RE: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

2022-06-06 Thread Steve Rochford
You shouldn't need to make any changes to the path. The batch file 
get_iplayer.cmd works out the folder it's being run from, and then temporarily 
changes PATH to include perl\bin and utils\bin underneath that folder. Can you 
check that your batch file looks like this:

@echo off
setlocal
set GIP_INST=%~dp0
if #%GIP_INST:~-1%# == #\# set GIP_INST=%GIP_INST:~0,-1%
if "%GIP_PATH%" == "" set 
GIP_PATH=%GIP_INST%\perl\bin;%GIP_INST%\utils\bin;%PATH%
if not "%GIP_PATH%" == "" set PATH=%GIP_PATH%
perl.exe "%GIP_INST%\get_iplayer.pl" %*

to check that it's working, add:

echo %path%
pause

immediately before the perl.exe line and run it - it should show you the value 
of PATH, wait for you to press a key and then run. One possible problem is that 
your existing PATH is too long, but I doubt that's the issue - by adding the 
GIP folders to the start of the existing path you might break other apps (but 
only while GIP is running).

Your version of ffmpeg is way out of date - I can understand that you might get 
the errors while it's running saying the version is too old, but I don't think 
that it would give the "no such file" error that you're seeing. There's a 
current version of ffmpeg for Windows here - 
https://www.videohelp.com/software/ffmpeg You need to download 
https://www.videohelp.com/download/ffmpeg-5.0.1-full_build.7z, unpack it with 
7-Zip and copy the ffmpeg.exe file from the bin folder to the utils\bin folder 
under get_iplayer.

Good luck!

Steve


-Original Message-
From: get_iplayer  On Behalf Of 
Jonathan Bryden
Sent: 06 June 2022 12:29
To: m...@john-eason.co.uk
Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

Update - I tried uninstalling, restarting and re-installing (the 64 bit version 
this time) and I am still getting the same error message (though with the path 
changed from Program Files (x86) to Program Files) so now I am completely at a 
loss.

INFO: Converting to M4A
open3: IO::Pipe: Can't spawn-NOWAIT: No such file or directory at C:\Program 
Files\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl line 2120.

Help anyone???

-Original Message-
From: get_iplayer  On Behalf Of J 
K.Eason
Sent: 06 June 2022 11:44
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

> *From:* Chris Walker 
> *To:* get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
> *Date:* Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:17:40 +0100
> 
> On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 10:00 +, Jonathan Bryden wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Thanks so much for all your ideas - unfortunately no success so far.
> > 
> > The same message appear for both TV and radio and both download a 
> > .TS file before stopping.
> [snip]
> 
> > This is a mystery to me - any further ideas would be most welcome...
> 
> How about adding the location of ffmpeg to your options file?
> 
> Take a look here -
> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgith
> ub.com%2Fget-iplayer%2Fget_iplayer%2Fwiki%2Foptions%23external-pro
> ;data=05%7C01%7C%7Cf0dbf5ac4e1a43ed627b08da47afdb55%7C84df9e7fe9f640af
> b435%7C1%7C0%7C637901117858154489%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8
> eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3
> 000%7C%7C%7Csdata=4XwTA8OV%2F5fP7Iw9Uj5ppK53fj6Uxx6SvBGnPpPLyFg%3
> Dreserved=0
> gram-options for how to add it.
> 
> I don't use Windows for GiP so I can't offer any suggestions about how 
> you would keep ffmpeg updated but doubtless there are others on here 
> who can advise on that.

It should be updated automatically every time you install a new version of GIP.

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Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

2022-06-06 Thread xanda escuyer
The warning about the ffmpeg version needs to be eliminated. The ffmpeg
binary shipped with GiP x64 for Windows 7 yields:-

ffmpeg version 4.2.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 9.3.1 (GCC) 20200523

If that checks out then, for completeness it would be worth checking
it's signature:-

If you don't already have a hash checker then this one will do:
https://github.com/gurnec/HashCheck/releases

This installs an extension for Windows Explorer (accessed via file-
>right-click->Properties).

Then check any of the following by copy/paste into the search box:-

SHA256:
a96c7e32296f49cb34c399903ab96c19b72389dab034b1f2028a82eff8e94f0d
MD5: 942feaf806dcc04b8ae33745bbee99fd
SHA3-256:
5113b2fad38b1e9ba9fe3ffa7ec49156e3ad404fef099529b960eee57eb04450

Does any of this check-out?

