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

On 25/04/2021 13:10, Jim web wrote: The problem being unknown unknowns. Jim If only we knew a little about those. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: YouTube with OBS

On 26/10/2020 11:40, Chris Brady wrote: An alternative to actual downloading it is possible to use the free open-source OBS screen capture app. to copy YouTube (and many other clips) direct from the screen. I've used it for RTE programmes.because RTE-Player doesn't appear to work in the UK. CJB

Re: RIAA wipes youtube-dl from the internet

On 25/10/2020 18:51, Peter S Kirk wrote: The one thing I've not seen link to, other than El Reg, is the RIAA DMCA takedown notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md They seem to have given up on torrent sites as TPB, Zooqle etc now available on BT. Moved on

Re: iPlayer Tags 'shortened' v.v 'original'

On 19/09/2020 11:05, Jim web wrote: In article , Chris Brady wrote: However bearing in mind the increasing left wing PC bias of the Beeb, so many Brit classic comedy programmes have had the tag ' shortened' in the metadata. This nonsense started in about 2019. Why? You seem to be

Re: An OT thread about the forums

On 15/04/2020 22:12, Andy Nudd wrote: On 15/04/2020 08:41, Budge wrote: On 12/04/2020 15:32, SquarePenguin wrote: I guess this message is to guage how much people would care/not care if I just closed the forums. I don't particularly mind figuring out a way to close them but keep online for

Re: Unsubscribed email - but I didnt unsubscribe

On 15/03/2020 11:55, Mark Carroll wrote: On 9693 Sep 1993, Kevin McCarthy wrote: Has anyone received an email saying they unsubscribed from the get_iplayer mailing list? I received an email yesterday saying I unsubscribed but I didn't! Has the list been hacked? I'm still on it okay as I got

Re: OT BBC Iplayer on firestick problems

On 28/02/2020 17:16, Nic Siddle wrote: May be totally unconnected, but we have found that i-Player is getting less and less reliable when just watching catchup TV through a cheap NowBox.. Buffering issues, often grinding to complete halt leading to need to re-start. We do not experience the

Re: No Prime Minister?

On 07/02/2020 10:02, Roger Bell_West wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 09:26:34AM +, 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. Given the heavy-handedness of many copyright

Re:

On 27/10/2019 08:41, CJB wrote: Do not click on the link - its a virus. CJB ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer Best not to resend it either.

Re: Excessive Bounces

On 28/07/2019 11:01, Mark Carroll wrote: On 28 Jul 2019, Bernard Peek wrote: I've used Gmail for years but I'm happy to use something else. My main reason for choosing Gmail back then was its spam filtering. What alternatives can match that today? I would second the idea of putting gmx.com at

Re: New distro.

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 aren't

Re: Steam radio...

On 16/03/2019 12:42, Jim web wrote: I've recently found an 'archive' page at bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/ which also links to old pages on each item it lists. My usual way of fetching items is to hover the mouse over a player window or link, or look at the programme's address to see the

Re: BBC iPlayer proposals: Public Interest Test consultation

On 08/01/2019 10:05, Stuart Caie wrote: FYI, I think the people on this mailing list might have opinions about this. The BBC would like to break free of some of the restrictions imposed on iPlayer, like the 30 day limit. Their regulator, Ofcom, says they need to consult the public.

Re: Converting AAC to MP3 / FLAC

http://soundconverter.org/ On 21/12/2018 12:53, CJB wrote: Hi - someone kindly sent me a download in AAC format. How can I convert it to MP3 or FLAC. Thanks - Chris B. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: Compulsory podcasts - In Our Time

On 18/11/2018 13:33, Roger Wilkins wrote: On 18/11/2018 12:27, michael norman wrote: On 18/11/2018 11:05, Roger Wilkins wrote: Hello All. First time poster; long time lurker. I notice that In Our Time is now a compulsory podcast, in the sense that downloading the Thursday 9am broadcast

Re: Compulsory podcasts - In Our Time

On 18/11/2018 11:05, Roger Wilkins wrote: Hello All. First time poster; long time lurker. I notice that In Our Time is now a compulsory podcast, in the sense that downloading the Thursday 9am broadcast in the usual way using the programme ID yields a piece topped-and-tailed by the irritating

Re: No Wimbledon Today?

