cantrell wrote: I think that's unlikely. That said, if someone were to add rate-limiting options to get_iplayer I'd be very happy. Fairly easy to slow down everything on a Linux interface. If anyone has the time/i

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

2016-08-15 Thread David Cantrell
ate-limiting options to get_iplayer I'd be very happy. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness [OS X] appeals to me as a monk, a user, a compiler-of-apps, a sometime coder, and an easily amused primate with a penchant for those that are pretty, co

Re: Olympics 2016 RedButton content, offered as catch-up

2016-08-12 Thread David Cantrell
rsive to download all the coverage of that sport so far, and links to individual programmes if you only want some of them. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide unde

Re: Olympics Might be hvf Only

2016-08-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 02:46:24PM +0100, RS wrote: > From: David Cantrell > >At least after the previous Olympics *everything* was available for > >download on iPlayer. > I must be being very stupid then, because I can't find it. If I go to a > day in the Schedule wh

Re: Olympics Might be hvf Only

2016-08-08 Thread David Cantrell
*everything* was available for download on iPlayer. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age "There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza." "WHAT MAKES YOU SAY THERE IS A HOLE IN YOUR BUCKET?" ___ get_iplayer

Re: OT: why were BBC archives deleted or destroyed?

2016-08-05 Thread David Cantrell
this is the only one out of a hundred or so mailing lists that I'm on where people get so pissy about stuff being on-topic. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Please stop rolling your Jargon Dice and explain the problem you are having to me in plain English, using

Re: OT: why were BBC archives deleted or destroyed?

2016-08-04 Thread David Cantrell
1830s about the "penny dreadfuls". Their cultural benefit nearly 200 years later includes the character Sweeney Todd, but more importantly having access to a culture's mass entertainment tells us about that culture things that we wouldn't know if we just looked at what people of

Re: Future of get-iplayer when BBC changes licence

2016-08-03 Thread David Cantrell
all that information before allowing people to use iPlayer in a web browser it would then set a cookie. Receiving, recording, and using a cookie in a command line program is trivial although it would of course require changes to allow you to submit the necessary information. -- David Cantrell | Min

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.95 released

2016-07-04 Thread David Cantrell
What annoys me is XP was well supported by third parties for several years > after Microsoft ceased support. Whereas Vista is being dropped by third > parties long before Microsoft support ceases. Why? Because you neglected to pay the vendors for a support contract. -- David Cantrell | Rea

Re: Android Smart Phone

2016-06-14 Thread David Cantrell
in the Google online shop. That can download programmes. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Wow, my first sigquoting! I feel so special now! -- Dan Sugalski ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infr

Re: Offtopic noise: Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a...

2016-05-23 Thread David Cantrell
x27;t care about it, just like I ignore anything about Windows. > Is there still a benefit to having this list at all? Would we be better > off shutting it down entirely? Yes. No. Better to shut down the forums, as mailing lists are always a better way of communicating than web forums

Re: Spurious write permission error

2016-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
7;m not changing it just for you. It is customary to put signatures at the end of messages, not the beginning. I'm sure that if you put it at the end no-one would object. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Please stop rolling your Jargon Dice and explain the problem you

Re: Spurious write permission error

2016-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
process's cwd then the dirent will go away but the inode will remain until it is no longer in use. However, you won't be able to do anything meaningful with it. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive I think the most difficult moment that anyone could face is seein

Re: Spurious write permission error

2016-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
y another > process. File locking semantics are completely different on Windows compared to Unix, and get_iplayer is written in perl, which has very much a Unixy background. I've not looked at the code, but unless there's extra special Windows sauce in there it might not work. -- David C

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