Re: GiP v2.93 / 2.94- snafus

2015-06-04 Thread Vangelis forthnet
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 are right! 127.0.0.1 was changed to localhost many months ago, to deal with changes brought on by IE11 on Windows:

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

2015-06-04 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Thu Jun 4 09:47:34 BST 2015, Jon Davies wrote: this should work: TITLE=$(wget --quiet -O - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/$PID.rdf | grep dc:title | sed -re s/ *dc:title(.*?)\/dc:title/\1/) Hi, Jon! No doubt batguano999 would be thankful for your code... I do not have a Linux box to

tv series not in (my) cache (with v2.93)

2015-06-04 Thread M Clark
Just a 'heads-up' that the following tv series are not appearing in my cache (after updating to v2.93); springwatch extra springwatch unsprung Currently downloading via CLI. Regards, M. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: GiP v2.93 / 2.94- snafus

2015-06-04 Thread M Clark
I have a contact who uses GiP for Radio only. He doesn't want t.v. How can he stop GiP downloading the t.v. list on start up? If, like you, is predominantly using the WPM, then after the GUI launches up with the TV Box ticked by default, he should untick it and tick the Radio box

Re: Transcoding live streams question

2015-06-04 Thread iz
On Thu Jun 4 11:02:28 BST 2015, John Warburton wrote: (1) am I neglecting a command-line option to do this, I found that I could use --hls-livetv-opts=-acodec copy -vcodec copy to override the transcoding. ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Transcoding live streams question

2015-06-04 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Thu Jun 4 22:37:46 BST 2015, iz wrote: I found that I could use --hls-livetv-opts=-acodec copy -vcodec copy to override the transcoding. Hello :-) This is a most important find! I haven't really experimented with LiveTV inside GiP, (I am legally off-limits), the very little tests I

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.94 released

2015-06-04 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 4 Jun 2015 at 19:54, tellyaddict tellyaddict tellyaddic...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Can you elaborate on 'will not download'? It works here... Same here no problems downloading the installer from infradead. Installed 2.94 from infradead on XP x86. Download of BBC The Game E06 with subs worked.

Re: Transcoding live streams question

2015-06-04 Thread John Warburton
Thank you. That's a very helpful explanation. I compile FFmpeg freshly nearly every day, and use the mpv player that links to the latest compiled libav... libraries, and it always works very well, as you have found with your own recent builds of FFmpeg. It helps to tell mpv to use a much larger

Re: GiP v2.93 / 2.94- snafus

2015-06-04 Thread SquarePenguin
On 04/06/2015 21:40, M Clark wrote: But the CLI does auto refresh on start-up (now tv, used to be radio) and, at the risk of upsetting people, I believe this is a design flaw (or, probably more accurately, a techie being too helpful). get_iplayer's cache expires by default after 4 hours. If

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.94 released

2015-06-04 Thread David
Hi, Thanks for all your efforts. Download of get_iplayer.pl fails... Also the windows installer will not download from infradead, although I can see it in the directory with a file date of last October. I have an installer downloaded more recently than that in March of this year, and when I

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.94 released

2015-06-04 Thread tellyaddict
Can you elaborate on 'will not download'? It works here... Same here no problems downloading the installer from infradead. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: GiP v2.93 / 2.94- snafus

2015-06-04 Thread M Clark
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 at 11:55 AM From: CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com Subject: Re: GiP v2.93 / 2.94- snafus It seems that now on starting up GiP 2.93/94 it refreshes the t.v. cache by default. That takes an age. Hence the otherwise blank black window. This takes an age - it used to be

Re: GiP v2.93 / 2.94- snafus

2015-06-04 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Thu Jun 4 11:55:02 BST 2015, CJB wrote: It seems that now on starting up GiP 2.93/94 it refreshes the t.v.cache by default. That takes an age. Do you mean the Web PVR Manager? I am two timezones away from the UK, but when I ran in the CLI a manual TV cache refresh: perl

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.94 released

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

Re: Transcoding live streams question

2015-06-04 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Thu Jun 4 11:02:28 BST 2015, John Warburton wrote: I remove the default ffmpeg recoding for live streams. (snip) because picture quality suffers and the CPU is exercised more. This is called on-the-fly recoding, and it's a CPU intensive process... Low end devices can't cope well, see:

Re: Still no joy for me

2015-06-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 04/06/2015 02:22, SquarePenguin wrote: On 04/06/2015 01:54, John Reay wrote: Any ideas? You haven't really given a huge amount of detail here. What is your OS? His posting infers Linux: john@system7:~$ ./get_iplayer --pid=b05xxh0h --file-prefix=title_episode_pid --force His message

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

2015-06-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 03:01:06AM +0300, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Wed Jun 3 23:51:38 BST 2015, tellyaddict wrote: Do you think this was aimed at us? Hi - if by us you mean the GiP users, I honestly don't think we are their sole concern; their actions in general aim to cripple all 3rd

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

2015-06-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 12:51:38AM +0200, tellyaddict wrote: As well as removing the Dynamite TV listing feeds, the BBC have extended their magnanimousness by also blocking the legacy XML playlist URLs, in the form: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/[PID] Do you think this was aimed

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

2015-06-04 Thread Jon Davies
On 3 June 2015 at 21:34, batguano999 batguano...@zoho.com wrote: Any suggestions how to modify my script (near line 25) to show a descriptive title again ? It's a bit clunky, but this should work: TITLE=$(wget --quiet -O - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/$PID.rdf | grep dc:title | sed -re s/

Transcoding live streams question

2015-06-04 Thread John Warburton
Hello, Many, many thanks to all who contributed to restoring get_iplayer. I mentioned elsewhere that my old machine's graphics card can't use hardware acceleration from the browser-based iPlayer, but piping get_iplayer.pl into the mpv player gives me smooth pictures at 1280x720 expanded to full

Re: GiP v2.93 / 2.94- snafus

2015-06-04 Thread J K.Eason
I have a desktop shortcut with the following target line in it: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /k get_iplayer.cmd --type=radio --tree C:\required destination path\Radio.txt (Above all on one line with 'required destination path' replaced by your required location, of course) That runs GiP and

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

2015-06-04 Thread Jim web
In article 20150604110056.gb29...@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 03:01:06AM +0300, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Wed Jun 3 23:51:38 BST 2015, tellyaddict wrote: Do you think this was aimed at us? Hi - if by us you mean the GiP

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

2015-06-04 Thread michael norman
FWIW as a BBC 'outsider', whenever I've spoken to current BBC people their view seems to be that they aren't 'hostile' to gip and its use. Their concern is to develop and improve the iplayer. Circumstances mean that part of the improvement has to be to make it easier and more efficient to

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

2015-06-04 Thread tellyaddict
No. Dynamite decommissioning has been on the cards for several years. It suffered from horrible feature-creep which led to it becoming ever more unfit for its purpose. This has been very clearly explained in the BBC blog posts that have been mentioned on this list. Yes we have known about

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

2015-06-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 02:32:27PM +0200, tellyaddict wrote: Yes we have known about the decommissioning of Dynamite for some time but I thought that related to the ION feeds and metadata that the cache was using. Are the legacy xml playlists part of Dynamite too then? I believe that they