Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread David Cantrell
; only available in Worthing. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Anger over BBC radio streaming changes

2015-02-23 Thread David Cantrell
year alone. That's only meaningful if you include data on how old those devices were and how many were still in use at the time Auntie castrated them. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence You can't spell AWESOME without ME

Re: Seedbox GiP

2015-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
and the like. So your torrent downloads a bit slower. Big deal. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Vegetarian: n: a person who, due to malnutrition caused by poor lifestyle choices, is eight times more likely to catch TB than a normal person

Re: [Maybe OT]British Library National Audit of Sound Collections

2015-05-18 Thread David Cantrell
of thousands of cassette recordings that are worth preserving, all of which are slowly degrading. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice All principles of gravity are negated by fear -- Cartoon Law IV

Re: [Maybe OT]British Library National Audit of Sound Collections

2015-05-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 05:16:03PM +0100, Jim web wrote: In article 20150518113734.ga21...@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: So I bought a decent cassette deck, and a few modern commercial recordings just to make sure I had everything working properly

Re: Requests For Features

2015-04-17 Thread David Cantrell
, and want to download stuff instead of recording it are really not at all important to them. That may change in the future, of course, and when their incentives change then I expect their behaviour to change too. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information 23.5 degrees

Re: Is this the Beginning of The End for get_iplayer?

2015-06-03 Thread David Cantrell
then get_iplayer can be frobbed to use that instead of Dynamite. However, it will require an API key. I assume that every user will have to get his own key, so there will be a bit of faffing around required. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic If you can't imagine

Re: Nitro API

2015-06-03 Thread David Cantrell
get-iplayer and Nitro (the intended approach) - which I can't see being viable. Or, as is a *very* common model for stuff like this, users would have to get their own API keys. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully

Re: Nitro API

2015-06-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 03:02:23PM +, David Lake wrote: The idea of an API key is fine - the fact that Beeb has limited it to commercial operators and BBC Employees only is not. They've said that they're going to open it up to the public, and we have no reason to doubt that. -- David

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

2015-06-04 Thread David Cantrell
doesn't mean that they hate it. In fact, I wrote my scripts *while I was working at the BBC on Dynamite*. I showed them to my colleagues *and managers*. They thought it was a really good idea and some of them started using them as well. You're being paranoid. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

2015-06-04 Thread David Cantrell
at us? 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. -- David Cantrell

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

2015-06-04 Thread David Cantrell
that they were generated from metadata served up by Dynamite, yes. At least back when I was there, pretty much *everything* iPlayer went via Dynamite at some point. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness If I could read only one thing it would be the future, in the entrails

Re: Peter Grimes

2015-05-26 Thread David Cantrell
! :-) That was a broadcast of the Glyndebourne production wasn't it? There's a DVD available in Glyndebourne's online shop if that's any help. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons ___ get_iplayer mailing

Re: Most of BBC Radio programmes to become downloadable...

2015-07-20 Thread David Cantrell
get_iplayer having a different default preferred bit-rate. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity -- Hanlon's Razor Stupidity maintained long enough is a form of malice -- Richard Bos's corollary

Re: Requests For Features

2015-07-21 Thread David Cantrell
/ I believe that they'll have some of the Rugby World Cup games, so there should be something worth watching on their shitty channels in a coupla months time. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic There is no one true indentation style, But if there were KR would be Its

Re: Why is '-- type radio' needed?

2015-10-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:28:15AM +0100, Chris Marriott wrote: > Hmmm. Curious. I download radio programmes with: > > get_iplayer --mode=flashaacstd --pid=xx > > No "type=" and it works just fine. I presume that '--type radio' is a shortcut for a list of m

Re: Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

2015-07-07 Thread David Cantrell
to Wigan, and certainly never intending to be unemployed in Wigan. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive There is no one true indentation style, But if there were KR would be Its Prophets. Peace be upon Their Holy Beards

Re: pop art

2015-09-01 Thread David Cantrell
not work very well. This is why I don't whine when NetPositive on my BeBox makes stuff look like crap. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infr