On 09/07/18 18:11, Geoff Smith wrote: This subject was off-topic from the start. Please drop it. On 09/07/2018, Alan Milewczyk wrote: On 09/07/2018 12:52, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 05:27:53PM +0100, Alan Milewczyk wrote: On 06/07/2018 13:48, David Cantrell wrote: On

Re: Dr. Who Downloads

On 05/06/18 21:43, Alan Milewczyk wrote: On 05/06/2018 20:56, Jimmy Aitken wrote: --pid b0074drw Hmmm, well using "get_iplayer --pid  b0074drw" on GIP3.14 and Win7 x64 Ultimate, that episode downloaded successfully, no problems whatsoever. Alan As it did here using GIP3.14 and Linux

Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

On 06/04/18 13:27, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 11:58:44PM +0100, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: And that's not to mention the absurdity of not being allowed to download a 40-50 year old B version of 'Pride & Prejudice', or the 50 year old 'Funny Girl' & 43 year old 'Funny

Re: Unable to play with VLC

On 03/04/18 10:42, iz wrote: This is a known limitation of VLC, and it is unrelated to colour subtitles. Any external subtitles file can cause the problem. If you are wedded to .ts files for some reason, try another media player. Kodi ? ___

Re: Format of options file

On 04/03/18 09:25, RS wrote: On 04/03/18 00:24, I wrote: If download_history can use 0x0A as a line terminator in both Linux and Windows I can't see why the options file should not also.  The options file is internal to get_iplayer.  Users do not need to edit it directly. I would add that

Re: A few ffmpeg queries

On 14/09/17 12:31, J K.Eason wrote: On which subject - there's a new channel 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. It's available and

Re: recording quality and vpn

On 27/08/17 17:34, Vangelis forthnet wrote:  On Sun Aug 27 14:18:36 BST 2017, cc wrote: can the use of a vpn limit the number of recording qualities available? (snip) I managed to get1280.x720  def  on 25 aug (snip) it is now proving impossible for the various downloads I have tried. ...

Re: recording quality and vpn

On 27/08/17 15:48, cc wrote: thanks fyi I am paying the license fee but the bbc does not care whether I do before limiting their service Ok accepted, - Original Message - From: "michael norman" <michaeltnor...@gmail.com> To: <get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org> S

Re: recording quality and vpn

On 27/08/17 14:24, David Cantrell wrote: On 27/08/2017 14:18, cc wrote: can the use of a vpn limit the number of  recording qualities available? Although I managed to get1280.x720  def  on 25 aug with - -tvdefault in the command line, it is now proving impossible for the various downloads I

Re: Podcast sample rate

On 27/07/17 17:39, RS wrote: From: michael norman Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 13:37 I have always used hardware players by which I assume you mean portable players to listen to music. Those used to be called mp3 players culminating in the iPOD I suppose. Nowadays I still do

Re: Podcast sample rate

On 26/07/17 12:36, RS wrote: Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:56 I wrote To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Podcast sample rate I wish the BBC would think more about backwards compatibility of AAC. There is no problem with software players. HTML5 and recent versions of VLC

Re: Podcast sample rate

On 26/07/17 13:12, Jim web wrote: In article , RS wrote: There is no mention of bit rate. If I go to that page in Firefox it does indeed play the programme I select, but it does not offer me a choice of bit rates, but

Re: A bug in get_iplayer-3.01?

