Re: rtmpdump version error

2013-06-24 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 24/06/2013 14:47, emme...@btopenworld.com wrote: I updated to version 2.83 (windows) this morning and removed my SWF preference changes from last week as DinkyPumpkin advised. But I'm now not able to get anything to download - keep getting this error: WARNING: Your version of rtm

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.83 released

2013-06-24 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 23/06/2013 12:31, Andy & Dawn wrote: I've tried to download this; Norton however declares it "unsafe" and stops the process. safeweb.norton.com says that www.infradead.org is OK, so it seems Norton is sending mixed messages. Only you can decide if you're comfortable enough to disable Nort

Re: rtmpdump version error

2013-06-24 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 24/06/2013 19:05, dinkypumpkin wrote: C:\Program Files\get_iplayer (x86) on 64-bit Windows Make that: C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer on 64-bit Windows ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org

Re: How to install get_iplayer on WinXP with perl already installed?

2013-06-24 Thread dinkypumpkin
code or some .ini file or something to tell it where my existing copies of the other .exe's are on my system. Is this possible? Thanks to anyone who can help... See the installation instructions for one way to do it: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/installation Sin

Re: rtmpdump version error

2013-06-25 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 25/06/2013 11:03, emme...@btopenworld.com wrote: 2. Here is the output from .\RTMPDump\rtmpdump.exe --help That all looks as it should, so this is a bit baffling. I can't duplicate the problem on Win7 32-bit, WinXP 32-bit or Win8 64-bit, and it presumably is working fine for virtually eve

Re: Possible change to "queue" screen interface

2013-06-25 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 25/06/2013 11:34, Robin Ellams wrote: Would it help others to arrange that the "back" option on the "queue screen" be somewhere near the top of the screen as well as further down? Now is your chance for glory. Put it in a patch or pull request and we'll use it. _

Re: Version information detail?

2013-06-25 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 25/06/2013 11:32, Robin Ellams wrote: Would it be helpful to other people to expand the "Version" info to include build or change date. There were multiple updates to version 2.82 over a long period of time and it was became difficult to know just Actually, there were no updates as such to

Re: Cache deleted

2013-06-25 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 23/06/2013 17:50, Arthur Murray wrote: On occasion my internet or the bbc site is temp down and get_iplayer is trying to update in the background at that very moment, fails, and my tv.cache is deleted. When get_iplayer next runs all programs are listed as being new, which is rather frustratin

Re: rtmpdump version error

2013-06-26 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 26/06/2013 12:24, emme...@btopenworld.com wrote: So I uninstalled Quicktime and rebooted. New get_iplayer started working fine. I re-installed Quicktime and all still ok. What the ...? That's a new one - well spotted. ___ get_iplayer mailing

Re: Uninstallation

2013-06-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 27/06/2013 11:18, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: "J K.Eason" wrote: Yes. It appeared, but no one has answered. I suspect it wouldn't be possible though because that information isn't available from iPlayer to my knowledge. It is available on the BBC website, if you expand the infor

Re: Uninstallation

2013-06-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 27/06/2013 07:38, Shevek wrote: On 27 June 2013 01:34, TQ wrote: Clearly these must be a config file of some sort lurking somewhere, but where the hell is it? :) On Windows 7/8 it's at C:\ProgramData\get_iplayer If your preferences were being saved in C:\ProgramData\get_iplayer\options

Re: Is it a repeat?

2013-06-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 26/06/2013 16:05, Shiner wrote: Would it be possible to show which are repeated programmes? ...or, alternatively, identify new ones? Not really possible, I'm afraid. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infrad

Re: Uninstallation

2013-06-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 27/06/2013 10:16, Shiner wrote: - Original Message - From: "Shevek" On Windows 7/8 it's at C:\ProgramData\get_iplayer Ah! and C:\Program Files\get_iplayer on Windows XP The WinXP equivalent is: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\get_iplayer C:\Program Files\get_iplayer i

Re: Uninstallation (duplicate options files)

2013-06-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 27/06/2013 10:49, Kapitano wrote: On my W7 installation, there are *two* duplicate options files. One at Program Pata/.get_iplayer, and one at users/all users/.get_iplayer. I tried running GiP without one, then without the other. Both times I just got an error message and GiP couldn't search

Re: Is it a repeat?

