Re: RTSP link needed for BBC audio

2010-09-04 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 4 Sep 2010, at 17:45, Andy Bircumshaw wrote: On 4 Sep 2010, at 15:54, Bob Toms wrote: Hello Get_iplayer people. It's a great piece of software. I've tried it out on the following URL (and it worked! Excellent): http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/8968123.stm However

Re: mov versus mp4 and mp3 as aac

2010-10-11 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 10 Oct 2010, at 22:35, Kevin Lynch wrote: ... I have get_iplayer working on both ubuntu and win xp (32 bit). I prefer my media as mp4 and mp3 occasionally material is saved as mov and aac (it's no big problem I re-wrap with mp4box/gpac on ubuntu) ... I use winff (windows/ubuntu) to

Re: resuming bad recording.

2010-10-12 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 12 Oct 2010, at 02:23, Michael Bannerman wrote: ... Anyway, I was trying to record a programme and received a last tag size must be greater/equal zero error. In the old version, there was a file location where I could delete the log entry. I don't believe that _deleting the log entry_

Re: Dropping get_iPlayer

2010-10-18 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 18 Oct 2010, at 11:53, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:23 +0100, Dan Ashby wrote: One of the less desirable aspects of this project is the way it's tied in with porn sites: ...It happens to work with those sites, if you *ask* it to download from those sites by giving

Re: Apple TV

2010-11-01 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 1/11/2010, at 6:36pm, Christian Hewitt wrote: ... get_iplayer uses ffmpeg to move flash video into an mp4 container so it's not impossible to change the ffmpeg commands to include cropping that resets the video dimensions to what the crippled QuickTime player can handle. The negative to

Re: HD content still unavailable

2010-11-03 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 3/11/2010, at 8:59am, fs ck wrote: ... The file (at least in the Linux world and probably same in Windows world) is called '.swfinfo'. Search for it and remove any instance you find. The problem we found last month was that since the BBC now insists on an updated SWF url and the cached

Re: HD content still unavailable

2010-11-03 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 3/11/2010, at 2:46am, Kris LeC wrote: ... I think that if you open a DOS prompt and paste (including all quotes and all on a single line): After fiddling with ' and I managed to get this: C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayerC:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\rtmpdump-

Re: SWF Verification

2010-12-17 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 17/12/2010, at 2:30pm, Arthur Dent wrote: ... Is there anything that can be done about the slightly irritating Using a hash as a reference is deprecated warnings? Yes, upgrade to the git release. This was fixed 2 months ago. http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git aB.

Re: Problem with ffmpeg or the source?

2010-12-17 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 17/12/2010, at 5:44pm, Shevek wrote: ... I've just run through my archive of all series 2 of Simple Suppers mp4s and remuxed to mov using the same params that get_iplayer uses: for %F in (*.mp4) do P:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i %F -vcodec copy -acodec copy

Re: Problem with ffmpeg or the source?

2010-12-18 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 18/12/2010, at 8:46am, Shevek wrote: ... Of the Nigel Slater files in my archive eps 1 to 6 were originally processed with r25557 and ep 7 with a later version Eps 1 to 5 are showing no problem at all and eps 6 7 exhibit the issue. This to me points to the source, not ffmpeg. As all

Re: Radio 4 recordings

2010-12-19 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 19/12/2010, at 11:41am, Alexis Huxley wrote: I would prefer mp3 rather than flv, or can I convert back to MP3? Have you tried `get_iplayer --radiomode flashaudio1` ? I have similar problems, which I work around by converting to mp3 afterwards, but I'm guessing there's no mp3 version

Re: Radio 4 recordings

2010-12-19 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 19/12/2010, at 2:55pm, Alexis Huxley wrote: ... You might like to try `get_iplayer --radiomode flashaudio` torchio$ get_iplayer --radiomode flashaudio --flvstreamer rtmpdump --pvr xxx -o /pub/incoming/alexis/podcasts ... INFO: No specified modes (flashaudio) available for this

Re: Problem with ffmpeg or the source?

