Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

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. > >

Re: Unsubscribed

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

Re: lists.infradead.org mailing list memberships reminder

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

Re: lists.infradead.org mailing list memberships reminder

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

Re: iPlayer Radio Switch Off

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

Re: Excessive Bounces

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

Re: Excessive Bounces

On Sun, 2019-07-28 at 23:02 +0100, George Eycott wrote: > However, as I understand it, the changes then mean that technically the > emails being sent by Mailman are not being processed by the list software in > line with the email standards (in due course I expect the standards will > need in some

Re: OT: I have received a series of duplicate emails.

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

Re: OT: I have received a series of duplicate emails.

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

Re: OT VM or Dual boot and get_iplayer

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

Re: Message with suspicious header

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 I  > 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

Re: Suspicious Header

On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 14:18 +, Dave Widgery wrote: > Hi > I have now had several get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org messages rejected  > indicating suspicious header, each time I have clicked on the link in  > the returned message and deleted and resent the mail without problem,  > the last one

Re: what is pre-watershed version

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

Re: BBC Licensing Expose

On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 13:22 +, Tony Quinn wrote: > > On 27/02/2017 12:34, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 12:08 +, Tony Quinn wrote: > > > has content which should be discussed. > > > > It is off-topic for this list, and even if it

Re: BBC Licensing Expose

On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 12:42 +, jj wrote: > > it's not appropriate to post links to that site. > So, certain news outlets are banned from here? And who decides which > are they? Isn't that (more than) a bit like Trump (or his henchmen) > banning news organisations from their briefings? Oh,

Re: BBC Licensing Expose

On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 12:08 +, Tony Quinn wrote: > has content which should be discussed. It is off-topic for this list, and even if it wasn't, it's not appropriate to post links to that site. Find it in credible news media or don't link to it at all. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: BBC Licensing Expose

On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 08:57 +, Chris J Brady wrote: > If you thought that the BBC employed th*gs to collect licence fees > then you are right. >   > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4262202/BBC-s-TV-licence-bull > ies-exposed.html >   > But seriously - what's the implications for those

Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 11:13 +0100, CJB wrote: > Share and share alike I guess. Kind a makes a mockery of the need for > security. That's hardly new. Similar observations could be made of fairly much all the snake oil DRM schemes. Ultimately, all these schemes have the same goal — to make the

Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 10:09 +0100, RS wrote: > >From: Mark Goodge Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 09:25 > > >> Of course this change may result in a lot of unhappy "Smart" TV > >> owners whose iPlayer apps don't get updated any more. > > >I would imagine that the BBC has a separate system for

Re: Problem with bounced mails

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 09:37 +0200, Dave Widgery wrote: > > As it is a bit annoying to wait until I am at a real computer to > reply, I have been trying out different free android mail clients but > as yet failed to find one that supports text only email without having > lots of flashing adds. >

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

On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 19:55 +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote: > Please see below ... > > www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html Please stop putting this at the top of every message you send. It really does look like you are explicitly referring people to see the URL "below" (on the very next line). Signatures

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

On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 00:38 +0100, Peter S Kirk wrote: > > Stop the OT poltical campainging posts: > "Over 275,000 of us signed an emergency petition to keep the BBC > independent" > > List is for GiP discussion and help ONLY. > > Respect that and take politics elsewhere. I have barred that

Re: Outlook Express 6 on WinXP and this list

On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 00:27 +0100, Owen Smith wrote: > I too found the "get yourself a real computer" offensive. Pfft. It's a Dilbert quote. You can choose to be offended. I can choose not to care. > Yes some people make life hard for themselves unnecessarily, but > others have little choice in

Re: Outlook Express 6 on WinXP and this list

On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 02:11 +0300, Vangelis forthnet wrote: > > Just tried posting to the list using Thunderbird  > > but got the same bounce response as in OE6 > >  > > << > > This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.   > >  > > Delivery to the

Re: Test from Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3664 (msoe.dll) on WinXP SP2

On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 19:24 +0300, Vangelis forthnet wrote: > New thread started, plain text format Please stop doing this. -- dwmw2 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: Test from Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512

