Re: Problems downloading Caribbean with Simon Reeve

2015-03-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Anthony Kehoe gar...@aloria.net wrote: No, I tried both.. Search terms don't make any difference. Do any other PVR searches work? What about a search for, for example: rib or even just something very common like: the -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: get_iplayer Web PVR Manager - enabling access on a trusted network

2015-03-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Kevin Lynch klyn...@gmail.com wrote: I have a trusted network - I'd like to expose the Web PVR manager so that I can access it from other machines on the network - rather than just jumping onto my computer and using the localhost:1935 Please can someone provide instructions Well, I don't use

Re: pvr search term no longer works

2015-03-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: I am trying to record Afternoon on 3 - Thursday Opera Matinee using pvr and gip v2.92. After some patient help from dinkypumpkin in April 2013 with the command required to add to pvr list:- get_iplayer --pvradd --type=radio --fields=episode Thursday Opera

Re: radio sample rates.

2015-03-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jim web w...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: ... but 2.91 gets me 48k files with a different filename syntax Output filenames are entirely dependent on G_ip options; either one sets them explicitly oneself from a mix of template literal data (as I do), or one has a default template applied. For

Re: radio sample rates.

2015-03-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jim web w...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: In article mpro.nlbfzt001jhy00...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer jn.ml.gti...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Output filenames are entirely dependent on G_ip options; either one sets them explicitly oneself from a mix of template

Re: radio sample rates.

2015-03-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jim Lesurf w...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: This is all for *sound radio*... Ah you traditionalist! Don't you look forward to touch sniff radio? In case anyone is curious, I can tell the sample rate because the audio DAC I use indicates it. In general, it switches to 'follow the source'. So the

Re: BBC Archive - Great Egg race download problems

2015-03-09 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jimmy Aitken jimmy.ait...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been trying to work out how to download episodes of the Great Egg Race from the BBC archive site. I'm actually just wanting to watch them, to be honest, but not on a desktop and the episodes seem to be only on Flash, so mobile devices don't

Re: Episode numbers missing

2015-03-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: Of the series I routinely collect Horizon is the worst. Well, Storyville is bad too. In my own program which I use to keep track of what I've downloaded (or skipped - the download history's no good for that), entries for various programmes need

Re: New Linux Installation Question

2015-03-01 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Budge aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: The problem occurred when I ran get_iplayer from my home directory for the first time, which is when the plugins are sorted out. I have just had the same error message on a Windows XP system. I think there's a logic error that can cause the message to be

Re: unable to get specific pid

2015-02-25 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Andrew J. Baker and...@bewareoftheleopard.com wrote: Episode 9 is shown as available, but the PID starts with a p - which makes it a podcast. Lots of both Radio and TV programmes have p-prefix pids. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ___

Re: unable to get specific pid

2015-02-25 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
John Adams servicesuk-anon...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Command: get_iplayer -g --force --pid p00f79tm If you're trying to find out why things don't work (or to get info to cp here), at least add --verbose to the command so there's some detail! -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: unable to get specific pid

2015-02-25 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
John Adams servicesuk-anon...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: OK, but can you download that specific PID today? Yes; it certainly starts to download, though I've not wasted bandwidth letting it grab the whole programme. The entry exists in my tv.cache file too. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Another download failure ...

2015-02-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: Greetings, Jeremy :-) Squawk! If NO to both of my questions, then you are using a deprecated version of GiP. 'Deprecated' is a little harsh... I'm just using an older one (based on 2.90). And the reason is that my version is customised a

Re: Another download failure ...

2015-02-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com wrote: Running the PVR list I got... the_drift_name_radio Matches: 12917: The Drift - 15/02/2015, BBC Radio Lancashire, INFO: 1 Matching Programmes WARNING: Could not download programme metadata from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02j6j0x.xml ERROR: Failed to get

Re: Another download failure ...