2013-06-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 27/06/2013 13:41, Chris Marriott wrote: You can tell if a programme is old by looking at the PID. PIDs increase as time goes by - current ones are "B03X". So any program with a lower PID (eg "B019") is a repeat of an older programme. Good point, though I'm don't think that scheme is

Re: Is it a repeat?

2013-06-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 27/06/2013 12:52, Ian macdonald wrote: Does this mean the PID stays the same, regardless of how many times the program is repeated? I think so. Even after they roll off iPlayer, programmes are still catalogued in the episode lists their series' sites, so I presume that identifiers are mean

Re: Windows installer problem

2013-06-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 26/06/2013 23:21, dunford+philip wrote: The 283 installer for windows seems to hang at the 'choose directory' prompt. If you take the default or change the directory, the 'next' box remains greyed out - is this just me? Do you have administrator privileges? ___

Re: Thumbnails for Radio Programmes

2013-06-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 26/06/2013 14:32, Budgie wrote: Is there any easy way to check the .m4a file to see if a thumbnail is included? You don't say what system you have, but there are a number of utilities to view metadata. You already have one of them: AtomicParsley file.m4a -t If there is a thumbnail embed

Re: rtmpdump version error

2013-06-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 27/06/2013 01:08, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: emme...@btopenworld.com wrote: So I uninstalled Quicktime and rebooted. New get_iplayer started working fine. That strongly implies that there was a copy of rtmpdump somewhere inside the Quicktime program folder, and that that copy w

Re: rtmpdump version error

2013-06-28 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 28/06/2013 00:45, dinkypumpkin wrote: The bottom line is that if PATH doesn't contain %SystemRoot\system32, or is malformed so that directory is effectively missing, then rtmpdump won't run, leading to the get_iplayer errors. Er, make that %SystemRoot

Re: Add Series from cgi fails.

2013-06-28 Thread dinkypumpkin
value='".encode_entities("^$prog{$pid}->{name}\$")."'; ... Sample of ugly fixing in cgi: my $encoded = encode_entities("^$prog{$pid}->{name}\$"); $encoded =~ s/\?/\\\?/; ... form.SEARCH.value='$encoded'; ... You're in

Re: Cache deleted

2013-06-28 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 28/06/2013 15:27, Arthur Murray wrote: I don't know how it would affect others. If one channel like BBC One doesn't refresh then I still wouldn't want my cache purged of all BBC One pids only to have them all show up as new again at the next successful refresh (which is done several times per

Re: Is it a repeat?

2013-06-29 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 27/06/2013 19:19, Vangelis forthnet wrote: Because the pid switch always invokes a file download, one would have to type -i --fields=pid PID You can also use the slightly less verbose form: get_iplayer -i pid:PID Or a new --broadcasts switch could be created, like this: --type=tv --broa

Re: No available modes for any show

2013-06-29 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 29/06/2013 19:28, Ari Fanuch wrote: INFO: Using Proxy http://91.244.169.52:8181 Matches: 685: Russell Howard's Good News: Series 8 - Episode 10, BBC Three, Comedy,Guidance,Highlights,Satire,Standup,TV, defa ult, INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Checking existence of default version INFO: No

Re: Is it a repeat?

2013-06-29 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 30/06/2013 00:24, Vangelis forthnet wrote: You are of course right; but let's take this example: pid=b00nq7q9 (NB expires on Sun June 30th 2013 23:29Z) get_iplayer -i pid:b00nq7q9 will get me: firstbcast: default: 2009-11-01T22:20:00Z but also notice this line: lastbcast: default:

Re: Is it a repeat?

2013-06-29 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 29/06/2013 17:27, dinkypumpkin wrote: the repeats were aired. I'm also instinctively leery of screen scraping in general because it can easily be broken if the associated web page changes. If someone wants to implement a --broadcasts switch, that's fine, but make sure it robust

Re: Downloading BBC Radio

2013-06-30 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 30/06/2013 17:24, James Moakes wrote: with the sad demise of Radio Downloader I've been trying to use Get_iPlayer to download radio shows and have a few questions. Is there a way to download radio programmes in higher quality or bit rate? You always get the best quality available for radio p

Re: where do I type my instructions?

