Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 13 Feb 2024, at 18:29, Mike Conley wrote: > > On 13 Feb 2024, at 13:13, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > >> This BBC News article has appeared today: >> >> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68283165 >> >> -=-=-=-=

Re: v3.28 has been released

Does it need developing? Isn't bug fixing sufficient if it already does its job? -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 9 Dec 2021, at 12:34, geo...@eycott.co.uk wrote: > > Nope, Dinky is still maintaining it but just not responding in any forums or > email lists. If you find a

Re: v3.28 has been released

I didn't know get_iplayer was still being updated,I thought it all died a year or more ago when the maintainer got the hump and left. Have other people taken over? -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 8 Dec 2021, at 23:49, Mark Carroll wrote: > > v3.28 of get_iplayer looks

Re: OT: Playing GiP data wirelessly.

of Xeo 3, an older model, and they sound fantastic but then they should for the price. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 4 Sep 2021, at 21:37, Geoff wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 5:58 AM, Budge wrote: >> >> There is power available at all

Re: Unknown unknows. was Re: Why no Formula E?

No-one can mimic Murray Walker, and trying to do so is a mistake. Commentators should find their own style. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 25 Apr 2021, at 23:19, Chris Woods wrote: > > Jack Nicholls and Dario Franchitti don't just scream into the mic like Crofty > does at eac

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

quality. Why should I also have to put up with a limited retention time? -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 6 Jul 2020, at 02:11, VeniVidiVideo wrote: > > Boy, the hypocrisy here is stunning. The BBC allows time-limited downloads, > but does NOT allow downloads without an exp

Re: Can get_iplayer still download radio?

the other channels, so that something appears genuinely in rear right rather than every speaker except front left. That's damned hard even with modern computers. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 3 May 2020, at 19:55, Dave Lambley wrote: > >  >> >> On May 3, 2020 2:28

Re: Can get_iplayer still download radio?

a poor job of decoding (or both). Doing a quad matrix decode well is remarkably difficult, the original matrix designs were overly ambitious for the 1970s and still tax modern computers. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 3 May 2020, at 15:27, Jim web wrote: > > In article <67d270

Re: Can get_iplayer still download radio?

, like Audacity. This is not remotely real time, it takes many hours to do one album. But if you're doing matrix decoding you can keep the output and listen to it again. He and I have never understood the general obsession with decoding matrix quad in real time. Do it well and do it once. -- Owen

Can get_iplayer still download radio?

I have some friends looking for a Radio 4 Extra broadcast that is quadraphonic matrix encoded. They want to download it to decode the quad with software. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http

Re: An OT thread about the forums

I tried the forums some years back. I found dinky's rules and application of them so strict that I felt it wasn't a place anyone could contribute anything. It was just a place for reporting get_iplayer bugs or BBC changes, and anything else got deleted. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On

Re: An OT thread about the forums

to be done on here but I doubt dinky is coming back here.) -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 12 Apr 2020, at 18:18, Dave Lambley wrote: > >  >> >> On April 12, 2020 4:49 PM Roger Bell_West wrote: >> >> >>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 03:32:17PM +0100, Squa

Off topic: how do I stream BBC Radio in 320kbps on iPad in UK?

and it sounds better, certainly the bass heaviness has gone, but I still don't know what bit rate I'm getting as I can't see any settings for quality. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http

Re: GiP and ffmpeg

models. Wouldn't a better option be to first try converting to flac (something like level 5 compression), then if the player can't handle that try wav (which might need a sample rate conversion if the player assumes 44.1 for example), and then mp3 as a desperate last resort? -- Owen Smith

Re: iPlayer Radio Switch Off

Mandatory BBC account login and no access to higher bit rate streams means I have zero interest in BBC Sounds. I don't want my feed personalised! Luckily I have a SqueezeBox and I use the excellent third party iPlayer plugin for that for my BBC radio needs. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK

Re: iPlayer Radio Switch Off

This has been discussed before on this list a couple of weeks ago. It's only the Apps that are going, iPlayer web site is staying. Whether Apps means just phones or includes things like the Firestick is less clear. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 16 Sep 2019, at 09:39, CJB wrote: >