On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 14:06 +0100, RS wrote: > I think I understand now what I did wrong (what you have referred to as  > thread hijacking).  Would it be possible to change the bounce message so  > that it says that, instead of promising moderator action which is not going  > to happen? Not

Re: Test from Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512

On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 13:21 +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote: > As I see that this has made to both the list and to my normal email client, > Outlook 2000, I conclude that where OE is failing it has not been set up > correctly. I conclude that you are failing to read the explanation which I posted

Re: Outlook Express 6 on WinXP and this list

On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 13:12 +0100, Richard Cole wrote: > > At the time I thought the subject line might have been embargoed.  It > was --p option.  I have since see a comment that discussion of > that option is banned. I don't believe there are any such topic-specific filters in place. The

Re: Outlook Express 6 on WinXP and this list

On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 03:31 +0300, Vangelis forthnet wrote: > > To the list maintainer (David Woodhouse): > Have you purposely blocked traffic originating from > MSOE 6.00 / WinXP as being an insecure client/OS? No. Your message of Tue, 5 Apr 2016 23:45:59 +0300 was rejected becaus

Re: unable to download get-iplayer

> On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 08:47:20 +0100 > CJB wrote: > >> More to the point what was that file attached to your post? >> >> smime.7ps >> >> ? CJB > > It's a cryptographic signature showing that the email has been > cryptographically signed by David's private key, which you

Re: Is The Server Down?

On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 10:07 +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote: > C:\TEMP>ping infradead.org > Ping request could not find host infradead.org. Please check the name and > try again. There hasn't been a *host* for 'infradead.org' for a long time. I think you meant www.infradead.org. And this is the 21st

Subscriptions disabled due to bounces.

Apologies, a couple of virus-laden ZIP files made it through to the list. I'll investigate why the virus scanner didn't catch them, and probably also just ban all ZIP files anyway; there's no reason for them to be permitted and I can't remember the last time I saw one that *wasn't* spam/junk. A

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.94 released

On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 18:12 +0100, David wrote: Also the windows installer will not download from infradead, although I can see it in the directory with a file date of last October. Can you elaborate on 'will not download'? It works here... $ wget

Re: Recent spam surge...

On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 16:36 +0100, Alan Milewczyk wrote: On 08/04/2015 16:28, michael norman wrote: That's not how mailing lists generally work and if this one is setup like that it needs to be changed. You should only be able to post to the list if you are a member of the list. +2

Re: Notice to Appear in Court

On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 10:33 +, Colin Law wrote: What, all of us? Not entirely sure why zip attachments are permitted on this list. I may have relaxed the limits to pander to people who like to send crap without thinking too hard about how easy it is for the recipients to deal with it. I

Re: bbc changed from mp3 to .m4a

On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 12:31 +, SquarePenguin wrote: On 21/02/2015 11:42, Majid HUSSAIN wrote: hi there, the bbc have changed there files from .mp3 to .m4a. how would I go about converting the file from .m4a back to .mp3 using the wpm? This part of the radio download guide explains

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 23:54 +, Square Penguin wrote: 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. It's default smart reply is reply to list,

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 14:34 +, Charles Johnson wrote: On 10/11/14 11:23, David Woodhouse wrote: It's default smart reply is reply to list, and there is seemingly no option to change that. I don't quite know if there's such a thing as a 'smart reply' but when i click the Reply button

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

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

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 14:10 +, Jim Lesurf wrote: On 08 Nov, Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: Blasted mailing list, I sent the message below as a personal reply, AGAIN. I simply cannot get my brain to accept how this list works. I'm on half a dozen other mailing lists all of which

Re: Re:mail-list behavior, was: iplayer audio to lpcm

On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 22:02 +, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote: Now think about what happens if you *don't* do people the courtesy of copying them directly. Some people will be cut out of the conversation *entirely* - only

Re: PATCH addition of /usr/local/bin/ in 'get_iplayer.cgi'

On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 01:07 +, Owen Smith wrote: Why bother with patches? Why not just check the source file out, change it, and check it back in again with the change in? Or does git not work like conventional source control systems? Of course. But we don't allow just *anyone* to commit

