Re: Fifty frames per second with half of them redundant.

2024-03-06 Thread Chris Woods
On 05/03/2024 12:23, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, I'm used to an hour of iPlayer video needing about 1 GiB. In the past, this doubled for a while because the frame rate doubled from 25 to 50 per second. But stepping through the frames, say with mpv(1)'s ‘.’, showed the first frame of a pair

Re: OT: Re: Unknown unknows. was Re: Why no Formula E?

2021-04-26 Thread Chris Woods
-- Chris Woods CustomMade On 2021-04-26 08:07, David Taylor wrote: On 25/04/2021 19:52, Andrew wrote: A bit behind the times are we? Pit stops haven't happened since season 4 following the introduction of the Gen2 cars. Races are 45min + 1 lap with the same car. That was a welcome

Re: Unknown unknows. was Re: Why no Formula E?

2021-04-25 Thread Chris Woods
On 2021-04-25 19:09, Peter S Kirk wrote: On 25 Apr 2021 at 13:10, Jim web Jim web wrote: The problem being unknown unknowns Another unkown is why anyone watches - pit stop changeover is a joke You'll be happy to hear that's not a thing since the Gen2 car went into service for 2020

Re: Certificate verify failed

2018-10-18 Thread Chris Woods
On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:35:05 +0100 Az wrote: > On Tuesday 9 October 2018 16:16, > Nick Lord put forth the proposition: > > After a lengthy pause I've now installed get_iplayer 3.17 on my > > openSUSE Leap 42.3 system. Previously I was using 3.14. Now when > > attempting to download a programme

RE: April fool or real?

2017-04-05 Thread Chris Woods
The Taster description indicates the live stream is being simulcast as FLAC (probably Ogg encapsulated FLAC) and there's probably browser detection to pass the FLAC stream to a Firefox client. Seems only the latest Firefox build has the appropriate libraries bundled for native support (due to

Re: OT - iPlayer access on SKY Q boxes in the news

2017-04-05 Thread Chris Woods
Sky doesn't use any public API for content delivery, and using on-demand on a Sky box doesn't directly access any BBC systems while downloading content, it comes from inside Sky's walled garden. The BBC system sends all content over, after it's been transcoded in the cloud, because Sky require

Re: Problem with bounced mails

2016-09-08 Thread Chris Woods
I use Aquamail Pro on Android. Well worth the small cost. A nice feature is that volume keys control the text size in the interface. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

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

2016-08-04 Thread Chris Woods
Plus nobody thought they were of any value. Before VHS, DVDs, selling radio series on cassette or whatever, and iPlayer, once something had been broadcast the only value it had was if the BBC wanted to repeat broadcast it. They couldn't see the future, and didn't have a "library" mindset.

Re: Bl**dy Beeb Truncations on iPlayer

2016-07-01 Thread Chris Woods
wler (like someone swearing live, a potentially libelous statement or factual inaccuracy). On 1 July 2016 1:20:04 a.m. "Dave Liquorice" <allso...@howhill.com> wrote: On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:30:51 +0100, Chris Woods wrote: As I understand it, programmes are recorded with buffer

Re: Bl**dy Beeb Truncations on iPlayer

2016-06-30 Thread Chris Woods
For a half hour programme I'd expect around 28 or 29 minutes. Leaves space for credit reads, trails for forthcoming shows etc. It wouldn't make sense to do a full thirty minutes as there would be no slack in the schedule and that flexibility sometimes comes in quite useful. As I understand