On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 10:00 +, Jonathan Bryden wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thanks so much for all your ideas - unfortunately no success so far.
> 
> The same message appear for both TV and radio and both download a .TS
> file before stopping.
> 
> With TV programmes I also get the following text 
> 
> WARNING: ffmpeg 2.5 or higher is required to convert HLS downloads to
> MP4
> WARNING: Use --raw to bypass MP4 conversion and retain .ts file
> WARNING: Use --ffmpeg-force to override checks and force MP4
> conversion attempt-
> 
> So I tried using the --fmpeg-force command but the result is the
> same.
> 
> Only the first path C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer was in my PATH
> statement but I added :\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\utils\bin as
> suggested and tested it with the ffmeg.exe which works.
> 
> I have not installed or uninstalled any software or hardware since
> the problem first appeared and there are no files quarantined by my
> AV software.
> 
> This is a mystery to me - any further ideas would be most welcome...
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: xanda escuyer  
> Sent: 05 June 2022 19:45
> To: Jonathan Bryden ; Steve Rochford
> 
> Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a
> 
> Does the same happen with a TV programme or is it radio only?
> 
> If the ffmpeg binary is still present under the install directory for
> get_iplayer, then a couple of things to try are:-
> 
> 1st/ Is the binary in the %PATH% environment variable? Type 'path'
> from a cmd line to see; it ought to contain one or both of the
> following:-
> 
> C:\Program Files\get_iplayer;C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\utils\bin
> 
> If it doesn't then try adding them with the command:-
> 
> path=%path%;C:\Program Files\get_iplayer;C:\Program
> Files\get_iplayer\utils\bin;
> 
> NB: The second path (the part pointing to \bin) is not added by the
> installer as standard.
> 
> 2nd/ Is the binary intact? Once the %PATH% variable is setup, running
> ffmpeg.exe (without args) from the prompt should be enough to see.
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> On Sun, 2022-06-05 at 16:31 +, Jonathan Bryden wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> > 
> > Many thanks for your message.
> > 
> > I checked my installation folder and I do have the folder you
> > mention
> > - it contains ffmpeg.exe and AtomicParsley.exe
> > 
> > I should perhaps have mentioned that the download works in that I
> > get 
> > a .ts file which certainly contains all the audio data as I can
> > open 
> > in Audacity and export it as a .wav or whatever which is a
> > workaround, 
> > but hopefully we can find out what the problem is and fix it!
> > 
> > Best wishes
> > 
> > Jonathan
> > 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Steve Rochford 
> > Sent: 05 June 2022 17:26
> > To: Jonathan Bryden ; 
> > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
> > Subject: Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a
> > 
> > That line in the Perl script is part of the run_cmd function which 
> > calls all the external programs. I think that it will be calling 
> > ffmpeg to carry out the audio conversion and if that's missing then
> > the conversion will fail.
> > 
> > I don't understand most of the Perl script (there's a reason it's 
> > sometimes called a "write-only" language) but I think that one of
> > the 
> > first thing that happens in get_iplayer is a check for ffmpeg so
> > I'm 
> > not sure how this is succeeding if ffmpeg is missing.
> > 
> > On my install, there's a folder C:\Program
> > Files\get_iplayer\utils\bin 
> > which contains ffmpeg.exe - do you have a similar folder?
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > 
> > From: get_iplayer  on
> > behalf 
> > of Jonathan Bryden 
> > Sent: 05 June 2022 16:03
> > To:
> > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org 
> > Subject: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a
> >  
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > Much to my surprise this morning I had the following error message 
> > after downloading a radio show using get_iplayer:
> > 
> > INFO: Converting to M4A
> > open3: IO::Pipe: Can't spawn-NOWAIT: No such file or directory at 
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl line 2120.
> > 
> > This is not a message I have seen before. 

Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread David Taylor

On 06/06/2022 14:05, Jimmy Aitken wrote:

You can extract the Paddington clip from the BBC stream at 1080p quality with:

get_iplayer --pid p0bk5pd7 --start 00:30:05 --stop 00:32:20 --tv-quality 1080p

Jimmy


Thanks, Jimmy.  I've never used the start/stop commands!  I ended up with the
11 GB download and using the Windows Photo app to edit.  First time I've used
that, but it works well at least for simple trimming.

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Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread Mark Goodge




On 06/06/2022 12:10, Chris Brady wrote:

The Concert has gone from iPlayer  if it was ever there.


It is there. It's this one:


6930: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - Platinum Party at the
Palace, BBC One, p0bk5pd7
It's a chunky download - all three hours of the concert, 7,118 MB before 
converting to mp4 - and possibly a bit overkill if all you want is the 
Paddington clip. But it is there. The clip starts at 30:01 and runs 
until 32:20.