2013-06-30 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 30/06/2013 18:52, Henry Miller wrote: Where do I start with typing in the instructions to locate and download a bbc radio station? Is there a short cut to loacate the command line? https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/winsetup

Re: Another Refugee

2013-07-01 Thread dinkypumpkin
Web PVR will (mostly) obey preferences set from the CLI. In this case you you need to set the preferences for MP3 conversion from the CLI, then launch the Web PVR and run your downloads. See this for general info on setting preferences: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/docu

Re: Another Refugee

2013-07-01 Thread dinkypumpkin
. On the slim chance that applies in this case, see the page below: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/debian6 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Another Refugee

2013-07-01 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 02/07/2013 01:25, Vangelis forthnet wrote: M4A files are tagged fully in GiP by AtomicParsley, whereas MP3 ones are tagged (in a satisfactory but not as rich scheme) by the MP3::Tag perl module. If it is full info that you want, stick with M4As. Au contraire - the MP3 tagging is just as rich

Re: FLV to MP4

2013-07-02 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 02/07/2013 10:21, J K.Eason wrote: Assuming you've recently updated from 2.82 to 2.83, the default download mode for video is now HD not SD, so you'll probably find that the .mp4 files are much larger than they used to be as well as taking longer to transcode. The default is now best availab

Re: Error: rtmpdump 16-bit vs. 64-bit; incomplete recordings

2013-07-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 03/07/2013 13:26, Rachael wrote: I believe I have successfully installed everything for the Web PVR Manager version. I've tried numerous times to record individual episodes of radio programs. Every time the same process occurs. Just to check - did you use the get_iplayer installer, or did yo

Re: unable to install 4.6, 4.5 installs fine

2013-07-04 Thread dinkypumpkin
results: https://bitbucket.org/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/downloads/get_iplayer_setup_test1.exe ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Messed up - (2nd try)

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

Re: Messed up - (2nd try)

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

Re: Messed up - (2nd try)

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

Re: Converting flv to mp3 automatically

2013-07-04 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 04/07/2013 23:42, J K.Eason wrote: Actually, will that cover wma downloads, as I think some of his downloads are using that? Doesn't look like it from the description at https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/options#wiki-output-optio ns but I'm no expert on transcodin

Re: Thumbnails for Radio Programmes

2013-07-04 Thread dinkypumpkin
with AtomicParsley as tagging also seems adrift. You've got to provide more information than "adrift". From where should I get latest version of AP for use on openSUSE 12.2? Same place as the version for 12.3: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/opensuse Not the very late

Re: Problem downloading TV progs

2013-07-05 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 05/07/2013 13:59, Jon Davies wrote: On 4 July 2013 06:41, Bailey Peter wrote: INFO: MP4 tagging MP4 file APar_readX read failed, expect 12 got 0: end of file INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256) WARNING: Failed to tag MP4 file and as a consequence I end up with a zero length MP4 file.

Re: Add Series from cgi fails.

2013-07-05 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 28/06/2013 15:28, Arthur Murray wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:58 AM, dinkypumpkin wrote: This patch escapes every non-alphanumeric character in the programme name and then removes the escaping from whitespace characters for readability. The question mark is probably the only problematic

Re: How to install get_iplayer on WinXP with perl already installed?

2013-07-05 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 05/07/2013 15:01, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: These almost all worked. The install of Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained failed because during the test phase of its install it couldn't find a random number generator. I did follow a suggestion to install something called 'egd' - an

Re: How to install get_iplayer on WinXP with perl already installed?

2013-07-05 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 05/07/2013 16:14, dinkypumpkin wrote: so I'm wondering if in fact the help-page's list of modules is correct? If you're referring to the installation instructions in the GitHub wiki, it's correct. Mea culpa. Authen::SASL was missing from the list in: https://git

Re: How to install get_iplayer on WinXP with perl already installed?