On 07/06/2017 11:11 PM, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Thu Jul 6 22:58:08 BST 2017, Ralph Corderoy wrote: and there hasn't been anything on the mailing list since then. ... and I call this "calm before the storm" ... :-) Regards, Vangelis. So can I go to sleep in the knowledge that the sky

Re: BBC Earth

On 06/14/2017 06:13 PM, Mark Carroll wrote: On 14 Jun 2017, CJB wrote: Is it possible to download files from BBC Earth? Seems like licence fee payers are paying for a channel that they cannot access - certainly its not on Freeview. CJB Isn't it largely means by which BBC Worldwide show stuff

Re: R3 Flac again

On 06/03/2017 02:06 PM, Jim web wrote: In article <be20f8da-7e6f-7fd0-0d11-a05bf8ddc...@gmail.com>, michael norman <michaeltnor...@gmail.com> wrote: Without wanting to start the usual debate about bitrates etc my personal wish would be for the BBC to stream all of its music ou

Re: R3 Flac again

On 06/03/2017 12:34 PM, Jim web wrote: This is just to let people know as I think some here will be interested. I've just been told by 'someone at the BBC' that *all* their R3 programming during the period of the Proms will be flac streamed. This is contrary to what I'd been told previously

Re: GIP 3.00 openSUSE 42.2 SOLVED

On 05/03/2017 11:51 AM, SquarePenguin wrote: I can't tell you why you're facing the error but my suspicion would be that disabling the h264 decoder is somehow affecting how gip is handling the remuxing. Perhaps it needs to decode the first frame of the stream or something? I can't say. I guess

Re: GIP 3.00 openSUSE 42.2

On 03/05/17 11:51, SquarePenguin wrote: From your log I can't really see anything obvious aside from Cannot load libnvcuvid.so.1 [h264_cuvid @ 0x9cfc20] Failed loading nvcuvid. [mpegts @ 0x9c9f60] Failed to open codec in avformat_find_stream_info Cannot load libnvcuvid.so.1 [h264_cuvid @

Re: GIP 3.00 openSUSE 42.2

On 05/02/2017 12:25 PM, SquarePenguin wrote: On 02/05/17 12:01, michael norman wrote: I'll try that later. Thanks for help so far, got other things to do for a while. OK. When you come back can you attempt the download again but with the following command to capture a log as a text file

Re: GIP 3.00 openSUSE 42.2

On 02/05/17 11:57, SquarePenguin wrote: On 02/05/17 11:31, michael norman wrote: Does this help ? Maybe. What's the output of `vainfo` please? ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman

Re: GIP 3.00 openSUSE 42.2

On 05/02/2017 11:09 AM, SquarePenguin wrote: On 02/05/17 10:48, michael norman wrote: No I have Intel on board graphic chip And what is the output of lspci -v | grep VGA please, just for certainty? And when you simply run `ffmpeg` in the terminal, what is the full output, can you post

Re: GIP 3.00 openSUSE 42.2

On 05/02/2017 10:36 AM, SquarePenguin wrote: On 02/05/17 09:58, michael norman wrote: Cannot load libnvcuvid.so.1 [h264_cuvid @ 0xa02c20] Failed loading nvcuvid. Cannot load libnvcuvid.so.1 [h264_cuvid @ 0xa02c20] Failed loading nvcuvid. ffmpeg is working/being accessed (I think). It's just

GIP 3.00 openSUSE 42.2

I installed GIP 3.00 as per the instructions into /usr/local/bin. I checked that I have AtomicParsley and Ffmpeg before I did that. Ok ran GIP and got this michael1@Bonds:~> get_iplayer --get 6647 get_iplayer v3.00, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO

Re: No .xml - what is work-around?

On 04/28/2017 03:13 PM, artisticforge . wrote: the simple answer is that something is different this time around. I am seriously sick and have other issues on my mind. I know that right now under Jessie Debian get_iplayer-2.99 is completely and utterly broken. if you say it works great go for

Re: April fool or real?