Mark

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Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread Jimmy Aitken
On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 11:22, David Taylor  wrote:
>
> Off-topic, but has any a full resolution link to the full Queen Meets
> Paddington" video?  Can't find it on the iPlayer, and the only full-length one
> I can find is the Daily Mail at just 640 x 360!

You can extract the Paddington clip from the BBC stream at 1080p quality with:

get_iplayer --pid p0bk5pd7 --start 00:30:05 --stop 00:32:20 --tv-quality 1080p

Jimmy

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Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

2022-06-06 Thread Chris Brady
The version in the Program Files (x86) folder is the 32-bit version

The version in Program Files folder is the 64-bit version

You now seem to have two version installed.

Why not delete both, and re-install just the one version for whatever
your OS is?

CJB

On 06/06/2022, Jonathan Bryden  wrote:
> Update - I tried uninstalling, restarting and re-installing (the 64 bit
> version this time) and I am still getting the same error message (though
> with the path changed from Program Files (x86) to Program Files) so now I am
> completely at a loss.
>
> INFO: Converting to M4A
> open3: IO::Pipe: Can't spawn-NOWAIT: No such file or directory at
> C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl line 2120.
>
> Help anyone???
>
> -Original Message-
> From: get_iplayer  On Behalf Of J
> K.Eason
> Sent: 06 June 2022 11:44
> To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a
>
>> *From:* Chris Walker 
>> *To:* get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
>> *Date:* Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:17:40 +0100
>>
>> On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 10:00 +, Jonathan Bryden wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > Thanks so much for all your ideas - unfortunately no success so far.
>> >
>> > The same message appear for both TV and radio and both download a
>> > .TS file before stopping.
>> [snip]
>>
>> > This is a mystery to me - any further ideas would be most welcome...
>>
>> How about adding the location of ffmpeg to your options file?
>>
>> Take a look here -
>> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/options#external-pro
>> gram-options for how to add it.
>>
>> I don't use Windows for GiP so I can't offer any suggestions about how
>> you would keep ffmpeg updated but doubtless there are others on here
>> who can advise on that.
>
> It should be updated automatically every time you install a new version of
> GIP.
>
> --
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>John
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RE: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

2022-06-06 Thread Jonathan Bryden
Update - I tried uninstalling, restarting and re-installing (the 64 bit version 
this time) and I am still getting the same error message (though with the path 
changed from Program Files (x86) to Program Files) so now I am completely at a 
loss.

INFO: Converting to M4A
open3: IO::Pipe: Can't spawn-NOWAIT: No such file or directory at 
C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl line 2120.

Help anyone???

-Original Message-
From: get_iplayer  On Behalf Of J 
K.Eason
Sent: 06 June 2022 11:44
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

> *From:* Chris Walker 
> *To:* get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
> *Date:* Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:17:40 +0100
> 
> On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 10:00 +, Jonathan Bryden wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Thanks so much for all your ideas - unfortunately no success so far.
> > 
> > The same message appear for both TV and radio and both download a 
> > .TS file before stopping.
> [snip]
> 
> > This is a mystery to me - any further ideas would be most welcome...
> 
> How about adding the location of ffmpeg to your options file?
> 
> Take a look here -
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/options#external-pro
> gram-options for how to add it.
> 
> I don't use Windows for GiP so I can't offer any suggestions about how 
> you would keep ffmpeg updated but doubtless there are others on here 
> who can advise on that.

It should be updated automatically every time you install a new version of GIP.

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Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi SB,

> > IIRC, it's a little after thirty minutes into
> > https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bk5pd7 because it kicks off the
> > start of the party after half an hour of waffle and re-cap.
>
> The Concert has gone from iPlayer  if it was ever there.

It certainly was there; I downloaded it using that PID.

> 6777: The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking - -, BBC One, m00178bg
> 6925: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - Trooping the Colour, BBC News, 
> m0017xfk
> 6926: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - Platinum Beacons: Lighting up the 
> Jubilee, BBC News, m0017xgb
> 6927: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - A Service of Thanksgiving, BBC 
> One, m0017xjp
> 6928: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - The Platinum Pageant, BBC One, 
> m00183k3
> 6929: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - What a Weekend!, BBC Two, m001847z
> 6930: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - Platinum Party at the Palace, BBC 
> One, p0bk5pd7
> INFO: 8 matching programmes

Did you notice that PID at 6930?  See the end of the line.  If you open
the URL I gave then you'll see that is the programme and Paddington is
in it.

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Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread Chris Brady
This DM MP4 is actually 2:19 ...