2010-12-19 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 19/12/2010, at 3:39pm, Shevek wrote: On 18 December 2010 12:47, Shevek she...@shevek.co.uk wrote: I have now... found where the change in ffmpeg behaviour begins. The last build which gives a brainfart warning and good output is r25658 The next build is r25669 which gives no warning

Re: Problem with ffmpeg or the source?

2010-12-19 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 19/12/2010, at 6:02pm, Shevek wrote: On 19 December 2010 16:34, Andy Bircumshaw a...@networkned.co.uk wrote: I'm confused. Using the old version ffmpeg, don't you get good output irrespective of this change at the BBC? yes - you do get good output but there is the warning from

Re: Does get_iplayer still support subtitles?

2010-12-22 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 21/12/2010, at 3:32pm, Richard Mace wrote: If so, I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong. The program I am streaming has subtitles1 (from --info) I am using the --subtitles override, using mplayer. Cursor over mplayer output,'v' toggles visibility on and off but no subtitles. Need more

Re: Itouch mp4 settings

2010-12-23 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 23/12/2010, at 11:51am, Don Rossie wrote: Hi, I have managed to download programs from iplayer and then they are automatically converted to mp4 from flv (by using ffmpeg I assume). The trouble is they won't load onto itunes so that I can play them on my itouch, however, they will play on

Re: Itouch mp4 settings

2010-12-28 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 28/12/2010, at 11:17am, Don Rossie wrote: Hi, Thanks for your reply Andy and the attached information. Am I right in saying that after I run get_iplayer and it has downloaded the video file from iplayer, it then has a second stage of where it converts it to a mp4 file from a flv file

Re: Mp3 from Radio

2011-01-04 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 4/1/2011, at 5:22pm, ZULU wrote: ... The GUI is fine...I can scroll it up huge when I need to and I understand (well, mostly) how it works. Remember, there are different causes of low vision, which affect in different ways. Reading text is anightmare for me. I cab't read a car number

Re: Transcoding video for Topfield boxes

2011-01-05 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 5/1/2011, at 10:35am, Steve Anderson wrote: ... The limit of get_iplayer's transcoding is changing the container format, in this case from flv to mp4. No processing of the streams inside the container takes place at all - that's why it's so quick at the end of a download. For the record,

Re: Transcoding video for Topfield boxes

2011-01-05 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 5/1/2011, at 9:58am, Robin Bowes wrote: ... I have a couple of Topfield DTRs and I'd like to convert iPlayer content to a format suitable for playback on them. ... I was thinking, would it be possible to have get_iplayer do the transcoding? Does it current support that sort of thing? If

Re: File(s) or method(s) used in matching to find new items ?

2011-01-06 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 5/1/2011, at 8:18pm, Joe Jones wrote: ... My internet connection has sometimes failed (for an hour) in the middle of get_iplayer bringing me the list of items added. This has happened with both TV and Radio and can be quite inconvenient as, when the connection comes back up and I rerun

Re: Thumbnails, filenames, etc

2011-01-07 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 7/1/2011, at 12:32pm, Bill Denton wrote: ... $ get_iplayer --longhelp | grep -ie email --email addressEmail HTML index of matching programmes to specified address --email-sender address Optional email sender address --email-smtp hostname SMTP server

Re: Annoying download problem

2011-01-07 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 7/1/2011, at 10:51am, Robin Bowes wrote: ... I'm trying to grab Jools Holland's Hottenany in HD. So, I do this: $ get_iplayer --modes flashhd --get hooten get_iplayer v2.78, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.

Re: Unable to download any video since yesterday

2011-01-07 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 7/1/2011, at 4:39pm, Kevin Reilly wrote: On 07/01/2011 14:43, Alan Pope wrote: I just grabbed the same video using flvstreamer rather than rtmpdump. I can confirm that changing my scripts from rtmpdump to flvstreamer has also enabled me to download the problematic programmes. Could

Re: Unable to download any video since yesterday

2011-01-07 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 7/1/2011, at 5:41pm, Alan Pope wrote: On 7 January 2011 17:35, Andy Bircumshaw a...@networkned.co.uk wrote: Could you all possibly post what versions of rtmpdump ( flvstreamer) you have been trying and succeeded with please? get_iplayer 2.78 FLVStreamer v1.9 Was rtmpdump failing

Re: Annoying download problem

2011-01-07 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 7/1/2011, at 5:45pm, Robin Bowes wrote: On 07/01/11 17:19, Andy Bircumshaw wrote: 346 is *not* the program ID (PID). The PID may be found with `get_iplayer --info` (-i for short). EG: $ get_iplayer hoot -i | grep pid: pid:b00wvjdq OK - wrong terminology. No problem

Re: Get iplayer on windows...