2013-07-05 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 05/07/2013 18:40, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: So I'll uninstall all of that and go back to a standalone Strawberry Perl, and get 5.16.2.1 - which is not the current stable one, but I guess it's better that I use the same version as you develop with. If you like, but 5.14 will be fi

Re: Error: rtmpdump 16-bit vs. 64-bit; incomplete recordings

2013-07-06 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 03/07/2013 13:26, Rachael wrote: (1) I get a pop-up message withe header "Unsupported 16-bit application" which says that "rtmpdump.exe cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows." I click OK on that error message. If you're still out there, I'd like to ascert

Re: Massive Failures

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

Re: get_iplayer --tagonly

2013-07-07 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 07/07/2013 15:10, David Earle wrote: I've updated my prefs to include long description for the title. I don't think you can do that, nor would you want to. Show exactly what commands you ran to set your preferences. Can I use get_iplayer --tagonly to re-tag existing files? I tried with

Re: get_iplayer --tagonly

2013-07-07 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 07/07/2013 15:27, David Earle wrote: get_iplayer --prefs-add --tag-fulltitle That's unrelated to the long description for programmes. That just retains the series name in the title, which is what I presume you wanted. ___ get_iplayer mailing l

Re: Error: rtmpdump 16-bit vs. 64-bit; incomplete recordings

2013-07-07 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 03/07/2013 13:26, Rachael wrote: (1) I get a pop-up message withe header "Unsupported 16-bit application" which says that "rtmpdump.exe cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows." I click OK on that error message. Another angle on this came up in another foru

Looking for some 64-bit Win 7 help

2013-07-07 Thread dinkypumpkin
If you: 1) use 64-bit Win 7 2) installed get_iplayer with the native installer, with no customisations of your own 3) are momentarily bored Please run the following command: get_iplayer --type radio --get "fear on four" --aactomp3 It's a 30-minute radio programme, so shouldn't take much ti

Re: File Naming

2013-07-08 Thread dinkypumpkin
could also use a renaming utility like Bulk Rename Command (or your own batch file) with --command to rename the final output file when it is complete. Can't answer your second question. I'll leave that one for 'dinkypumpkin', but for your first one add the "fatfilename&

Re: (not) converting to mp3

2013-07-08 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 08/07/2013 23:20, Derek Moss wrote: Both programmes created .flv files so were aac format as far as I can There shouldn't be a .flv left over if it's configured correctly. FLV files could hold either AAC or MP3. Depends on the station. I copied the output from the commandline (we were

Re: File Naming

2013-07-08 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 09/07/2013 00:31, J K.Eason wrote: You shouldn't need fatfilename just because there is whitespace in a file name. The whitespace option works fine for me without it. You may need/want fatfilename to eliminate other troublesome characters. Radio programs appear to be ok, but here's a tv fail

Re: File Naming

2013-07-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 09/07/2013 10:23, J K.Eason wrote: So would it be an idea to mention in the help about --whitespace that you will probably need --fatfilename too? For that matter, is there any reason why --fatfilename can't be used as a default setting, or would that cause problems for Linux users? There ar

Re: (not) converting to mp3

2013-07-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
n finished downloading? Yep. See: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/modes#radio-modes ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: How to stop recording live radio and....

2013-07-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 09/07/2013 00:20, Madeline wrote: end up (automagically) with other than an .flv file. In other words, what is the recommended action to stop a live recording, radio or TV for that matter? If you use the --stop parameter to stop recording after a set length of time, get_iplayer will re-

Re: Problem with output directory

2013-07-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 09/07/2013 21:21, Steve Champion wrote: I tried re-installing, but somewhere there is a file which is not replaced by a re-install, apparently. Re-run the installer, select the get_iplayer component, select your desired output directory when prompted, and finish the installation. If it do

Re: search charaters used by ther web manager

2013-07-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 09/07/2013 20:07, Adrian Jones wrote: what do these characters do in a search - ^ and & They only seem to be inserted into the search string if the "ADD SERIES"option is used form the "Action" column Google for "regular expressions" and prepare to be amazed. _

Re: Web PVR options

2013-07-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 09/07/2013 10:07, Shiner wrote: ..and I would like the option to *Always exclude* (for example) Eastenders. Unless I can already do this but do not understand how! That is what "Exclude Programmes" is for. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplaye

Re: Web PVR options

2013-07-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 09/07/2013 09:15, Adrian Jones wrote: Any chance there could be an expansion on the options available for pvr recordings that are set up via the Web application? For example, I would like to include options like fileprefix and subdir as I do via the cli. Save them as preferences from the C