Re: ePetition Covering Public Data From The Likes Of The BBC

On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 14:40 +, C E Macfarlane 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 Unfortunately I don't feel able to support it. It seems to be conflating open

Re: Broken windows installer link

On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 18:36 +, Claire Pollard wrote: The link that I'm seeing as broken is: http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer_win/get_iplayer_setup_latest.exe Works for me... $ curl -v http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer_win/get_iplayer_setup_latest.exe /dev/null * Hostname was NOT

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 23:12 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014/10/31 21:21, Rob Dixon wrote: - Write a new application that uses the Nitro API, ostensibly to provide a different and more flexible way of viewing the BBC schedule, but capable of exporting the information for use in

Re: podcast listings missing a digit

On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 10:09 +0100, Owen Smith wrote: Given that Reply goes to the sender, and Reply to All goes to the sender and CC's the list, it is not surprising that replies are going to the wrong place. I've done it several times myself. Is it not possible to get the list software to

Re: copyri...@kickass.to bounces

On 15 September 2014 07:58, Shevek she...@shevek.co.uk wrote: On 15 September 2014 00:59, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else seeing bounce messages from copyri...@kickass.to as a result of posts to this list? It looks like some jackass subscribed that address to the

Re: Banned From Posting?

On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 09:37 -0700, Chris J Brady wrote: My last post was bounced back with a suspicious header. Yet another snafu due to Yahoo I suppose. CJB. It was the standard thread-hijacking protection. Your post had 'Re:' in the subject line but didn't appear to be a reply — it didn't

Re: Banned From Posting?

On 31 Jul 2014 at 19:20, Shevek Shevek she...@shevek.co.uk wrote: On 31 July 2014 17:37, Chris J Brady chrisjbr...@yahoo.com wrote: My last post was bounced back with a suspicious header. Yet another snafu due to Yahoo I suppose. CJB. Chris, also ALL your emails to the group end up in

Re: Confirming Membership of List

On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 06:02 -0700, Chris J Brady wrote: In a master stroke of security - or rather in an appalling LACK of security - the mailing list owners / moderators have just sent me an email confirming my membership - which included MY PASSWORD IN PLAIN TEXT. Sending such a reminder

Re: Fw: Yahoo Mailing List Snafu ...

On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 11:54 -0700, Chris J Brady wrote: I got this explanation Chris, very soon all mail providers will change their DMARC policies to the exact SAE policy used by Yahoo right now. All mail lists owners must adapt. Read more here:

Re: Fw: Yahoo Mailing List Snafu ...

of the message, right? And would also be broken by Yahoo's recent brain damage. but this list has: from: David Woodhouse x...@infradead.org to: Chris J Brady x...@yahoo.com cc: get_iplayer get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org The To: and Cc: are entirely interchangeable; that's purely cosmetic. You

Re: OT Windows Help

I need to activate a Lenovo E73 downgraded to W7 Pro 64bit. The Lenovo OEM key is rejected by MS. Please do not (ab)use this list for things like that. This is not a Warez forum. This list is strictly for discussion of *legal* access to BBC content with the get_iplayer tool. We want it to

Re: Status of Fedora package?

On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 21:43 +, Peter Oliver wrote: I notice that the get_iplayer package at RPM Fusion hasn't been updated for several years. Is there a reason for this? I could become a co-maintainer if that would help. Yes please :) -- dwmw2 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: get_iplayer Digest, Vol 42, Issue 10

On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 10:56 -0700, Chris J Brady wrote: Downloading programmes t.v. and radio are OK here (UK). CJB. Seriously? You repeat the *entirety* of *two* messages, *and* the digest header indicating that you should edit your Subject line to be more specific, which you ignored *except*

Re: My Apologies

On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 15:13 +0100, roadcone wrote: I tried to send this to the group using my original identity but my account is still blocked. I had thought that after the surrogate apology and explanation by another and a request to be unblocked, this might have happened. But it appears