Who knows. Interesting that they choose Firefox as a default browser. Be that as it may using FF here on Linux I can find this from R3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0080fv2 as in Composer Of The Week Scott Joplin. Which sounds pretty good to me. I don't know how to tell the quality of

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 21/03/17 13:49, iz wrote: Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 1:35 PM From: RS For HLS you need v2.5 or above so v3.2 ought to be alright. However I have a feeling there was a problem with v3.2 and you need to upgrade to v3.2.2. You don't. I found the solution for

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 21/03/17 13:18, RS wrote: From: iz Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 12:59 Wrong syntax (compare to below), and not necessary since you have established that /usr/bin/ffmpeg is in $PATH. What happens if you type ffmeg at a prompt? It should display the version number and configuration

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 21/03/17 12:59, iz wrote: Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 12:51 PM From: "michael norman" I last tried --prefs-add ffmpeg "/usr/bin/ffmpeg" but that doesn't work. Wrong syntax (compare to below), and not necessary since you have established that /usr/bin/ffmpeg

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 21/03/17 11:43, iz wrote: Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 at 2:23 PM From: "michael norman" /home/michael1/imagine_Summer_2010_-_3._Growing_Old_Disgracefully_b00sz455_original.hls.ts open3: exec of /usr/share/ffmpeg -loglevel error -stats -y -i /home/michael1/imagine_Summe

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 21/03/17 11:15, Budge wrote: On 19/03/17 12:23, RS wrote: From: Budge Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 20:15 You have got a lot more information from Mediainfo than I have seen. What parameters do I need to use to get all that information? I did not set any parameters. What operating

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 18/03/17 11:45, RS wrote: From: Budge Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 10:58 I am also running Leap 42.2 and just tried your pid. It worked fine and media info gave me:- Your example is not quite the same. Michael has used --tvmode=hlshd whereas you seem to have used --tvmode=hvfxsd. You

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 18/03/17 11:04, RS wrote: From: michael norman Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 09:55 On 18/03/17 07:38, The Kernel wrote: On 17/03/17 14:23, michael norman wrote: _3._Growing_Old_Disgracefully_b00sz455_original.partial.mp4 failed at /usr/bin/get_iplayer line 2075. From your earlier

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 18/03/17 07:38, The Kernel wrote: On 17/03/17 14:23, michael norman wrote: _3._Growing_Old_Disgracefully_b00sz455_original.partial.mp4 failed at /usr/bin/get_iplayer line 2075. michael1@linuxBonds:~> That line reads: $procid = open3( 0, $fh_child_out, $fh_child_err, @cmd ); A

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 18/03/17 05:34, The Kernel wrote: On 17/03/17 22:10, Nick Lord wrote: FWIW my get_iplayer 2.99 came from this repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/malcolmlewis:/openSUSE_ General/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ Is this what you're using? I too use this And all is well Double

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 17/03/17 18:31, Nick Lord wrote: I have the same set-up, which works fine for me. Is your ffmpeg maybe out of date? I have version 3.2-6.6 from the packman repository That's what I have. On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 14:23 +, michael norman wrote: Running as per the title Converting video

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 18/03/17 09:21, Colin Law wrote: On 17 March 2017 at 14:23, michael norman <michaeltnor...@gmail.com> wrote: Running as per the title Converting video file fails as per this example Matches: 5569: imagine...: Summer 2010 - Growing Old Disgracefully, BBC Two, b00sz455 INFO: 1 Ma

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 18/03/17 07:38, The Kernel wrote: On 17/03/17 14:23, michael norman wrote: _3._Growing_Old_Disgracefully_b00sz455_original.partial.mp4 failed at /usr/bin/get_iplayer line 2075. michael1@linuxBonds:~> That line reads: $procid = open3( 0, $fh_child_out, $fh_child_err, @cmd ); A

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

On 18/03/17 05:34, The Kernel wrote: On 17/03/17 22:10, Nick Lord wrote: FWIW my get_iplayer 2.99 came from this repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/malcolmlewis:/openSUSE_ General/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ Is this what you're using? I too use this And all is well Double

GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

Running as per the title Converting video file fails as per this example Matches: 5569: imagine...: Summer 2010 - Growing Old Disgracefully, BBC Two, b00sz455 INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Checking existence of original version INFO:

Re: BBC Licensing Expose

On 28/02/17 22:44, Tony Quinn wrote: On 28/02/2017 22:30, CJB wrote: I wish I'd never brought the subject up. But what a nasrty hate filled email I first received from that David person. CJB. He does come across as a truly vile individuial, it has to be said; but it's often the case with