2015-02-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
batguano999 batguano...@zoho.com wrote: .. I tried to fetch this using a normal command-line command... We can't see it though. If I understand the PVR correctly, when you use it you point a browser at a particular webpage that's send to the browser from a web-server running on your own

Re: Help needed with BBC Collections Archive programmes

2015-02-11 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
M Clark mcl...@gmx.co.uk wrote: I did have a problem with broken links on https://squarepenguin.co.uk/ Did you report them? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: Pick up from Download Completed?

2015-02-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: 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. Could you download to a disk attached directly to the RPi and then

Re: Post-processing

2015-01-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: RTMP can sometimes fall over but I think that is more down to the stream getting interupted/corupted than anything else. Yes; one problem though (in my view) is that G_ip as shipped (at least up until v 2.90 - I've not looked at 2.91 yet) overrides a

Re: Post-processing

2015-01-06 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Al Feersum al.feer...@gmail.com wrote: So what I want to do is to get GiP to generate a 'doze event log entry after the download process (incl. conversion, tagging and metadata file gen) has completed, so I can trigger a task scheduler process to post-process the data and move it to the right

Re: Its gone rogue, downloading *everything*!

2015-01-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Sharon Kimble boudic...@skimble.plus.com wrote: Yesterday and today gi has gone rogue in its pvr interface by downloading everything in its pvr-cache! I've never used the PVR and don't know what's normal, but... in: DEBUG: get_iplayer options: thumb=0 versionlist=default subtitles=0

Re: Use First Broadcast Date in Filenames? Capitalisation?

2015-01-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
C E Macfarlane c.e.macfarl...@macfh.co.uk wrote: 1) First Broadcast Date AFAICS, there is no way to get the first broadcast date from the XML metadata into the filename. There is, but a more fundamental problem is that the BBC are not consistent in how they use the value - sometimes it

Re: Use First Broadcast Date in Filenames? Capitalisation?

2015-01-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
C E Macfarlane c.e.macfarl...@macfh.co.uk wrote: JN wrote: You code a --fileprefix argument detailing which bits of info you want in what order, mixing literal values and symbolic ones as you desire. Yes thanks, I already knew how to do that Well maybe you should have

Re: Seeking advice on transfer to new computer

2014-12-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: 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

Re: James May - Flight Club

2014-12-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: 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) - so it was transmitted around a fortnight ago,

Is the tv.cache file shrinking because of the season?

2014-12-26 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
I'm using 2.90 still, having not updated yet (because I have to rework all my own changes when I do and I don't feel like it today), so maybe this is my own fault... In my wrapper for g_ip, one of the things I check is the size of each freshly populated cache. While the radio.cache is fairly

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.91 released

2014-12-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: Release notes here: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release291 My goodness, you must have been busy. And it's brave to release this now; I hope you don't have to spend the festive season supporting us. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions

Re: Can't download radio progs ......

2014-12-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com wrote: Jut the jargon of Git, Pearl, CGI, whatever is way over my head. As a professional programmer (me too, some time ago) you must have been used to a constantly changing technical landscape... and I'm truly surprised that you can't find basic introductions to them

Re: Help

2014-12-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
K Richard Whitbread richard.whitbr...@tesco.net wrote: I am running version 2.90 which I believe is the latest version. Just to be clear, you're saying you updated it since last night's question? Because that showed you were using 2.89, when you quoted these lines: I have attempted to use the

Re: --hls-liveradio-opts

2014-12-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: ... which means that I input it correctly in my GiP command, however further down the log I am seeing that it was not parsed correctly, since: INFO: Command: .\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe ... -headers \X-Forwarded-For: 31.3.xxx.xxx\ ... I think

Re: problem with atomicparsley and windows 64 bit

2014-12-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Perry Wald pe...@wald.co.uk wrote: then atomicparsley comes up with an error message and fails. And what does the message say? Have you googled that and found - say - a discussion by atomicparsely users, of how to get around it? Anyone have any ideas how to get round this? I really don't