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 01:24 +0100, Rob Dixon wrote: On 31/08/2013 23:48, Stuart Henderson wrote: As David is the list owner, I think it's reasonable for him to comment on list admin matters.. You are quite right. I was unaware of David's position as list owner and wouldn't have

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please [NO ACTUAL GET_IPLAYER CONTENT]

On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 13:33 +0100, TQ wrote: If possible, whilst banging on about the simplest of issues regarding the operation of mailing lists, would participants be so kind as to add [NO ACTUAL GET_IPLAYER CONTENT] to the subject line, in order that the posts might reach /dev/null with no

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 10:35 +0100, Mable Syrup wrote: The issue was that I was only getting digests to cut down on traffic, Ah, right. Yeah, the digests are a stupid concept, and make it fairly much impossible to do the right thing. I keep meaning to disable them entirely. Also, please make

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 11:38 +0100, Andrew Moore wrote: Some of these posts come to me as attachments instead of text – is that a new thing? No, that's just a bug in your mail client. dwmw2’s last post arrived as ATT00159.txt along with smime.p7s and no legible text was in the 'message'

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 20:25 +0100, Colin Law wrote: On 31 August 2013 12:33, J K.Eason j...@jeason.cix.co.uk wrote: Sorry, was using 'reply all' - will stop that now - thanks for pointing it out Argh, no! Using 'reply all' is exactly the *right* thing to do. Except in odd circumstances,

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 20:46 +0100, Rob Dixon wrote: On 30/08/2013 23:10, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 13:59 +0100, Mable Syrup wrote: I'm sure there must be something, but I can't find it. I want to reply to different items in a thread in a manner that preserves

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 21:50 +0100, Colin Law wrote: I don't think it is odd, again on most of the lists I subscribe to posters prefer not to get two copies, so Reply is the right thing to do. Have you actually read through the reply-to-list page that I have posted a number of times now? I talk

Re: Litigation rears its ugly head ...

On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 15:29 -0700, Chris J Brady wrote: Seems like the Beeb is getting litigatious ... http://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/ “The decision to retire the site was not in response to any specific threat There can be little doubt that the

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 23:51 +0100, J K.Eason wrote: That poster might like to investigate the settings on http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/options/get_iplayer - specifically Avoid duplicate copies of messages. For what it's worth, I've just looked and 'Avoid duplicate copies of

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 00:10 +0100, J K.Eason wrote: The address 'j...@jeason.cix.co.uk' is not subscribed to the list; you are subscribed with another address. Thus, the list software doesn't *know* that it's a duplicate. Ah that would explain it. Thanks David. I've now changed to the

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 23:26 +0100, Rob Dixon wrote: On 31/08/2013 22:09, David Woodhouse wrote: On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 20:46 +0100, Rob Dixon wrote: I'm sorry David, but I find this very offensive. Before we continue, I would ask you to watch this video: http://www.snotr.com/video/8285

Re: can someone point me to the list instructions please ...

On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 23:23 +0100, Roger Bell_West wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:10:56PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: Did I miss anything? That a standards-compliant modern MUA will also have a reply-to-list function, which acts on the RFC2369 headers to direct a reply intended forthe

Re: Command line to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23310447

On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 19:11 +0100, Ian Macdonald wrote: Gmail seems to be a problem, you need to 'reply all' otherwise it just goes to original poster I'm not sure why you describe that as 'a problem'. What you said, basically, is that with GMail you heed to use the 'reply all' option if you

Re: Netiquette - bottom posting - outdated?

On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 17:19 +1200, Xtra wrote: Few people these days have the the time or inclination to scroll through often repeated screeds of historical background to finally get to the latest contribution Which is why you're supposed to *trim* your citations. As I have done here, for

Re: New get_iplayer website forums

On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 22:36 +0100, Jonathan H wrote: And this mailing list is doing my head in - the software is so hopelessly antiquated, it won't even tag subject lines with get_iplayer. Why would it do that? The reverse-path of the message clearly identifies where it comes from, so if you

Re: Re: subject mail issue

On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 08:30 +0100, Shiner wrote: I'll be surprised if I see this though! There is something really odd about the way this mailing list works. sigh Not really. The rules are the same as fairly much every other mailing list or effective email environment I've ever encountered;

