Re: OT Downloading BBC radio shows with ANDROID.

On 2 June 2020 14:41:53 CJB wrote: YouTube-dl doesn't even work for me on Windows ... C:\YouTube-dl>youtube-dl "https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Bob-Davenport-Archive/025M-C1047X0003XX-1500V0; [generic] 025M-C1047X0003XX-1500V0: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on

Re: Off-line conversion- M4A toMP3

On 13 May 2019 09:28:32 get_ipla...@big-tick.co.uk wrote: On 13/05/2019 03:32, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 wrote: What's a good Windows program for batch converting a group of M4A files to MP3's? I'm sure there are other options out there, but I find LameXP both quick and easy to

Re: Joint UK streaming platform

The original Kangaroo was scaled back (it became Youview) because OFCOM thought it was anti-competitive. Does Youview even exist any more? 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.

Re: Europe

that has a good enough upload speed to install a server, otherwise it is back to a VPN DNS or Proxy solution's, I have never known Hotspot shield or SmartDNS be unavailable for more than a few days. Dave On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 20:48, Christopher Woods wrote: There's various techniques

Re: Europe

There's various techniques services can use to detect inconsistencies. Browsers still give a lot away... With your DNS redirection enabled, run the tests on http://ipleak.net and see whether you pass things like the WebRTC IP leak tests. If so, great, but it doesn't guarantee problem free

Re: Certificate verify failed

On 18 October 2018 15:27:43 Az wrote: On Thursday 18 October 2018 14:50, Chris Woods put forth the proposition: 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

Re: no more hslv format ?

. (Making me feel old now. The last yoof soap I watched regularly was Byker Grove) On 7 May 2018 18:14:40 Lucy Walker <lucywalke...@yahoo.com> wrote: On 07/05/2018 17:09, Christopher Woods wrote: Steve is right on the doubled technique, this is the filmic look you see on documentaries and

Re: no more hslv format ?

On 3 May 2018 21:38:23 RS wrote: On 03/05/18 12:18, Steve Dodd wrote: Is it possible it depends on the source material? From the BBC quote earlier it sounds like their "source" material is still mostly HD interlaced, but perhaps some of their sources are all also

Re: Podcast sample rate

As far as I'm aware, the BBC's audio estate runs at 48 KHz (well, except the Archers studio - and probably a handful of other studios - for legacy purposes). Looks like podcasts are still encoded to 44.1 KHz via iBroadcast (the MP3s' encoder tag indicates ffmpeg (currently Lavc57.24)). Except

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

To wit, at this point I think I speak for most recipients in declaring that this thread's run its course. It's now serving no use except to sustain a circular conversation and add to my inbox. Please, let's all move on to more useful discussions. Have a good evening all. Chris

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

(large volume of prior replies removed) I don't like change. ;) I like this list. I learn stuff on it. It's so easy to read and participate. List discipline just requires a modicum of self restraint, though we all like to indulge occasionally. This list for me is also somewhat of a spiritual

Re: How good is HD supposed to be?

and storage costs... But H.265 will solve all of that ;) Chris On 2 May 2016 8:52:25 p.m. "Dave Liquorice" <allso...@howhill.com> wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:49:01 +0100, Christopher Woods wrote: The deinterlacing algorithm is doing no resizing - it's interpolating be

Re: How good is HD supposed to be?

Replied inadvertently to some of this in my other response, but everyone may find this interesting if they've not read before: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015-07-the-development-of-new-video-factory-profiles-for-bbc-iplayer There's an 8 mbit 1080i created which I strongly suspect is what's

Re: How good is HD supposed to be?

he day too... Trying to recall a discussion with a fellow engineer from many months ago but struggling now... On 30 April 2016 21:19:35 "Dave Liquorice" <allso...@howhill.com> wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:42:06 +0100, Christopher Woods wrote: "Upscaling" is a mi

RE: How good is HD supposed to be?

me. I have a new Panasonic Viera (is this "high end"?) and I find the 25fps from my GiP downloads more than adequate - perhaps because I know no better! RGds Simon Morgan -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Christopher

Re: How good is HD supposed to be?