Re: pop art

2015-09-03 Thread David Cantrell
practical. If I'd known that then I would have elegantly refuted your silly argument by telling you in great detail about the cake that I ate in the station cafe at Port Erin. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" We found no search results for "crotchet

Re: Format of BBC Radio 4 .m4a files

2015-09-09 Thread David Cantrell
On 09/09/2015 11:35, Roger Rarebit wrote: get_iplayer could do with a FLAC/"Apple Lossless" output for maximum quality. There's not much point, because only lossy recordings are available on iPlayer. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murde

Re: Requests For Features

2015-09-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 03:18:46PM +0100, Budgie wrote: > Many thanks for the explanation. My point was that unfortunately > obvious descriptions like S1E3 are seldom extant in the filename and > typing accurately is slow and tedious. This is why modern shells have tab completion.

Re: BBC Web Documentary: Heroes ....

2015-11-25 Thread David Cantrell
--pid b06q770g -- David Cantrell Human Rights left unattended may be removed, destroyed, or damaged by the security services. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-01-12 Thread David Cantrell
e used EyeTV and an Elgato DTT USB thingy for that. I never bothered with HD myself, but the hardware supported it. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence We found no search results for "crotchet". Did you mean "crotch"? __

Re: Android Smart Phone

2016-06-14 Thread David Cantrell
he Google online shop. That can download programmes. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Wow, my first sigquoting! I feel so special now! -- Dan Sugalski ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead

Re: BBC 3 goes off-air tonight.

2016-02-17 Thread David Cantrell
On 2016-02-17, 21:19, Peter S Kirk wrote: Show some manners and do not post expletives. Show some class and don't just dismiss stuff as "arty rubbish". -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradea

Re: Setting Locale in UK

2016-03-19 Thread David Cantrell
torrent Sync. It's almost free but not quite. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness What plaything can you offer me today? ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Offtopic noise: Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a...

2016-05-23 Thread David Cantrell
are about it, just like I ignore anything about Windows. > Is there still a benefit to having this list at all? Would we be better > off shutting it down entirely? Yes. No. Better to shut down the forums, as mailing lists are always a better way of communicating than web forums are. --

Re: Spurious write permission error

2016-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
t changing it just for you. It is customary to put signatures at the end of messages, not the beginning. I'm sure that if you put it at the end no-one would object. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Please stop rolling your Jargon Dice and explain the problem you are having to m

Re: Spurious write permission error

2016-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
he dirent will go away but the inode will remain until it is no longer in use. However, you won't be able to do anything meaningful with it. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive I think the most difficult moment that anyone could face is seeing their domestic servants, whether

Re: Spurious write permission error

2016-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
y another > process. File locking semantics are completely different on Windows compared to Unix, and get_iplayer is written in perl, which has very much a Unixy background. I've not looked at the code, but unless there's extra special Windows sauce in there it might not work. -- David Cantrell |

Re: I deleted my preferences file - re-created it and have a Tele problem

2016-04-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 09:29:22PM +0100, Clive wrote: > I stupidly cleared my preferences file, tried to recreate it ... Take this as a lesson in why you should have backups! -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Arbeit macht Alkoholi

Re: Olympics Might be hvf Only

2016-08-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 02:46:24PM +0100, RS wrote: > From: David Cantrell > >At least after the previous Olympics *everything* was available for > >download on iPlayer. > I must be being very stupid then, because I can't find it. If I go to a > day in the Schedule which h

Re: OT: why were BBC archives deleted or destroyed?

2016-08-04 Thread David Cantrell
about the "penny dreadfuls". Their cultural benefit nearly 200 years later includes the character Sweeney Todd, but more importantly having access to a culture's mass entertainment tells us about that culture things that we wouldn't know if we just looked at what people of quality enjoyed. --

Re: Olympics 2016 RedButton content, offered as catch-up

2016-08-12 Thread David Cantrell
to download all the coverage of that sport so far, and links to individual programmes if you only want some of them. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide under the

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.95 released

2016-07-04 Thread David Cantrell
annoys me is XP was well supported by third parties for several years > after Microsoft ceased support. Whereas Vista is being dropped by third > parties long before Microsoft support ceases. Why? Because you neglected to pay the vendors for a support contract. -- David Cantrell | Reali

Re: OT: why were BBC archives deleted or destroyed?