Re: BBC Licensing Expose

On 28/02/17 22:30, CJB wrote: I wish I'd never brought the subject up. But what a nasrty hate filled email I first received from that David person. CJB. On 28/02/2017, Steve B wrote: On 27/02/2017 12:34, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 12:08 +, Tony

Re: 2.99 openSuse ffmpeg

/usr/src/ffmpeg-3.1.3/ffmpeg.c /usr/src/ffmpeg-3.1.3-64bit-static/ffmpeg which ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg when all else fails try ./get_iplayer --long-help On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 7:06 AM, michael norman <michaeltnor...@gmail.com> wrote: Running GIP 2.99 in openSUSE 42.2 FFMPEG

2.99 openSuse ffmpeg

Running GIP 2.99 in openSUSE 42.2 FFMPEG 3.2-65 is installed but running GIP from cli does not see it so conversion fails. How can I get GIP to see ffmpeg ? M ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: Issues with Large Files

Can't solve your problem, but if you have some Linn stuff you don't want I might make you an offer. OT for this list I know. M On 01/18/2017 12:50 PM, RS wrote: From: Budge Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 13:11 The issue could be that Linn's player doesn't have enough memory to read the

Re: So what does this really mean

On 16/09/16 20:44, David Cantrell wrote: On 2016-09-16, 19:16, RS wrote: I am not convinced by the argument that European copyright licences would be much more expensive because 38% of the EU population speak English as an additional language. People want to watch television in their mother

Re: So what does this really mean

Rites ? What ? Rights surely. Strikes me all the BBC is trying to do is make sure, on trust, that those who access its content pay for it. The BBC pays for rights to its programming same as any other broadcaster does one way or another, that has to be paid for. Worldwide rights are not

Re: License question

On 03/09/16 13:32, Jim web wrote: In article

Re: License question

On 03/09/16 10:11, Jonathan H wrote: I don't think you'll see a better summary of the situation than this. And yes, I realise the irony of copying and pasting an entire advertising-funded page, but when the advert covers the entire page and makes the article unreadable then I think it's fair

Re: License question

On 02/09/16 18:24, artisticforge . wrote: Hello Yes, not many people read Robert A. Heinlein these days. I still find people who do not grok TANSTAAFL. What is more amazing is that there are people who honestly believe that there is such a thing as "Free Lunch". I am a firm believer in

Re: Update: Progress and puzzles

Jim I have no idea if this helps but I've just installed gip 2.96 and the latest FFMPEG on Linux Mint 17.3 (from the PPA's) Trying both the Dads Army Episode and the Gergieve prom with in the latter case get-iplayer --get 210 tvmode=hlssstd1 I get it in hfdhd1 which works fine here in VLC

Re: Is this list redundant?

On 16/05/16 20:14, Jon Davies wrote: On 16 May 2016 at 19:32, David Woodhouse wrote: Is there still a benefit to having this list at all? Would we be better off shutting it down entirely? while there's some rubbish on this list, there are still valid support questions

Re: 320kbps radio audio available via MPEG-DASH

On 31/12/15 09:19, Jim web wrote: In article <56848c79.2030...@jls-radio.com>, James Scholes wrote: I've been investigating the BBC's offerings that they're making available via MPEG-DASH today, specifically for radio content. It appears that audio is available in

Re: Download your favourite BBC golden oldies for just £1.89

On 05/11/15 10:57, Paul Turvey wrote: Oh well, not for me at the moment BBC Store Downloader only works on Windows and Mac computers right now. Support for downloading on mobile and tablet devices is coming soon. If you don't want to stream, downloading requires a Silverlight-based

Re: BBC iPlayer cracks down and blocks VPN users

On 09/10/15 11:33, George Eycott wrote: Although get_iplayer is not intended to bypass geographical restrictions, the news does explain why some people are getting the error messages that they have been seeing (bear in mind some people may be using a VPN from within the UK). They may have

Re: Format of BBC Radio 4 .m4a files

On 11/09/15 18:37, Jim web wrote: In article , Jon Davies wrote: On 9 September 2015 at 12:28, Jim web wrote: Why not flac? because as others have pointed out, the raw data

