Re: An OT thread about the forums

2020-04-13 Thread Jim web
In article <1725855064.17870.1586711881...@office.mailbox.org>, Dave Lambley wrote: > I was not aware that there even was web forum, but I am painfully aware > how forums can become unpleasant. The one Discourse forum I am on > however is remarkably non-toxic. I just use two Forums (Fora?).

Re: An OT thread about the forums

2020-04-13 Thread Mark Carroll
On 13 Apr 2020, Owen Smith wrote: > Is dinky carrying on with maintenance of get_iplayer? Because if not it's all > a bit moot, the BBC will change something that breaks it within a few > months. Very true. I feel very grateful that we have already been able to keep up with so many years of

Re: An OT thread about the forums

2020-04-12 Thread Owen Smith
Is dinky carrying on with maintenance of get_iplayer? Because if not it's all a bit moot, the BBC will change something that breaks it within a few months. And if he is carrying on maintenance, how will he post new versions and release notes if he's not on the forums? (OK that all used to be

Re: An OT thread about the forums

2020-04-12 Thread Dave Lambley
> On April 12, 2020 4:49 PM Roger Bell_West wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 03:32:17PM +0100, SquarePenguin wrote: > >2) I close the forums to new threads/posts but keep it online. > > > >This is great for keeping the resource accessible to the community, it's a > >PITA for maintenance

Re: An OT thread about the forums

2020-04-12 Thread Roger Tricker
I started, on this forum, many years ago, when the BBC first started to interfere with my getiPlayer. However, since then most of the program requirements and programming knowledge has left me behind. Having 'looked in' I can see that this forum has been of great use to some so, it would be a

Re: An OT thread about the forums

2020-04-12 Thread Jim web
In article <9f18e854-4035-0b6a-3d8e-46ba2a449...@squarepenguin.co.uk>, SquarePenguin wrote: > I made the forum in the first place so get_iplayer could reach a > different audience than found here. So maybe this isn't the best place > to ask :-) But figured you folks had had your hats in the

Re: An OT thread about the forums

2020-04-12 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 03:32:17PM +0100, SquarePenguin wrote: >2) I close the forums to new threads/posts but keep it online. > >This is great for keeping the resource accessible to the community, it's a >PITA for maintenance and ongoing costs (it ain't free to host the forums). 2a) possibly in

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-04-01 Thread Jim web
In article , Dave Liquorice wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:53:16 +0100, Jim web wrote: > > But with digital LPCM transfers they should just 'pass the parcel' and > > deliver at the end of the chain what got put in at the start. > Assuming the clocks at each end are locked. If they aren't

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-04-01 Thread Jim web
In article <20200401095041.ga4...@mooli.org.uk>, Peter Corlett wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:12:26AM +0100, Jim web wrote: [...] > > I'm now wondering if a cheap 'crystal detector' and a DVM might do the > > job given an input filter... It would at least show up bursts of > > interference.

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-04-01 Thread Peter Corlett
On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:12:26AM +0100, Jim web wrote: [...] > I'm now wondering if a cheap 'crystal detector' and a DVM might do the job > given an input filter... It would at least show up bursts of interference. A "microwave leakage detector" is an existing product and doesn't cost much.

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-04-01 Thread Dave Liquorice
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:53:16 +0100, Jim web wrote: > But with digital LPCM transfers they should just 'pass the parcel' and > deliver at the end of the chain what got put in at the start. Assuming the clocks at each end are locked. If they aren't clicks are a common side effect as the reciever

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-04-01 Thread Jim web
In article , Budge wrote: > Hi Graham, Many thanks for the reminders. No microwave in use anywhere > within 100m at the time. Cannot be sure about all the rest but I am > working on turning off the 2.4GHz wifi and keeping only 5GHz in this > building. Have to start somewhere! I do have an

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-31 Thread Budge
On 31/03/2020 17:35, Graham Cobb wrote: > On 31/03/2020 16:52, Budge wrote: >> As for my problem clicks, I have the wifi kit in the frame as the villain at >> present and when I can find a spare 5GHz access point will try and eliminate >> all the stray 2.4GHz devices locally and see if that

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-31 Thread Graham Cobb
On 31/03/2020 16:52, Budge wrote: > As for my problem clicks, I have the wifi kit in the frame as the villain at > present and when I can find a spare 5GHz access point will try and eliminate > all the stray 2.4GHz devices locally and see if that helps. As I read and > think I am beginning to