2016-08-05 Thread David Cantrell
this is the only one out of a hundred or so mailing lists that I'm on where people get so pissy about stuff being on-topic. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Please stop rolling your Jargon Dice and explain the problem you are having to me in plain English, using small

Re: Olympics Might be hvf Only

2016-08-08 Thread David Cantrell
*everything* was available for download on iPlayer. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age "There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza." "WHAT MAKES YOU SAY THERE IS A HOLE IN YOUR BUCKET?" ___ get_iplayer mail

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

2016-08-15 Thread David Cantrell
e-limiting options to get_iplayer I'd be very happy. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness [OS X] appeals to me as a monk, a user, a compiler-of-apps, a sometime coder, and an easily amused primate with a penchant for those that are pretty, colorful, an

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

2016-08-18 Thread David Cantrell
SD or Solaris instead. It's the problem that the --bwlimit option on rsync exists to solve. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk, and place in

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

2016-08-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:44:43PM +0200, iz wrote: > > >From: David Cantrell > > >> >I'd like to rate-limit get_iplayer so that other things on the same > > >> >machine that are also talking to the internet don't run like stunned > If you are using

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

2016-08-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:46:51PM +0100, RS wrote: > >From: David Cantrell Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 23:37 > >I'd like to rate-limit get_iplayer so that other things on the same > >machine that are also talking to the internet don't run like stunned slugs > >in

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

2016-08-15 Thread David Cantrell
On 2016-08-15, 18:08, John Bingham wrote: On 15/08/16 17:42, David Cantrell wrote: I think that's unlikely. That said, if someone were to add rate-limiting options to get_iplayer I'd be very happy. Fairly easy to slow down everything on a Linux interface. If anyone has the time/inclination

Re: Future of get-iplayer when BBC changes licence

2016-08-03 Thread David Cantrell
ation before allowing people to use iPlayer in a web browser it would then set a cookie. Receiving, recording, and using a cookie in a command line program is trivial although it would of course require changes to allow you to submit the necessary information. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbit

Re: BBC Licensing Expose

2017-02-27 Thread David Cantrell
urce instead of a rabidly anti-BBC scandal-sheet that likes to publish pictures of scantily-clad young teenage girls who are "all grown up now"? -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attach

Re: Replacement for "aactomp3" option?

2016-09-01 Thread David Cantrell
n GiP on Windows 10. If you can't use AAC format files (typically ending in .m4a) then there are a zillion different tools for converting to mp3. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice "IMO, the primary historical significance of Unix is that it marks the time in computer hist

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

2016-09-29 Thread David Cantrell
> > Asking for location makes no sense to me. Ah, right, so just because it isn't helpful for your particular unusual case they shouldn't do it. By the same argument they should close down all of those radio stations because of the unusual case of someone who is completely deaf. -- Dav

Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

2016-09-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:05:01AM +0100, Peter S Kirk wrote: > "I fetch items with gip. Play them with VLC. Update things as and when I > decide." And then there are normal people who aren't geeks. They're who smart TVs exist for. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministr

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

2016-09-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 03:22:57PM +0100, RS wrote: > >From: David Cantrell > >Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 14:07 > >>Asking for location makes no sense to me. > >Ah, right, so just because it isn't helpful for your particular unusual > >case they sho

Re: So what does this really mean

2016-09-16 Thread David Cantrell
one out of hundreds of mailing lists I'm on where people care so much about topic drift?) -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like ... Tony Benn

Re: So what does this really mean

2016-09-16 Thread David Cantrell
and German? THAT is why they want English content, and also why their own content is not worth protecting. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide under the bed -- brian d foy ___ get_iplayer

Re: So what does this really mean

2016-09-16 Thread David Cantrell
he masses. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing There is no one true indentation style, But if there were K would be Its Prophets. Peace be upon Their Holy Beards. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infr

Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

2016-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
On 2016-09-29, 17:19, RS wrote: From: David Cantrell As far as I am aware there are no regional or local television or radio stations which serve a single post code. You're right, but you are also, I think, deliberately missing the point. Each station serves a long list of postcodes, and you

Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

2016-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
of versions of a piece of software and everything that surrounds it for long periods of time while also upgrading it to provide new features for new users is just not practical. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Please stop rolling your Jargon Dice and explain the problem

Re: BBC iPlayer RSS feeds including signed/audio-described

2016-10-26 Thread David Cantrell
to use that to resurrect my keyword search RSS feeds. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: BBC iPlayer RSS feeds including signed/audio-described

2016-10-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 04:44:10PM +0200, Mike Ralphson wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: > >And thanks for publishing the source too - I expect I'll be able to use > >that to resurrect my keyword search RSS feeds. > You can generate any keyword-search based RSS feed dynamically

Re: BBC iPlayer RSS feeds including signed/audio-described

2016-10-26 Thread David Cantrell
On 2016-10-26, 18:34, Mike Ralphson wrote: David Cantrell wrote: Even better, looks like I won't have to write any code :-) Except that ... https://bbc-rss.herokuapp.com/rss/custom/ancient%20greece.rss gives ... Application Error Sorry if it was me what broke it! Hmm, that link

Re: BBC Pay to Hear

2016-11-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 08:50:21AM +, CJB wrote: > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ No, the BBC did not conspire with immigrants to cause house price cancer. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist What a lovely day! Now watch me spoil it for

[OT] Crystal Palace transmitter problems?

2017-01-03 Thread David Cantrell
like it's just the BBC's multiplex that's affected. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http

Re: [OT] Crystal Palace transmitter problems?

2017-01-03 Thread David Cantrell
ger. I'll try moving the aerial around and stuff when I get home. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information There are two kinds of security, the one that keeps your sister out, the one that keeps the government out and the one that keeps Bruce Schneier

Re: BBC RSS adaptor changes

2017-03-16 Thread David Cantrell
ng). How did you manage to get a Nitro API key? https://developer.bbc.co.uk/nitro still says that it's only open for registration to BBC employees. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Deck of Cards: $1.29. "101 Solitaire Variations" book: $6.59. Cheap repl

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

2017-08-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 04:16:33PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote: > as for arcane-ness of language and difficulty in reading > it's about on a par with The Bible! That's what everyone thinks about languages that they are too damned lazy to learn. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest prog

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

2017-08-16 Thread David Cantrell
evidence > of support for it. The first two google results for "perl regular expression" not good enough for you :-) BTW, it's Perl or perl, not PERL. Perl is the name of the language, perl is the name of the interpreter. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age If you ha

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

2017-08-16 Thread David Cantrell
herefore you will feel at home > bloating my spam folder henceforth. Bye, bye. Awww, poor baby who can't bear to hear that he's wrong. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig I think the most difficult moment that anyone could face is seeing their domestic servants, whether maid or dr

Re: The XML feeds are dead.

2017-04-26 Thread David Cantrell
ata from > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjnv.xml > > ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site That appears to be a series or brand pid. If you supply the pid of an individual episode it still works. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murd

Re: Help text query

2017-05-11 Thread David Cantrell
lling their packages from somewhere other > than a stable Ubuntu 2016-10, etc., that wouldn't update much once > released; that might be a PPA you've told it about in the past. Oh, so it's just Hipster for "third-party repository". -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire One

Re: Help text query

2017-05-09 Thread David Cantrell
ys that it uses APT (from Debian) but also that they have loads of RPM packages. Either way, better to just add a suitable package repository and use that instead of each application supplying its own update tool. -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet Vegetarian:

Re: A bug in get_iplayer-3.01?

2017-06-07 Thread David Cantrell
the Unix programming environment, it's fine if you have even the slightest familiarity with perl. Shift is a keyword in the language. You might as well complain about a C program using 'void' or 'case'. As for readability, would you prefer this? my $string = $_[0]; @_ = @_[1 .. $#_]; cos

Re: Can't download with GiP 3.00

2017-05-08 Thread David Cantrell
> being broadcast. Why not, if increasing the frame rate yields greater > improvement than increasing resolution on large screens? I would presume that that's because the source material isn't available in anything approaching 50fps. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic M

Re: Problems downloading subtitles

2017-05-02 Thread David Cantrell
player. -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet Guns aren't the problem. People who deserve to die are the problem. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Channel 4 downloading OT

2017-09-20 Thread David Cantrell
et_iplayer to download Channel 4 programs. FWIW I just opened a ticket with Youtube-dl to support Channel 4: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14276 -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire There are two kinds of security, the one that keeps your sister out, the one that ke

Re: A few ffmpeg queries

2017-09-13 Thread David Cantrell
on Freeview called FreeSports. But it doesn't show up in EyeTV on my Mac, using an Elgato Diversity tuner. Anyone have any suggestions to fix that? No, re-scanning the channel list didn't help. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer

Re: ffmpeg issue?

2017-10-09 Thread David Cantrell
expect that that directory isn't in your $PATH, or whatever the Windows equivalent is. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Did you know that shotguns taste like candy canes? Put the barrel in your mouth and pull the trigger for

Re: recording quality and vpn

2017-08-27 Thread David Cantrell
are deliberately breaking it for customers of your VPN provider. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Dr. Who Downloads

2018-06-06 Thread David Cantrell
formats, as well as ones that contain both. If you want to pick a particular audio and video format and combine them ... $ youtube-dl -f video_format+audio_format https://... Very occasionally *only* video formats are available for radio programmes. You want the -x option to make it DTRT

Re: Downloading Podcast?

2018-01-02 Thread David Cantrell
when I worked on it, IIRC, BBQ, LOLCATS) concerned, a clip is just an episode with the 'is_clip' attribute set. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Arbeit macht Alkoholiker ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.or

Re: pid format changed

2018-08-23 Thread David Cantrell
o the BBC or to an organisational unit of the BBC or the name of some third party whose services they use. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig You can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter" ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_ipl

Re: No Wimbledon Today?

2018-07-06 Thread David Cantrell
with any further > information. " > > I've never known it so bad. You've obviously not been paying attention to people whining about things not being instantly available before on this very mailing list. -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet Europea

Re: No Wimbledon Today?

2018-07-09 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 05:27:53PM +0100, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > On 06/07/2018 13:48, David Cantrell wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 05:09:26PM +0100, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > >>I've never known it so bad. > >You've obviously not been paying attention to people whining a

Re: FAO BBC: Same Series and Episode, Differents PIDs and Description.

2018-03-08 Thread David Cantrell
ant and a > 300-year-old desk are in the shop My assumption would be that they are different versions of the same episode, with one cut for length for eg a repeat. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world You may now start misinterpreting what I just wrote,

Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

2018-04-06 Thread David Cantrell
> to ask for! Could it be that some episodes contain archive footage that is available only in some resolutions? -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet Guns aren't the problem. People who deserve to die are

Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

2018-04-06 Thread David Cantrell
k that I would like to re-publish. And for a book with only two authors and one publisher it should be easy compared to a TV programme with writers, actors, directors, composers, ... -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At be

Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

2018-04-06 Thread David Cantrell
. Wherever they're getting them from may not have rights for online dissemination to the public, which just gets us back to the previous problem. Broadcast rights and online rights are not the same thing. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Good advice is always certain to b

Re: Format of options file

2018-03-05 Thread David Cantrell
ose a non-standard line ending convention. In this case though we can't really blame them as they were just copying CP/M. CP/M chose its line ending convention in 1974, a few years after Unix chose its convention. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Immigration: making Britain great s