2011-01-08 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 8/1/2011, at 10:12pm, fs ck wrote: 3) there is a solution for windows users, and this is what you need to do... It's been gone over quite a few times on this list but the real solution has been clouded by people understandably not deleting the .swfinfo file, ... * Delete the .swfinfo

Re: re Subject: Solution for windows users

2011-01-08 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 8/1/2011, at 7:43pm, fs ck wrote: rtmpdump already renews the swfinfo every 30 days be default. You could just run: --rtmptvopt=--swfAge=0 --prefs-add and this will always get the swf file every time.. Ok. So is there any good reason not to make this (or --swfAge=1 - cache for 24

Re: Using ffmpeg for FLV to MP3 demux (includes patch)

2011-01-09 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 9/1/2011, at 12:13pm, Peter Scott wrote: On 8 January 2011 16:56, Kyzer stuart.c...@gmail.com wrote: A survey could clear things up. Who has a broken ffmpeg installed that produces bad or lower quality MP3s when you run ffmpeg -i x.flv -acodec copy x.mp3? I have. It is FFmpeg version

Re: Get iplayer on windows...

2011-01-09 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 9/1/2011, at 11:50am, Mike Cooter wrote: ... I noticed that I'm still using RTMPDump v2.2d, not 2.3 as other people have reported. How do I a) replace RTMPDump with v2.3 http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ - Download Windows build Find your current rtmpdump.exe and replace it with this

Re: Get iplayer on windows...

2011-01-09 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 9/1/2011, at 3:13pm, Andy Bircumshaw wrote: On 9/1/2011, at 11:50am, Mike Cooter wrote: ... I noticed that I'm still using RTMPDump v2.2d, not 2.3 as other people have reported. How do I a) replace RTMPDump with v2.3 http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ - Download Windows build

Re: Debian Bug#611473: get-iplayer: should not allow downloading entire iplayer site without explicitly requesting this

2011-02-01 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 1/2/2011, at 12:40pm, Derek J. Balling wrote: On Feb 1, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Alan Pope wrote: On 1 February 2011 11:47, Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org wrote: I ran an 'at' job overnight of the form get_iplayer --get $(get_iplayer | grep 'my prog name' | cut -d: -f1) Why even do

Re: no programmes available for this pid for signed progs(bsl)

2011-03-02 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 1/3/2011, at 7:34pm, chris chery wrote: I find it impossible to download any of the progs in sign language and i get 'no programmes available for this pid' I can get 'see hear' ok but none of the other progs with an interpreter signing in the foreground any suggestions welcome

Re: getting signed programmes

2011-03-07 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 3/3/2011, at 5:19pm, chris chery wrote: ... i tried copying your syntax line scrupulously for being Ronnie corbett and it did not work BUt I found out why I was not using straight quotes but 'smart' quotes Its ok now after editing autocorrect and auto format in Word ( mi os is xp) but

Re: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4?

2011-03-10 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 10/3/2011, at 5:12pm, Chris Marriott wrote: ... Same here. Luckily, downloading as “flashaacstd” seems to work, and iTunes converts the resulting AAC files to MP3 easily enough, but still it’s a bit of a nuisance. We seem to be having things chipped away, one thing at a time. I don't

Re: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4?

2011-03-10 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 10/3/2011, at 9:03pm, ZULU wrote: ... FWIW, I find .aac a pain in the rear end, simply because my mp3 player ignores them, so I have to fart about transcoding them first. get_iplayer's .aac files are, admittedly, in a bad or broken container. That does need fixing, although it should be

Re: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4?