Re: Looking for some 64-bit Win 7 help

2013-07-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 07/07/2013 19:49, dinkypumpkin wrote: If you: 1) use 64-bit Win 7 Thanks all for the feedback ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: File size anomaly with radio downloads

2013-07-10 Thread dinkypumpkin
educe the file size for the larger files I have now and what prefs should I be using for future spoken word downloads to keep file sizes down? For mode settings see: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/modes ___ get_iplayer mailing

Re: Get_iplayer Errors

2013-07-12 Thread dinkypumpkin
worked. It can happen sometimes. Might be worth setting: --tvmodes flashhd2,flashhd1 to make sure it tries the second one first if that one always works ok. Yep again. From the docs: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/modes

Re: Error when starting get_iplayer (0xc0000142)

2013-07-12 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 12/07/2013 18:20, Alexis Fotiadis wrote: Current issue: Run get_iplayer.cmd cmd prompt window appears -> "get_player v2.83, Copywrite etc" -> scrolls through list of currently available BBC programs -> Total: ~1000 -> cmd prompt window appears Run What is the problem, exactly? You

Re: Error when starting get_iplayer (0xc0000142)

2013-07-12 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 12/07/2013 18:56, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: I think you need dinkpumpkin to tell you what the specific error code you're getting actually means. Do you back up your user data files? Restoring those to a point when it all last worked might fix this. That's a Windows system error

Re: Get_iPlayer issue - Request from The Netherlands

2013-07-13 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 13/07/2013 13:55, Rogier wrote: I found get_iplayer. It installed fine and I'm trying to download content. But unfortunately I get this error on two programs I tried, Top Gear and Horizon 2012-2013. Upload your screenshot somewhere else and post the link. It won't appear here. And you re

Re: Get_iPlayer issue - Request from The Netherlands

2013-07-13 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 13/07/2013 14:19, Rogier wrote: Don't reply to me, reply to the mailing list Tried downloading PID 472: http://imgur.com/5qbURSw You're outside the UK, so no programmes are available to you unless you employ a proxy or VPN. ___ get_iplayer ma

Re: Get_iplayer Errors

2013-07-13 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 13/07/2013 08:27, David Earle wrote: Flashhd1 fails everytime and I get the error If the #1 CDN always points to the same resource then that's to be expected. That stream may have been misconfigured, or your connectivity to that CDN may have problems. If you're really seeing flashhd1 *a

Re: Newbie Query

2013-07-13 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 13/07/2013 16:18, Prisca wrote: This works well and I get the file name in the format I want except for one thing: at the end of the date there is a string of erroneous letters and numbers, for example Book at Bedtime - s01e01 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane - 2013-07-08T2245000100 Asked

Re: Newbie Query

2013-07-13 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 13/07/2013 16:24, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 13/07/2013 16:18, Prisca wrote: This works well and I get the file name in the format I want except for one thing: at the end of the date there is a string of erroneous letters and numbers, for example Book at Bedtime - s01e01 - The Ocean at the End

Re: Radio File Format Questions

2013-07-13 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 13/07/2013 15:52, Budgie wrote: Pending Linn sorting out their DS player what would you recommend I run to change the format of the sound file and to what format? You should be able to do an AAC->AAC transcode with ffmpeg. The default settings should give you an output file with AAC-LC pro

Re: Radio File Format Questions

2013-07-15 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 15/07/2013 21:10, Vangelis forthnet wrote: ffmpeg -i foo.m4a -vn -c:a libmp3lame -ab 96k -ac 2 -ar 44.1k foo.mp3 (NB that the m4a file's metadata will be lost during the conversion) If you have a relatively recent version of ffmpeg, a lot of the metadata will be preserved. You'll lose the

Re: Oblique strategies

2013-07-15 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 15/07/2013 22:11, Geoff Soper wrote: I'm trying to record http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02qncrt which seems to only exist outside of iPlayer on the BBC. I can't find it on iPlayer. I've asked a similar question in October 2012 at http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2012-October

Re: The mp3 radio downloads that use MPlayer.

2013-07-17 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 17/07/2013 20:19, bat guano wrote: Gives errors:- "Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0" What version of ffmpeg are you using? ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lis

Re: The mp3 radio downloads that use MPlayer.