Re: Goodbye iPlayer Radio

It is only the iOS and Android apps that are going, to force people to use the much derided BBC Sounds app instead. The iPlayer web site is staying, so get_iplayer will likely be unaffected. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 5 Sep 2019, at 23:56, artisticforge Niemand > wrote: >

Re: Excessive Bounces

Which is why I am not on the get_iplayer forum. It's too much like hard work to raise a genuine issue without accidentally breaching one or more of his nit picking rules. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 28 Jul 2019, at 11:28, Peter Corlett wrote: > > Compare this to the ge

Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available

downmix rules. Don't ask me to find the downmix rules, it is many years since I came across them. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 26 Jul 2019, at 14:10, RS wrote: > > > >> On 25/07/2019 11:13, Jim web wrote: >> >> Which then leads to the conundrum that iPlaye

Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available

Usual reduction in audio quality since the BBC believes everyone uses earbuds anyway for iPlayer. Meanwhile I want stuff broadcast in 5.1 audio (on HD channels) to have 5.1 audio in iPlayer. Fat chance now. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 17 Jul 2019, at 10:28, RS wrote: > > T

Re: My Sounds

I used that, got a reply saying it wasn't an appropriate venue for voicing my type of complaint, or words to that effect. I never really understood what they meant. Maybe they simply meant "your complaint contradicts policy so there is nothing that can be done". -- Owen Smith Cam

Re: My Sounds

I tried. I couldn't find any means of conveying my view to the BBC. They seem to have shut down all routes for feedback from licence fee payers. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 29 Oct 2018, at 13:43, Charles Johnson wrote: > >> On 29/10/2018 13:37, Owen Smith wrote: >

Re: My Sounds

What they don't seem to make any allowance for is people like me. I do NOT want to login to access BBC radio and I do NOT want a personalised view of BBC content. I much prefer seeing the schedule for the stations and selecting something to play from that. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK

Re: Loss of BBC HD channels on satellite

of this mailing list to be worth posting. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 18 Oct 2018, at 21:40, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > >> On 18/10/2018 21:26, Jonathan H wrote: >>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 21:16, Peter S Kirk wrote: >>>> On 18 Oct 2018 at 15:46, wrote: >

Re: no more hslv format ?

about "dropping every other frame" as if it were trivial to do, and an email earlier in this chain looked like someone was trying to do that again. I was explaining why that simply is not possible in the general case. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 2

Re: no more hslv format ?

t casually toss alternate frames without screwing up the I-P-B frame interpolation. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 2 May 2018, at 19:43, Peter S Kirk <peter.k...@isauk.biz> wrote: > > Many posts back it was mentioned they are not true 50fps, ins

Re: no more hslv format ?

special original encode which had all even frames only interpolated from other even frames and ditto for odd frames to allow alternate frames to be discarded. And a special encode like that would bloat the file size substantially, almost doubling it I would expect. -- Owen Smith <owen

Re: Cannot play downloads from get_iplayer!

on our mobile phones and nothing else. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 18 Apr 2018, at 09:06, iz <ilain...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 18 April 2018 at 08:53, Alan Milewczyk <a...@soulman1949.com> wrote: >> HLS streams are being p

Re: BBC JSON feeds to be discontinued from 1st May

I assume it will still be possible to download by PID, but that means using the iPlayer web site to find the PID for the programme. Not great. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 13 Apr 2018, at 02:01, tellyaddict <tellyaddic...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: > &

Re: BBC JSON feeds to be discontinued from 1st May

What do you mean "patched"? Dinky has the source code, he can make changes without patching anything. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 13 Apr 2018, at 00:24, tellyaddict <tellyaddic...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi All, > The JSON feeds

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

of the the CRT era the phosphor persistence was so damned short that anything less than 120Hz refresh would give me splitting headaches and as a computer programmer that isn't good. The "sample and hold" nature of LCDs saved me from this, they are a godsend. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm.