2011-03-10 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 10/3/2011, at 11:00pm, Christopher Woods (CustomMade) wrote: ... get_iplayer's .aac files are, admittedly, in a bad or broken container. That does need fixing, although it should be pretty easy. If you're more of a GUI person (like me, albeit purely out of laziness) FLVExtract makes

Re: Flashaudio no longer available for Radio 4?

2011-03-11 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 11/3/2011, at 5:14pm, Magic Cheezer wrote: ... I had troubles getting them to work with my iPod (2nd gen Touch I think) until I did this: mp4box -add input.aac:mpeg4 -sbr -ipod output.m4a Maybe someone could test: mplayer -ao null -vo null -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio_file_fixed.m4a

Re: BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

2011-03-12 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 12/3/2011, at 6:49pm, Steve wrote: Shevek wrote: You should really do this from the aac not from the wma as I believe the wma is encoded from the aac in the first place (someone may correct me!). So you are running a lossy conversion on a file which is already a lossy conversion.

Re: BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

2011-03-12 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 12/3/2011, at 6:09pm, Chris Marriott wrote: I'm worried about this Iplayer replacement the BBC is bringing out at the end of March - Youview, will this sound the death knell for Get_Iplayer on Radio? it sure looks like it will kill the TV downloads, anyone heard anything? Oh dear,

Re: Automatic conversion of aac to m4a

2011-03-14 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 14/3/2011, at 3:17pm, Nick Ludlam wrote: ... OS X has case-independency with HFS+, ... Actually, it's optional. If you're developing for OS X you should use the case-sensitive version of HFS on your testing systems. Hopefully soon we'll all be able to use that version. aB.

Re: Audo test mp4 file

2011-03-19 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 18/3/2011, at 5:56pm, richard wrote: bat guano wrote: This is a file in aac format:- http://www.mediafire.com/?hr5lecihn3e1vij This is the file in m4a format using Nick's experimental update:- http://www.mediafire.com/?zdjl0drgowzncf2 Neither of those media files work on my hi-fi

Re: Download as wav

2011-03-20 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 20/3/2011, at 11:27am, Bill Lancaster wrote: Can I modify this command line instruction to download the file as type wav? get_iplayer --type-radio --pid=b00zgwhl No. The BBC does not offer .wav files on iPlayer - the compressed audio that get_iplayer downloads is the compressed audio

Re: 4od question

2011-03-20 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 20/3/2011, at 11:35am, Tony Quinn wrote: I'm new to this get_iplayer stuff, although I managed to get it working easily and am happy with the way it works. Has anybody ever tried to integrate 4od into the graphical interface, or is it possible to use the tools included, via the command

Re: Can't use string (b00fz2zv) as a HASH ref while strict refs in use at ./get_iplayer line 1554 when downloading radio programme via PVR

2011-03-20 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 20/3/2011, at 12:09pm, Robin Wilson wrote: ... I've been using get_iplayer happily for a while, and suddenly have this error occurring when I try and download the Comic Relief Comedy Controllers programme (from BBC Radio 4). This occurs when I run the get_iplayer --pvr command, which I

Re: Audo test mp4 file

2011-03-20 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 20/3/2011, at 3:59pm, bat guano wrote: ... Searched for a test m4a. There is a m4a test file that works on my cd player here: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/dsi/en_na/soundTest.jsp Link to zip containing the test file: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/downloads/test.zip

Re: Can't use string (b00fz2zv) as a HASH ref while strict refs in use at ./get_iplayer line 1554 when downloading radio programme via PVR

2011-03-23 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
Hi Robin, Please bottom-post on this mailing list. See below. On 23/3/2011, at 8:48am, Robin Wilson wrote: On 20 Mar 2011, at 16:03, Andy Bircumshaw wrote: On 20/3/2011, at 12:09pm, Robin Wilson wrote: ... I've been using get_iplayer happily for a while, and suddenly have this error

Re: Workaround for broken(?) m4a files from ffmpeg, was Re: [PATCH] Output AAC as M4A for iTunes with metadata tags

2011-04-12 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 12/4/2011, at 5:08pm, Simon Nash wrote: I'm puzzled by this. There is definitely no video in this file, and it plays OK on my Linn DS. The Linn DS is happy with both .mp4 and .m4a file extensions so I had been thinking that these are equivalent for MPEG-4 files with audio and no video.

