Problem downloading TV progs

2013-07-04 Thread sundancedisco
Hi everyone. Am a new user here am after a little help. I realize the program is quite complicated to use, but basically I'm trying to download a couple of TV programs. When I try to however, I get the result :- INFO: MP4 tagging MP4 file APar_readX read failed, expect 12 got 0: end of

Perl Crashed During / After Editing of PVR Entry (long)

2013-07-04 Thread Chris J Brady
I'm running Win 7 Starter on an Acer 532h - with all MS updates. I'm using the latest WebPVR. And I'm trying to set up a PVR to replace Radio Downloader. However the Perl keeps crashing at the same point - LINE 307. The last time it happened was when I had edited the entry Dad's Army: Series 1

Massive Failures

2013-07-04 Thread Chris J Brady
I have an Acer 532h runing win 7 Starter - plus all MS updates. I'm using WebPVR - latest version. I just tried to run WebPVR List but out of the 16 programmes only Hancock's Half Hour downloaded OK. The rest all failed for largely the same reason. Typical was this one: 11088: Folk

Another Failure - please advise - thanks

2013-07-04 Thread Chris J Brady
Another failure - which got into an infinite loop and stopped the rest of the PVR List from actioning. _Take_It_From_Here_name_radio Matches: 12741: Take It From Here - From 30/04/1958, BBC Radio 4 Extra, Comedy,Radio INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Checking existence of default

Re: Massive Failures

2013-07-04 Thread J K.Eason
*From:* Chris J Brady chrisjbr...@yahoo.com *To:* get_iplayer get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org *Date:* Thu, 4 Jul 2013 07:50:00 -0700 (PDT) I have an Acer 532h runing win 7 Starter - plus all MS updates. I'm using WebPVR - latest version. I just tried to run WebPVR List but out of the 16

Re: Another Failure - please advise - thanks

2013-07-04 Thread J K.Eason
*From:* Chris J Brady chrisjbr...@yahoo.com *To:* get_iplayer get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org *Date:* Thu, 4 Jul 2013 08:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Another failure - which got into an infinite loop and stopped the rest of the PVR List from actioning. _Take_It_From_Here_name_radio

Messed up - (2nd try)

2013-07-04 Thread lpc
Hi, I wanted to record a couple of episodes of imagine - hadn't used get_iplayer since the olympics and found that it threw up a lot of errors. I tried to update the .pl file from 2.82 to 2.83 and that just told me that it didn't recognise the parameters such as mode and verbose etc. I then tried

Converting flv to mp3 automatically

2013-07-04 Thread Derek Moss
My brother has the raw option set as default in the prefs, as his PC is too slow to handle doing the conversion of video. However, this causes radio programmes to be left as flv as well and he'd like to have those auto-converted to mp3. Is there a way (preferably using the Web PVR Manager but

RE: Converting flv to mp3 automatically

2013-07-04 Thread bat guano
as his PC is too slow to handle doing the conversion of video. Hi get_iplayer doesn't convert video. It only repackages the flv file into an mp4 container. ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Converting flv to mp3 automatically

2013-07-04 Thread J K.Eason
*From:* Derek Moss d...@stoptheviolence.co.uk *To:* get_iplayer get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org *Date:* Thu, 4 Jul 2013 18:43:18 +0100 My brother has the raw option set as default in the prefs, as his PC is too slow to handle doing the conversion of video. However, this causes radio

Re: Massive Failures

2013-07-04 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Thu Jul 4 17:01:00 BST 2013, J K.Eason wrote: 11088: Folk Club - 29/06/2013, BBC Radio Ulster, Folk,Music,Northern Ireland,Radio I can confirm that one, but in my case (under Vista Business on a Lenovo laptop) RTMPDump crashed immediately and brought up a Windows error dialog saying that

Re: Massive Failures

2013-07-04 Thread J K.Eason
This particular one downloaded fine and in one go from the CLI: get_iplayer --type=radio -i --pid=b0368my6 --modes=flashaudio --force -w --file-prefix=Folk Club - 29_06_2013[b0368my6] --tag-podcast-radio Yes. It's fine via the CLI. It produces the expected size of 109,442KB and length of

unable to post - just a test

2013-07-04 Thread lpc
test .. sorry ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: unable to post - just a test

2013-07-04 Thread J K.Eason
test .. sorry That worked (as did your last posting, to which I don't know the answer I'm afraid). Regards John ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Converting flv to mp3 automatically

2013-07-04 Thread Derek Moss
Well his PC still struggles with that and it takes ages. On 4 July 2013 18:56, bat guano batguano...@hotmail.com wrote: as his PC is too slow to handle doing the conversion of video. Hi get_iplayer doesn't convert video. It only repackages the flv file into an mp4 container.