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

frame rate may even be a result of whatever input frame rate is less butchered by your panel on conversion for display. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 9 Apr 2018, at 19:22, Tony Quinn <t...@tqvideo.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> On 09/04/2018

Re: Off-Topic forum error

Now that's insane. A thread in the off-topic section being closed for asking about problems with download speeds? Like I said, the more I see the more Dinky puts me off get_iplayer. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 3 Dec 2017, at 18:14, RS <richard...@zoh

Re: BBC Clifton API JSON data (attn: Martin Powell)

the same maintainer. It's really put me off. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 1 Dec 2017, at 20:20, SquarePenguin <getipla...@squarepenguin.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2017-12-01 at 11:24 +0100, Mike Ralphson wrote: >> As we got shown the

Re: recording quality and vpn

. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 27 Aug 2017, at 18:48, michael norman <michaeltnor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 27/08/17 17:34, Vangelis forthnet wrote: >>> On Sun Aug 27 14:18:36 BST 2017, cc wrote: >>> can the use of a vpn limit t

Re: World Service podcast bit rates

ago, the electronic chattering is gone and their MP3 feed now easily beats my bad FM reception. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 18 Aug 2017, at 13:32, Simon Morgan <s.mor...@skm.org.uk> wrote: > > Peter, > Thanks for putting me right about

Re: Playing BBC R3 FLAC files recorded by nightly VLC

The 320kbps AAC streams started this way, first R3 live as a trial then R3 catchup then it spread to all stations. I'm hopeful that lossless will follow the same progression. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK On 6 Aug 2017, at 17:40, RS <richard...@zoho.com> wro

Re: Playing BBC R3 FLAC files recorded by nightly VLC

The live stream is 48KHz 16bits. If you are recording 44.1KHz then a sample rate conversion is being performed somewhere. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK On 6 Aug 2017, at 12:06, Paul Thornett <pthorn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> R3 Proms 2017 output is ava

Re: Playing BBC R3 FLAC files recorded by nightly VLC

FLAC is for the live stream only, there is no lossless catchup. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 6 Aug 2017, at 10:02, <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> wrote: > > " R3 Proms 2017 output is available in lossless format in iPla

Re: Possible To Get BBC R3 In FLAC using GiP?

Only the live R3 broadcast is available in FLAC. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 2 Aug 2017, at 18:43, C E Macfarlane <c.e.macfarl...@macfh.co.uk> wrote: > > As per title, I was wondering if it is possible to obtain the Proms iPlayer > streams

Re: BBC Radio 3 Lossless streaming ...?

instructions, reply to this email. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 26 Apr 2017, at 17:24, Jim web <w...@audiomisc.co.uk> wrote: > > Given that the BBC has said they will now be streaming the Proms in flac > format this year it looks increasingly plaus

Re: April fool or real?

and 1000kbps for me. But this is rather off topic now. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK On 8 Apr 2017, at 10:49, RS <richard...@zoho.com> wrote: >> From: Owen Smith >> Sent: Saturday, April 8, 2017 01:26 > >> Read the fine print. In a later

Re: cute error message

Sense of humour my foot. That's only 6GB. I regularly deal with files that size and larger. It's high time software caught up. Whether it was 50fps is irrelevant, one day we'll be downloading 1920x1080 or hopefully 4K and then 6GB will be an average file size. -- Owen Smith <owen

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

sound aspect that is important here. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK On 29 Dec 2016, at 11:20, RS <richard...@zoho.com> wrote: > On the other hand the broadcast stream often includes an AC3 stream which is > not included in t

Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

to the text "405". It is true there were very few complaints about the 405 line shutdown, but it was planned and advertised in advance. Nothing to do with a maintenance shutdown. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK >> On 1 Oct 2016, at 13:57, David Cantrell <da.