Re: --force loads repeats for radio programmes

2014-12-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: The pvr doesn't download the repeats first time around, but doing a --force on the programme name does, irrespective of the fact that it's the same PID. A --force isn't on the programme name though. It means: download ANYTHING that matches,

Re: --force loads repeats for radio programmes

2014-12-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: Don't think anyone has raised this previously. Occasionally a programme download gets screwed up or I need to re-download a prog that's already been downloaded. I've set my prefs to append the filename with information on when the programme was last

Re: GitHead questions from the uninitiated

2014-12-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: In the last week or so, I've been patching get_iplayer using GitHeadWin to make sure I'm using the latest version. That's not necessarily very sensible. If you look through the commits log (as other people have suggested) you'll quite often see

Re: Do Not Flush

2014-11-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
C E Macfarlane c.e.macfarl...@macfh.co.uk wrote: I can't a GIP command-line option to prevent the cache being flushed and re-downloaded. If there isn't one, can we have one? Occasionally it would be very useful. In my home-grown wrap-around for get_iplayer, I've been contemplating having it

Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: 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 here... OTOH, I've hardly ever seen radio or TV data arrive at more than about 11 Mbps, despite having a connection

Re: Caches wont refresh ...

2014-11-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com wrote: All in triplicate!!! The t.v. indexes are listed as == snip == INFO: Getting tv Index Feeds (this may take a few minutes) WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba - a-z ... Both tv and radio caches are fine here (around 11pm on the 18th).

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: In that case, I'd better not mention the 156Mbps downloads and 11.6Mbps uploads I get from Virgin here in Greater Manchester. My 60 Mbps connection is also a Virgin one; what actual download speeds of BBC radio tv programmes using get_iplayer do you

Re: Starting November 11, 2014 output filenames missing underline/underscore

2014-11-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
artisticforge . artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello; while looking at the BBC Radio Wales issue, I noticed a separate issue. Starting November 11th, output file names for programmes from the National BBC Radio Stations and at least 2 of the larger local radio Stations are missing the

Re: peculiar to BBC Radio Wales?

2014-11-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
artisticforge . artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: concerning the below: INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Programme not in history WARNING: Page parsing may fail with HTML::Parser versions before 3.71. You have version 3.69. I am running Debian Wheezy and Debian has not upgrade those modules as of

Re: peculiar to BBC Radio Wales?

2014-11-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
artisticforge . artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Programme not in history WARNING: Page parsing may fail with HTML::Parser versions before 3.71. You have version 3.69. I wondered if this was relevant, as it suggests you're either not using a recent enough version

An ironic INFO message!

2014-11-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
I've got the new option --check-duration turned on and was struck (bearing in mind this programme's episode name - by the irony in: INFO: Duration check: recorded: 01:36:09 expected: 01:35:00 difference: 00:01:09 file: C:\Gip\Inspector Montalbano - Ep=2. Equal Time.mp4 (Sorry.) -- Jeremy

Is there a problem with --start and --stop?

2014-11-14 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Using v2.90, modified a bit... but I've not changed anything in the fetch logic. I'm testing something and don't want to download more than a few seconds of a tv programme, so used: --force --start 10 --stop 45 along with the same search criteria as I'd used for a previous whole-programme

Re: mpeg-dash and get_iplayer?

2014-11-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jim Lesurf w...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: Yes I know I can install it at the click of a button. But I'm wary of anything from Google given their dubious behaviour, etc. Would prefer an alternative. I'm surprised you don't already have it (and IE and Opera, at least) installed simply to check how

Re: OT - List mailing (was iplayer audio to lpcm)

2014-11-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: On 10/11/14 17:36, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: The mails in this thread that people have thoughtfully CCed to me personally have arrived, but the mail-list ones have not. I have sent this using Reply List and not CCd it to you, so will you

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

2014-11-10 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 23:54 +, Square Penguin wrote: Quick question - how do you deal with CC's in your inbox and duplicate messages in mailing list folders (assuming you filter to folders)? Simply ignore the duplicates or do you have a

Programme Title: Subtitle, or Title: Episode Title?