2013-07-17 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 17/07/2013 19:39, bat guano wrote: Hi I don't have any problems with MPlayer but... Is it necessary for get_iplayer to use MPlayer instead of FFmpeg for muxing the mp3 downloads? Will FFmpeg not demux them properly, or will the demuxed files not play on some players? Or is there some other r

Re: The mp3 radio downloads that use MPlayer.

2013-07-17 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 17/07/2013 20:37, bat guano wrote: What version of ffmpeg are you using? Using FFmpeg with Ubuntu 11.04. Compiled FFmpeg myself from git recently (though it's 2 months old!). Looking back at the last time this came up on the list about a year ago, I can see I wasn't sure what was going on

Re: The mp3 radio downloads that use MPlayer.

2013-07-17 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 17/07/2013 21:19, Vangelis forthnet wrote: FFmpeg threw a great number of colourful (pink+yellow) errors, but in the end a perfectly playable mp3 file was produced: Now it's coming back to me. The MP3 muxer was changed, but still emits a string of warning messages about invalid timestamps

Re: The mp3 radio downloads that use MPlayer.

2013-07-17 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 17/07/2013 21:34, bat guano wrote: Still gives errors for me:- "Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0" get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=b036jrr2 --raw --force ffmpeg -i "Morning_Briefing_-_17_07_2013_b036jrr2_default.flv" -f mp3 -vn -c:a copy foo

Re: The mp3 radio downloads that use MPlayer.

2013-07-17 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 17/07/2013 21:58, bat guano wrote: But although I see the red errors:- "Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0" The file does mux OK as with Vangelis. The resulting mp3 file seems OK. So maybe it is just a matter of switching off or reducing the

Re: The mp3 radio downloads that use MPlayer.

2013-07-18 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 18/07/2013 13:48, bat guano wrote: I am pretty sure dinkypumpkin can come up with code to supress those "red" errors Maybe, I'll let him decide. Though I don't feel comfortable running FFmpeg knowing that all those scary red messages are being generated and hidden.

Re: GiP Forum *Forbidden*

2013-07-18 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 18/07/2013 15:55, Shiner wrote: When I try to register on the forum, whether on PC or iPad, all I get is: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /forum/ucp.php on this server. Use the contact form on the forum site. Link is at bottom of every page. _

Re: --exclude

2013-07-18 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 18/07/2013 22:47, V. Khrushchev (get_iplayer list) wrote: I'm trying to exclude episodes of R3's "Afternoon on 3" programme which contain the string "Repeats" in their title, such as 10097: Afternoon on 3 - Proms 2013 Repeats: Prom 01: 1. First Night of the Proms, BBC Radio 3, Classical

Re: GiP Forum *Forbidden*

2013-07-19 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 19/07/2013 09:24, Square Penguin wrote: Which Forum? There is more than one. What is the full URL of the forum website? Sorry - I wasn't paying attention to my "To:" field and took this thread off-list. Upshot: The OP was trying to access a zombie site. I think most people here know this

Re: Problem with "Series"

2013-07-19 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 19/07/2013 11:58, Rob Dixon wrote: $prog->{nameshort} =~ s/:?\s*Series\s+.+?(:\s*|$)//i; It looks a colon problem of a different sort, if you'll forgive the proctological phraseology. That regex doesn't anticipate a "Series" that isn't followed by both a series number and colon, unless

Re: Problem with "Series"

2013-07-19 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 19/07/2013 11:24, J K.Eason wrote: Ah yes. I see what you mean. Doing an --info on 'A String of Pearls' (10057), the nameshort is also 'A String of Pearls', so it looks as if the problem is at the BBC end in that case. That's the correct value. just strips out "Series XXX" strings, otherw

Re: Problem with "Series"

2013-07-19 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 19/07/2013 12:42, michael.mpirel...@virgin.net wrote: I had problems with Would I lie to you? The series link would not download the programme but clicking on Record (Windows Web PVR) for each individual instalment worked. That is a different problem, already fixed. See thread from 3 weeks

Re: Problem with "Series"

2013-07-19 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 19/07/2013 12:43, Rob Dixon wrote: I wonder if this doesn't belong in `main::split_title`? I don't think so. split_title produces the correct programme name. It's just the shortening that goes awry. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@li