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-31 Thread Budge
On 31/03/2020 11:51, Jim web wrote: > In article <43658eb7-b06b-2c56-4c71-58bb8be22...@errichel.co.uk>, Budge > wrote: > >> Further examination of symptoms suggests that the noise seems to be >> interference, either with Bluetooth headphone directly or through the >> Bluetooth transmitter. I

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-31 Thread Jim web
In article <43658eb7-b06b-2c56-4c71-58bb8be22...@errichel.co.uk>, Budge wrote: > Further examination of symptoms suggests that the noise seems to be > interference, either with Bluetooth headphone directly or through the > Bluetooth transmitter. I suspect possible source of interference might >

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-31 Thread Jim web
In article <2ba46893-ed2c-78c5-c502-89c02ad20...@errichel.co.uk>, Budge wrote: > Hi Jim, Many thanks for the reply. Leaving aside the bluetooth for a > moment how should I make sense of the different attenuation options? > Should I put all in the chain to max except the headphones and attenuate

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-31 Thread Budge
On 31/03/2020 08:50, Rochford, Steve wrote: > I might be being spectacularly stupid but why not just use VLC or similar to > play the music directly on your phone and pair the headphones to that? I've > not used MinimServer but I can see that's a UPnP server and VLC should > connect directly to

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
On 30/03/2020 15:20, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: Googling for information about Bluetooth interference suggests various possible causes.  Bearing in mind how many people are now unexpectedly at home all day, ther emay be a LOT more wifi, microwave use, and - if affects it (I dunno) other BT

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-30 Thread Budge
On 30/03/2020 10:29, Jim web wrote: > In article <277a5cfb-07d2-6b24-aabe-21f1ed76d...@errichel.co.uk>, Budge > wrote: >> This is an OT but I hope Jim Web or others with knowledge can give me >> some guidance in sorting out a noise issue: > >> I am having some problems with very unpleasant and

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2020-03-30 08:47, Budge wrote: This problem only recently appeared after I had relocated all the equipment but I have checked the basics and found nothing wrong. The clicks are only heard in headphones using bluetooth transmitter. Was this relocation within your home - ie something you

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-30 Thread Jim web
In article <277a5cfb-07d2-6b24-aabe-21f1ed76d...@errichel.co.uk>, Budge wrote: > This is an OT but I hope Jim Web or others with knowledge can give me > some guidance in sorting out a noise issue: > I am having some problems with very unpleasant and loud clicks when > playing sound through

Re: hvf HD and SD missing

2020-03-26 Thread tellyaddict
And like magic they suddenly re-appear. > > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 2:02 PM > > From: "tellyaddict" > > To: get_iplayer > > Subject: hvf HD and SD missing > > > > Since around about midday, the hvf HD and SD modes seem to have disappeare

Re: Unsubscribed email - but I didnt unsubscribe

2020-03-15 Thread michael norman
On 15/03/2020 11:55, Mark Carroll wrote: On 9693 Sep 1993, Kevin McCarthy wrote: Has anyone received an email saying they unsubscribed from the get_iplayer mailing list? I received an email yesterday saying I unsubscribed but I didn't! Has the list been hacked? I'm still on it okay as I got

Re: Unsubscribed email - but I didnt unsubscribe

2020-03-15 Thread Mark Carroll
On 9693 Sep 1993, Kevin McCarthy wrote: > Has anyone received an email saying they unsubscribed from the get_iplayer > mailing list? > > I received an email yesterday saying I unsubscribed but I didn't! > Has the list been hacked? I'm still on it okay as I got your message. I didn't receive any

Re: Repair Shop

2020-03-07 Thread CJB
Yes - at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gjn3 it clearly sates that it is Series 6 of 14 episodes. On TV Wed 18 Mar 2020 20:00 BBC One except East, Yorks & Lincs, Northern Ireland HD, North West, Scotland & 2 more The Repair Shop Series 6:Episode 1 of 14 Jay Blades and the team bring

Re: Repair Shop

2020-03-06 Thread James Scholes
Let me guess: the only two it finds are Series 3 Episode 11, and Series 2 Episode 7. These are the only two which were broadcast within the last 30 days, and as I've explained before, the get_iplayer search only uses schedule data. It is not a general purpose BBC iPlayer search tool. The