Re: Two Versions of FFmpeg installed!!!

2011-04-14 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 14/4/2011, at 5:28pm, Steve wrote: ... Stranger and stranger!! I have the new version in /usr/bin and an older version in /usr/local/bin ? I've renamed the older one to ffmpeg.old. Wonder why it was using one version one time and the other version another. /usr/local is usually

Re: Workaround for broken(?) m4a files from ffmpeg, was Re: [PATCH] Output AAC as M4A for iTunes with metadata tags

2011-04-14 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 14/4/2011, at 2:15pm, richard wrote: ... when the avgBitrate (average bit rate) in the DecoderConfigDescriptor of the esds atom is zero, a m4a file will not play in the Marantz CD6003. Both EasyTag and mp4tags makes a m4a file playable by changing the average bitrate from zero to a non

Re: BBC News pages

2011-05-03 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 3/5/2011, at 7:57pm, Jon Davies wrote: ... The latest tagged version of get_iplayer is 2.79, and there are versions in git that are more recent still. The difference is probably that you're using an old version on your mac. Also get_iplayer has (since Phil gave up the project)

Bug? --showoptions in current versions

2011-05-17 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
`get_iplayer --showoptions` shows command-line options but then performs a search. I'm getting this on master@infradead and dinkypumpkin's branch. I think that it shouldn't run the search, but just exit instead. Typically, you want just to show the damn options - you don't specify a search

Re: ffmpeg output formats.

2011-05-23 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 23/5/2011, at 2:30pm, Paul Verrall wrote: ... I need ffmpeg to output iplayer videos in something other than the default mp4. Basically my Sony blu-ray (DLNA compliant) device will only play certain types of video over the network. DNLA is a very dubious standard, and can mean

Re: Audio synchronisation and extraction

2011-05-31 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 31/5/2011, at 11:49am, richard wrote: Downloaded The Carpenters' debut BBC concert only to discover that the audio is out of synchronisation with the video. It wasn't like that when I watched the programme live. ... PID b00cgxtq ?? aB. ___

Re: Audio synchronisation and extraction

2011-05-31 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 31/5/2011, at 9:46pm, Andy Bircumshaw wrote: On 31/5/2011, at 11:49am, richard wrote: Downloaded The Carpenters' debut BBC concert only to discover that the audio is out of synchronisation with the video. It wasn't like that when I watched the programme live. ... PID b00cgxtq

AtomicParsley on Linux crashes when tagging some videos (Spooks)

2011-10-30 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
Hi there, As per subject, has anyone else seen this, please? I've got two episodes of Spooks that this problem applies to, I think, but no other shows. I've tried using the latest version of get_iplayer that dinkypumpkin released in response to similar problems on Windows, but that makes no

Re: download audiodescribed programmes

2011-11-12 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 12 November 2011, at 18:17, Péter Fülöp wrote: … Anyone ones how to download audiodescribed programmes? Give me some examples as well. $ get_iplayer --longhelp | grep -i audiodescribed --versions versionsVersion of programme to search or record (e.g. '--versions

Re: Recent download issues

2011-11-26 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 24 November 2011, at 09:51, Carl Fletcher wrote: On 24/11/11 08:53, Jon Davies wrote: On 24 November 2011 05:10, Carl Fletcherkernelbas...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting errors like this: INFO: sampletypemp4a 467726.949 kB / 2546.96 sec (73.2%) ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket,

Re: Tosca, BBC2 Live stream, Saturday - How?