2014-11-10 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
From time to time I'm struck by entries in a cache file appearing to split what I would think of as a programme title with a subtitle, into a shorter title and an episode name... For example if one looks at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/programmes/a-z/by/h/all?page=3 you can see what appear to be

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

2014-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jim Lesurf j...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: One complication here I've already hit is that IIUC the xfce mint distro I'm using doesn't provide ffmpeg but avcodec (?) I've installed a local version of ffmpeg but am unsure of how avcodec may differ from this in ways that may affect what I have in

'fileprefix' filename templates are having characters elided

2014-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
With 2.84 etc this worked. With 2.90 (I've not used any of the intermediate versions), specifying for example: --fatfilename --whitespace --file-prefix $GRAB-SN130-002369 R=nameshort - Sseriesnum Eepisodenum - E=episodetitle 'E=episode' P=pid M=mode Z=duration F=firsbcastdate L=lastbcastdate

Re: 'fileprefix' filename templates are having characters elided

2014-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer jn.ml.gti...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: With 2.84 etc this worked. With 2.90 (I've not used any of the intermediate versions), specifying for example: --fatfilename --whitespace --file-prefix $GRAB... produces a final file name like: $GRAB... Oops

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

2014-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
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 if they weren't mail list subscribers in the first place. Arguably they shouldn't have been

Re: get_iplayer - works at first... then doesn't

2014-11-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jim Lesurf j...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: I'm using command line and issuing commands like get_iplayer --type=radio --verbose --not-tag --pid b04lsjkv --o outdir in a terminal. The --no-tag avoids the fetch working but getting a complaint about inability to fetch some metadata to tag the

Re: get_iplayer - works at first... then doesn't

2014-11-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jim Lesurf j...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: On 07 Nov, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer jn.ml.gti...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Jim Lesurf j...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: I'm using command line and issuing commands like get_iplayer --type=radio --verbose --not-tag --pid b04lsjkv --o outdir

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: Digital gives us the unprecedented ability to make a perfect copy, not a lossy copy as with tape ... But it's a perfect copy of an imperfect (compressed, loss of detail etc) source I'd think they'd be more concerned about digital tv recorders

Re: No programmes are available for this pid

2014-11-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I'm puzzled by this message: No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default which I get when trying to download two programmes (PIDs p0299nz3 and p0299ml1). Usually it means they're only available in eg 'signed' form. For that you

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Nick get_ipla...@i.lucanops.net wrote: Which is the irony of the enforcement of OTT IP. The restrictions won't ever truly work - even with some closed network, server and client system the end-user could still video the screen. And how much is a phone these days that can video something? :)

Re: A glimpse of Nitro

2014-11-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Charles Johnson cehjohn...@gmail.com wrote: Taken from the source of http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-29825165 The Nitro urls have even specified a special URI scheme: Looks like these pages expect support for several: coverage: pulsar: nitro: eg (as you said):

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: If any of the team here knows whether the Favourites page can provide what I want please let me know. I have no idea... but I do remember reading a lot of complaints when the last big website revision happened, and the BBC didn't migrate all the info people

Re: Updated version of Get_Iplayer

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I haven't seen one released since v2.79. Is that a typo? There's announcement messages posted to this mail list each time there's a new release. So - for the last few - v 2.85 on 6 Nov 2013 v 2.86 on 6 Apr 2014 v 2.87 on 19 Oct 2014 --

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Terry L. Ridder artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I may have missed something , but where is there any mention of the www.bbc.co.uk website programme schedules going away? You've missed this: if a computer program grabs website pages and 'scrapes' them, which is to say wades through all the

Re: Pids Not Downloading

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Computing comput...@windcheetah.org.uk wrote: Hi, I'm trying to download the Tony Hancock bits. I've had a quick explore of the BBC website and can't find any such programme listed there... So... what radio station, and what programme name? If there's no programme offered on the website for a

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dirk Husemann dirk+getipla...@d2h.net wrote: this one seems to work: % curl -v -v http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/js/episode/b04nhkz9 GET /iplayer/js/episode/b04nhkz9 HTTP/1.1 Interesting, but not a schedule. You already knew the pid... -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Multiple pids - another way, in some cases

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
roadcone roadc...@gmx.com wrote: ... then it tells me that they are all in my download history. You'd need to code --force to stop get_iplayer from stopping because it found (from the download history) that you've already downloaded those items. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Sharon Kimble boudic...@skimble.plus.com wrote: Thanks for this Charles. With your last command --8---cut here---start-8--- wget -q -O - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm/this_week.json | jq '.[] | .[] | .[] | .[] | .programme as $P |

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dirk Husemann dirk+getipla...@d2h.net wrote: On 2014-11-02 19:49, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Interesting, but not a schedule. You already knew the pid... which you can get from the iplayer guide page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide/bbc/20141029 Yes, but the point of the thread

Re: One case where PID does not work ( was A message from Auntie )

2014-10-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
artisticforge . artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: Cannot download because get_iplayer is determining that the program is not available because it has not yet been broadcast. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programmes/schedules/this_week http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mbmzb A few minutes ago I got

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-10-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Ian Macdonald ianma...@gmail.com wrote: I have always just used the command line, but the last option seems best, it depends on how much effort is required to reverse engineer the API... The problem isn't the API, so far as I understand it. The problem is that any request has to include a 'key'.

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-10-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Rob Dixon rob.di...@gmx.com wrote: There is a simple application form, which I filled in today, to get a licence for accessing the Nitro API, and there's no implication that there's a BBC-staff-only restriction. I'll keep people updated about what I hear back. On all three of:

Re: get_iplayer repair update #1

2014-10-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: get_iplayer has been more or less repaired, but there are still some wounds. I'm going to release what I have on Sunday This is excellent news, and I have to say I'm impressed by the amount you've managed to do in such a short time. (I realise

Re: Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

2014-10-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Rob Dixon rob.di...@gmx.com wrote: I'm no lawyer, but on the face of it I would say we're clear. as supplied to you by the BBC says to me that it mustn't be modified, not that it mustn't be stored. We already all store this stuff in browser caches when using the website as normal. -- Jeremy

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by get_iplayer... Hell. Even if I have to resort to the BBC website to watch streamed programmes, or use get_iplayer to download by pids researched online, the programme data was invaluable for telling

Re: Download by pid but save in download_history?

2014-10-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Arthur Murray amurray...@gmail.com wrote: While the PVR functionality is unavailable I need to download by PIDs, but can I save these PIDs in the download_history automatically? What command line options will accomplish this? I fetch TV programmes by PID quite often, including tonight. Entries

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com wrote: I guess this means I'll have to deal with the inherently visual nature of BBC iPlayer's site from now on? *sigh* This is what I get for being a complacent blindy... Maybe a complaint/request for help from the BBC from the point of view of a partially- or non-

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Lorenzo Martinelli lore...@martinelli.co.uk wrote: The first episode is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04n8zdp/autumnwatch-20... The pid (programme id) is this: b04n8zdp To fetch it you need to issue a get_iplayer command including --pid b04n8zdp in the arguments to the

Re: Strugging to record Building Dream Homes

2014-10-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Paul Phillips paulphillipsdidsb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Everything has been working since I upgraded web pvr to 2.87 , apart from this show: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0467k48/ad/building-dream-homes-episode-2 It's one of those morning programmes on BBC 2 that doesn't seem to ever

Re: Accessing programmes more than a week old?

