Re: releaseyear metadata get_iplayer extracts for Films

2024-03-07 Thread David
On 06/03/2024 19:42, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: Eh?  Surely this film is way older than that?  ISTR first seeing it in the 70s?  Let's see what IMDB says, yes, thought so, 1971. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067116/ Sorry that was a terrible example on my part! No idea what I was

releaseyear metadata get_iplayer extracts for Films

2024-03-06 Thread David
vise? TIA, David ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

2024-02-13 Thread David Woodhouse
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 desktop or laptop computers. > >

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread David Taylor
) No Windows, either! Our house has no Windows... 8-] Thanks, Jim, understood. BTW: all but one of my 20+ Linux systems all have a FAT/FAT32 partition on their boot disc David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu Email: davidtay...@writeme.com Twitter

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread David Taylor
. Jim Jim, It's not the FAT/FAT32 file size limit? (send before but didn't appear) Cheers, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu Email: davidtay...@writeme.com Twitter: @gm8arv ___ get_iplayer mailing

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread David Taylor
. Jim Jim, I guess it's not the file size limit on FAT/FAT32 etc.? Cheers. David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu Email: davidtay...@writeme.com Twitter: @gm8arv ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
nd another similar script to report the resolution. You could use these in another small script of your own to conditionally re-download only those that aren't in your desired quality: https://github.com/DrHyde/shellscripts/blob/master/fps https://github.com/DrHyde/shellscripts/blob/master/ffres

Release year in programme information?

2023-09-02 Thread David
available on the iPlayer website. Is there ayway to get this via get_iplayer currently or perhaps would it be possible to pick this up as a future enhancement? TIA. David ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http

Re: PROBLEM DOWNLOADING BBC RADIO PROGRAMMES

2023-04-06 Thread david
Hi Graham, Glad the link to the Windows page at https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/windows was of help. best, David On 2023-04-03 17:57, GRAHAM Holliday wrote: David, Just to let you know, I have now successfully downloaded the new version of get iplayer, and it seems

Re: PROBLEM DOWNLOADING BBC RADIO PROGRAMMES

2023-03-30 Thread david
Yes, I had to update mine about the same time. For Windows see... https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/windows for installation instructions. As you can see below I can get help by typing get-iplayer --help or on your system probably get_iplayer --help I'm not running on

Re: Subtitles Unusually Not Available.

2022-09-26 Thread David Taylor
it that you'd lied about the e-mail address as well! I may have done the same! Cheers, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu Email: david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk Twitter: @gm8arv ___ get_iplayer mailing

Re: Subtitles Unusually Not Available.

2022-09-26 Thread David Taylor
polling the Web site. Your choice, not mine, though. I've found them quite helpful. David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu Email: david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk Twitter: @gm8arv ___ get_iplayer mailing

Re: LibXML.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched

2022-08-16 Thread David Cantrell
is generally just a waste of time. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Remux TV Progs to Matroska Video .mkv

2022-07-09 Thread David Cantrell
As far as I know conversion to mp4 is just changing the container format, there’s no recompression. -- David Cantrell This electrogram was despatched by wireless field telegraph. I would therefore ask that the recipient be so kind as to excuse any failures of courtesy or linguistic

Re: Curating "In Our Time" (IOT) downloads.

2022-07-05 Thread David Cantrell
On 05/07/2022 21:04, Budge wrote: On 05/07/2022 19:00, David Cantrell wrote: $ AtomicParsley In_Our_Time_-_John_Bull_m0018nsd_other.m4a --textdata ... Atom "©grp" contains: Factual,History,Discussion & Talk ... Atom "©gen" contains: Factual Not now at the machine wher

Re: Curating "In Our Time" (IOT) downloads.

2022-07-05 Thread David Cantrell
ot;©lyr" contains: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origin of this personification of the English everyman and his development as both British and Britain in the following centuries. He first appeared blahblahblah ... -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-08 Thread David Taylor
o override that. Very useful to know the start/stop parameters. David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu Email: david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk Twitter: @gm8arv ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.inf

Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread David Taylor
download and using the Windows Photo app to edit. First time I've used that, but it works well at least for simple trimming. Cheers, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu Email: david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk Twitter: @gm8arv

Re: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread David Taylor
, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu Email: david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk Twitter: @gm8arv ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-06 Thread David Taylor
Off-topic, but has any a full resolution link to the full Queen Meets Paddington" video? Can't find it on the iPlayer, and the only full-length one I can find is the Daily Mail at just 640 x 360! Thanks, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu

Re: PVR won't display - ?hanging

2022-01-02 Thread David Taylor
On 02/01/2022 15:41, Charlie Heard wrote: Could Norton be slowing localhost websites down or causing them to time out? Putting it politely, Norton does not have the best reputation. David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu Email: david-tay

Re: Adding Perl modules?

2021-12-09 Thread David Taylor
On 07/12/2021 06:39, David Taylor wrote: Here is the script I'm trying to run. It analyses two directories for their total size and returns an output in a format suitable for MRTG. Perhaps I should just substitute Win64 for Win32? I've only used Win32 before. Folks, Many thanks

Adding Perl modules?