Re: Repair Shop

2020-03-06 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2020-03-05 14:52, CJB wrote: There are over 20 epsiodes incl. series 5 eps 1 - 20 on iPlayer. It's weird that S5 is described as having 40 episodes, but only the first 20 have been shown, so far. I note that the first episode of S6 is due to be transmitted on 18 Mar... but this apparently

Re: Repair Shop

2020-03-05 Thread CJB
Aha - that does it. Thank you. But the episodes have only just gone up on the iPlayer site. CJB On 05/03/2020, Anthony Kehoe wrote: > You have to use --pid-recursive if the episodes are old. > > [iTunes@Frontier get_iplayer]$ ./get_iplayer --pid-recursive >

Re: Repair Shop

2020-03-05 Thread Anthony Kehoe
[iTunes@Frontier get_iplayer]$ ./get_iplayer --pid-recursive https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08l581p get_iplayer v3.23, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free software, and you are welcome to

Re: Repair Shop

2020-03-05 Thread CJB
Dropped --fps25 and still get the same two old ones. CJB On 05/03/2020, Ray Penn wrote: > What results do you get if you drop the FPS option? > > On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 14:54 CJB, wrote: > >> There are over 20 epsiodes incl. series 5 eps 1 - 20 on iPlayer. >> >>

Re: OT BBC Iplayer on firestick problems

2020-02-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Dave, > I have about 15Mbs download on a good day and if nothing else is going > on, I regularly get 8-10Mbs while doing a get_iplayer download and > that is through the same proxy so it sounds like it is probably the > app causing the problem. Perhaps the two are ending up on different CDNs?

Re: OT BBC Iplayer on firestick problems

2020-02-28 Thread Dave Widgery
omplete halt leading to > need to re-start. We do not experience the same problems with ITV or > Channels 4 & 5. I have my suspicion that the BBC is a lot more resource > hungry and that our i-net connection struggles to cope. But I am > guessing.. > > Nic > > On 28/0

Re: OT BBC Iplayer on firestick problems

2020-02-28 Thread CJB
t; NowBox.. Buffering issues, often grinding to complete halt leading to > need to re-start. We do not experience the same problems with ITV or > Channels 4 & 5. I have my suspicion that the BBC is a lot more resource > hungry and that our i-net connection struggles to cope. But I am &g

Re: OT BBC Iplayer on firestick problems

2020-02-28 Thread michael norman
On 28/02/2020 17:16, Nic Siddle wrote: May be totally unconnected, but we have found that i-Player is getting less and less reliable when just watching catchup TV through a cheap NowBox.. Buffering issues, often grinding to complete halt leading to need to re-start. We do not experience

Re: OT BBC Iplayer on firestick problems

2020-02-28 Thread Nic Siddle
May be totally unconnected, but we have found that i-Player is getting less and less reliable when just watching catchup TV through a cheap NowBox.. Buffering issues, often grinding to complete halt leading to need to re-start. We do not experience the same problems with ITV or Channels 4 &am

Re: OT BBC Iplayer on firestick problems

2020-02-28 Thread Dave Widgery
player on a Firestick all the time with no issues, > though we are in the UK and don't use proxies etc. > > > -Original Message- > > From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of > > Peter Corlett > > Sent: 28 February 2020 09:46 > > To: get_iplayer > > S

RE: OT BBC Iplayer on firestick problems

2020-02-28 Thread George Eycott
If it helps, we use Iplayer on a Firestick all the time with no issues, though we are in the UK and don't use proxies etc. > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of > Peter Corlett > Sent: 28 February 2020 09:46 > To: get_iplayer > Subject: Re: OT BBC Ip

Re: OT BBC Iplayer on firestick problems

2020-02-28 Thread Peter Corlett
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 07:42:22AM +0100, Dave Widgery wrote: [...] > I am using a proxy server but it is not showing any errors that might be > associated with that. I am not really asking for a fix, I was just wondering > if it was just me or is bbc iplayer just not very reliable? or at least

Re: BUG (I think) excludecategory doesn't work with "Children's"

2020-02-23 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 23/02/2020 00:07, RS wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:51:36 + MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: As per title, I have the following lines in my options file, but I still get CBBC programmes, with & without the double quotes around Children's ... excludecategory Sign

Re: BUG (I think) excludecategory doesn't work with "Children's"

2020-02-23 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 22/02/2020 23:58, Nick wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:51:36 + MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: As per title, I have the following lines in my options file, but I still get CBBC programmes, with & without the double quotes around Children's ... excludecategory Sign