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.83 released

On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 23:38 +0100, dinkypumpkin wrote: get_iplayer 2.83 has been released. Release notes here: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/release283 I see you're moving away from the web site on www.infradead.org? Do you want me to take the existing site down, or make

Re: RTMP failing with send error

On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 14:41 +0100, Philip Colmer wrote: Unless I'm misunderstanding things, this looks like SWF verification is failing. I thought that RTMPDump supported this now, so it is a bit odd to be getting that error, unless that isn't the *real* cause? Well, SWF verification works

Re: Your message to get_iplayer awaits moderator approval

On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 07:44 +0100, Pete Beardmore wrote: nope, thwarted again. looks like i won't be sending the patch set. the size isn't the issue this time I've approved your messages manually. For reference, the reason they got trapped for moderation was because they were a reply (had

Re: [PATCH] Removed double re-muxing of AAC audio (national radio) to M4A

On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 00:28 +, dinkypumpkin wrote: Thanks for running that down. Here is what I think it means: 1. ffmpeg was forked as libav in early 2011. Your ffmpeg 0.5.9 (from Ubuntu Lucid repository) is derived from code before the fork. 2. Sometime after the fork - but

Re: Windows installation method

On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 19:22 +, Shevek wrote: On 9 February 2013 19:07, Steve Dimond st...@hillrise.demon.co.uk wrote: Hi, http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html. However, this website is down now and I don't have the link to the program. Would someone I'm not

Web site outage this weekend

The machine hosting www.infradead.org will be down this weekend for power maintenance. Starting in a few minutes, and coming back on Monday. Apologies for short notice; I've only just come to the conclusion that I'm not going to manage to migrate web services off it, and I'm just going to let

Re: get_iPlayer not available on the Internet?

On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 20:52 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: Indeed, something is wrong with casper.infradead.org, which hosts the get_iplayer download page amongst other things. David Woodhouse will read this and advise, I'm sure. It's down for the weekend due to power maintenance. Should

Re: Replying to list

On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 12:14 +0100, Derek Moss wrote: OK thanks, I'll do that then. I just thought it would be annoying for the sender to receive the message via the list and directly. It might be slightly annoying to some people who receive two copies of the email. But it could be much *more*

Re: Replying to list

On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 13:38 -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote: The logic behind the default is that the mail is technically from Joe and if you reply, there's a CHANCE you want to just reply to joe, and might be including information private for joe's eyes. That's an interesting way of phrasing

Re: Replying to list

On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 10:18 +0100, Colin Law wrote: But would they not always see it via the list? No. They might not be subscribed to the list. Or they might be subscribed, and filter it into a folder they never look at. Read the URL I gave. You can almost never be sure that they'll see the

Re: 4GiB limit, chunk download, what to use to demux and remux?

This thread is starting to grate on my pedant's nerves. It's 4GiB, not 4GB... or 4Gb or 4Gib. 1GiB is 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes; 1,073,741,824 bytes. 1GB is 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes; 1,000,000,000 bytes. 1Gb is 1000 * 1000 * 1000 *bits*; 125,000,000 bytes. 1Gib is 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bits;

Re: Replying to list

On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 19:40 +0100, Derek Moss wrote: At the moment users have to cut and paste the list address from the CC field every time they want to reply to the list (using Reply All) and that does seem stupid and bound to lead to messages accidentally being sent privately instead of

Re: Yahoo! Groups: Welcome to WebSurfing. Visit today!