2014-10-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Chris Marriott ch...@chrism.demon.co.uk wrote: Apologies - this is slightly OT for the list, but perhaps someone knows the answer. I was under the impression that iPlayer had been updated to allow the playing of programmes more than a week old, now, but when I go to the iPlayer web site, and

Does anyone know what a 'reversion' is?

2014-10-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
I've noticed that a few BBC programmes are described as 'reversions'. For example there's a repeat (or maybe it's more than that?) of Series 5 of Rip Off Britain on at the moment. In the tv.cache file ( on the BBC website) the episodes are titled: Rip Off Britain: Series 5 (Daytime

Re: More (or less) Tommies

2014-10-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Clive roadc...@uk2.net wrote: Now parts 1 2 of Tommies from the afternoon drama slot are available on iplayer to play but they are not listed in the searches tommies or noon drama. Their --pid returns the error not found in radio cache I think that that isn't an error, just a statement of

Re: Another download issue.

2014-10-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: Please read the case reported @ https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/topic/cant-get-programmes-available-on-iplayer/#post-9759 Adding the following line (denoted by the + sign) to the GIT HEAD version will fix it... This one might have a

Re: Another download issue.

2014-10-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/10/2014 19:36, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: This one might have a different fundamental cause. On the day it should have come available it was listed on bbc website pages but wouldn't fetch. By the following day it had ceased

Re: Download showing negative cts, previous timestamps might be wrong

2014-10-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: I just downloaded the most recent episode of New Tricks in HD (series 11 episode 8), and when I had a look at the cmd window after the download finished,... I see this from time to time on tv programmes; it doesn't happen during the download, but

Re: podcast listings missing a digit

2014-10-01 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Mark Rogers m...@quarella.co.uk wrote: On 1 October 2014 15:33, Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: I'm so used to Reply going to a sensible destination for all my other emails There are two buttons: Reply and Reply All... And in my email client, three buttons. There's also one for 'reply

Funny characters in the cache files

2014-09-09 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
There's a TV programme at the moment named: The £100k House. In the tv.cache file, this programme's name is stored as: The £100k House - that is there's an unexpected character - hex c2 - before the pound sign. It means that a search for, say, The £100 won't find this programme. I'm wondering

Re: PVR script not running reliably

2014-09-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Philip Colmer phi...@colmer.me.uk wrote: It looks like Windows 8/Windows Server 2012 broke Task Scheduler in that if a task is running but the user is not logged in, the profile doesn't get loaded, so the path is wrong. There is a KB article referencing this

Re: PVR script not running reliably

2014-09-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Philip Colmer phi...@colmer.me.uk wrote: I'm using the get_iplayer--pvr.bat script on a Windows system. It seemed to be working fine until something happened that caused the programmes cache not to be updated, so the PVR stopped realising it needed to grab anything. So then I updated the script

Re: Problems recording Hive

2014-08-06 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
David WIDGERY widgery.da...@orange.fr wrote: Hi, I have been trying to record the first episode of Hive and get the following result, is this still part of the BBC iplayer website problem or am I missing somthing. The latter If you look at:

A problem with rtmpdump on a flakey internet connection

2014-07-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
I've got a 60Mb/s Virgin cable connection which is great when it's working, but has had a tendency recently to drop for a few seconds every so often. I found rtmpdump frequently failing to pick up a download after a connection has had a blip. The documentation for rtmpdump itself suggests that it

Re: A problem with rtmpdump on a flakey internet connection

2014-07-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: You can use --rtmp-tv-opts or --rtmp-radio-opts to override the default and avoid making changes to the script. Ah. I did look at the longhelp for the perl program but looked for timeout-related things and overlooked rtmp- prefixed options. I just

Re: Curiosity: what means mmsnothread; and why might I need it?