Re: BUG (I think) excludecategory doesn't work with "Children's"

2020-02-22 Thread RS
On 22/02/2020 23:58, Nick wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:51:36 + MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: As per title, I have the following lines in my options file, but I still get CBBC programmes, with & without the double quotes around Children's ... excludecategory Sign

Re: BUG (I think) excludecategory doesn't work with "Children's"

2020-02-22 Thread Nick
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:51:36 + MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > As per title, I have the following lines in my options file, but I > still get CBBC programmes, with & without the double quotes around > Children's ... excludecategory Sign > Zone,Learning,"Children's",Primary,Secondary

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-20 Thread Paul Thornett
To those of you who suggested the --exclude-supplier bidi, much kudos. Using this option now produces a 500% speed increase, which satisfies me. Thank you very much. Regards, Paul Thornett On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 00:14, Paul Thornett wrote: > > It seems to me that downloads have become very

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2020-02-19 04:38, Paul Thornett wrote: Unfortunately the problem certainly doesn't lie with my ISP. I say unfortunately, because it's relatively easy to change ISP. Your ISP, if it's a national company, have more than just the server (or whatever it is) that your modem connects to. They

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-19 Thread Geoff Smith
On 19/02/2020, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 03:38:36PM +1100, Paul Thornett wrote: > >> Unfortunately the problem certainly doesn't lie with my ISP. I say >> unfortunately, because it's relatively easy to change ISP. But my >> quoted speeds are 100Mbps/40Mbps, and on some sites

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-19 Thread RS
On 19/02/2020 04:38, Paul Thornett wrote: Unfortunately the problem certainly doesn't lie with my ISP. I say unfortunately, because it's relatively easy to change ISP. But my quoted speeds are 100Mbps/40Mbps, and on some sites I get my 10Mbps per second. With get_iplayer I have in the past seen

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-19 Thread RS
On 19/02/2020 00:21, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, RS wrote: Your only real remedy is to complain, complain and complain again to your ISP, or find a better ISP. I'd have thought it's the CDN choice that's being made rather than ISP. For example, having the line ‘exclude-supplier bidi’ in my

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 03:38:36PM +1100, Paul Thornett wrote: > Unfortunately the problem certainly doesn't lie with my ISP. I say > unfortunately, because it's relatively easy to change ISP. But my > quoted speeds are 100Mbps/40Mbps, and on some sites I get my 10Mbps > per second. With

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-18 Thread Paul Thornett
Unfortunately the problem certainly doesn't lie with my ISP. I say unfortunately, because it's relatively easy to change ISP. But my quoted speeds are 100Mbps/40Mbps, and on some sites I get my 10Mbps per second. With get_iplayer I have in the past seen speeds up to perhaps 8 Mb/s, but nowadays

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-18 Thread Nick Payne
On 19/02/2020 11:21 am, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > RS wrote: >> Your only real remedy is to complain, complain and complain again to >> your ISP, or find a better ISP. > I'd have thought it's the CDN choice that's being made rather than ISP. > For example, having the line ‘exclude-supplier bidi’ in

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, RS wrote: > Your only real remedy is to complain, complain and complain again to > your ISP, or find a better ISP. I'd have thought it's the CDN choice that's being made rather than ISP. For example, having the line ‘exclude-supplier bidi’ in my ~/.get_iplayer/options fixed a problem for me

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-18 Thread RS
On 18/02/2020 05:52, Paul Thornett wrote: And the way I have got to 87.6% is by stopping the transfer every 10% and doing a robocopy to a separate folder. Your only real remedy is to complain, complain and complain again to your ISP, or find a better ISP. Is there anywhere near you with a

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-17 Thread Geoff Smith
Episode_5_p0818l1y_original.dash.m4a > WARNING: Use --overwrite to re-download > INFO: Downloaded: 11.72 MB (00:00:38) @ 1.27 Mb/s (dvfsd1/bi) [video] > WARNING: Unexpected size for file segment [18] > WARNING: Expected: 1415668 Downloaded: 736248 > WARNING: This indicates a problem with y

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-17 Thread Paul Thornett
DASH audio file: > D:\Downloads\BBCiPlayerDownloads\The_Split_Series_2_-_05._Episode_5_p0818l1y_original.dash.m4a > WARNING: Use --overwrite to re-download > INFO: Downloaded: 11.72 MB (00:00:38) @ 1.27 Mb/s (dvfsd1/bi) [video] > WARNING: Unexpected size for file segment [18] > WARNING: Expecte

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-17 Thread Paul Thornett
: Using existing DASH audio file: D:\Downloads\BBCiPlayerDownloads\The_Split_Series_2_-_05._Episode_5_p0818l1y_original.dash.m4a WARNING: Use --overwrite to re-download INFO: Downloaded: 11.72 MB (00:00:38) @ 1.27 Mb/s (dvfsd1/bi) [video] WARNING: Unexpected size for file segment [18] WARNING

Re: Search Fails to Find Early ‘Last Tango in Halifax’.