2021-12-06 Thread David Taylor
if(-d $f) { $total += dir_tree_size($f) } else { $total += -s $f} } return $total; } ~ Thanks, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu Email: david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk Twitter: @gm8arv __

Re: Is Web PVR installable on a Mac?

2021-07-12 Thread David Cantrell
://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/osx#wpm If you've managed to install get_iplayer then surely you ought to be able to install the PVR. It depends on how you installed it. It appears, for example, to not be installed if you use homebrew. -- David Cantrell

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

2021-04-26 Thread David Taylor
me-E seems purer racing. https://www.extreme-e.com/ -- David Web: http://www.satsignal.eu ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Existing version of Perl.

2020-10-16 Thread David J Taylor
over 5 GHz Cheers, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https://www.satsignal.eu Email: david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk Twitter: @gm8arv ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org

Re: Unsubscribed

2020-10-16 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 15:32 +0100, Kevin McCarthy wrote: > Anyone else been unsubscribed from this mailing list? > I just got a "You have been unsubscribed" email from > > get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org > > even though I didn't post any messages. > I'm with VirginMedia and I haven't

Existing version of Perl.

2020-10-14 Thread David J Taylor
First post to list. 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? Thanks, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software for you Web: https

Re: OT Question on audio downloads from youtube

2020-09-21 Thread David Cantrell
y file to another lossy format is *very* noticeable. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Erudite is when you make a classical allusion to a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken. ___ get_ip

Re: Demise of get_iplayer PPA

2020-07-17 Thread David Cantrell
to get it working. Can anyone help with that? Something along the lines of ... wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/master/get_iplayer.1 sudo mv get_iplayer.1 /usr/local/man/man1 -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing

Re: Syntax for grabbing all episodes of the new season of Celebrity Master Chef

2020-07-06 Thread David Cantrell
. There is of course a constant game of whack-a-mole with VPN end-points, but hardly anyone actually uses those so blocking them isn't particularly important. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http

Re: lists.infradead.org mailing list memberships reminder

2020-07-01 Thread David Woodhouse
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 during lockdown — he was here "for a few weeks while his house

Re: lists.infradead.org mailing list memberships reminder

2020-07-01 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 10:25 +0100, CJB wrote: > Just got the below email. It included my password in plain text > (redacted below). Yes. That's why when you set the password it told you that it will be sent to you in plain text periodically as a reminder. Didn't it always do this? The list

Re: OT Downloading BBC radio shows with ANDROID.

2020-06-03 Thread David Cantrell
that way - and note that youtube-dl does support usernames/passwords for at least some sites that require them. -- David Cantrell ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: OT Help Please with Clicks and Volume Levels

2020-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
communication going on around you. My experience is that Bluetooth interference makes the signal drop out completely, it doesn't add pops and crackles to the sound. That sounds more like either the player is sending dodgy data, or the headphones are knackered. -- David Cantrell

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
revious sentence. How do you know that it's not being caused by your ISP? Perhaps they're throttling some types or sources of traffic. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" Compromise: n: lowering my standards so you can meet them ___

Re: Podcast - no pid?

2020-02-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 10:33:13PM +, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > I thought YouTubeDownloader might have done it, but I couldn't get it to > work. You mean youtube-dl? That was my first instinct too but no luck. They accept requests for new sites to support via Github. --

Re: Tidying up Radio Downloads

2019-10-15 Thread David Cantrell
lso used to provide data to third-party EPGs and other internal BBC systems. * the one real exception I can think of is when stuff goes straight to iPlayer without being broadcast, such as when Zoo Quest was imported from the archive. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire If

Re: iPlayer Radio Switch Off

2019-09-16 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2019-09-16 at 05:58 +0100, CJB wrote: > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7467267/BBC-start-switching-iPlayer-Radio-app-today.html No Daily Heil links on this list please. If you can't find it in a reputable news medium, don't post it. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic

Re: Goodbye iPlayer Radio

2019-09-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 03:11:35AM +0100, Owen Smith wrote: > BBC Sounds is new and trendy (to BBC eyes). Podcasts are the up and coming > thing (only at least a decade late there chaps, never mind). The BBC has been doing podcasts for longer than that. -- David Cantrell | top google

Re: Excessive Bounces

2019-07-29 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 12:12 +0100, Mark Carroll wrote: > On 29 Jul 2019, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > When an individual from a domain which publishes these stupid SPF and > > similar records saying "only accept mail from my mailserver", posts to > > the li

Re: Excessive Bounces

2019-07-29 Thread David Woodhouse
as the one > provided and recommended by the software developers. David (who owns this > list) has to make his own decision. Given that he automatically rejects any > HTML emails outright (for which I admire his principles but can't help > feeling it is a lost cause, especially when the def

Re: BritBox: BBC and ITV set out plans for new streaming service

2019-07-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:22:24AM +0100, Colin Law wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 11:17, David Cantrell wrote: > > The current caches, which IIRC are for a month's worth of programmes, > > are 2.3MB for TV and 5.2MB for radio. So around 90MB for a year's worth, > > whic

Re: BritBox: BBC and ITV set out plans for new streaming service

2019-07-19 Thread David Cantrell
ent is indistinguishable from zero. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world You can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter" ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Just noticed the download title includes [legal]

2019-07-18 Thread David Cantrell
s is what happens when the online version has been edited either because someone said something they shouldn't have, or because the BBC doesn't have online rights for some of the content. Or of course because someone ticked the wrong box. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet bea

Re: New distro.

2019-07-02 Thread David Cantrell
and each CPU a new task when it finishes. There's some small overhead in figuring out where each chunk begins, and in wrangling pointers so that you end up with the results in a sequence of decoded frames. Encoding is of course similar. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread David Cantrell
in perl, or in python, or it be a video game, or anything else. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness I caught myself pulling grey hairs out of my beard. I'm definitely not going grey, but I am going vain. ___ get_iplayer

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread David Cantrell
correct > and should solve the problem? i.e. That's the list of packages I need? It looks plausible. apt handles dependencies, so when you tell it to install libxml-libxml-perl it will figure out that it needs libxml2-dev etc -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Anyone

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

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: PVR/CRON Query

2019-03-08 Thread David Snyder
egular basis. So doing something like the following crontab entry would work: 0 */2 * * * get_iplayer --pvr >> /var/log/GiP/$(date +%F)_pvr-log 2>&1 I hope that clarifies that point and helps. Regards, David ___ 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: 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: 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: Joint UK streaming platform

2019-01-14 Thread David Lake
cal masters. D -Original Message- From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of Shevek Sent: 14 January 2019 09:00 To: David Cantrell Cc: get_iplayer Subject: Re: Joint UK streaming platform On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 15:20, David Cantrell wrote: > > The original Kangaroo was scaled back (it became Youv

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

2019-01-10 Thread David Lake
"designed," even the forward-looking SPs are moving away from IP multicast for live-linear (BT Vision is moving to all unicast some time soon GRRR). David -Original Message- From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of David Cantrell Sent: 10 January 2019 10:12 To: get_iplayer@lists.infra

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: 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: 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: OT: I have received a series of duplicate emails.

2018-11-22 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 13:34 +, George Eycott wrote: > Yes, DMARC is a problem for mailing lists, I had a similar problem > for some lists I run using Mailman: > > https://wiki.list.org/DEV/DMARC Yeah, there are hoops that a mailing list can jump through so that it works around this problem

Re: OT: I have received a series of duplicate emails.

2018-11-22 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 13:07 +, RS wrote: > I have had an almost opposite problem for the last week or two. I still > receive posts from other list server members, but I have not been > receiving copies of my own posts. I checked my profile, and there does > not appear to be any change in

Re: OT VM or Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-11-01 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2018-11-01 at 10:43 +, RS wrote: > My reasons for dual booting are > 1. To learn about Linux > 2. To escape the slowness of Windows 10, in particular the absurd delay > in resuming from Sleep mode > 3. To be able to continue to use not so obscure devices for which there > are no

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: 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?

2018-07-09 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Message with suspicious header

2018-03-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 13:00 +, Dave Widgery wrote: > I have yet again had a message held due to a suspicious header, all I  > did was press reply? For messages which are in response to a thread, the system is checking that they start with either 'Re:' or 'Aw:', or some other things. For

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: Suspicious Header

2018-02-23 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 14:18 +, Dave Widgery wrote: > Hi > I have now had several get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org messages rejected  > indicating suspicious header, each time I have clicked on the link in  > the returned message and deleted and resent the mail without problem,  > the last one

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: what is pre-watershed version

2017-05-24 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 10:18 -0500, artisticforge . wrote: > hello > > that is insane. any child may watch the news, read a newspaper, listen > to the radio is exposed to the horror of Manchester, Paris, Syria, > etc. Yes. You're also permitted to have sex at 16 but you're not allowed to watch

Re: Help text query

2017-05-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi David, > > > If your distribution handles PPAs, there is little point, but if it > > > does not, it could be very handy. > > Not really. I have no idea what a PPA is so I presume that my OSes &g

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: 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

what replaced --player removed in 2.98?

2017-05-01 Thread David Wood
I've just upgraded from 297 to 300 and noticed that --player was removed in 298. What should I do now for streaming to mplayer? I used to stream BBC News 24. Dave ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer v3.00 released

2017-05-01 Thread David Wood
Release notes: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release300 Windows installer: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer_win32/releases/tag/3.00.0 I am having problems building AtomicParsley. It errors out with: g++: error: obj_files/AtomicParsley.o: No such file or directory

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer v3.00 released

2017-04-30 Thread David Wood
Release notes: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release300 Windows installer: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer_win32/releases/tag/3.00.0 I am having problems building AtomicParsley. It errors out with: g++: error: obj_files/AtomicParsley.o: No such file or directory

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

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