Re: Format of options file

2018-03-05 Thread David Cantrell
Unixy. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig You know you're getting old when you fancy the teenager's parent and ignore the teenager -- Paul M in uknot ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.or

Re: Format of options file

2018-03-06 Thread David Cantrell
e the crlf I/O layer, which is documented here: https://perldoc.perl.org/PerlIO.html Note however that an awful lot of perl code just doesn't bother. Windows is very much a second-class citizen in the perl world. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world If you can read this, tha

Re: OT VM or Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
ut timing (video games, music and video production, controlling external hardware), or needs to talk directly to hardware such as drivers for obscure equipment. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Arbeit macht Alkoholiker ___ get_iplaye

Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
y there's at > least a module that will do the same in Perl? In perl the default is to assume the local machine's line seperator. You can of course change this. There's probably something on the CPAN that will wrap it up all neat and tidy so that you don't have to worry about writing p

Re: Loss of BBC HD channels on satellite

2018-10-19 Thread David Cantrell
r deconstruction: > Original poster politely communicates what could be vital information for > people who have a shared interest in BBC programming. > > Second poster has a stick up his butt. And is a hypocrite who deliberately posted an off-topic message, FORCING all of us to down

Re: Poodcast that isn't a podcast

2019-01-17 Thread David Cantrell
used it instead of writing mine! -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat If I could read only one thing it would be the future, in the entrails of the bastard denying me access to anything else. ___ get_iplayer mailing l

Re: Joint UK streaming platform

2019-01-14 Thread David Cantrell
? I don't recall ever seeing it in the wild after I did quite a bit of annoying work to publish programme information to it from the iPlayer back-end. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Anyone willing to give up a little fun for tolerance deserves neither ___

Re: Poodcast that isn't a podcast

2019-01-17 Thread David Cantrell
ck up any new episodes. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Stopping a download but not a PVR run

2018-12-06 Thread David Cantrell
sionally is there an actual problem, and it gives up after a few retries. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Nuke a disabled unborn gay baby whale for JESUS! ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: Slightly OT Video conversion

2018-12-10 Thread David Cantrell
e the search for something else. Handbrake is a bit slow, but it is much easier to drive than ffmpeg, and seems to work on files that ffmpeg either chokes on or, worse, appears to succeed but actually produces unwatchable jerykvision. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: BBC-wants-shows-available-iPlayer-12-months-bid-compete-rivals

2019-01-10 Thread David Cantrell
s of content from elsewhere. For example, stuff that isn't broadcast in London: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bwr3wl/ and stuff that was never broadcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04tspjl/ -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbit

Re: BBC-wants-shows-available-iPlayer-12-months-bid-compete-rivals

2019-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
available. -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLFrom =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLMessage is from David Cantrell scoreFROM_DAVID_CANTRELL15.72 # This figure from experimentation ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infr

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
tly, it has historically not been funded from the licence fee. Now that it *is* funded by the licence fee we should welcome adverts on it as a way of offsetting that effective reduction in the funding available to the BBC. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic

Re: Radio Comedy: Dad's Army et al ....

2019-03-21 Thread David Cantrell
off-air for iPlayer sometimes. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Arbeit macht Alkoholiker ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Feature/Changed Behaviour Request To Exclude Option

2019-02-22 Thread David Cantrell
Followed by other text it means that user's home directory. Followed by nonsense that doesn't match a username it's just a tilde: $ echo ~ /home/dc $ echo ~root /root $ echo ~macfh ~macfh -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Informati

Re: Feature/Changed Behaviour Request To Exclude Option

2019-02-21 Thread David Cantrell
do something like this as a work-around for the latter not being present: get_iplayer --exclude blah,`get_iplayer --prefs-show|grep exclude|sed 's/.* = //'` which will extract the relevant line from your config file and massage it into the appropriate format. -- David Cantrell | Minister

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread David Cantrell
to use. libxml2-dev is the headers for that C library so that the perl code knows how to link it. You'll need both of those in addition to the perl code. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist EINE KIRCHE! EIN KREDO! EIN PAPST! ___ get_iplayer mail

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