But the teacup clinking is in time to the intro' to We Will Rock You
by Queen sync'd to the prior military drumming. Actually the drumming
starts before the Paddington clip starts.

So the clip sequences are:

Military march on with drumming
Paddington short
- teapot plugged in,
- taken down corridors,
- tea with the Queen,
- clinking of spoons against t-cups,
- butler peers out of the window,
Military drumming
Queen band drummer takes up rhythm
Queen band launches into song

My guess this is about 5 mins.

I have it on my recorder's HD. So might be able to extract full sequence.

CJB

On 06/06/2022, Chris Brady  wrote:
> The Concert has gone from iPlayer  if it was ever there.
>
> 6777: The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking - -, BBC One, m00178bg
> 6925: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - Trooping the Colour, BBC
> News, m0017xfk
> 6926: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - Platinum Beacons: Lighting
> up the Jubilee, BBC News, m0017xgb
> 6927: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - A Service of Thanksgiving,
> BBC One, m0017xjp
> 6928: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - The Platinum Pageant, BBC
> One, m00183k3
> 6929: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - What a Weekend!, BBC Two,
> m001847z
> 6930: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - Platinum Party at the
> Palace, BBC One, p0bk5pd7
> INFO: 8 matching programmes
>
> SB
>
>
>
>
> On 06/06/2022, David Taylor  wrote:
>> Off-topic, but has any a full resolution link to the full Queen Meets
>> Paddington" video?  Can't find it on the iPlayer, and the only
>> full-length
>> one
>> I can find is the Daily Mail at just 640 x 360!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
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Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread Chris Brady
The Concert has gone from iPlayer  if it was ever there.

6777: The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking - -, BBC One, m00178bg
6925: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - Trooping the Colour, BBC
News, m0017xfk
6926: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - Platinum Beacons: Lighting
up the Jubilee, BBC News, m0017xgb
6927: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - A Service of Thanksgiving,
BBC One, m0017xjp
6928: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - The Platinum Pageant, BBC
One, m00183k3
6929: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - What a Weekend!, BBC Two, m001847z
6930: The Queens Platinum Jubilee - Platinum Party at the
Palace, BBC One, p0bk5pd7
INFO: 8 matching programmes

SB




On 06/06/2022, David Taylor  wrote:
> Off-topic, but has any a full resolution link to the full Queen Meets
> Paddington" video?  Can't find it on the iPlayer, and the only full-length
> one
> I can find is the Daily Mail at just 640 x 360!
>
> Thanks,
> David
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Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

2022-06-06 Thread J K.Eason
> *From:* Chris Walker 
> *To:* get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
> *Date:* Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:17:40 +0100
> 
> On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 10:00 +, Jonathan Bryden wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Thanks so much for all your ideas - unfortunately no success so 
> > far.
> > 
> > The same message appear for both TV and radio and both download a 
> > .TS file before stopping.
> [snip]
> 
> > This is a mystery to me - any further ideas would be most 
> > welcome...
> 
> How about adding the location of ffmpeg to your options file?
> 
> Take a look here - 
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/options#external-pro
> gram-options for how to add it.
> 
> I don't use Windows for GiP so I can't offer any suggestions about 
> how you would keep ffmpeg updated but doubtless there are others on 
> here who can advise on that.

It should be updated automatically every time you install a new version
of GIP.

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Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread David Taylor

On 06/06/2022 11:28, Paul Turvey wrote:

Various resolutions available on the Royal Family channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H3WJ2qRwiQ_channel=TheRoyalFamily


Thanks, Paul,

The full length version is 2:18, but that version is just 0:57.

Full length:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/newsalerts/video-2701209/Queen-opens-Platinum-Party-Palace-Paddington-Bear-sketch.html


https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2022/06/04/7367672448217858392/640x360_MP4_7367672448217858392.mp4

Oh, and replacing 640x360 with 1920x1080 doesn't work!

I'll check that channel, thanks!

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Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David,

> Off-topic, but has any a full resolution link to the full Queen Meets
> Paddington" video?  Can't find it on the iPlayer

IIRC, it's a little after thirty minutes into
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bk5pd7 because it kicks off the
start of the party after half an hour of waffle and re-cap.

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Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread Paul Turvey

Various resolutions available on the Royal Family channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H3WJ2qRwiQ_channel=TheRoyalFamily

On 06/06/2022 11:21, David Taylor wrote:

Off-topic, but has any a full resolution link to the full Queen Meets
Paddington" video?  Can't find it on the iPlayer, and the only 
full-length one

I can find is the Daily Mail at just 640 x 360!