Re: Deprecated features to be removed in next release (2.97)

I think that's the point. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 8 Sep 2016, at 03:31, artisticforge . <artisticfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hello Vagelis > > that is not going to leave much code left. > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

, and provided the fetch proceeds faster than the playback it doesn't stall. But it does nothing to stop the fetch getting way ahead of playback, which it does on my 79mbps downstream FTTC. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK On 16 Aug 2016, at 22:03, RS <richard...@zoho.c

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

times because it takes a while to trawl through finding stuff. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 13 Aug 2016, at 17:03, Alan Milewczyk <a...@soulman1949.com> wrote: > >> On 13/08/16 10:22, RS wrote: >> >> The BBC ought to be shouting abo

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

t; mindset. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 4 Aug 2016, at 14:20, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 4 August 2016 at 14:06, artisticforge . <artisticfo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello >> >> This is off-topic but i

Re: Disabling television mode

e law" option. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 12 Jul 2016, at 09:53, CJB <chrisjbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How does the September 1 requirement affect get_iplayer TV then? And - > yes - I do have a licence although with all of the junk pro

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.95 released

a similar view about Win 7? -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > Because Vista is a humongous pile of steaming dingos' kidneys, and only > dedicated masochists or the terminally computer illiterate continue to use i

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.95 released

Windows 7 or something like that. Failing that I may either stick with Vista forever or upgrade to Win 7 and stick with that forever. All the alternatives are very unappealing, and that includes running Linux. I have some software I need that only runs under Windows. -- Owen Smith <owen

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.95 released

ceased support. Whereas Vista is being dropped by third parties long before Microsoft support ceases. Why? My laptop came with Vista installed, it does what I need, why do I get a much shorter life out of it than XP purchasers got? -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK >

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

they are also substantially older than the web, by at least a decade. So not from remotely similar eras, unless by that you mean "the couple of decades when only techie people used the internet". -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 18 May 2016, at 12:36, C E Macf

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

I don't do newsgroups, so for me that's actually worse than switching to a forum. I can join a web forum if I have to, but I currently have no means to read newsgroups nor do I have any interest in finding one. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 16 May 2016, at 2

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

ntext. 25 years ago you always replied to emails by adding your text to the bottom, or replying inline in the quotes, and email clients expected it to be done that way. I'm not entirely sure when this changed, but I get the feeling Microsoft had a lot to do with it. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm.

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

I don't follow the forums, and I don't use get_iplayer often. But when I do I'm moderately up to date with the current situation thanks to this list. If the list stopped I'd probably stop using get_iplayer and turn to other means for the occasional programme I want on iPlayer. -- Owen Smith

Re: Outlook Express 6 on WinXP and this list

should I spend money on something else? -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 6 Apr 2016, at 23:15, Vangelis forthnet <northmed...@the.forthnet.gr> > wrote: > > On Wed Apr 6 13:12:40 BST 2016, David Woodhouse replied: > >> Here's a nickel, ki

Re: Request for BBC Contact - OT

a lot less blu rays, but all the ones marked Zone A are uncoded and half of the Zone B ones are (the rest are coded B as advertised). Off topic I know, but I was conflicted about allowing incorrect information to stand. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 6

Re: 320kbps radio audio available via MPEG-DASH

k to the facts of what is available and how it can work or be used with GiP. Alastair. I quite agree, but I couldn't let what Tom said go without comment. And my ears are not golden. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK ___ get_ipla

Re: Audacity, get_iplayer & Windows 10

MS are going to make the Win 10 update (on Win 7) an Important update? Really? Because that will automatically install it on many PCs, my dad's included. This is very bad behaviour. Do you have a reference from Microsoft for this? -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK &

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

I have no children so don't use schools, but I still pay for them and am happy to do so. I regard the BBC as being on the same footing, everyone in the UK should pay for it. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 7 Jul 2015, at 12:31, Graham Temple (gmail) graham.j.tem

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

The problem with paying from the BBC out of general taxation is it would be an easy target for government cuts. There would be nothing left even faster than is happening now. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 7 Jul 2015, at 15:52, Graham Temple (gmail) graham.j.tem

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

gradually go up. But once the cost of this is transferred to the BBC it will be almost impossible to ever get the age increased. What happens when a quarter of the population is over 75? -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 6 Jul 2015, at 20:29, Graham Temple (gmail

Re: Localhost not starting up ...