2020-02-17 Thread RS
On 17/02/2020 15:11, James Scholes wrote: It's my understanding that GiP indexes TV programs via the schedules. That is probably right. My understanding is that there are two constraints. The first is that the programme has been broadcast or is going to be broadcast. The second is that it

Re: Re: Search Fails to Find Early ‘Last Tango in Halifax’.

2020-02-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi James, > It's my understanding that GiP indexes TV programs via the schedules. Oh, I see your point. > The availability of programs on the iPlayer no longer has a one-to-one > mapping with what will be or has been on TV. If the GiP search isn't > going to catch up to that fact, it may as

Re: Search Fails to Find Early ‘Last Tango in Halifax’.

2020-02-17 Thread James Scholes
: in 348 days 22 hours (2021-01-30T12:00:00+00:00) When I refresh, I do it twice, the first time with ‘--refresh --refresh-limit-tv=30’ and the second with ‘--refresh --refresh-future’. I'm happy to update my get_iplayer and re-apply/re-edit my patches, but would like to hear that the search

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-17 Thread Nick Payne
On 16/02/2020 10:57 pm, RS wrote: > I should have added that --audio-only, radio and the audio part of DVF > downloads are much slower, at a maximum of 7Mbit/s. I find the same with the audio part of DVF downloads - the speed of the audio download is always at less than 10% of the speed of the

Re: Available: Yes, Prime Minister, The Tangled Web.

2020-02-16 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
to alert the group about it, I got the following reply: Your mail to 'get_iplayer' with the subject Re: No Prime Minister? Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Message has a suspicious header Either the message will get

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-16 Thread RS
On 16/02/2020 11:46, I wrote: I have recently found downloads getting faster.  Since get_iplayer v3.24 I have gone back to HVF modes.  I used to think Akamai was fastest, but now Limelight seems to be faster.  hvfhd3 (Akamia) used to be faster than hvfxsd3, but I am now getting up to

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-16 Thread RS
On 15/02/2020 17:05, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: On 15/02/2020 13:14, Paul Thornett wrote: It seems to me that downloads have become very slow, often not completing. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? I've not noticed it using a 4G connection.  You don't give your broadband

Re: Available: Yes, Prime Minister, The Tangled Web.

2020-02-16 Thread RS
Hi Ralph Thanks for pointing that out. If anyone wants it with 128kbit/s AAC-LC audio you can additionally download --tvmode=hvfhigh --audio-only and merge it with the hvfxsd download using ffmpeg -map Best wishes Richard On 16/02/2020 11:14, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, I've deleted the

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-15 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Resending as the addressing of the original seemed questionable  - please see below ... On 15/02/2020 13:14, Paul Thornett wrote: It seems to me that downloads have become very slow, often not completing. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? I've not noticed it using a 4G connection. 

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-07 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Thanks, it's a kind thought, but, as others have pointed out, I'd better say no thanks. On 07/02/2020 09:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: I have both complete series (Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister) which I can make available if we can work out how to get them to you. I think that I would

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-07 Thread michael norman
On 07/02/2020 10:02, Roger Bell_West wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 09:26:34AM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: I have both complete series (Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister) which I can make available if we can work out how to get them to you. Given the heavy-handedness of many copyright

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-07 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 09:26:34AM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: >I have both complete series (Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister) which >I can make available if we can work out how to get them to you. Given the heavy-handedness of many copyright enforcers, please don't make such offers on a

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-07 Thread Sharon Kimble
CJB writes: > Try a Google search for torrent sites - they are all out there. CJB > > On 05/02/2020, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: >> Please see below ... >> >> On 05/02/2020 13:31, Mark Goodge wrote: >>> Older stuff can, possibly a little counter-intuitively, be more >>> problematic than