2011-12-21 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 21 December 2011, at 19:59, Clive wrote: … You helped me capture the live R3 audio broadcast of Tosca a couple of months ago and now the BBC is broadcasting the video of the same on BBC2 on Saturday afternoon. As it is music and the ROH, I do not know if it will be available from

Re: PS3 problem playing get_iplayer h.264 videos

2011-12-26 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 22 December 2011, at 19:24, don rossie wrote: ... I have been reading up on this problem which is the video files play at double speed with no audio and the solution seems to be to use an older version of ffmpeg. For the record, I'm also getting this on my PS3 at the moment, using ffmpeg

Re: PS3 get_iplayer conversion

2011-12-26 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 26 December 2011, at 16:37, Jon Davies wrote: ... So could you identify one or two (currently available) programmes that won't play on a PS3, and if possible one or two that do? I observed on Bunnies of Skomer myself, PID b0078yx9, but I believe that all videos are affected, if

Re: [PATCH] Option to mux video as MKV instead of MP4

2012-01-02 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 1 January 2012, at 19:46, Shevek wrote: On 1 January 2012 19:17, M2 m...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi all and happy new year, is there any benefit muxing MP4 into MKV? For get_iplayer usage, there is really no benefit, it's purely personal choice. It should be possible to add

Re: not writable?

2012-01-03 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 2 January 2012, at 17:07, Mex wrote: ... Having an odd problem here, Whatever I do I get this: ERROR: get_iplayer is not writeable - aborting update I have gone through all the get_iplayer files I could find and set the permissions to read and write for everybody but still get the same

Re: Help with REGEX please.

2012-01-08 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 8 January 2012, at 17:01, Alastair wrote: Hi, I want to download part of the BBC In Our Time podcast archive. I believe it should be possible to download multiple files by using the correct REGEX in the get_iplayer command but am stuck with the regular expression syntax. The file

Re: Subtitles

2012-01-18 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 18 January 2012, at 11:26, Fintan Gaughan wrote: ... Only problem I have is that XBMC does not play mp4 is there a way of get iplayer to record to avi? Not to address any of your other points, but I'm pretty sure it does. The highest quality encoding is h264 which is a patent-encumbered

Re: How to find a particular episode

2012-03-03 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 3 March 2012, at 10:25, Colin Law wrote: … I realise that I could get using the number (751 for example) but I am trying to do this programmatically so hoped that there would be a way to specify the episode number. $ get_iplayer the bottom line … Matches: 2361: The Bottom Line:

Re: How to find a particular episode

2012-03-04 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 4 March 2012, at 11:25, Colin Law wrote: … You can also use, then, `get_iplayer --pid b01czdrg` However, this *is* exactly what --pvr is for - when you add a programme using `get_iplayer --pvr-queue 1234` then get_iplayer will look up the PID and store that as the download criteria.

Re: How to find a particular episode

2012-03-04 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 4 March 2012, at 17:04, Colin Law wrote: … Personally, I find it annoying that searching for a programme sometimes necessitates waiting for a refresh to complete. I just want the results, not to have to sit through watching the download! So I have an hourly cronjob which does nothing

Re: Raspberry pi pvr

2012-03-06 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 6 March 2012, at 16:07, Colin Law wrote: Is anyone looking at get-iplayer going on the Raspberry pi? With an external disc it might make a nice mini-pvr. The Raspberry Pi looks great, especially for iPlayer movies, but caveats: • First generation hardware: • Often buggy. See Pandora

Re: Unable to download flashvhigh

2012-04-04 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 4 April 2012, at 22:37, Allan Preston wrote: Whenver I try to download any program with --vmode=flashvhigh under Linux atm, the download fails. It usually reaches approx 50%, then terminates with ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header Try, separately,

Re: Get info by pid

2012-04-06 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 6 April 2012, at 23:33, Charles Johnson wrote: I was wondering if it's possible to get info by pid? The following looks as if it should work, but doesn't: get_iplayer --info --pid f00bar01 and actually it appears to attempt to retrieve the prog (!) Nope. This is a longstanding and

Re: PVR switch syntax - help please

2012-04-09 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 9 April 2012, at 09:57, Alastair wrote: I just add `get_iplayer --pvr` to my user crontab to run every morning at 2am. This will execute all PVR searches and download any new shows that match the search and any that have been individually queued up (using --pvr-queue). aB. Hi

Re: PVR switch syntax - help please

2012-04-11 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 10 April 2012, at 21:03, Alastair wrote: ... Putting `get_iplayer --pvr` in a crontab allows you to schedule the downloads for off-peak /or unmetered hours. Note that the various different versions of a program (flashhd, flashvhigh, flashhigh, flashstd c) are NOT certain to

Re: HD Stream Problems

2012-04-12 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 12 April 2012, at 15:24, Charlie Pearce wrote: … Options in '/home/cjp/.get_iplayer/options' rtmptvopts = --swfVfy http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/10player.swf I know you said you got it sorted now, but that looks iffy to me. aB. ___

--pvrqueue automatically adds future recordings?