would have had multiple running previously, which isn't a good idea either. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 6 Jun 2015, at 16:41, CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for the links. Yes - it was a resources issue. Now Gip flies, and other web pages open up

Re: GiP v2.93 / 2.94- snafus

now use Chrome on Vista. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 5 Jun 2015, at 00:41, Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: On Thu Jun 4 21:40:56 BST 2015, M Clark wrote: cookies set by 127.0.0.1 my address bar has http://localhost:1935/ Oops...you

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.93 released

I feel the loss of ability to search for signed or audio described versions is a great shame. I don't need either of these, but for some people they are essential. The BBC is doing such people a great dis-service by removing this metadata and should be ashamed. -- Owen Smith owen.sm

Re: OT Live Streaming Radio 4 News

When did dinkypumpkin stop posting here? I subscribe almost entirely for the postings announcing new get_iplayer releases. If they're not being made here any more, then were can they be found please? And why did dinkypumpkin stop posting here? -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK

Re: Sampling frequency on Radio programmes - Taking it off topic

. In the past Mellor played Dvorak's cello concerto by Rostrapovich, recorded live at the proms with a Soviet orchestra when Soviet tanks were rolling into Prague to crush the Prague Spring. It was an electrifying performance. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 28 Apr 2015, at 11:56

Re: Sampling frequency on Radio programmes

They're converting from AAC to MP3 ie. from one lossy codec to another? Surely the audio quality loss caused by that will outstrip any sample rate conversion issues. Why can't they generate the MP3 from sample rate converted lossless? -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 27

Re: Get iPlayer

How about changing this mailing list so you can only post to it if you are subscribed to the list? Is there any requirement for unsubscribed addresses to be able to post? -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 19 Mar 2015, at 11:00, Roy South mtasgran...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I

Re: radio sample rates.

. Change of BBC mediaselector perhaps? -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: HDTV specs

Humax HDR Fox T2 PVR. I find watching on a PC a poorer experience for either iPlayer HD downloads or DVB-T2 broadcasts (I can extract them from my PVR). -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 8 Mar 2015, at 13:04, Jim Lesurf w...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: Is 1280 x 720 the norm

Re: Query re BBC On Demand Radio

. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 17 Feb 2015, at 15:53, Prisca pri...@leonin.co.uk wrote: I don't fully understand how get_iplayer works, even though I have managed to learn how to use it - mostly. I do, however, have a question as to what is likely to happen

Re: Filtering of Channels in Web PVR mode

get it by terrestrial. That was back in the analogue days, it's rather easier to get both S4C and Channel 4 these days. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 15 Jan 2015, at 17:02, Shiner dodgy-cu...@ntlworld.com wrote: What is S4C ??? -- Shiner

Re: Filtering of Channels in Web PVR mode

Since a while after S4C became a BBC funded channel. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 15 Jan 2015, at 15:25, TQ t...@tqvideo.co.uk wrote: Since when was S4c material available on iPlayer? -- TQ via webmail ___ get_iplayer

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

Did anyone check if your mysterious line drops and restarts coincided with the shifts of any particular cleaner? You know, the one that unplugged the dslam in order to plug the hoover in (don't laugh, crap like this happens). -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 19 Nov 2014

Re: mpeg-dash and get_iplayer?

The mpeg-dash test streams, including the binaural and proms quadraphonic, work in Chrome. I know several people that listened to them and one that recorded the quad. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 12 Nov 2014, at 13:05, Jim w...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: In article

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

If the message-id is the same, then the email is asserting itself to be the same message. If the mailing list is changing headers enough to make it essentially a different message then it should also change the message-id. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 12 Nov 2014

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

This probably explains why I only get one copy even when people reply to my posts. My email provider (Aluminati) probably does the same filtering of two copies in my inbox down to one. I didn't realise this is at all common. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 10 Nov 2014

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

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 work the other way round ie. replies go to the list. Mutter. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

recently on the list and there is no point having it again. The list is not going to change how it works, this has been made very clear. The person who runs the list runs it his way, regardless of any majority view there might or might not be on the list. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

for me to do. I write software and operate computers all week at work, at home I want them to intrude into my life as little as possible. They are tools to do a job at home, not something I get enjoyment fiddling with for the sake of it. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 8 Nov