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread Dave Liquorice
On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 23:17:46 +, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: >> Older stuff can, possibly a little counter-intuitively, be more >> problematic than recent material, as, at the time it was made, there >> was no expectation that the BBC would ever want repeat transmission >> rights for

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread CJB
Try a Google search for torrent sites - they are all out there. CJB On 05/02/2020, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > Please see below ... > > On 05/02/2020 13:31, Mark Goodge wrote: >> Older stuff can, possibly a little counter-intuitively, be more >> problematic than recent material, as, at the

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 05/02/2020 13:31, Mark Goodge wrote: Older stuff can, possibly a little counter-intuitively, be more problematic than recent material, as, at the time it was made, there was no expectation that the BBC would ever want repeat transmission rights for anything other than

Re: Podcast - no pid?

2020-02-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 10:33:13PM +, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > I thought YouTubeDownloader might have done it, but I couldn't get it to > work. You mean youtube-dl? That was my first instinct too but no luck. They accept requests for new sites to support via Github. -- David

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread CJB
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Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread CJB
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Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread CJB
b isn't interested. > > However the Beeb has not aired S01E01 / S0103 / S02E04 since about the > late 1900s. This is due to copyright restrictions from contributors. > I've heard that Harold Pinter is one. > > Quite simply the Beeb cannot or wont obtain permission to re-air variou

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread CJB
. This is due to copyright restrictions from contributors. I've heard that Harold Pinter is one. Quite simply the Beeb cannot or wont obtain permission to re-air various items. Another case in point in the Christmas Special from 1971. At the end is a Dylan Thomas spoof. But not anymore - this was edited out

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread CJB
Ditto - Lines from my Grandfather's Forehaead. The Beeb has currently aired 'shortened' versipns of most episodes from series 1 and 2. Series 3 is still with Keith Wickham - the Beeb issn't interested. However the Beeb has not aired S01E01 / S0103 / S02E04 since about the late 1900s. This is

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread Mark Goodge
On 05/02/2020 10:35, Dave Liquorice wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 09:57:16 +, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Thanks, but I knew that, and it seems to me rather strange that an own BBC 30 years' old series should be subject to such a constraint, and wondered if anyone happened to know

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread Dave Liquorice
On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 09:57:16 +, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > Thanks, but I knew that, and it seems to me rather strange that an own > BBC 30 years' old series should be subject to such a constraint, and > wondered if anyone happened to know anything more specific. Depends on the rights

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 05/02/2020 09:28, Don Grunbaum wrote: >> - Original Message - >> From: MacFH - C E Macfarlane >> To: >> Sent: 04/02/2020 21:49:16 >> Subject: Re: No Prime Minister? >> _

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread Don Grunbaum
- Original Message - From: MacFH - C E Macfarlane To: Sent: 04/02/2020 21:49:16 Subject: Re: No Prime Minister? Sorry, meant to include a link to the programme page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes

Re: Podcast - no pid?

2020-02-04 Thread CJB
Thanks guys for having a try. Its the BL media site, so crack this and there's a cornucopia waiting to be downloaded. But I tried looking at View Source but couldn't id. the URL of the audio file. The Firefox VideoDownloader app. will get one file at a time - but there's 19 or more!!! And its a

Re: Podcast - no pid?

2020-02-04 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
I thought YouTubeDownloader might have done it, but I couldn't get it to work. On 04/02/2020 22:05, CJB wrote: Sorry - my mistake. CJB On 04/02/2020, James Scholes wrote: Why are you expecting that get_iplayer will be able to download anything from the British Library? Regards, James

Re: Podcast - no pid?

2020-02-04 Thread CJB
Sorry - my mistake. CJB On 04/02/2020, James Scholes wrote: > Why are you expecting that get_iplayer will be able to download anything > from the British Library? > > Regards, > > James Scholes > > On 04/02/2020 at 3:13 pm, CJB wrote: >> Am trying to download all in this series >> >>

Re: Podcast - no pid?

2020-02-04 Thread James Scholes
Why are you expecting that get_iplayer will be able to download anything from the British Library? Regards, James Scholes On 04/02/2020 at 3:13 pm, CJB wrote: Am trying to download all in this series

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-04 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Sorry, meant to include a link to the programme page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037tb14 On 04/02/2020 21:42, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Does anyone happen to know why the episode of Yes, Prime Minster shown a couple of days ago can not be downloaded?