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Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread David Taylor

Off-topic, but has any a full resolution link to the full Queen Meets
Paddington" video?  Can't find it on the iPlayer, and the only full-length one
I can find is the Daily Mail at just 640 x 360!

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Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

2022-06-06 Thread Chris Walker
On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 10:00 +, Jonathan Bryden wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thanks so much for all your ideas - unfortunately no success so far.
> 
> The same message appear for both TV and radio and both download a .TS
> file before stopping.
[snip]

> This is a mystery to me - any further ideas would be most welcome...

How about adding the location of ffmpeg to your options file?

Take a look here - 
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/options#external-program-options
 for how to add it.

I don't use Windows for GiP so I can't offer any suggestions about how
you would keep ffmpeg updated but doubtless there are others on here who
can advise on that.

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RE: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

2022-06-06 Thread Jonathan Bryden
Hi

Thanks so much for all your ideas - unfortunately no success so far.

The same message appear for both TV and radio and both download a .TS file 
before stopping.

With TV programmes I also get the following text 

WARNING: ffmpeg 2.5 or higher is required to convert HLS downloads to MP4
WARNING: Use --raw to bypass MP4 conversion and retain .ts file
WARNING: Use --ffmpeg-force to override checks and force MP4 conversion attempt-

So I tried using the --fmpeg-force command but the result is the same.

Only the first path C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer was in my PATH statement 
but I added :\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\utils\bin as suggested and tested 
it with the ffmeg.exe which works.

I have not installed or uninstalled any software or hardware since the problem 
first appeared and there are no files quarantined by my AV software.

This is a mystery to me - any further ideas would be most welcome...

Many thanks

Jonathan

-Original Message-
From: xanda escuyer  
Sent: 05 June 2022 19:45
To: Jonathan Bryden ; Steve Rochford 

Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

Does the same happen with a TV programme or is it radio only?

If the ffmpeg binary is still present under the install directory for 
get_iplayer, then a couple of things to try are:-

1st/ Is the binary in the %PATH% environment variable? Type 'path' from a cmd 
line to see; it ought to contain one or both of the following:-

C:\Program Files\get_iplayer;C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\utils\bin

If it doesn't then try adding them with the command:-

path=%path%;C:\Program Files\get_iplayer;C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\utils\bin;

NB: The second path (the part pointing to \bin) is not added by the installer 
as standard.

2nd/ Is the binary intact? Once the %PATH% variable is setup, running 
ffmpeg.exe (without args) from the prompt should be enough to see.

Does this help?

On Sun, 2022-06-05 at 16:31 +, Jonathan Bryden wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Many thanks for your message.
> 
> I checked my installation folder and I do have the folder you mention
> - it contains ffmpeg.exe and AtomicParsley.exe
> 
> I should perhaps have mentioned that the download works in that I get 
> a .ts file which certainly contains all the audio data as I can open 
> in Audacity and export it as a .wav or whatever which is a workaround, 
> but hopefully we can find out what the problem is and fix it!
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Steve Rochford 
> Sent: 05 June 2022 17:26
> To: Jonathan Bryden ; 
> get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a
> 
> That line in the Perl script is part of the run_cmd function which 
> calls all the external programs. I think that it will be calling 
> ffmpeg to carry out the audio conversion and if that's missing then 
> the conversion will fail.
> 
> I don't understand most of the Perl script (there's a reason it's 
> sometimes called a "write-only" language) but I think that one of the 
> first thing that happens in get_iplayer is a check for ffmpeg so I'm 
> not sure how this is succeeding if ffmpeg is missing.
> 
> On my install, there's a folder C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\utils\bin 
> which contains ffmpeg.exe - do you have a similar folder?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> From: get_iplayer  on behalf 
> of Jonathan Bryden 
> Sent: 05 June 2022 16:03
> To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org 
> Subject: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a
>  
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Much to my surprise this morning I had the following error message 
> after downloading a radio show using get_iplayer:
> 
> INFO: Converting to M4A
> open3: IO::Pipe: Can't spawn-NOWAIT: No such file or directory at 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl line 2120.
> 
> This is not a message I have seen before. Having tried restarting 
> without success I upgraded to the latest version (3.30) but I still 
> get the same problem.
> 
> A little internet research has suggested the issue may be related to 
> the PATH in the system environment variables though I am not aware of 
> any changes made since yesterday.
> 
> I have compared the machine to another and there seems to be no 
> difference in the portion of the PATH that points to get_iplayer (i.e. 
> ...C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer)
> 
> The PC is running 64bit Windows 7.
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestions and am happy to supply any other 
> information if required.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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