Re: BBC 1 TV Schedules not downloading

2024-08-02 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 02/08/2024 18:54, ipla...@nutwood.net wrote: I assume that you have heard nothing further from the BBC? See below ... I now have today, in addition to the BBC1 error reported for the last several weeks, the  message: 'ERROR: Failed to download BBC Radio 4 schedule page (3/3): https://www

Re: BBC 1 TV Schedules not downloading

2024-06-23 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 19/06/2024 14:06, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: On 15/6 I submitted a complaint to the BBC pointing out that pages of the BBC1 national schedules were devoid of schedules, but have received only the initial acknowledgement, and have heard nothing back since. I've now heard ba

Re: BBC 1 TV Schedules not downloading

2024-06-19 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 12/06/2024 23:33, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: As per subject, myself and at least one or two others are not able to obtain BBC 1 TV Schedules, what we see is this ... WARNING: Got 0 programmes for BBC One schedule page (HTML): https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6n/2024/w24

BBC 1 TV Schedules not downloading

2024-06-12 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
As per subject, myself and at least one or two others are not able to obtain BBC 1 TV Schedules, what we see is this ... WARNING: Got 0 programmes for BBC One schedule page (HTML): https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6n/2024/w24 WARNING: Failed to parse BBC One schedule page: https://www.bbc.c

Re: releaseyear metadata get_iplayer extracts for Films

2024-03-06 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 06/03/2024 18:49, David wrote: I am using get_iplayer v3.35 to extract metadata for Films and have a question about how its populating releaseyear. Using the following examples:- get_iplayer --metadata-only pid=m001jwmx See https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jwmx get_iplayer --metadat

Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

2024-02-15 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 13/02/2024 18:48, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2024-02-13 at 18:13 +, Jonathan Larmour wrote: This BBC News article has appeared today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68283165 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The BBC's iPlayer streaming service is to end downloads for users who watch on d

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-21 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 21/01/2024 14:36, Jim web wrote: In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: Not sure where you got the pid m001vxvk from Used gip to give me the info on the pid. That showed that the 'editorial' version had a different pid as per above. Ah! Didn't notice th

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-21 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 21/01/2024 11:51, Jim web wrote: Question: Should simply giving the pid as m001vxvk rather than m001vkll cause gip to get the full-length version? Or is that not sufficient? As yet I've always used the pid of the webpage address for an item. Not sure where you got the pid m001vxvk from, but

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 20/01/2024 17:35, Jim web wrote: In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: oad it as a test, and have just noticed that it finished around 1330hrs. It downloaded successfully as "Select Committees Horizon IT Scandal Inquiry.mp4" 3.09GB, 1:33:18 long, 1280x720x50

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 20/01/2024 11:16, Jim web wrote: Puzzled by this item for the following reasons: I watched the broadcast on the BBC Parliament (DVB-T2) channel and that ended before the 'second half' of the panel sitting. However I downloaded a copy using gip on the 16th. This *also* was ended part-way tho

Re: Is there an issue with current Shakespeare episodes

2023-10-31 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 31/10/2023 01:34, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: On 30/10/2023 19:49, Budge wrote: I was able to retrieve my old options file from an older installation but it was well out of date so have rebuilt my prefs and now have:- refreshexcludegroups = local tvmode = fhd,hd,sd,web

Re: Is there an issue with current Shakespeare episodes

2023-10-30 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 30/10/2023 19:49, Budge wrote: I was able to retrieve my old options file from an older installation but it was well out of date so have rebuilt my prefs and now have:- refreshexcludegroups = local     tvmode = fhd,hd,sd,web,mobile,default     radiomode = high,std,med,low,default

Re: Is there an issue with current Shakespeare episodes

2023-10-30 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 30/10/2023 19:49, Budge wrote: This doesn't work and my pvr list which includes "Beck" the TV programme also downloads several radio programmes with names which start with Beck but are from radio stations I didn't want ie:- 32522:  radio, Becky Measures - 01/10/2023, BBC Radio Sheffield,

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-10-01 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 01/10/2023 21:31, MrBrunes wrote: For encoding rates I appreciate the theory with historical programmes but I've found in practice that there are noticeably fewer blocky video artefacts with dashfhd1 vs SD. It depends very much on the type of SD. Some more recent encodings are using XSD a

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-09-30 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 30/09/2023 12:05, MrBrunes wrote: I've just realised that some of my historical downloads of TOTP are in SD or non-50fps HD but the download history doesn't seem to note the quality, so I need to force download them again. Since new programmes are currently made available each week (for 30d)

Re: Deleting One Off / Single Entry PVR Searches?

2023-09-07 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 07/09/2023 19:09, Peter Kok wrote: Is there a command line that would enable deletion / removal of one off / single entry PVR searches? For instance, The Banksy Story - Omnibus 2, BBC Radio 4, m001p237, isn't available (never was), but continues to be part of the PVR Scheduler listing / prog

Re: Programmes over 30 days old - incorrect warning

2023-06-29 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 28/06/2023 23:11, fred.d wrote: Recently (last couple of months) I've been receiving the warning message "You have programmes over 30 days old that should be deleted." As I've changed my download directory a couple of times over the last year I suspected that I'd just forgotten one somewher

Re: Some questions on PVR

2023-05-12 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 12/05/2023 23:34, Kevin Lynch wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 19:17, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: Amid a lack of current programmes to test with, that was just a guess on my part; it could well be that your suggestion turns out better than mine. C:\Users\kevin>get_iplayer --i

Re: Some questions on PVR

2023-05-12 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 12/05/2023 15:52, Kevin Lynch wrote: Further to my previous email - I missed C E Macfarlane's clarification and waded in with my workaround. MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News news at macfh.co.uk Fri May 12 01:29:47 PDT 2023 As ATM running GiP currently finds no programmes with "In Ou

Re: Some questions on PVR

2023-05-12 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 12/05/2023 09:09, Budge wrote: As I start anew with GiP I have now been able to resurrect my old history and pvr list which had been dormant on a backup for years and append my recent downloads.  So far so good although the pvr list needs editing! I have a couple of questions:- In runnin

Re: PROBLEM DOWNLOADING BBC RADIO PROGRAMMES

2023-03-30 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 30/03/2023 17:23, GRAHAM Holliday wrote: get_iplayer --pid=m001jtc0 --type=radio , Downloads here alright with get_iplayer v3.30, but note that there's a trailing comma in your command line, and you don't usually need equals signs, but I don't think either of those would be showstoppers.

Re: OT yt-dlp and Python snag

2023-03-28 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 28/03/2023 15:51, Jim web wrote: Sorry to hear about your wife, commiserations to you both. In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: Might as well be sure, so what happens when you type: python --version If that comes up with 3.7 as desired, what do you get for: pip

Re: modes=good gone?

2023-03-28 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 28/03/2023 15:56, Chris Brady wrote: Am trying to download tv using modes=good for low res. but adequate watchable quality However this is not now working and I am getting the default of HD with 2GB file sizes I only want files about 300KB in lo res What do I use now? Thank you. Mode

Re: Fwd: Re: output format

2023-03-28 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 28/03/2023 15:43, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: Tch!  Both Fred and then myself forgot to reply to all ... Forwarded Message Subject: Re: output format Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:13:58 +0100 From: MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News To: fred.d On 27/03/2023 18:54

Fwd: Re: output format

2023-03-28 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
Tch! Both Fred and then myself forgot to reply to all ... Forwarded Message Subject: Re: output format Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:13:58 +0100 From: MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News To: fred.d On 27/03/2023 18:54, fred.d wrote: On 27/03/2023 18:22, MacFH - C E Macfarlane

Re: output format

2023-03-27 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 27/03/2023 17:56, fred.d wrote: Recently started using gip to download sounds and audio files. Unfortunately I've got my prefs set to force output to mpeg .TS. Result is my downloaded audio is being converted to .ts files unless I override the command line with --raw when downloading audio

Re: OT yt-dlp and Python snag

2023-03-27 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 27/03/2023 18:10, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: On 27/03/2023 10:44, Jim web wrote: Glad to see you're still alive and kicking.  I'd noticed your absence in another place and was a little worried for you. This is OT but I'm hoping some here will be using yt-dlp an

Re: OT yt-dlp and Python snag

2023-03-27 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 27/03/2023 10:44, Jim web wrote: Glad to see you're still alive and kicking. I'd noticed your absence in another place and was a little worried for you. This is OT but I'm hoping some here will be using yt-dlp and can help! I do use yt-dlp occasionally, but it's the Win32 pre-compiled v

Re: Discrepancy between iplayer & get_iplayer

2023-03-23 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 23/03/2023 17:50, Expert Geeks wrote: I'm having an odd issue where downloading the Select Committee of the 'Conduct of Boris Johnson' is a file of 58 minutes regardless of the quality (hd, sd & web tried). The file downloaded is always 670mb (or thereabouts) so the quality seems to be bei

Re: $opt->{nowarntvlicence} how to set?

2023-01-04 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 03/01/2023 23:20, Kevin Lynch wrote: Rebuilding my get_iplayer environment. I don't want the TV Licence warning appearing in my logs. What's the syntax get_iplayer --prefs-add --nowarntvlicence=1 Unknown option: nowarntvlicence The search term 'licence' gets no hits anywhere in the long

Re: Channel 4 Time Team videos

2022-10-30 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 23/06/2022 12:14, Geoff Smith wrote: Non-BBC on demand programmes I play full screen on a spare PC, with an ad-blocker (which only rarely gets detected), and record using the free version of OBS Studio. It works fine on a W10 machine but not W7, but I can't figure why. This version works fo

Re: Glastonbury results

2022-06-29 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 28/06/2022 17:43, B wrote: I was trying to use the GiP PVR to download all the Glasto programmes but for some reason the search returns fewer results than expected. Namely searching for "glastonbury" as "name" in tv & radio gets 89 hits and that includes some from other years. But https://www

Re: Nottingham Open Tennis - What happened to Day 3?

2022-06-29 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 26/06/2022 14:27, Mark Carroll wrote: On 26 Jun 2022, MacFH wrote: Except the tournament was two weeks ago, and the other days are already half-way to their expiry date, so 'soon' is beginning to look like 'never'! 'Never' is in fact correct. I've sometimes had useful feedback or help f

Re: Nottingham Open Tennis - What happened to Day 3?

2022-06-26 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 26/06/2022 11:56, J K.Eason wrote: *From:* MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News *To:* get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org *Date:* Sun, 26 Jun 2022 10:46:00 +0100 Anyone know why Day Three of this year's Nottingham Open is not available? All the others download alright: https://www.bbc.

Nottingham Open Tennis - What happened to Day 3?

2022-06-26 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
Anyone know why Day Three of this year's Nottingham Open is not available? All the others download alright: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cb8p1k ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/list

Re: '5 Live Science' not being found to download

2022-04-23 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 20/04/2022 10:17, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: I've also managed to adapt my calling program to allow parameters such as --pid in the lists of search terms, simply by not quoting any search term beginning with '--' before feeding it to GiP, so the one for low-def

Re: '5 Live Science' not being found to download

2022-04-22 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 22/04/2022 16:01, Jim web wrote: In article <5f9d21ff-9029-2096-b4c4-ff35b74f0...@macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: * The lists and their intended use are: Full HD TV - A new one similar to the next, which I've just created after discovering here

Re: '5 Live Science' not being found to download

2022-04-22 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 22/04/2022 12:22, Peter Scott wrote: On 21.04.2022 23.38, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: What are the URLs of the listing pages you are using to get the PIDs? I have a python script that shows BBC  listings with pids. You can find it here: https://github.com/cmsps Thanks

Re: '5 Live Science' not being found to download

2022-04-22 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 22/04/2022 10:41, Jim web wrote: In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: On 20/04/2022 12:27, Jim web wrote: In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: I can understand that this might happen if the PIDs are the same, but it's not my experience. '5 Live Scien

Re: '5 Live Science' not being found to download

2022-04-21 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 20/04/2022 12:27, Jim web wrote: In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: I can understand that this might happen if the PIDs are the same, but it's not my experience. '5 Live Science' is the first time I've come up against this. I specify items via pid as p

Re: '5 Live Science' not being found to download

2022-04-20 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 18/04/2022 14:26, Jim web wrote: I may be missing the point. But for ages now whenever I fetch a radio programme I get the 'podcast' version. I've assumed this was the norm, nowdays. I can understand that this might happen if the PIDs are the same, but it's not my experience. '5 Live Scie

Re: '5 Live Science' not being found to download

2022-04-20 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 19/04/2022 09:51, Andy Wedge wrote: From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News Sent: 19 April 2022 01:41 You've failed to notice that the podcasts have different PIDs from the episodes previously downloaded, so they'll all download again. I've use the

Re: '5 Live Science' not being found to download

2022-04-20 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 19/04/2022 11:03, iz wrote: On 18 Apr 2022, at 15:17, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: --type radio --pid p02pc9ny --pid-recursive ... it finds all the previous versions before April this year that I've already downloaded, listened to, and then deleted, and I don'

Re: '5 Live Science' not being found to download

2022-04-18 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 18/04/2022 19:54, fred.d wrote: > >> On 18 Apr 2022, MacFH wrote: >> >> ... it finds all the previous versions before April this year that >> I've already downloaded, listened to, and then deleted, and I don't >> want to waste my bandwith downloading 550 or so programmes that I've >> already he

Re: '5 Live Science' not being found to download

2022-04-18 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 18/04/2022 13:53, Mark Carroll wrote: On 18 Apr 2022, MacFH wrote: Since the beginning of April the above programme has not been downloaded by GiP, as follows: > perl \get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir= --type radio "5 Live Science" -g (snip) ... but clicking the podcast tab on that page re

'5 Live Science' not being found to download

2022-04-18 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
Since the beginning of April the above programme has not been downloaded by GiP, as follows: > perl \get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir= --type radio "5 Live Science" -g get_iplayer v3.29, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warran

Merging options

2022-03-07 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
I've posted before about the possibility of having command-line options merge with, rather than overwrite, the same options from the preferences file, called 'options' that lives in a user's GiP profile directory, the most obvious need being to be able to provide *additional* exclude options vi

Re: Problems downloading Winter Olympics

2022-03-06 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 06/03/2022 18:07, Paul Phillips wrote: The change in video quality available is described on this page for version 3.29. https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release329 I've seen a doubling in file sizes to approx 4GB per hour when selecting fhd video quality Bo

Re: Problems downloading Winter Olympics

2022-03-06 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 06/03/2022 02:25, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: On 05/03/2022 21:00, Paul Phillips wrote: Where you downloading in HD or Full HD (1080) ? FWIW, I downloaded all the above using the following command ... perl \get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir= --type tv --tvmode hlshd,dvfhd,hvfhd

Re: Problems downloading Winter Olympics

2022-03-05 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
Duh! Forgot to 'reply all' to include the mailing list ... On 05/03/2022 21:00, Paul Phillips wrote: Where you downloading in HD or Full HD (1080) ? See below! On Sat, 5 Mar 2022 at 20:54, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: On 05/03/2022 19:50, Paul Phillips wrote: Hi, I

Re: Problems downloading Winter Olympics

2022-03-05 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 05/03/2022 19:50, Paul Phillips wrote: Hi, I am having difficulty downloading some of the Winter Olympics - it seems to affect broadcasts that are from the red button / digital channel. It ends up downloading small sound-only recordings - not even sound for the whole episode NB - My settings

Re: OT help with wget

2022-02-17 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
I've sometimes used this bash script, which originally I wrote to download a section of a site concerning some hardware I owned when the site looked like it was about to close down, which in fact it did, so in due course I was glad that I'd had the foresight. I usually find that it gets relate

Re: Adding Perl modules?

2021-12-07 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 07/12/2021 06:39, David Taylor wrote: I would like to add the Win32::API to the Perl which comes with get_iplayer. Is that possible? Surely, on a Windows machine, all the necessary Win32::* should be installed already? What does the following command sequence give for you, my output is

Re: Failing to download iPlayer file

2021-04-21 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
> -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of Michael Eacott > Sent: 20 April 2021 18:32 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Failing to download iPlayer file > > My apologies for not using my registered read only email address of xmich...@eacott.org.uk that I canno

Re: get_iplayer Remux: Programme "already in history" error

2021-01-08 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 08/01/2021 11:03, Chris Walker wrote: On Thu, 2021-01-07 at 20:26 +, Xander Squier wrote: We had hoped to resume from where it left-off: Convert the available download to MP4 -> automatic tagging. It seems however that custom ffmpeg settings push get_iplayer to skip the tagging anyway,

Re: GiP doesn't like double quotes?

2020-10-29 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 25/10/2020 10:29, Chris Walker wrote: I wanted to only download series 18 or later of Mock the Week so cobbled together this :- get_iplayer "Mock the Week: Series \b(1[8-9]|2[0-9])\b" It will run manually but not when run as part of the pvr. Substituting single quotes for doubles made it wor

Re: Changing Default Download Location

2020-10-29 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 29/10/2020 12:56, Darran Ross wrote: I'm a newcomer to the list, and from what I've read so far this will be a very basic question for many of you, but I could use your help. I'm trying to change the download location by entering the following, get_iplayer --prefs-add --output "E:\Recordi

Re: Existing version of Perl.

2020-10-14 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 14/10/2020 16:27, David J Taylor wrote: I already have ActiveState Perl (v5.16.3) installed and in constant use.  Is there a way to prevent the Windows installer overwriting that version of Perl, and allowing get-iplayer to use it? I never use the Windows Installer myself, like you I have

GiP Errors Tonight

2020-08-04 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
Starting this evening, I'm getting the following errors on all attempts to download HiDef radio downloads using GetIPlayer v3.23: ERROR: Failed to download URL (3/3): https://cp143012-i.akamaihd.net/i/prod_af_mp4_aaclc_128/iplayerstream/p08l7cgq_m000ldbs_cUnknown_1596528177531.mp4/master.m3u8?h

Re: lists.infradead.org mailing list memberships reminder

2020-07-01 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
Please see below ... On 01/07/2020 12:31, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 12:12 +0100, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Jeez, "a couple of years ago"???!!! Don't they make backups more often than that???!!! No, I didn't. Annoyingly, I did have a friend who&#x

Re: lists.infradead.org mailing list memberships reminder

2020-07-01 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 01/07/2020 10:46, David Woodhouse wrote: The list server did die a week or so ago and has been restored to a backup from a couple of years ago, so it's possible that I had disabled the pointless monthly reminders in the interim and they've just been reenabled by the rest

Re: BUG (I think) excludecategory doesn't work with "Children's"

2020-02-23 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 23/02/2020 00:07, RS wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:51:36 + MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: As per title, I have the following lines in my options file, but I still get CBBC programmes, with & without the double quotes around Children's ... excludecategory

Re: BUG (I think) excludecategory doesn't work with "Children's"

2020-02-23 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 22/02/2020 23:58, Nick wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:51:36 + MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: As per title, I have the following lines in my options file, but I still get CBBC programmes, with & without the double quotes around Children's ... excludecate

BUG (I think) excludecategory doesn't work with "Children's"

2020-02-22 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
As per title, I have the following lines in my options file, but I still get CBBC programmes, with & without the double quotes around Children's ...     excludecategory Sign Zone,Learning,"Children's",Primary,Secondary     refreshexclude BBC Radio 1,BBC 1Xtra,BBC Three,CBBC,CBeebies,BBC Two Scot

Re: Available: Yes, Prime Minister, The Tangled Web.

2020-02-16 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
49:52 2020 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 0080 X-Mozilla-Keys: To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org From: MacFH - C E Macfarlane Subject: Re: No Prime Minister? Message-ID: <028e46a1-9455-cfaf-8e95-0f2918ca3...@macfh.co.uk> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 21:49:49 + User-Agent: Mo

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-15 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Resending as the addressing of the original seemed questionable  - please see below ... On 15/02/2020 13:14, Paul Thornett wrote: It seems to me that downloads have become very slow, often not completing. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? I've not noticed it using a 4G connection.  Yo

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-07 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Thanks, it's a kind thought, but, as others have pointed out, I'd better say no thanks. On 07/02/2020 09:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: I have both complete series (Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister) which I can make available if we can work out how to get them to you. I think that I would probably

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 05/02/2020 13:31, Mark Goodge wrote: Older stuff can, possibly a little counter-intuitively, be more problematic than recent material, as, at the time it was made, there was no expectation that the BBC would ever want repeat transmission rights for anything other than b

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-05 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 05/02/2020 09:28, Don Grunbaum wrote: >> - Original Message - >> From: MacFH - C E Macfarlane >> To: >> Sent: 04/02/2020 21:49:16 >> Subject: Re: No Prime Minister? >> _

Re: Podcast - no pid?

2020-02-04 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
I thought YouTubeDownloader might have done it, but I couldn't get it to work. On 04/02/2020 22:05, CJB wrote: Sorry - my mistake. CJB On 04/02/2020, James Scholes wrote: Why are you expecting that get_iplayer will be able to download anything from the British Library? Regards, James Schol

Re: No Prime Minister?

2020-02-04 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Sorry, meant to include a link to the programme page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037tb14 On 04/02/2020 21:42, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Does anyone happen to know why the episode of Yes, Prime Minster shown a couple of days ago can not be downloaded

No Prime Minister?

2020-02-04 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Does anyone happen to know why the episode of Yes, Prime Minster shown a couple of days ago can not be downloaded? ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Sky at Night

2019-12-30 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Hi Jim ... On 30/12/2019 17:34, Jim web wrote: I'm having a problem with getting the most recent 'Sky at Night' programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00042l2 My normal procedure worked for that programme last night, the command given would have been : gip  --type tv  --tvmode hlshd,

Re: world service 96k

2019-12-03 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 03/12/2019 16:23, RS wrote: However I then looked at what was available from get_iplayer v3.23 for the 28 November 2019 Science in Action (w3csym2r).  The only version is the podcast version, but with these modes. modes:   podcast: dafhigh1,dafhigh2,dafhigh3,daf

Re: world service 96k

2019-12-03 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 03/12/2019 13:53, Paul Thornett wrote: What about downloading subtitles and, if necessary, constructing a Matroska file (.mkv) containing video, audio and subtitle? I can provide more info on how to do this if you're interested. I suppose it would depend on the program 

Re: world service 96k

2019-12-03 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 03/12/2019 09:51, Jim Lesurf wrote: I' ve now switched to using the new version of GIP and using the 'DASH' approach for fetching. Many thanks for the new version. :-) For TV this works fine. And for *most* radio it also works fine. But since I'm writing this you'll have

Re: 3.23 released was Re: 403 Forbidden Errors on Playlists

2019-11-30 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 30/11/2019 06:31, Geoff Smith wrote: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release323 Usual thanks to the maintainer. Installed and running apparently successfully, seconded. ___ get_iplayer mailin

Re: Digging for Britain Episode

2019-11-27 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
This is downloading for me now, video included, dvfhd2/ll.  If I findin the morning that it has failed I'll post about it probably around lunchtime, possibly before, otherwise assume that it's worked. On 28/11/2019 00:04, artisticforge Niemand wrote: Hello The 2nd tv episode which has downloa

Re: odd problem with downloading

2019-11-27 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Got it to download with --tvmode hvfhd,hvfxsd,hvfsd to define the acceptable TV modes. On 27/11/2019 14:34, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Please see below ... On 25/11/2019 23:52, artisticforge Niemand wrote: Hello I was eventually able to get it downloaded by restarting it from the command

Re: odd problem with downloading

2019-11-27 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
n Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:25 PM Nick Payne wrote: On 26/11/2019 8:59 am, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: On 25/11/2019 01:58, artisticforge Niemand wrote: Hello Downloading the current episode of Seven Worlds One Planet starts out okay, when if has to restart the download it fails. I'

Re: odd problem with downloading

2019-11-25 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
On 25/11/2019 01:58, artisticforge Niemand wrote: Hello Downloading the current episode of Seven Worlds One Planet starts out okay, when if has to restart the download it fails. I'm not even getting that far, I get ...     Seven Worlds One Planet - 01 05 Europe.audio.m4a    (length 0)     Sev

Re: OT Video Conversion

2019-10-13 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 13/10/2019 16:25, Dave Widgery wrote: Hi I would like to copy some of my DVD collection onto hard disk to make them easier to access and I am getting very frustrated with downloading programs that claim to be free versions only to find out that in fact that it is a trial

Re: GiP v3.17 - Cannot download programme schedules tonight

2019-08-20 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 20/08/2019 14:03, John Reay wrote: The latest version on the ppa for my distro (Mint 19) is still 3.21 :( ...guess I'll have to wait a day or two. Why don't you install the latest package available to you and then simply overwrite the files with v3.22 ones? I've no

Re: GiP v3.17 - Cannot download programme schedules tonight

2019-08-20 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 20/08/2019 10:30, RS wrote: On 20/08/2019 09:52, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Thanks for the various replies ... On 20/08/2019 00:17, RS wrote: On 19/08/2019 23:44, I wrote: On 19/08/2019 23:29, Mark Carroll wrote: On 19 Aug 2019, MacFH wrote: As per subject

Re: GiP v3.17 - Cannot download programme schedules tonight

2019-08-20 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Thanks for the various replies ... On 20/08/2019 00:17, RS wrote: On 19/08/2019 23:44, I wrote: On 19/08/2019 23:29, Mark Carroll wrote: On 19 Aug 2019, MacFH wrote: As per subject, cannot access any programme schedules using GiP v3.17 tonight.  For example ... WARNING: Got 0 programmes for

GiP v3.17 - Cannot download programme schedules tonight

2019-08-19 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
As per subject, cannot access any programme schedules using GiP v3.17 tonight.  For example ... WARNING: Got 0 programmes for BBC One Scotland schedule page (JSON): https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6v/2019/w33 ... but ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6v/2019/w33 ... loads in

SOT: BBC iPlayer gets Ofcom green light to make shows available for a year

2019-08-01 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
"BBC iPlayer gets Ofcom green light to make shows available for a year The BBC's iPlayer now has permission to routinely keep shows available for a year rather than just 30 days, after Ofcom said it could expand its service. Some shows will be available for even longer, the broadcasting watch

Re: Excessive Bounces

2019-07-28 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 28/07/2019 14:29, Mark Carroll wrote: On 28 Jul 2019, RS wrote: One thing that seems to be being suggested is that I should use my own domain name for email. My own experience of doing that has been that I get swamped with spam. I do this. This isn't the place for an

Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available

2019-07-17 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 17/07/2019 16:26, James Scholes wrote: Scratch what I said previously, the format of the URLs has changed and the 320K streams are still available.  Just posted the info here: https://forums.squarepenguin.co.uk/thread-2062.html And dinky had replied:  "That is not a n

Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available

2019-07-17 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 17/07/2019 10:28, RS wrote: This forum post may be of interest to some here. errfmt: I've noticed that the 320kbps audio streams that used to be default for hvfhd/hvfsd/hvfxsd TV seem to have disappeared and have been replaced with 128kbps streams. Looking at my series

Re: New distro.

2019-06-24 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 24/06/2019 16:04, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Mon Jun 24 11:25:50 BST 2019, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: I'm surprised it worked for you, because AFAICR I'd understood that the version of Strawberry Perl used was supposed not to support XP. ... The

Re: New distro.

2019-06-24 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 23/06/2019 02:29, Peter S Kirk wrote: On 22 Jun 2019 at 22:37, MacFH - C E Macfarlane MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: On 22/06/2019 18:52, Peter S Kirk wrote: XP SP3 32bit GiP 3.14.0 FFMPEG N-76331-gf8d429e When upgrading from 2.x to 3.x, did you run a Windows

Re: New distro.

2019-06-22 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 22/06/2019 18:52, Peter S Kirk wrote: XP SP3 32bit GiP 3.14.0 FFMPEG N-76331-gf8d429e When upgrading from 2.x to 3.x, did you run a Windows installer or just copy in new files by hand or by using git or equivalent? ___ get

Re: New distro.

2019-06-21 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
On 21/06/2019 18:51, Peter S Kirk wrote: I run GiP under XP 32 with no problem. iirc all that is needed is to replace ffmpeg with last XP compat version# Which version?   My recollection is that GiP support for XP died around the end of v2.x, whereas we're now on 3.2x. __

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 20/06/2019 12:49, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: On 2019-06-19 09:34, Jim Lesurf wrote: I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my main 'work' machine. Having transferred my own programs, data, etc, I find that gip now doesn't work. This se

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Hi Jim ... On 19/06/2019 09:34, Jim Lesurf wrote: I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my main 'work' machine. Having transferred my own programs, data, etc, I find that gip now doesn't work. This seems to be because at least some of the relevant perl modules are

Re: get_iplayer odd behaviour

2019-06-12 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 12/06/2019 15:11, artisticforge Niemand wrote: Hello get_iplayer-3.18 (yes, i know it is not the latest) aperiodically while downloading a media file will drop the connection, reconnect and upon reconnecting starts re downloading from Zero bytes. it just did it on a file

Re: New Computer

2019-04-03 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 03/04/2019 16:17, CJB wrote: > Hi - thanks for all of th tips. It all worked OK Glad to have helped. > except that TextPad > refused to delete all of the duplicate lines. I'm surprised by that, but perhaps that's one of the ways they cripple the free-trial version. >

Re: New Computer

2019-04-03 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 03/04/2019 12:56, S Byers wrote: Small additional issue is merging the two History files! As previously noted, though with a slight error, if the two PCs have different *download directories*, then the paths in the history files will be different.  If reconciliation b

Re: New Computer

2019-04-03 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 03/04/2019 09:36, CJB wrote: > Just a quick question - installing get_player on a new computer I need > to transfer the History and PVR List files across (likely using a USB > drive). I know that they are in the \User\get_iplayer folder. But what > are these called? And wh

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