Re: Recording "Collections"

2020-01-23 Thread Jimmy Aitken
I've got a old perl program that extracts links and I use that for these sort of pages. But you could use something like http://hackertarget.com/extract-links and feed it your url and then copy and paste the links that look correct. i.e. those that have 'episode' in the url and then run

Re: Call the Midwife Chistmas 2019

2020-01-02 Thread Jimmy Aitken
I had a similar problem with Miranda series 1 episode 1: get_iplayer -o . --force --pid b00nxn31 --tvmode=better This produced a file which was reportedly 56seconds long, and ran at a bitrate of 48.6Mbs using a frame rate of just 4 FPS. Running with version 3.24 produces a file with a bitrate of

Re: Sky at Night

2020-01-01 Thread Jim web
As a quick check I tried again to fetch the relevant 'Sky an Night' episode last night. I was then intending to try alternatives based on previous postings here. With exactly the same default settings as I'd used earlier... it worked fine! Hooray!... but puzzled. So I guess that the programme's

Re: Sky at Night

2019-12-31 Thread RS
On 30/12/2019 18:19, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Hi Jim ... On 30/12/2019 17:34, Jim web wrote: I'm having a problem with getting the most recent 'Sky at Night' programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00042l2 My normal procedure worked for that programme last night, the command

Re: Sky at Night

2019-12-31 Thread Jim web
In article <6682de94-957d-ee10-3645-22f4d6597...@macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > Hi Jim ... > On 30/12/2019 17:34, Jim web wrote: > > I'm having a problem with getting the most recent 'Sky at Night' > > programme > > > > https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00042l2 > > > My normal

Re: Sky at Night

2019-12-30 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Hi Jim ... On 30/12/2019 17:34, Jim web wrote: I'm having a problem with getting the most recent 'Sky at Night' programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00042l2 My normal procedure worked for that programme last night, the command given would have been : gip  --type tv  --tvmode

Re: Picking up audio described TV on get_Iplayer

2019-12-30 Thread Timothy
On Monday, December 30, 2019 12:01 PM, "Amro Bilal" wrote: > get_iplayer --get (--URL” followed by the full URL of the page with > the audiodescribed version on it (After the PID, the URL shows “/AD/) > > > And down comes the version without audiodescription, even though I > know the described

Re: get_iplayer -g --force --pid-recursive http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p01277qd

2019-12-29 Thread Nick Payne
On 30/12/2019 5:08 am, Sharon Kimble wrote: > get_iplayer -g --force --pid-recursive > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p01277qd That pid doesn't seem to be classed as a series, so the recursive parameter doesn't work. You can download all the episodes of "The Train Now Departing" using the

Re: Call the Midwife Chistmas 2019

2019-12-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi terry, > I am attempting to download m000csm5 and I am having odd results. > Basically, it starts out downloading DASH audio and then restarts > downloading audio+video. twice it finished downloading and failed in > ffmpeg. Unable to convert. > > Has anyone successfully downloaded this

Re: Call the Midwife Chistmas 2019

2019-12-28 Thread Mark Carroll
On 9615 Sep 1993, artisticforge Niemand wrote: > Has anyone successfully downloaded this program? > What mode did you use? Seems to download okay for me, see the options I have effective in the "Current options" bit of the enclosed download log. -- Mark [mtbc ~]$ cd /tmp [mtbc tmp]$

Re: Call the Midwife Chistmas 2019

2019-12-28 Thread J K.Eason
> Has anyone successfully downloaded this program? Just downloaded it without problem here (although it "Failed to tag the MP4 file" as usual). > What mode did you use? I just have 'tvmode = good' in my preferences as I don't need very high quality. It was titled: "Call the Midwife - 17.

Re: His Dark Materials m000csdk: only audiodescribed available?

2019-12-28 Thread RS
On 27/12/2019 12:58, Ralph Corderoy wrote: ... Interesting how I once again get the low-resolution audiodescribed version despite those ‘Downloaded’ showing the ‘/ll’ CDN. If I download it a third time, adding ‘--exclude-supplier bidi’ then I upgrade again to technical, still /ll. INFO:

Re: His Dark Materials m000csdk: only audiodescribed available?

2019-12-28 Thread RS
On 27/12/2019 13:05, Ralph Corderoy wrote: ... VLC has no choice but to play the single audio stream in the MP4 file. Whether technical or audiodescribed, there is only one audio stream present. ... So I don't know how VLC is avoiding reading out the audio descriptions unless it's not actually

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