Re: Problem with "Series"

2013-07-19 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 19/07/2013 14:17, J K.Eason wrote: I'm getting too old to learn yet another language, otherwise I might have spotted that one! :^) You're never too old take up Perl, my friend, never too old - though it might age you once you get started :} ___

Re: Problem with "Series"

2013-07-19 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 19/07/2013 14:16, Rob Dixon wrote: And I'm wondering if it instead split the title into there would be nothing to do later on? That would just make a bit of extra work. There is no field in the metadata, and there is no need for one. The series number is the only thing of interest re:

Re: GiP Forum *Forbidden*

2013-07-19 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 19/07/2013 10:50, Jonathan H wrote: So it maybe that he doesn't want to remove the iplayer page, but a quick tweak would take it down the results. I suppose I should have said the the get_iplayer section of the site is dead. Other sections may still be in use. The site is owned by the guy

Re: Timeadded returns zero days/hours

2013-07-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 21/07/2013 20:01, kat...@safe-mail.net wrote: Hi, wondering if anyone has noticed this (or it's just me) that running get_iplayer with --info (example get_iplayer 71 --info) returns 'timeadded:' as '0 days 0 hours ago (1374432621)'. This is the same for any programme (tried a few) I list w

Re: Timeadded returns zero days/hours

2013-07-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 21/07/2013 21:05, kat...@safe-mail.net wrote: Thanks for responses. I've also tried with 'get_iplayer 232 --info'. This was from a few days ago (as far as can tell), still getting same result... Give the PID for your examples. You #232 may not be another person's #232. And it doesn't mat

Re: get_iplayer - Query. Set a variable in batch to --subdir

2013-07-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 21/07/2013 18:04, get_ipla...@i.lucanops.net wrote: On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 17:02 +0100, Terence wrote: Example: C: & cd "\Program Files\get_iplayer\" & "%Windir%\system32\cmd.exe" /c get_iplayer --type=tv "987" --get --vmode=best --output="\downloads\media\" --subdir set FPLACE=--subdir I know

Re: Timeadded returns zero days/hours

2013-07-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 21/07/2013 21:42, kat...@safe-mail.net wrote: Should have mentioned, I also cleaned everything from /.get_iplayer Yes, you should have. You destroyed your cache files, so of course every programme is going to be <1h old immediately after you refresh the cache. Leave your profile director

Re: Wide Character in print. Problem or informational only?

2013-07-22 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 22/07/2013 12:09, J wrote: Using --info on the World Service radio programme 'More or Less' shows the line 'Wide character in print at get_iplayer.pl line 303.' and the 3 various fields that follow do, indeed, include several instances (mostly apostrophes). Is this informational only or migh

Re: A bug in preferences handling (in 2.83)

2013-07-24 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 24/07/2013 12:56, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: While setting preferences I issued: get_iplayer --prefs-add --output "H:\" which I assumed had worked - I didn't look carefully enough at the output from that... On my following attempt to fetch a programme I got: mkdir H:\": Inva

Re: How to install get_iplayer on WinXP with perl already installed?

2013-07-24 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 24/07/2013 12:15, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: In the instructions at that URL, I was a bit surprised not to see a configuration step for the filepath for 'lame'; is that required? And VLC? Neither is required. I've added a note in the instructions to that effect. LAME once was u

Re: A bug in preferences handling (in 2.83)

2013-07-24 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 24/07/2013 14:03, J K.Eason wrote: Actually it works correctly under Windows if you leave off the quotes *unless* there are spaces in the path. Moral of the story: Don't us quotes if you don't need them, don't escape a terminal quote, and if you need a backslash at the end of a quoted stri

Re: A bug in preferences handling (in 2.83)

2013-07-24 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 24/07/2013 17:44, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: dinkypumpkin wrote: I think perl is applying unix-style character processing to the command-line it sees after that's been passed to it by Windows. That's also the You're right, I was wrong. I should have said it

Re: rtmpdump buffer issue for fast broadband connections

2013-07-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
could or would test the patched rtmpdump I posted, or at least they never told us about it. Conjecture alone was not a sufficient basis to include it in the last release. Now is your chance to provide at least one data point: https://bitbucket.org/dinkypumpkin/rtmpdump/downloads/rtmpdump-v

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