idevice downloads

2012-09-04 Thread Jimmy Aitken
According to the Guardian ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/04/bbc-mobile-download-iplayer-smartphone ) iPad/iPod/iPhone users will be able to download direct to their devices and play whilst offline either from today or shortly. In the comments section, get_iplayer is mentioned

Re: Exclude category exception?

2012-09-04 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 04/09/2012 01:42, Arthur Murray wrote: As an example, would it be possible for get_iplayer to excludecategory programmes with Sport category, unless it was Golf? Is there some regex magic that would work? Not exactly, but it should be good enough to just use --category=golf. There may be

Re: idevice downloads

2012-09-04 Thread Bill Denton
In the comments section, get_iplayer is mentioned directly as well, so there may be more traffic on the list. Oh good, a better class of customer from BTL. (only kidding) ;-) This may not be good news, as although I'm certain the BBC is aware of get_iplayer, we don't what to much

Re: Exclude category exception?

2012-09-04 Thread Arthur Murray
Thanks for the details. The use case was for the webpvr frontend, get_iplayer.cgi which sends the parameters at once. I want it to return a list of all programs except certain channels (CBBC,CBeebies,Alba) and certain categories(Children's,Primary,Sport) unless the category is Golf. Doesn't

Can only watch BBC Parliament and BBC Alba live

2012-09-04 Thread Hawes, Mark
On 03/09/2012 00:51, Hawes, Mark wrote: problems. BBC Parliament and BBC Alba will play live OK but all other livetv channels (e.g. BBC One, BBC Two, BBC News) will not. I'm using version 2.82 of get_iplayer (build c3aafce) running on a slackware 13.7 linux platform and playing the stream

Incomplete downloads

2012-09-04 Thread Arthur Murray
Here is what I saw at the end of the download from get_iplayer (happend twice today on the same file): === INFO: sampledescription: INFO: sampletypemp4a 48483.243 kB / 178.24 sec (5.0%) ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header 48563.632 kB / 178.56 sec (5.0%) INFO: