On 14/10/2020 16:27, David J Taylor wrote:
I already have ActiveState Perl (v5.16.3) installed and in constant
use. Is there a way to prevent the Windows installer overwriting that
version of Perl, and allowing get-iplayer to use it?
I never use the Windows Installer myself, like you I
Starting this evening, I'm getting the following errors on all attempts
to download HiDef radio downloads using GetIPlayer v3.23:
ERROR: Failed to download URL (3/3):
Please see below ...
On 01/07/2020 12:31, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 12:12 +0100, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote:
Jeez, "a couple of years ago"???!!! Don't they make backups more often
than that???!!!
No, I didn't.
Annoyingly, I did have a friend who'd been staying with us
On 25/10/2020 10:29, Chris Walker wrote:
I wanted to only download series 18 or later of Mock the Week so cobbled
together this :-
get_iplayer "Mock the Week: Series \b(1[8-9]|2[0-9])\b"
It will run manually but not when run as part of the pvr. Substituting
single quotes for doubles made it
On 29/10/2020 12:56, Darran Ross wrote:
I'm a newcomer to the list, and from what I've read so far this will be
a very basic question for many of you, but I could use your help.
I'm trying to change the download location by entering the following,
get_iplayer --prefs-add --output
On 08/01/2021 11:03, Chris Walker wrote:
On Thu, 2021-01-07 at 20:26 +, Xander Squier wrote:
We had hoped to resume from where it left-off: Convert the available
download to MP4 -> automatic tagging.
It seems however that custom ffmpeg settings push get_iplayer to skip
the tagging
> -Original Message-
> From: get_iplayer On Behalf
Of Michael Eacott
> Sent: 20 April 2021 18:32
> To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Failing to download iPlayer file
>
> My apologies for not using my registered read only email address of
xmich...@eacott.org.uk that I
On 07/12/2021 06:39, David Taylor wrote:
I would like to add the Win32::API to the Perl which comes with
get_iplayer.
Is that possible?
Surely, on a Windows machine, all the necessary Win32::* should be
installed already? What does the following command sequence give for
you, my output
I've posted before about the possibility of having command-line options
merge with, rather than overwrite, the same options from the preferences
file, called 'options' that lives in a user's GiP profile directory, the
most obvious need being to be able to provide *additional* exclude
options
On 05/03/2022 19:50, Paul Phillips wrote:
Hi,
I am having difficulty downloading some of the Winter Olympics - it
seems to affect broadcasts that are from the red button / digital
channel. It ends up downloading small sound-only recordings - not even
sound for the whole episode
NB - My
Duh! Forgot to 'reply all' to include the mailing list ...
On 05/03/2022 21:00, Paul Phillips wrote:
Where you downloading in HD or Full HD (1080) ?
See below!
On Sat, 5 Mar 2022 at 20:54, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
wrote:
On 05/03/2022 19:50, Paul Phillips wrote:
Hi,
I am having
On 06/03/2022 18:07, Paul Phillips wrote:
The change in video quality available is described on this page for
version 3.29.
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release329
I've seen a doubling in file sizes to approx 4GB per hour when
selecting fhd video quality
On 06/03/2022 02:25, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
On 05/03/2022 21:00, Paul Phillips wrote:
Where you downloading in HD or Full HD (1080) ?
FWIW, I downloaded all the above using the following command ...
perl \get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir= --type tv
--tvmode hlshd,dvfhd,hvfhd
I've sometimes used this bash script, which originally I wrote to
download a section of a site concerning some hardware I owned when the
site looked like it was about to close down, which in fact it did, so in
due course I was glad that I'd had the foresight.
I usually find that it gets
On 07/09/2023 19:09, Peter Kok wrote:
Is there a command line that would enable deletion / removal of one
off / single entry PVR searches? For instance, The Banksy Story -
Omnibus 2, BBC Radio 4, m001p237, isn't available (never was), but
continues to be part of the PVR Scheduler listing /
On 30/10/2023 19:49, Budge wrote:
I was able to retrieve my old options file from an older installation
but it was well out of date so have rebuilt my prefs and now have:-
refreshexcludegroups = local
tvmode = fhd,hd,sd,web,mobile,default
radiomode =
On 30/10/2023 19:49, Budge wrote:
This doesn't work and my pvr list which includes "Beck" the TV programme
also downloads several radio programmes with names which start with Beck
but are from radio stations I didn't want ie:-
32522: radio, Becky Measures - 01/10/2023, BBC Radio Sheffield,
On 31/10/2023 01:34, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
On 30/10/2023 19:49, Budge wrote:
I was able to retrieve my old options file from an older installation
but it was well out of date so have rebuilt my prefs and now have:-
refreshexcludegroups = local
tvmode = fhd,hd,sd,web
On 30/09/2023 12:05, MrBrunes wrote:
I've just realised that some of my historical downloads of TOTP are in
SD or non-50fps HD but the download history doesn't seem to note the
quality, so I need to force download them again. Since new programmes
are currently made available each week (for 30d)
On 01/10/2023 21:31, MrBrunes wrote:
For encoding rates I appreciate the theory with historical programmes
but I've found in practice that there are noticeably fewer blocky
video artefacts with dashfhd1 vs SD.
It depends very much on the type of SD. Some more recent encodings are
using XSD
On 20/04/2022 12:27, Jim web wrote:
In article ,
MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
I can understand that this might happen if the PIDs are the same, but
it's not my experience. '5 Live Science' is the first time I've come up
against this.
I specify items via pid as per their listings
On 22/04/2022 10:41, Jim web wrote:
In article , MacFH - C
E
Macfarlane - News wrote:
On 20/04/2022 12:27, Jim web wrote:
In article , MacFH -
C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
I can understand that this might happen if the PIDs are the same, but
it's not my experience. '5 Live Science
On 22/04/2022 12:22, Peter Scott wrote:
On 21.04.2022 23.38, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
What are the URLs of the listing pages you are using to get the PIDs?
I have a python script that shows BBC listings with pids. You can find
it here:
https://github.com/cmsps
Thanks
On 22/04/2022 16:01, Jim web wrote:
In article <5f9d21ff-9029-2096-b4c4-ff35b74f0...@macfh.co.uk>,
MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
* The lists and their intended use are:
Full HD TV - A new one similar to the next, which I've just created
after discoverin
On 19/04/2022 09:51, Andy Wedge wrote:
From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of MacFH
- C E Macfarlane - News
Sent: 19 April 2022 01:41
You've failed to notice that the podcasts have different PIDs from the episodes
previously downloaded, so they'll all download again.
I've use the --pid-recursive
On 18/04/2022 14:26, Jim web wrote:
I may be missing the point. But for ages now whenever I fetch a radio
programme I get the 'podcast' version. I've assumed this was the norm,
nowdays.
I can understand that this might happen if the PIDs are the same, but
it's not my experience. '5 Live
On 19/04/2022 11:03, iz wrote:
On 18 Apr 2022, at 15:17, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
wrote:
--type radio --pid p02pc9ny --pid-recursive
... it finds all the previous versions before April this year that I've already
downloaded, listened to, and then deleted, and I don't want
On 18/04/2022 19:54, fred.d wrote:
>
>> On 18 Apr 2022, MacFH wrote:
>>
>> ... it finds all the previous versions before April this year that
>> I've already downloaded, listened to, and then deleted, and I don't
>> want to waste my bandwith downloading 550 or so programmes that I've
>> already
On 20/04/2022 10:17, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
I've also managed to adapt my calling program to allow parameters such
as --pid in the lists of search terms, simply by not quoting any search
term beginning with '--' before feeding it to GiP, so the one for
low-def radio now has
On 26/06/2022 14:27, Mark Carroll wrote:
On 26 Jun 2022, MacFH wrote:
Except the tournament was two weeks ago, and the other days are already
half-way to their expiry date, so 'soon' is beginning to look like 'never'!
'Never' is in fact correct.
I've sometimes had useful feedback or help
On 28/06/2022 17:43, B wrote:
I was trying to use the GiP PVR to download all the Glasto programmes
but for some reason the search returns fewer results than expected.
Namely searching for "glastonbury" as "name" in tv & radio gets 89
hits and that includes some from other years.
But
Anyone know why Day Three of this year's Nottingham Open is not
available? All the others download alright:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cb8p1k
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On 26/06/2022 11:56, J K.Eason wrote:
*From:* MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
*To:* get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
*Date:* Sun, 26 Jun 2022 10:46:00 +0100
Anyone know why Day Three of this year's Nottingham Open is not
available? All the others download alright:
https://www.bbc.co.uk
On 18/04/2022 13:53, Mark Carroll wrote:
On 18 Apr 2022, MacFH wrote:
Since the beginning of April the above programme has not been downloaded
by GiP, as follows:
> perl \get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir= --type radio "5 Live
Science" -g
(snip)
... but clicking the podcast tab on that page
Since the beginning of April the above programme has not been downloaded
by GiP, as follows:
> perl \get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir= --type radio "5 Live
Science" -g
get_iplayer v3.29, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
On 23/06/2022 12:14, Geoff Smith wrote:
Non-BBC on demand programmes I play full screen on a spare PC, with an
ad-blocker (which only rarely gets detected), and record using the
free version of OBS Studio. It works fine on a W10 machine but not W7,
but I can't figure why.
This version works
On 03/01/2023 23:20, Kevin Lynch wrote:
Rebuilding my get_iplayer environment.
I don't want the TV Licence warning appearing in my logs.
What's the syntax
get_iplayer --prefs-add --nowarntvlicence=1
Unknown option: nowarntvlicence
The search term 'licence' gets no hits anywhere in the
On 23/03/2023 17:50, Expert Geeks wrote:
I'm having an odd issue where downloading the Select Committee of the
'Conduct of Boris Johnson' is a file of 58 minutes regardless of the
quality (hd, sd & web tried). The file downloaded is always 670mb (or
thereabouts) so the quality seems to be
Tch! Both Fred and then myself forgot to reply to all ...
Forwarded Message
Subject: Re: output format
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:13:58 +0100
From: MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
To: fred.d
On 27/03/2023 18:54, fred.d wrote:
On 27/03/2023 18:22, MacFH - C E Macfarlane
On 28/03/2023 15:43, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
Tch! Both Fred and then myself forgot to reply to all ...
Forwarded Message
Subject: Re: output format
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:13:58 +0100
From: MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
To: fred.d
On 27/03/2023 18:54
On 28/03/2023 15:51, Jim web wrote:
Sorry to hear about your wife, commiserations to you both.
In article ,
MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
Might as well be sure, so what happens when you type:
python --version
If that comes up with 3.7 as desired, what do you get for:
pip
On 28/03/2023 15:56, Chris Brady wrote:
Am trying to download tv using modes=good for low res. but adequate
watchable quality
However this is not now working and I am getting the default of HD with
2GB file sizes
I only want files about 300KB in lo res
What do I use now? Thank you.
On 27/03/2023 18:10, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
On 27/03/2023 10:44, Jim web wrote:
Glad to see you're still alive and kicking. I'd noticed your absence in
another place and was a little worried for you.
This is OT but I'm hoping some here will be using yt-dlp and can help!
I
On 27/03/2023 10:44, Jim web wrote:
Glad to see you're still alive and kicking. I'd noticed your absence in
another place and was a little worried for you.
This is OT but I'm hoping some here will be using yt-dlp and can help!
I do use yt-dlp occasionally, but it's the Win32 pre-compiled
On 27/03/2023 17:56, fred.d wrote:
Recently started using gip to download sounds and audio files.
Unfortunately I've got my prefs set to force output to mpeg .TS. Result
is my downloaded audio is being converted to .ts files unless I override
the command line with --raw when downloading audio
On 30/03/2023 17:23, GRAHAM Holliday wrote:
get_iplayer --pid=m001jtc0 --type=radio ,
Downloads here alright with get_iplayer v3.30, but note that there's a
trailing comma in your command line, and you don't usually need equals
signs, but I don't think either of those would be showstoppers.
On 28/06/2023 23:11, fred.d wrote:
Recently (last couple of months) I've been receiving the warning message
"You have programmes over 30 days old that should be deleted."
As I've changed my download directory a couple of times over the last
year I suspected that I'd just forgotten one
On 12/05/2023 23:34, Kevin Lynch wrote:
On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 19:17, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
wrote:
Amid a lack of current programmes to test with, that was just a guess on
my part; it could well be that your suggestion turns out better than mine.
C:\Users\kevin>get_iplayer --i
On 12/05/2023 09:09, Budge wrote:
As I start anew with GiP I have now been able to resurrect my old
history and pvr list which had been dormant on a backup for years and
append my recent downloads. So far so good although the pvr list needs
editing!
I have a couple of questions:-
In
On 12/05/2023 15:52, Kevin Lynch wrote:
Further to my previous email - I missed C E Macfarlane's clarification
and waded in with my workaround.
MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News news at macfh.co.uk
Fri May 12 01:29:47 PDT 2023
As ATM running GiP currently finds no programmes with "In Our
On 21/01/2024 11:51, Jim web wrote:
Question: Should simply giving the pid as m001vxvk rather than m001vkll
cause gip to get the full-length version? Or is that not sufficient? As yet
I've always used the pid of the webpage address for an item.
Not sure where you got the pid m001vxvk from,
On 21/01/2024 14:36, Jim web wrote:
In article ,
MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
Not sure where you got the pid m001vxvk from
Used gip to give me the info on the pid. That showed that the 'editorial'
version had a different pid as per above.
Ah! Didn't notice that.
(1) BTW I
On 13/02/2024 18:48, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Tue, 2024-02-13 at 18:13 +, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
This BBC News article has appeared today:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68283165
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
The BBC's iPlayer streaming service is to end downloads for users who
watch on
On 20/01/2024 11:16, Jim web wrote:
Puzzled by this item for the following reasons:
I watched the broadcast on the BBC Parliament (DVB-T2) channel and that
ended before the 'second half' of the panel sitting. However I downloaded a
copy using gip on the 16th.
This *also* was ended part-way
On 20/01/2024 17:35, Jim web wrote:
In article , MacFH - C
E
Macfarlane - News wrote:
oad it as a test, and have just noticed that it finished around
1330hrs. It downloaded successfully as "Select Committees Horizon IT
Scandal Inquiry.mp4" 3.09GB, 1:33:18 long, 1280x720x50
On 06/03/2024 18:49, David wrote:
I am using get_iplayer v3.35 to extract metadata for Films and have a
question about how its populating releaseyear. Using the following
examples:-
get_iplayer --metadata-only pid=m001jwmx
See https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jwmx
get_iplayer
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