2014-06-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2014 12:27, Howard Orgel wrote: Installation of a previous version put mmsnothread 1 in GiP's system options file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\get_iplayer\options. It has survived updates/reinstallations to present. What does it do;

Re: firstbcast field absent

2014-06-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Robert Snelling h3...@rcs.me.uk wrote: Is it just me, or have the BBC changed something? I make use of the firstbcast field... A bigger problem is that the BBC don't seem to have decided what first broadcast should mean. For example I've fetched the files for The Hitchhiker's Guide...

Re: Problems with colons in searches

2014-05-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
JB Caruth jbc-pub...@caruth.com wrote: $ ./get_iplayer ^Coast: Coast Australia$ Any ideas why ... the manual search is finding too many? The results seem to be those of $ ./get_iplayer ^Coast which makes me wonder if : has some meaning in whatever command shell you're using? -- Jeremy

Re: Problems with colons in searches

2014-05-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
JB Caruth jbc-pub...@caruth.com wrote: Which leaves me back where I started - wondering why the search (via PVR or manual, with or without escaped colon) is not finding the available programmes. Because there's no colon to be found where you expect it? If I search for ^coast.*coast

Re: Ipod playback truncated at around 20-22 mins

2014-05-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
scrofula 101 scrofula...@gmail.com wrote: Having problems with get_iplayer in Linux Mint 16 for a while now. Using current version 2.86. All the radio files I obtain playback fine on the computer but when I transfer them to ipod nano using itunes on Windows 8.1 they cut out at around 20-22 mins

case sensitivity in commands

2014-05-14 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
I've known for a while that it doesn't seem to matter whether the text fragments used to search for a programme name are in upper, lower or mixed case, so was surprised to find (when I accidentally had caps lock pressed) that --VERSION SIGNED didn't match a programme which I knew existed,

Re: player.xml broken

2014-05-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Don Grunbaum d...@grunbaum.co.uk wrote: My experience suggests that ^Genius$ does not work, but Genius (without the ^ and $) will work ok, although it could pick up false positives. I think the colon is what upsets the match. My experience is that ^Genius does work, but putting the dollar

Re: Modes=best?

2014-03-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: When I download an episode of Silk (details below) it results in a 1.1mb file. When I play the episode it has a large BBC logo in the top left (I thought that HD programmes had a small logo - or has that changed?) An hour INFO: duration

Re: War Walks - Green Line

2014-03-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Peter S Kirk peter.k...@isauk.biz wrote: Very strange, you gave a horizontal line online and I have a vertical line in the downloaded .flv Yet it appears OK in iPlayer on both PCs I have tried it on. The files fetched by get_iplayer, and those streamed by the online thing are not

Re: Confused Newbie

2014-03-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Barrie Avis barrie.a...@gmail.com wrote: I am clearly just a confused Newbie and I just cannot see the big picture of what I am doing. Although I have used Windows for many years, I am totally new to the Pi, Linux and Raspbian I want to run the BBC iPlayer on my new Raspberry Pi. Is that

Re: BBC Archive Blues Collections

2014-02-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
michael norman michaeltnor...@gmail.com wrote: To be specific I would like to find the pids for the programmes here http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p01m79bn/blues The URLs for the separate programmes all end in a /pxxx value, different for each one. That's the pid. If you want

Re: iPlayerRadio (finally - and sadly) has changed!

2014-02-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Mark Rogers m...@quarella.co.uk wrote: On 12 February 2014 18:00, Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: OT: A month ago [...] I missed this when originally posted as a postscript to an email that wasn't relevant to me and I had skipped. Just seen you mention it in another

Re: Still getting Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256) with 2.85?

2014-01-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Chris Marriott ch...@chrism.demon.co.uk wrote: Rather than all convoluted stuff you posted, what happens if you simply download it directly from the command line? get_iplayer --mode=flashhd --pid=b03lb92t All that convoluted stuff is normal output from such a command, if (as the OP did) you

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