"Upscaling" is a misnomer in this context. That implies a change of picture resolution, when there's no resizing going on. What iPlayer does for the 50p streams is double frame rate deinterlacing, using what looks like a bob deinterlace technique. If you watch content originated in 25i, you

RE: Outlook Express 6 on WinXP and this list

If there is anyone on this list using an ISP or free provider account, I recommend getting your own package and domain. The flexibility and privacy is well worth it. Go with someone like bhost.net or heartinternet.uk for their value hosting packages. Get an email account set up. Migrate web

Re: Using FFMPEG to extract video loses sync between sound and vision

Not tried on iPlayer stuff, but with FLVs I now always try the -copyts flag, this gave me success remuxing an FLV to MP4 (non-iPlayer) with a variable video frame rate. Also a single "-codec copy" will save you some keypresses. Chris On 10 February 2016 14:13:27 Tony Scholl

Re: Bit rate from --aactomp3

On 31 May 2015 23:54:18 Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: [Slightly OT content!] On Sun May 31 17:16:28 BST 2015, Jim web wrote: when I have had to transcode aac or mp3 I convert it to LPCM (wave) or flac so I'm losing as little as possible. In effect the result

Re: Bit rate from --aactomp3

Space considerations aside, why would you want to do that? A transcode to a 128 kbps MP3 will sound bad enough, never mind adhering to a 48 kbps bit rate. IMO the only way it might sound even barely listenable would be if the resultant MP3 was a mono transcode, then you're not far from quality

Re: OT Live Streaming Radio 4 News

Is the interruption during an OK stream, or from the first moment you connect? Some highlights or clips from sporting events may not come with requisite rights to be broadcast online, even when part of a news bulletin (given FM's restricted coverage versus worldwide reach of Internet). It's

Re: radio sample rates.

On 2015-03-15 22:23, Tris wrote: I'm not sure if this is connected but two or three weeks ago I was still on v2.89 (I think) and all radio downloading suddenly became unavailable. Things all started working again after I updated to 2.91 which had all the changes in it for the upcoming changes

RE: Casualty anyone?

When I ran this on my Win 7 machine at the start of the download I saw the message: INFO: Using 'open' version as default On an XP machine (with 2.91 again), the message was: INFO: Using 'editorial' version as default Can someone explain the difference between 'open' and 'editorial'

RE: Anger over BBC radio streaming changes

On 2015-02-23 13:45, C E Macfarlane wrote: The BBC should never have adopted any proprietary format in the first place. Back when they first started streaming stuff online, the only available products were proprietary. [snip] When you're in the position of a major

Re: BBC Dropping MP3 and garbled downloads ....

Has anyone else observed any glitchy/skippy/odd on-demand files since my last reply to the thread? Trying to get a large enough sample set, I can't possibly listen to everything... ;-) Chris ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: BBC Dropping MP3 and garbled downloads ....

in the on-demand versions, but I need to do lots more sleuthing to ensure it's not just my brain tricking me) Thanks Chris On 17 February 2015 20:14:20 roadcone roadc...@gmx.com wrote: On 17/02/15 19:15, Christopher Woods wrote: Has anyone else observed any glitchy/skippy/odd on-demand

RE: BBC Ceases To Use MP3...

On 2015-02-10 20:56, C E Macfarlane wrote: I'm listening to my get_iplayer download of this right now, and, although it's not as bad as many, probably most, of the January episodes were, there were several little pops in Cathy-Ann MacPhee's unaccompanied rendering of Fath Mo Mhulad from about

Re: BBC Dropping MP3 and garbled downloads ....

On 2015-02-13 15:25, CJB wrote: I am alarmed to learn that after dropping MP3 or for whatever reason some downloads from the Beeb are garbled due to defective encoding at the Beeb's end of things. Is this a serious problem and are their patterns of occurrences? Listening to

RE: BBC Ceases To Use MP3...

If you can point me to some examples, that'd be useful. Chris On 2015-02-10 17:32, C E Macfarlane wrote: Yes this switch over occurred a few weeks back for Nations programming. I've no objection per se, but unfortunately the switch over has been accompanied by a huge increase in burbling and

Re: BBC Ceases To Use MP3...

This is likely because they're now on Audio Factory. As of right now, 22 of the 40 LR stations are now on AF with the rest due to be migrated by Wednesday. This will bring advantages in terms of a reduction in network complexity (seriously, it's a headache-inducing patchwork of different

Re: Support for live radio Shoutcast streams

They're already available (but as AAC, not MP3), search for 'BBC AAC streams'. You need to point your player to the .pls playlist URL for each stream, the access token contained within is uniquely generated per access and has an immediate expiry. IIRC the playlist files basically link to the

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

On 8 November 2014 13:32:51 Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: Blasted mailing list, I sent the message below as a personal reply, AGAIN. I simply cannot get my brain to accept how this list works. I'm on half a dozen other mailing lists all of which work the other way round ie. replies

Re: Does anyone know what a 'reversion' is?

Likewise, the abbreviated 10/15 minute Click episodes which air through the week as handy filler. Some repeated eps of cop shows need to have faces blurred for legal reasons since first airing etc. The term's misleading - it means the act of reverting to a prior state, but nuw-meedyah

Re: AOD availability time frame

AOD availability has for the moment been rolled back to 7 days (except for Proms programmes) whilst they work on the issues. I can understand why, I agree that it's a bit frustrating :) I think the perfect storm of problems made everyone extra cautious as they continue to work on the systems.

Re: Major Close Down

Come to Libertaria and visit the money tree gardens! Green all year round... The sentiment of your email stuck in my craw. There has been no loss of freedoms. You may now be less able to infringe copyright law; you have never been free to do it. The undeniable fact: for the overwhelming

Re: 317 kbps radio files - really?

But -- aren't the R4X programmes AAC 128kbps, which is subjectively higher quality than a 128kbps MP3 to begin with? Transcoding would just lose audible quality for no filesize advantage... On 12 June 2014 09:02:43 Chris Marriott ch...@chrism.demon.co.uk wrote: -Original Message-

Re: windows version of iplayer - output format

For what it's worth, the iPlayer uses AAC audio for all radio (in an M4A wrapper) - if your media player can handle M4A, and if it's vaguely modern it should, then I urge you to keep the original quality AAC downloads. If you ask get_iplayer to convert them to MP3, it will download the

Re: BBC SD-HD changes

Ultimately, depends on whether the programme was supplied as HD to the Beeb. Other stuff will be upconverted, but the hardware upconverters used on TX will still yield a better, higher quality result (albeit larger filesize) than SD equivalent. A quick check of /programmes shows an HD

Re: Reducing volume

There's some audio processing on encodes which does make them louder for the first couple of seconds before they drop back to reasonable levels. As I understand it this is due to the encoding profile at Maidstone maintained by the technical partner and is the subject of much wailing and

Re: Re: New Website

One hundred mil is only a billion in the States ;) in civilised society, it's one thousand million. Apologies for earlier confusion on my part re Radio Downloader allowing people to circumvent geo restrictions, I was thinking of Beebify... Amusing when you consider what likely popped into

Re: New Website

I have already said I am prepared to use another logo and use another URL if the community truly believes that will make a difference. I repeat what I said before, that the community should have been asked before the event, and I have no evidence that you did so. The logo is, as the Yanks

Re: New Website

If the licence terms permit it, yes. On 17 July 2013 11:58:58 michael norman michaeltnor...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/07/13 11:43, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: michael norman michaeltnor...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/07/13 11:06, Square Penguin wrote: TBH I had reservations about the

Re: Radio Downloader Archives

Believe me, the archives are there, at least for the last decade (for the most part). Ultimately the people want to, at least informally, preserve output. There hasn't, yet, that I'm aware of, been One Plan to Store Them All (And In the Darkness Find Them, a few years later) for legal,

Re: New Website

But with respect, GIP is not for the purposes of circumventing international copyright law, however dismal your country's television. I have the same complaints about a lot of UK telly! If we explicitly or implicitly encourage the use of GIP to operate outside of copyright law, the whole

Re: HD 1080 or 720

On 01/03/2013 19:02, Shevek wrote: On 1 March 2013 16:36, Rog zulu.romeotangoho...@ntlworld.com wrote: I'm pretty sure I get 1080 from iPlayeer... Ripper Street for example. File sizes are about 1.15 GB per hour. All Ripper Street have been 1280x720 from iPlayer File size is not an

Re: Thank you

On 18/02/2013 09:25, Colin Law wrote: On 18 February 2013 00:23, Peter S Kirk peter.k...@isauk.biz wrote: Dinkypumpinkin and the rest of the crew who work or have worked on updating and improving get_iplayer and it's plugins (rtmp dump etc) A big thank you for all your hard work, it is much

Re: infradead is down

On 11/02/2013 15:22, Kapitano wrote: On 2/11/2013 14:30 PM, Colin Law wrote: Possibly a solution would be to provide a command line parameter to get-iplayer which would specify where to store the cache and settings, That would be a very good feature, which I suppose I'm hereby requesting.

Re: Why M4a and not mp4?

Google would be your friend here. M4A and MP4 have the same container format. The M4A extension is just a naming convention for audio-only files, a convention to which get_iplayer adheres. For whatever reasons, some players won't recognise the M4A extension, so rename. Personally I always

Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....

rolled in, I'll certainly give that a try. I'm a sucker for metadata. Undoubtedly YAMB is a bit long in the tooth now, I've only just got used to some of its UI quirks ;-) On 26/09/2012 19:26, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 26/09/2012 18:19, Christopher Woods (CM) wrote: Some clarification for new

Re: Yahoo! Groups: Welcome to WebSurfing. Visit today!

This keeps on bloody happening. If it's not PayPal spam it's the whole list being signed up to Yahoogroups, what's going on?! List admin, what's the craic? ;-) Chris On 21/07/2012 21:06, Derek J. Balling wrote: This seems to me like a big mistake, no? Like we've just signed up the mailing

Re: BBC iPlayer introduces Live Restart capability

This is a very interesting topic, particularly as I've noted that the Beeb's been running a (non-advertised) 720p BBC HD stream using chunked H.264 for a while. Quality's pretty darned decent, I'd watch it if I didn't have a Sky+HD box. I can't imagine they'd rip and replace their entire

Re: iPad3

I imagine there isn't and won't be for a while. Apple's policies on what apps can do and what they can access is remarkably restrictive. AIUI they only permit Objective-C - no scripting in languages Perl - and not only that, to easily achieve what get_iplayer does would require additional

Re: Editing those m4a files.

Awesome news! About to download it, here's hoping I can edit losslessly... I've been so fed up booting into OSX at work just to use Fission. On 03/06/2012 20:45, bat guano wrote: mp3DirectCut-v2.16 now has aac support. :-) Works with Windows or Linux with WINE. First need to extract the aac.

RE: problem getting this TV program

-Original Message- From: get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Carl Fletcher Sent: 01 September 2011 05:47 To: get_iplayer Subject: problem getting this TV program This is the URL

RE: PVR curiosity (under Windows)

I almost always use the command line but occasionally look at the browser based pvr. I ticked the button which said Search Future Schedule and entered the search term journey - intending Journey Into Space, which I knew is starting a re-run and should be on all next week, and beyond. The

RE: Inexpert user question

Afraid I can't help with every question you've asked, but I'll address these two: I'm using the latest version (v2.79 for Windows with a patch from somewhere which was recommended on this forum). I can find the programme that I want OK, then I run: get_iplayer --get [programme number] It

RE: Get Iplayer for Windows

-Original Message- From: get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of David Woodhouse Sent: 04 August 2011 20:22 To: power...@aol.com Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Get Iplayer for Windows On Thu,

RE: Errors downloading this evening

Radio downloads were completely broken for me for a number of days, and last night. It looks to be working fine today though. I don't download TV so I don't know how it compared. I had problems yesterday simply listening to radio programmes via the BBC web site, but it seemed OK this

RE: Errors downloading this evening

What ISPs are all of you customers of? [various replies] Hmm, so quite a disparity. What might be useful, if someone encounters a problematic download, would be to fire up a command prompt and manually attempt to download the file - that way the download server chosen can be identified and a

RE: Errors downloading this evening

I always use the Windows command prompt to do my d/l. If you give me the command to check out the server I'll give it a go (though this evening, things are much back to normal with the occasional slooowww d/l which times out). Good man yourself! Big boys use the command prompt ;-) I

RE: Is anyone else's running slooowwwwlllyyy?

Are you starting from the correct directory? You can't invoke get_iplayer unless you're already in its working directly, this is because get_iplayer's folder is not included in Windows' PATH variable. (you can manually specify it - a quick Google will show you how - then invoke get_iplayer from

RE: get_iplayer suddenly relatively slow

[snip] Same experiences here and I'm on Virgin Media 20MB out of Coventry, and Windows Vista, though 32 bit. Some nights, when I have d/l nothing, speed is sooo slwww that I often give up and try the following night - and then it runs like a train. For me, late afternoon is slow

RE: playing mp4 files on philips bdp2500

hi it is a philips BDP2500 blu ray player if i change the file to .mov then i get a 'unsupported video format' message sine it plays mp4 videos how can i just change the sound track to ac3 or mp3 or anything it supports? thank you Chris, no need to re-send messages you've

RE: playing mp4 files downloaded with getiplayer on blu ray player

-Original Message- From: get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Woods (CustomMade) Sent: 24 May 2011 10:50 To: 'chris chery'; get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: playing mp4 files downloaded

RE: M4A files (from YAMB) = slightly smaller filesize than originalAACs?

I've noticed this with MP4Box as well. I think it filters out ADTS frame headers when adding the AAC audio as a track to the MP4 file, which would account for most of the difference. I would guess YAMB does likewise. It seems to be non-destructive though; when re-exporting the raw

RE: M4A files (from YAMB) = slightly smaller filesize than originalAACs?

I'm not going to swear to it, but as long as the conversion is only taking a few seconds, then there's probably nothing to worry about. Hopefully some others will chime in, but conversion to MP3 would take a lot longer (probably several minutes on a current PC? Try it to find out). If

RE: Fw: What modes should I use to get the highest quality recordingon radio

On Mon, 16 May 2011 00:38:30 +0200, you wrote: In the UK highest quality is/was flashaudio which is mp3 - this used to be available for all programmes, but now only a few radio programmes come as flashaudio ... Now flashaac will give the best quality mp4 files - thanks to shevek co's

RE: HD streams convert automatically after download...

-Original Message- From: get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Lee Grant Sent: 16 May 2011 12:30 To: she...@o2.co.uk Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: HD streams convert automatically after

RE: Fw: What modes should I use to get the highest quality recordingon radio

If you -Original Message- From: James Cook [mailto:james.c...@bluewin.ch] Sent: 16 May 2011 22:48 To: Christopher Woods (CustomMade) So use: modes flashaacstd,flashaaclow,flashaudio,realaudio,wma in an options file or perl --type=radio Classic Serial --get --modes

RE: Fw: What modes should I use to get the highest quality recordingon radio

hi what would a windows command line be? thanks cc Commandline = DOS prompt = C:\ :-) ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

RE: Help, I can't get HD programmes any more

For some reason the Flashhd mode programmes no longer seem to work. I’ve tried two or three programmes and none seem to work entirely. Get_iplayer starts ok and gets to about 8% then it has a problem with not getting the expected frame. I’ve used the latest versions of everything and I am

RE: legality

-Original Message- From: get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Ian Stirling Sent: 05 April 2011 11:11 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: legality On 04/05/2011 10:00 AM, Jon Davies wrote: Apart

RE: Still using BBC 7 channel name

I did a search for a BBC Radio 4 Extra program - We can Remember it for you wholesale, and it didnt work until I changed the channel to BBC Radio 7! I wonder how long theyre going to leave the old channel data on for BBC 7? AFAIK the channel names are hardcoded into get_iplayer so require

RE: Windows Installer?

On 17 March 2011 07:10, Ranec get_ipla...@cemery.org.uk wrote: Does *anyone* on the list have experience in making the Windows installer? *cough* *cough* (taps microphone) is this thing on? .. silence I guess that means no then :( Argh,

RE: Failed to get version pid metadata

-Original Message- From: get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Magic Cheezer Sent: 06 March 2011 01:57 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: Failed to get version pid metadata sure sure and I will

RE: Radio now aac rather than mp3

Please do bear in mind though that (from my own empirical comparisons) it seems the iPlayer just TRANScodes the original AAC audio to MP3, it's not encoded fresh from the original source audio. Hi Could you expand on the difference between the original source the original AAC.

RE: BBC Radio music sessions/interview dowload?

BBC Radio is occasionally posting bits within shows as separate broadcast on their website (not sure if they're in iPlayer); such as music sessions, interviews etc. They have their own PID number but I can't get them to download or find any --info about them. (The complete show

post discussing quality comparison of AAC vs. MP3 iPlayer radio streams (was: RE: BBC Radio music sessions/interview dowload?)

This is a crosspost of mine from the BBC Backstage list, felt it was relevant to the earlier discussion about AAC/AAC+ and World Service material so posting for people to see what I was on about. Chris, Can't speak for my colleagues elsewhere in radio, but WS doesn't

RE: Programme info from PID

-Original Message- From: get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Bill Lancaster Sent: 14 February 2011 10:43 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Programme info from PID Nearly there! get_iplayer

RE: Live radio streams - maintenance request - please.

This stream is still operational, has been since the before last years proms. I never said it wasn't, merely that it's not included in the standard list of iPlayer-available channels because it's broadcast as a special 24/7 'live event' stream. They've deliberately not integrated it with the

RE: what modes work/downloading problems and vpn????

Subject: what modes work Forwarding your own message to the list is bad netiquette. We all got the first copy. Have oyu tried using --raw to download the .flv file, then separately remux to MP4? ___ get_iplayer mailing list

RE: downloading hd files stalls before complete files are downloaded

most hd files are converted from flv to mp4 before the downloading is finished and all i get is part of programmesother definitions are ok OS= windows xp help thanks We need more info Chris. What version of get_iplayer are you using? Have you updated it recently? Did you download the