Re: OT: reply-to [was Re: iplayer audio to lpcm]

? -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 8 Nov 2014, at 15:26, Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: Also I don't like the way Reply to All is To: the last poster and CC: the list. CC to me means for information only, I'm not expecting them to reply. To: is the people I am

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

the list and so sets the rules Now can we please drop this? -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 8 Nov 2014, at 21:24, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 14:10 +, Jim Lesurf wrote: On 08 Nov, Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: Blasted

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

to when multiple mailing lists are involved as a rare corner case, because it should happen very infrequently. I do not expect another mailing list to suddenly be CC'd in the middle of a discussion. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 8 Nov 2014, at 22:26, David Woodhouse dw

Re: Live TV pining for the fjords

What is AOD? A TLA I don't recognise (something On Demand?) -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 8 Nov 2014, at 22:52, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: It looks the BBC have removed the RTMP streams for live TV. At least, they're no longer where get_iplayer looks

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

that branch back in. I wouldn't expect anyone, even dinkypumpkin, to do day to day work on the top level master codestream. But patches seem so backwards. Source control systems do the job so much better. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 6 Nov 2014, at 09:03, Colin Law

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

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? -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 6 Nov 2014, at 00:24, dinkypumpkin dinkypump

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.89 released

I only realised when I read your 2.89 release notice and thought hang on a minute, I saw icons in Squeezebox this morning and went and checked. I couldn't have told you any sooner. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 3 Nov 2014, at 14:40, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.89 released

to do with the BBC, so there are thumbnails available somewhere. I've been told the plugin uses the officially supported xml schedule feed. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 2 Nov 2014, at 23:06, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: get_iplayer 2.88 was withdrawn due

Re: We should be grateful ( was Re: A message from Auntie )

in the software industry for nearly 30 years and I foresaw problems like this about 3 years ago. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 1 Nov 2014, at 22:05, Peter S Kirk peter.k...@isauk.biz wrote: Update: visited mum today. Her bedroom Sony smart TV sticks on loading... when

Re: We should be grateful ( was Re: A message from Auntie )

. There is no equivalent from the BBC. I can't stream iPlayer live, my broadband is too slow. The BBC have effectively driven me to look elsewhere to even more dubious methods of accessing their content by preventing get_iplayer working. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 31 Oct 2014

Re: No More Get_Iplayer

I use an S-VHS VCR to record Classic FM since their Listen Again feed is of such awful sound quality. (Damned list, I sent a private reply to Steve first, grr mutter...) -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 31 Oct 2014, at 09:28, Steve startrek.st...@gmail.com wrote: Well I

Re: We should be grateful ( was Re: A message from Auntie )

Download by PID is too finnicky. I never seem to be able to get it to work, and yes I have read the instructions. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 31 Oct 2014, at 11:18, Chris Marriott ch...@chrism.demon.co.uk wrote: -Original Message- From: Owen Smith Sent

Re: BBC messed up

Given the XML feed already discussed in other emails, I would have thought the short answer to can get_iplayer be fixed is yes it can. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 31 Oct 2014, at 14:15, artisticforge . artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello the short answer

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

Well this sucks. Does anyone know if it will affect the Squeezebox iPlayer radio plugin as well? I'm assuming it does at the moment. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 29 Oct 2014, at 13:20, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: The BBC have removed the programme data

Re: podcast listings missing a digit

to the list? -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 1 Oct 2014, at 09:57, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: Reply to the list, not to me. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org

Re: podcast listings missing a digit

many emails. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 1 Oct 2014, at 14:39, Thomas Finch t...@imagine.fsworld.co.uk wrote: On 1 October 2014 13:26, Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: On this list Reply to All sends it To: the sender, and CC: the list. That is also wrong, CC

Re: podcast listings missing a digit

. -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 1 Oct 2014, at 15:29, Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: If you're on a digest then you're on a digest is my view. If you want immediate replies suddenly them you should change your subscription type, and change it back again when

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