Re: Converting flv to mp3 automatically

2013-07-04 Thread Derek Moss
Great, thanks. On 4 July 2013 18:56, J K.Eason j...@jeason.cix.co.uk wrote: *From:* Derek Moss d...@stoptheviolence.co.uk *To:* get_iplayer get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org *Date:* Thu, 4 Jul 2013 18:43:18 +0100 My brother has the raw option set as default in the prefs, as his PC is too slow

Re: unable to install 4.6, 4.5 installs fine

2013-07-04 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 29/06/2013 09:29, skeye wrote: i just get this immediately. [Window Title] get_iplayer_setup_4.6.exe [Content] Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. Try this installer and tell me if you get different

Re: Messed up - (2nd try)

2013-07-04 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 04/07/2013 18:19, lpc wrote: but this tells me it can't access a file, folder or path even though I am running it under admin rights (windows). Try this installer and tell me if you get different results: https://bitbucket.org/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/downloads/get_iplayer_setup_test1.exe

Re: Converting flv to mp3 automatically

2013-07-04 Thread Derek Moss
Actually, will that cover wma downloads, as I think some of his downloads are using that? On 4 July 2013 18:56, J K.Eason j...@jeason.cix.co.uk wrote: *From:* Derek Moss d...@stoptheviolence.co.uk *To:* get_iplayer get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org *Date:* Thu, 4 Jul 2013 18:43:18 +0100 My

Re: unable to post - just a test

2013-07-04 Thread louis
Many thanks for the heads up. Yes I managed to get a fresh install and after a couple of rtmpdump crashes it started downloading but on HD it seemed to have stopped and timed out. At least I've got something working. :) Louis On 4 July 2013 22:03, J K.Eason j...@jeason.cix.co.uk wrote: test ..

Re: Messed up - (2nd try)

2013-07-04 Thread louis
Thanks I've now got it working ok, after a few goes I managed to get the recording to start, fail and then resume so currently I think it seems to be fine now. I'm just waiting for the conversion to mp4 to see if all is complete then I'll grab the other episode. regards Louis On 4 July 2013

Re: Messed up - (2nd try)

2013-07-04 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 04/07/2013 23:26, louis wrote: Thanks I've now got it working ok, after a few goes I managed to get the recording to start, fail and then resume so currently I think it seems to be fine now. Did it require the alternate installer I made or did you you get it working with current release

Re: Converting flv to mp3 automatically

2013-07-04 Thread J K.Eason
Actually, will that cover wma downloads, as I think some of his downloads are using that? Doesn't look like it from the description at https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/options#wiki-output-optio ns but I'm no expert on transcoding. From your other message about the PC struggling

Re: Messed up - (2nd try)

2013-07-04 Thread louis
No actually the installer I got originally didn't work even after 2 downloads but I found a different version here http://squarepenguin.co.uk/get_iplayer-guide-for-beginners/ that did work fine. Once I got that loaded I had a few rtmpdump crashes and after 1 coffee it kicked into life. :-) On

Re: Messed up - (2nd try)

2013-07-04 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 04/07/2013 23:46, louis wrote: No actually the installer I got originally didn't work even after 2 downloads but I found a different version here http://squarepenguin.co.uk/get_iplayer-guide-for-beginners/ that did work fine. Once I got that loaded I had a few rtmpdump crashes and after 1

Re: Messed up - (2nd try)

2013-07-04 Thread louis
Yes perhaps if that's the case I think my laptop was struck with a gremlin or two. As I mentioned it was some kind of access denied error which had me stumped. Thankfully it sorted itself out. On 4 July 2013 23:49, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/07/2013 23:46, louis wrote: No

Re: Is it a repeat?

2013-07-04 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Sun Jun 30 01:36:00 BST 2013, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 30/06/2013 00:24 BST, Vangelis forthnet wrote: You are of course right; but let's take this example: pid=b00nq7q9 (NB expires on Sun June 30th 2013 23:29Z) get_iplayer -i pid:b00nq7q9 will get me: firstbcast: default: