2020 Live Proms

Has anyone else had a problem downloading 2020 Live Proms at 320kbit/s?  I got this. Matches: 31722:  BBC Proms: 2020 Live - Beethoven’s Eroica, BBC Radio 3, m000m17d INFO: 1 matching programmes INFO: Downloading radio: 'BBC Proms: 2020 Live - Beethoven’s Eroica (m000m17d) [original]' INFO: No

Re: v3.26 Release notes

Many thanks for the explanation, and for all your work in maintaining it. On 02/07/2020 14:43, Shevek wrote: >From the PPA page: This PPA is no longer supported, and the final release of get-iplayer available here is 3.26. Further updates will not be made available here. Instead, please use

v3.26 Release notes

The v3.26 Release notes say, *"Ubuntu/Mint (and other Ubuntu-based distros) only: Farewell get_iplayer PPA* "The get_iplayer PPA is no longer supported by its maintainer, so you can no longer install get_iplayer from there.

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

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 ... excludecategory Sign

Re: Slow speed

On 19/02/2020 04:38, Paul Thornett wrote: Unfortunately the problem certainly doesn't lie with my ISP. I say unfortunately, because it's relatively easy to change ISP. But my quoted speeds are 100Mbps/40Mbps, and on some sites I get my 10Mbps per second. With get_iplayer I have in the past seen

Re: Slow speed

On 19/02/2020 00:21, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, RS wrote: Your only real remedy is to complain, complain and complain again to your ISP, or find a better ISP. I'd have thought it's the CDN choice that's being made rather than ISP. For example, having the line ‘exclude-supplier bidi’ in my

Re: Slow speed

On 18/02/2020 05:52, Paul Thornett wrote: And the way I have got to 87.6% is by stopping the transfer every 10% and doing a robocopy to a separate folder. Your only real remedy is to complain, complain and complain again to your ISP, or find a better ISP. Is there anywhere near you with a

Re: Search Fails to Find Early ‘Last Tango in Halifax’.

On 17/02/2020 15:11, James Scholes wrote: It's my understanding that GiP indexes TV programs via the schedules. That is probably right. My understanding is that there are two constraints. The first is that the programme has been broadcast or is going to be broadcast. The second is that it

Re: Slow speed

On 16/02/2020 11:46, I wrote: I have recently found downloads getting faster.  Since get_iplayer v3.24 I have gone back to HVF modes.  I used to think Akamai was fastest, but now Limelight seems to be faster.  hvfhd3 (Akamia) used to be faster than hvfxsd3, but I am now getting up to

Re: Slow speed

On 15/02/2020 17:05, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: 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.  You don't give your broadband

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

Hi Ralph Thanks for pointing that out. If anyone wants it with 128kbit/s AAC-LC audio you can additionally download --tvmode=hvfhigh --audio-only and merge it with the hvfxsd download using ffmpeg -map Best wishes Richard On 16/02/2020 11:14, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, I've deleted the

Re: Sky at Night

On 30/12/2019 18:19, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: 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

HVF 25 fps modes are back

The good news is that the HVF 25fps modes are back. https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release324 Many thanks to dinky and gipmod for all the hard work in maintaining this. The bad news is that when I tried --tvmode=hvfxsd3 with the latest version of Click

Re: His Dark Materials m000csdk: only audiodescribed available?

On 27/12/2019 12:58, Ralph Corderoy wrote: ... Interesting how I once again get the low-resolution audiodescribed version despite those ‘Downloaded’ showing the ‘/ll’ CDN. If I download it a third time, adding ‘--exclude-supplier bidi’ then I upgrade again to technical, still /ll. INFO:

Re: His Dark Materials m000csdk: only audiodescribed available?

On 27/12/2019 13:05, Ralph Corderoy wrote: ... VLC has no choice but to play the single audio stream in the MP4 file. Whether technical or audiodescribed, there is only one audio stream present. ... So I don't know how VLC is avoiding reading out the audio descriptions unless it's not actually

Re: His Dark Materials m000csdk: only audiodescribed available?

On 24/12/2019 14:25, Ralph Corderoy wrote: I'm using version 3.22, but I don't see anything relevant at https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#changes-in-323 that suggests 3.23 would fare better. I don't claim to understand the changes made by the BBC which prompted

Re: His Dark Materials m000csdk: only audiodescribed available?

Hi Ralph The versions field is telling you the available versions, and the end of the filename is telling you the version you  downloaded.  I can't see anything in what you have shown which suggests you got the audiodescribed version when you didn't want it.  That is not to say you won't get

Re: His Dark Materials m000csdk: only audiodescribed available?

On 24/12/2019 11:06, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Specifying ‘--modes dvfhd1,dvfhd2,dvfhd3’ picks the technical version. INFO: Downloading tv: 'His Dark Materials: Series 1 - 08. Betrayal (m000csdk) [technical]' INFO: Downloaded: 0.00 MB (00:00:00) @ 0.00 Mb/s (dvfhd1/bi) [audio]

Re: Mixing different video and audio modes

On 06/12/2019 20:05, I wrote: To make the last command a bit clearer I can write it as ffmpeg -i infilev.mp4 -i infilea.m4a -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 -c copy \ outfile That should be outfile.mp4 ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Mixing different video and audio modes

On 04/12/2019 21:33, I wrote: There used to be an option for some of the HLS modes to replace the 128kbit/s audio with 320kbit/s audio.  There is no longer any 320kbit/s audio for tv, so the option is being withdrawn. I would imagine that a similar technique could be used to replace the

Mixing different video and audio modes

There used to be an option for some of the HLS modes to replace the 128kbit/s audio with 320kbit/s audio. There is no longer any 320kbit/s audio for tv, so the option is being withdrawn. I would imagine that a similar technique could be used to replace the 96kbit/s audio in dvfxsd with

Re: world service 96k

On 04/12/2019 15:42, Jim web wrote: In article <581d19c687...@audiomisc.co.uk>, Jim web wrote: In article <603b6aab-a35b-ecc6-e34b-ed0e72b51...@zoho.com>, RS wrote: You can use a list of modes in order of preference. --radiomode=dafhigh,dafstd,dafmed Alas, this just gives

Re: Get_iplayer with Podcasts

On 03/12/2019 19:33, Steve wrote: And whats the parent PID? The first episode? or the main page? I tried both to no avail.. Steve I was going to ask the same question. Although I find --pid-recursive to be very useful, I do not always find it easy to get the results I want. As far as I can

Re: world service 96k

On 04/12/2019 10:55, Jim web wrote: Here are some examples of the info for some recent programmes on WS that illustrate the odd variations. Question is what the best strategy might be for mode settings to always get the best available quality? As a personal choice I tend to prefer podcast

Re: world service 96k

On 03/12/2019 14:22, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: 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

Re: world service 96k

On 03/12/2019 13:42, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: 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

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

On 30/11/2019 11:18, I wrote: On 30/11/2019 06:31, Geoff Smith wrote: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release323 We still seem to have lost some HVF modes, including the mode I use most often, hvfxsd.  I have just tried to download the latest version of

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

On 30/11/2019 06:31, Geoff Smith wrote: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release323 Usual thanks to the maintainer. We still seem to have lost some HVF modes, including the mode I use most often, hvfxsd. I have just tried to download the latest version of

Re: GiP and ffmpeg

On 04/11/2019 15:14, Roger Bell_West wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 02:53:28PM +, Budge wrote: Any clues what might have caused this and how can I correct the fault (which may or may not be the problem with Linn DS player)? I don't see any reply to James Scholes' comment of 23 October.

Re: GiP and ffmpeg

On 27/10/2019 21:08, Budge wrote: On 27/10/2019 20:56, Budge wrote: Further to this thread as it has developed I find I have two example files both downloaded with GiP. Using ffprobe, one is shown as:- Duration: 02:33:00.99, start: 0.00, bitrate: 321 kb/s Stream #0:0(eng):

Re: GiP and ffmpeg

On 22/10/2019 21:41, Budge wrote: Many thanks. I asked as I am still trying to get to the bottom of my problems with some GiP radio downloads and the Linn DS playing problem however these date from 2012 and I note things have changed. Would radio programmes from then have been re-muxed once

Re: GiP and ffmpeg

On 22/10/2019 16:45, Budge wrote: I understood that GiP uses ffmpeg during downloading of radio files. Is that correct and always correct with the various radio file types available from BBC? Budge For presently available modes it is not quite right to say that ffmpeg is used *during*

Re: Tidying up Radio Downloads

On 16/10/2019 09:26, Budge wrote: I have it now. My misunderstanding was that I was putting the file address where file is in the command line, not putting the file into the place where GiP settings have it. Sorry for my mistake. I have got this wrong. There is no bug. Sorry to have

Re: Tidying up Radio Downloads

On 15/10/2019 11:47, Budge wrote: I am not clear which part of your advice is a quote from the wiki and which is from you based on my message. I have identified the full path to the file in my command so it should work. Any ideas what more I can do? The quote from the wiki

Re: Tidying up Radio Downloads

On 15/10/2019 11:21, David Cantrell wrote: Stream availability is part of the metadata. Metadata remains behind even after streams have become unavailable for two reasons. First, so iPlayer can show you when something was broadcast; second, to cope with repeats. Thanks for that

Re: Tidying up Radio Downloads

On 14/10/2019 18:08, Budge wrote: This is what I get:- alastair@install:~> get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=b01r1vt2 --tag-only --tag-podcast-radio

Re: Message to 7867650...@email.uscc.net failed.

On 08/10/2019 17:48, Roger Bell_West wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 05:04:33PM +0100, Clive wrote: My two 'reply list' emails today resulted in an email (four each, in fact) error as subject. Is this my personal problem or is it a common failure? Generally this means that the recipient is

Re: Yesterday in Parliament - not quite OT

On 26/09/2019 17:55, I wrote: Example get_iplayer --pid=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00095g0/wednesday-in-parliament-25092019 or get_iplayer --pid=m00095g0 The Prime Minister's Statement is get_iplayer

Re: Yesterday in Parliament - not quite OT

On 26/09/2019 16:33, Charles Johnson wrote: On 26/09/2019 10:53, James Scholes wrote: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00097ry Regards, James Scholes Thanks. I think therefore that there's usually a 'title' involved and that it's a question of getting the right one... Go to

Re: semi-OT: BBC shedule URL parsing quirks

On 05/09/2019 11:41, I wrote: On 05/09/2019 10:34, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: The relevant Functional cookie for region setting seems to be ckps_tap_​explicit Stores parental guidance settings, favourited content (for non-signed in users), content consumption information (for

Re: semi-OT: BBC shedule URL parsing quirks

On 05/09/2019 10:34, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: On 2019-09-05 09:59, Jim web wrote: I'm using FF in the standard version current for Linux Mint xfce LTS. I've turned off all the things I regard as 'snoopy', but not made other changes to FF beyond tweaking the scaling and using my own home

Re: semi-OT: BBC shedule URL parsing quirks

On 04/09/2019 13:09, Jim web wrote: Alas, whenever I try to change London to Scotland the change appears for a second, then reverts to London! Most of the time this doesn't matter, but it does if I want one of the opt-out items. I'm using FireFox for the javascripting browser. The

Re: GiP 3.22

On 21/08/2019 14:26, CJB wrote: A few issues with refrashing the Radio cache ... ... WARNING: Got 0 programmes for BBC Radio Bristol schedule page (HTML): https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl75/2019/w32 WARNING: Failed to parse BBC Radio Bristol schedule page:

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

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. In the meantime you can work with PIDs. Alternatively go to https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/unix#cli and scroll down to

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

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, cannot access any programme schedules using GiP v3.17

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

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 BBC One Scotland schedule page (JSON):

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

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 BBC One Scotland schedule page (JSON): https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6v/2019/w33 (snip)

Re: Excessive Bounces

On 28/07/2019 11:01, Mark Carroll wrote: Standards violations or similar daft decisions by big players are a common issue in IT, Pious comments about standards violation are not much help unless we can identify what the standards are and how they are being violated. My (very limited)

Re: Excessive Bounces

On 27/07/2019 13:03, Roger Bell_West wrote: On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 09:14:40PM +1000, Steven Carr wrote: Has an admin (not)updated settings on the list that’s causing GMail to reject emails? I know on some other lists I’m a member of changes have had to be made to Mailman due to DKIM/DMARC.

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

On 27/07/2019 01:58, Owen Smith wrote: ITV1 HD on Freeview has never broadcast in anything other than 2.0 audio. Their stated reason is it being too difficult to switch modes between content in 5.1 and adverts in 2.0. This is clearly rubbish since C4 HD does it with no problems. But given the

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

On 25/07/2019 11:13, Jim web wrote: Which then leads to the conundrum that iPlayer TV becomes the poor relation when it comes to music broadcasts like Proms. A mere 128k aac compared with the 320k aac of R3 and the 5.1. surround of HDTV DVB-T2, etc! I doubt bandwidth is the issue because

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

On 19/07/2019 11:32, Colin Law wrote: That would require leaving the PC on overnight which may be an issue for some. No it doesn't.  You can buy a Raspberry Pi for about £40 and it consumes about 10W, or about the same as a 1000 lumen LED lamp.

Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available

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 downloads the change appears to have happened

get_iplayer release 3.21

There seems to be a new release 3.21 of get_iplayer. https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release321 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Red Rock TV programme missing from schedule

On 10/07/2019 10:00, I wrote: On 09/07/2019 11:46, I wrote: On 09/07/2019 10:42, I wrote: On 07/07/2019 13:27, artisticforge Niemand wrote: I just happened to notice that the TV Program Red Rock is missing from the schedule. "red rock" is still not found by a get_iplayer search, but I

Re: Red Rock TV programme missing from schedule

On 09/07/2019 11:46, I wrote: On 09/07/2019 10:42, I wrote: On 07/07/2019 13:27, artisticforge Niemand wrote: I just happened to notice that the TV Program Red Rock is missing from the schedule. There does seem to be a problem with episode 25.  I got this even though the iPlayer says it

Re: Red Rock TV programme missing from schedule

On 09/07/2019 10:42, I wrote: On 07/07/2019 13:27, artisticforge Niemand wrote: I just happened to notice that the TV Program Red Rock is missing from the schedule. It is on BBC One on Monday, but it is not present in the gip schedule. I do not know if other programs may be missing. gip

Re: Red Rock TV programme missing from schedule

On 07/07/2019 13:27, artisticforge Niemand wrote: I just happened to notice that the TV Program Red Rock is missing from the schedule. It is on BBC One on Monday, but it is not present in the gip schedule. I do not know if other programs may be missing. gip stopped downloading at red rock

Re: Porridge

On 07/07/2019 14:32, Dave Widgery wrote: I have noticed that the complete Porridge with Ronny Barker is available on IPlayer but if I try and use the command. get_iplayer Porridge It comes back with 0 matching programs, if I do a search by pid works fine, can anyone explain why porridge is not

Re: New distro.

On 01/07/2019 20:19, Peter S Kirk wrote: > On 30 Jun 2019 at 19:50, I wrote: >> On 24/06/2019 18:12, Vangelis forthnet wrote: >>> mainly because third party library libx265 (video encoder) >>> has been configured with NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support, >>> a feature absent under Vista+XP:

Re: New distro.

On 24/06/2019 18:12, Vangelis forthnet wrote: ... Latest installer bundles a 32-bit binary of FFmpeg 4.1.1, compiled by Zeranoe... That executable won't run in either XP or Vista and has to be replaced with a compatible compile... FFmpeg vanilla code has dropped XP support in branch 4.x.x, but

Re: New distro.

On 21/06/2019 21:42, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: 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

Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

On 25/03/2019 11:04, CJB wrote: Please can someone suggest how to use get_iplayer in command mode to download these podcasts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p066rd9t/episodes/player Thank you - Chris B. Why do you need to use get_iplayer? Click the link in your email. Click the link to

Re: Radio Comedy: Dad's Army et al ....

On 21/03/2019 08:52, CJB wrote: The naming of the files to include 'original' or 'shortened' seems to imply that some dialogue has been removed. Maybe 'original' means full length tape broadcasts as aired years ago, whereas 'shortened' means from a transcription disc. Or maybe the 'original'

Re: Steam radio...

On 17/03/2019 16:32, Nick wrote: I got all the video files in one go with this lengthy, but one line command: wget -qO- http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/ | grep 'http://www.bbc.co.uk\1@' | sort | uniq | xargs -L1 get_iplayer.294 Thank you very much for this. As someone new to

Re: Steam radio...

On 17/03/2019 14:08, Jim web wrote: FWIW I did try looking at the source code for one of the BBC pages involved here. But couldn't see any sign of a pattern that I recognised as an actual pid. :-/ I cheated and worked back from the PID in the Olivia Chaney example. The relevant string

Re: Steam radio...

On 17/03/2019 10:10, Jim web wrote: In article <20190316150052.5a6da...@roadkill.i.lucanops.net>, wrote: $ get_iplayer.294 http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/7318.shtml I've tried the above via calling gip followed by the url of the relevant page (i.e. just changing the number

Re: Steam radio...

On 16/03/2019 16:51, Jim web wrote: I do have some ancient versions of gip on one machine here. So I'll experiment. Question of "how old", etc, I guess. From the above I get the impression you used 2.94. The last version of get_iplayer to support Flash was v2.99. That does not mean all

Re: No streams for pid m0002zcx

On 07/03/2019 12:04, J K.Eason wrote: The BBC's definition of 'shortly' doesn't necessarily agree with everyone else's! :^) To the extent that the podcast of next Wednesday's programme is already available, while the only reference to the Corridors episode seems to be Monday's repeat.

Re: Problem downloading - BBC Radio 4 Iran: A Revolutionary State - 3.20-ppa33

On 03/03/2019 17:43, Kevin Lynch wrote: Thanks for the workaround. It's perfectly acceptable to me However did I miss a thread or something where this kind of functionality is no longer supported? Support for Flash has been removed from get_iplayer.

get_iplayer v3.20

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but I haven't seen it. There was a new version on 25 February. https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release320 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Joint UK streaming platform

According to today's Sunday Times, "The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are already locked in negotiations to create a joint UK streaming platform made up of new content and their back catalogues, through a project known as Kangaroo 2." Does anyone know anything about it? I found this.

Re: Rutherford and Fry

On 08/01/2019 12:08, Jim Lesurf wrote: I've been getting the current 'Rutherford and Fry' series and it seems to differ from most other radio progs on R4. As a result I've been able to use the same gip settings as I've employed for ages to get the 'extended' version that is podcast as 320k aac.

Re: [Announcement]GiP 3.18 released!

On 29/12/2018 18:00, Alan Milewczyk wrote: From the release notes at https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release310to319#release318 in the section "Changes to substitution parameters": "The episode number prepended to || is now zero-padded to 2 digits. This is reflected in the

Re: [Announcement]GiP 3.18 released!

On 29/12/2018 15:58, Alan Milewczyk wrote: On 29/12/2018 13:25, artisticforge Niemand wrote: hello I am glad the extraneous  updates has been fixed. I have just noticed an issue with updating to get_iplayer-3.18. in 2016 I downloaded,

Re: BBC Versions

On 25/11/2018 09:11, Chris Marriott wrote: The names seem reasonable descriptive to me. "Legal" presumably means that the programme has been edited for legal reasons. Cheers, Chris -Original Message- From: ipla...@nutwood.net Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2018 8:31 AM To:

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

On 22/11/2018 18:13, Shevek wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 at 17:00, RS wrote: Shevek Thanks for pointing out that Gmail is treating my posts as spam. From what David says users are not receiving my posts at all. This one went straight to inbox not spam What was different about that one

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

On 22/11/2018 14:48, David Woodhouse wrote: 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

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

On 20/11/2018 20:28, Alan Milewczyk wrote: No dupes here, Budge! On 20/11/2018 08:31, Budge wrote: Hi, just received a series of duplicate emails in the "Compulsory podcasts - In Our Time" thread.  Is there a server issue or is it at my end?  Seems to have abated for now but it has happened

Re: Compulsory podcasts - In Our Time

On 19/11/2018 13:04, I wrote: ... Essentially what is being said is that there have been two episodes, Marie Antoinette and Horace, where the only version has been podcast.  I suspect it is a mistake. ... If there had been an intentional change to podcast only I would have expected the

Re: Compulsory podcasts - In Our Time

On 18/11/2018 14:41, James Scholes wrote: This is also reflected on the BBC Sounds website, which as I said above, will always choose an original broadcast version wherever possible.  In this case it plays the podcast version. I should have added to my last post that the links to the

Re: Compulsory podcasts - In Our Time

On 18/11/2018 14:41, James Scholes wrote: The particular episode you mention (PID: mt3y) is available in all of those three versions.  When you play it on the BBC Sounds website, which will always choose an original broadcast version when available, the original version is indeed the one

Re: changing the output directory???

On 18/11/2018 15:07, chrisch...@free.fr wrote: hi   pc windows 10 gip 3.17 probably a very silly question  but Im getting more and more confused  i ve spent a good 90 mins trying to change the output directory of Gip from "C:\Users\UserPC\rce"  to "C:\Users\UserPC\Desktop\iPlayer

Re: Compulsory podcasts - In Our Time

On 18/11/2018 13:33, Roger Wilkins wrote: On 18/11/2018 12:27, michael norman wrote: Thank you Michael. GiP is v3.17 on Windows 10. See my reply to James - response to using --versions=original on the recent "Horace" edition (pid=m00014jt) is: INFO: No versions of this programme were

Re: Compulsory podcasts - In Our Time

On 18/11/2018 13:54, michael norman wrote: On 18/11/2018 13:33, Roger Wilkins wrote: On 18/11/2018 12:27, michael norman wrote: See my reply to James - response to using --versions=original on the recent "Horace" edition (pid=m00014jt) is: INFO: No versions of this programme were selected

Re: pid listed but not available

On 04/11/2018 01:23, Alan Milewczyk wrote: On 04/11/2018 00:08, Mark Carroll wrote: On 03 Nov 2018, artisticforge Niemand wrote: Hello; the entry for Natural World 2009-2010 Episode 13 Saving Luna is list in the tv.cache and get_iplayer --info --type=tv --pid=b00q2s16 returns Which

Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

On 30/10/2018 11:05, I wrote: On 29/10/2018 20:39, I wrote: At present I am still testing it with default file locations.  I have run into a problem I have so far been unable to solve; it hangs while tagging.  If I repeat the run with get_iplayer --force --tag-only --verbose it displays the

Re: OT VM or Dual boot and get_iplayer

On 31/10/2018 13:09, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 05:34:26AM +, Geoff Smith wrote: I am at a loss to understand why anyone uses dual-booting, it's an archaic method. I gave it up a decade ago to enjoy the advantages of using VMs. It's still useful when you want to run

Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

On 30/10/2018 17:44, Charles Johnson wrote: On 30/10/2018 16:46, RS wrote: For the options file it uses the line terminator as a separator.  For some options the presence of a CR does not matter.  For others it causes the option to be garbled. I don't have an options file and have never

Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

On 31/10/2018 10:02, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Apologies for broken link ... When I posted this yesterday evening, I didn't think to check that the download link was actually working, which for reasons too complicated and OT to be worth going into here, it wasn't.  I've changed the

Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

On 29/10/2018 20:39, I wrote: At present I am still testing it with default file locations.  I have run into a problem I have so far been unable to solve; it hangs while tagging.  If I repeat the run with get_iplayer --force --tag-only --verbose it displays the metadata it has processed

Re: Dual boot and get_iplayer

On 30/10/2018 11:45, Charles Johnson wrote: ... Yes, _writing_ is a different matter and a decision would have to be made A file has to be written before it can be read. If Perl writes a file when running under Linux it will write LF as the line terminator. When running under Windows it

Dual boot and get_iplayer

My main PC dual boots between Windows 10 1803 and kubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. I would like to be able to run get_iplayer on whichever OS happens to be running, as I do, for example, with Thunderbird, where I have both profiles pointing to the same message base. In the case of get_iplayer I would

Re: Radio 4 screwed?

On 29/10/2018 16:50, I wrote: I managed to download it with hlastd after I was told hafstd was not available.  What are hlastd and hlalow?  Have I missed something? Not only can I not find hlastd and hlalow in modes ref https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modesref but they

Re: Radio 4 screwed?

On 29/10/2018 13:41, James Scholes wrote: CJB wrote: Can't download these - the streams do not exist. Just downloaded it fine here. > Episodes: > Voices from the Old Bailey: Series 3 - Shoplifting, BBC Radio 4, > b04fc80v > INFO: 1 total programmes > INFO: Downloading radio: 'Voices

Re: Loss of BBC HD channels on satellite

On 18/10/2018 20:43, a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Deconstruction: I know that what I am about to post has nothing to do with get_iplayer but I am going to force you to download it and read it. I am not forcing you to do anything. I put my warning as early as possible in the message to save

Loss of BBC HD channels on satellite

This is off topic since it does not concern get_iplayer or the iPlayer, so if you are going to be offended please stop reading. Some of you have said you use satellite so this may be of interest. Last night my satellite receiver displayed "Tune failed!" whenever I tried to receive any of the

Re: Downloading Subtitles

On 08/10/18 10:22, I wrote: That is not quite the whole story.  There were a few programmes whose subtitle XML files (TTML?) were corrupt.  They included some NUL characters and, I am told, NUL is not a valid character in XML. The code was changed to ignore NUL characters.  As an

Re: Downloading Subtitles

On 08/10/18 03:02, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Mon Oct 8 00:18:40 BST 2018, Peter S Kirk wrote: Until recently, subtitles were downloaded first thus get_i pvr could be stopped once done. Now they are downloaded after video. Why? ... Because the powers that be (i.e. the one and only person

Re: Downloading Subtitles

From: chrisjbr...@gmail.com Sent: 8 October 2018 00:05 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Downloading Subtitles Please - is there a way of downloading subtitles after the respective video file has been downloaded? The latter file is a large one and I don't wont to download it again.

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