2012-04-18 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
Hi there, I'm getting weird different results between searching for (some) programmes and adding them to my pvr queue. $ get_iplayer social get_iplayer v2.80, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free

Re: --pvrqueue automatically adds future recordings?

2012-04-18 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 18 April 2012, at 18:53, Ronny Andersson wrote: $ get_iplayer social get_iplayer v2.80, 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 redistribute it under certain conditions;

Re: Remuxing get_iplayer downloads to play on my TV

2012-04-20 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 20 April 2012, at 12:56, Steve Champion wrote: … the conversion … takes a long time... presumably because I am not merely remuxing, but doing a conversion. I'm struggling a bit to understand the subtleties of video/audio formats. Y'know, I think you're doing alright. You questions seem

Re: Further Questions re Syntax

2012-04-22 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 22 April 2012, at 00:05, Alastair wrote: Hi and many thanks to Andy et al for answering my dumb questions. I have another which I suspect is a Regex issue but how should I deal with colon : in a search string. All appears as it should in the search0 = line of the pvr list but in

Re: Crashes When Running from Cron Job

2012-04-23 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 23 April 2012, at 12:51, ajebay wrote: … My efforts with running --pvr switch from cron job have had mixed success. It appears that when the download fails part way through, the system locks up with get_iplayer still running but nothing happening. Latest example was from last night

Re: Re: Further Questions re Syntax

2012-04-23 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 23 April 2012, at 09:06, Alastair wrote: … I do not know BBC policy for adding HD version but even a delay of 24 hours may not guarantee getting the best mode and it is very arbitrary as they do not always post hd version. My thought was, for a given search string, to have

Re: Enabling gzip

2012-06-13 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 13 June 2012, at 21:18, Arthur Murray wrote: I was wondering … if gzip should really still be disabled by default? … I'd prefer to enable it to reduce download times and wasted internet bytes, … Surely this only affects the downloads of webpages from the iPlayer site, as you refresh

Re: FFmpeg deprecated (in Ubuntu)?

2012-06-27 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 26 June 2012, at 23:10, dinkypumpkin wrote: ... My unscientific survey tells me that Debian, Ubuntu and all their DEB-based derivatives have gone the Libav route, while Fedora, openSUSE and other RPM-based distros (plus Gentoo) have stayed with FFmpeg. So, I think we'll have to

Re: FFmpeg deprecated (in Ubuntu)?

2012-06-27 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 27 June 2012, at 20:57, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 27/06/2012 19:08, Andy Bircumshaw wrote: Gentoo now has a package virtual/ffmpeg which is fulfilled by either media-video/ffmpeg or media-video/libav. Thanks for that. Since we gratefully junked Gentoo at work I haven't paid much

Re: get_iplayer v.v. HiDownload Platinum

2012-07-17 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 16 July 2012, at 11:24, James Cook wrote: ... I to check http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/shame.html but it's down. LOL. This was approximately my first reaction, too, upon seeing the HiDownload website. The site reminded me so strikingly of those for the DVD rippers (DVDfab?) that rip off

Re: get_iplayer v.v. HiDownload Platinum

2012-07-18 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 17 July 2012, at 17:49, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: On 2012-07-17 15:38, Chris J Brady wrote: As an after thought wouldn't it be great if get_iplayer also worked for ITV iplayer, Ondemand 4 and 5 or whatever? Is this in the pipeline? There were plugins for C4 and ITV when Phil first

Re: 4GB limit, chunk download, what to use to demux and remux?

2012-08-03 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 2 August 2012, at 22:58, MS wrote: ... So how do I fix the downloaded chunks? What Linux software do I use to demux my 1st chunk .mp4 file and subsequent chunks .mp4.flv files? And what software do I use to remux them together preferably allowing a little editing to get rid of the 5