On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 23:06 +0300, Derek J. Balling wrote: This seems to me like a big mistake, no? Like we've just signed up the mailing list to be a member of some spamming list? I thought I'd already set the lists to reject all messages from Yahoo! groups. I have now. -- dwmw2

Re: Recording 'archived' items on iplayer site

On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 14:18 +0200, James Cook wrote: Doesnt --pid-recursive do this? e.g. get_iplayer.pl --profiledir=. --type=radio --pid b00X --pid-recursive --get With which pid? It didn't seem to work with either b006ggft or one of the pids for the individual episodes, picked at

Re: Recording 'archived' items on iplayer site

On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 11:58 +0100, Colin Parker wrote: What is the easiest way to record all 114 Open Country radio 4 programmes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgft/episodes/player)? Can't see a way to fetch the full list except on that page. So perhaps something like... for a in `seq 1

Re: Akamai outside UK

On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:34 -0700, Arthur Murray wrote: In my brief experience of using an IP outside the UK (and therefore using a proxy), rtmpdump has required the UK IP (--socks parameter) if connecting to akamai or it will receive an access denied error. The entire video must go through

Re: get_iplayer in Debian Wheezy

On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 20:13 +0100, dinkypumpkin wrote: AFAIK, David Woodhouse is the only one with sufficient access to actually turn the key to create a new release (David: let me know off-list if you want to delegate that minor chore - would require a permissions change at your end

Re: IE9 corrupts .pl file when saving

On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 16:29 +0100, Derek Moss wrote: It's easy enough to just copy and paste the data into notepad++ and save it as get_iplayer.pl so no major problem, just wanted to point out people following the instructions at https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/instructions

Re: OT: How to Reply to Digest Thread

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 09:08 +0100, Colin Law wrote: On 23 April 2012 08:43, Alastair aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: I get the digest for the list and have had all kinds of problems working out how best to reply without including all the list. One of these attempts recently resulted in my

Re: Mailing list info page its main archive down for several days

On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 11:25 +0200, Vangelis forthnet wrote: But, as if by magic, I can again reach these URLs as of yesterday evening... Bizarre, to say the least! Must've been some problem with my ISP and how it redirected web requests. Thankfully, as said, all is fine now! Sorry, no.

Re: iPlayer not working this morning?

On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 10:34 +, Chris Davies wrote: On 21/02/12 10:26, Chris Davies wrote: I've submitted a ticket to my ISP (as insisted upon by the BBC ticketing system) and a complaint (I hate that word) to the BBC iPlayer team. ...and now it's working again. Very strange! I

Re: Playing programmes (in Linux version)

On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 16:17 +, John Rose wrote: I also want to catch the terminal messages by placing the stdout stderr output in a file. I've tried: bash get_iplayer --force --raw --stream 104 | mplayer -cache 3072 - /home/john/Temporary/iRecorderLog.txt 21 and some variations. I

Re: Mailing List not showing messages

On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 16:53 +, Roger Rabbit wrote: This is just a test post. Hopefully the first to come through on the list via normal email. Didn't know about HTML being rejected, almost abandoned this mailing list as my messages always got bounced! That seems to have arrived. Note

Re: Mailing List not showing messages

On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 08:00 +, John Rose wrote: My messages to the mailing list have not been getting to it for the last few days. I have not received any 'bounce' messages. Does anyone know why this might be? Looking at the moderation queue, the latest trapped message from you is Jan

Re: Mailing List not showing messages

On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 08:56 +, Rog wrote: What sort of answer is that? I've had the same problem with messages not getting through. We are not all geniuses Mr Woodhouse, sd please explain to we the uninitiated where we are going wrong. If you can let me know the details (i.e. the

Re: Mailing List not showing messages

On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 10:33 +, Rog wrote: Hi David Thanks, but it's too late as I recently purged my *Sent Items* folder. sod's law OK. Let me know if/when it happens again. Also, *please* make sure you trim your citations. Your reply should only include as much of the previous message

Re: Mailing List not showing messages

On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 13:06 +, Rog wrote: - Original Message - I couldn't find *any* new content of your own in that message. You *only* seemed to repeat what I'd said, without citing it properly by prefixing each line with a ''. Your mail software, whatever you're using, seems to

Re: Bounced messages

On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 15:36 +, John Rose wrote: Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:00:55 + Message-ID: CACns58WO=-HjgU0cYtGdptKr7+bMfH7iYA=vbfryyg68fnb...@mail.gmail.com Subject: Re: Naive questions: RTMP packets output From: John Rose john.aaron.r...@gmail.com I looked up this one. It

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