Re: pop art

On 09/02/2015 06:25 PM, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 05:12:58PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote: Yes, for example, for security reasons, and a number of mobile browsers do not support JavaScript: http://quirksmode.org/m/table.html Name one that is commonly used by

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

On 07/07/2015 04:08 PM, Dave Liquorice wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 15:52:02 +0100, Graham Temple \(gmail\) wrote: TV should not be funded by a licence fee, but by direct grant from the government, funded by general taxation. Good grief we then effectively have a state controlled broadcaster.

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

On 07/07/2015 12:31 PM, Graham Temple (gmail) wrote: Yes but what about people who never ever watch TV at all. There are some, believe it or not - my parents for instance. They have computers and internet, but why should they pay a charge for something they will never use, just because they

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

On 07/07/2015 01:17 PM, Owen Smith wrote: I have no children so don't use schools, but I still pay for them and am happy to do so. I regard the BBC as being on the same footing, everyone in the UK should pay for it. I think that's called civilization and society.

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

On 07/07/2015 01:39 PM, Dave Liquorice wrote: On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 13:06:38 +0100, michael norman wrote: Yes but what about people who never ever watch TV at all. There are some, believe it or not - my parents for instance. They have computers and internet, but why should they pay a charge

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

On 07/06/2015 12:08 PM, Jim web wrote: In article CANGN4UPV=DTYdAwn=_crsnpakuqf+z6lfb87yjk69qywby-...@mail.gmail.com, Shevek she...@shevek.co.uk wrote: Some more analysis: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7034-will-budget-result-in-having-to-pay-for-bbc-iplayer.html Personally, I'm

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

Rather than promote conspiracy theories about non doms and media owners. direct your ire at the one eyed Scotch loon and his party who bribed electors with taxpayers' money. ___ Oh dear this is really getting OT But just asking who the one eyed

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

On 07/06/2015 09:13 PM, TQ wrote: On 06 July 2015 at 21:04 michael norman michaeltnor...@gmail.com wrote: Rather than promote conspiracy theories about non doms and media owners. direct your ire at the one eyed Scotch loon and his party who bribed electors with taxpayers' money

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

On 07/06/2015 09:47 PM, Alan Milewczyk wrote: Can we please keep party politics off the list? I could quite happily bore everyone senseless with my political rants but I'm sure you wouldn't want that! Alan ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

Mike Some real anti-BBC comments being posted on the forums. While I think the BBC can be pretty arrogant as an organisation (for example when dealing with complaints) I'm a great supporter of PBS broadcasting and I think the range and quality of programmes produced by the Corporation is

Re: Linux Mint woes

Who knows ? Because you want Linux to be like Windows ? What is your struggle, with what distro exactly. I use openSUSE but i have run GIP on that and LinuxMint with no problems. Updating GIP on either simply works. Last time I looked the instructions (squarepenguin or github) are easy enough

Fwd: Re: Linux Mint woes

Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Linux Mint woes Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:03:39 +0100 From: michael norman michaeltnor...@gmail.com To: Colin Law clan...@gmail.com On 07/01/2015 02:34 PM, Colin Law wrote: On 1 July 2015 at 14:17, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote

Re: My bat_iplayer script now has a problem.

FWIW as a BBC 'outsider', whenever I've spoken to current BBC people their view seems to be that they aren't 'hostile' to gip and its use. Their concern is to develop and improve the iplayer. Circumstances mean that part of the improvement has to be to make it easier and more efficient to

Re: Sampling frequency on Radio programmes - Taking it off topic

I am not so forgiving. It sounded like good-old-fashioned-British arrogance to me! The point is that by removing clicks, rumble, etc he is merely restoring the recording to as pristine condition as can reasonably be done given that the original recording is damaged by such artifacts and is

Re: Sampling frequency on Radio programmes - Taking it off topic

On 27/04/15 09:25, Jim web wrote: In article CA+L9Mav+WTCNAAL+d6RVJ7+cT+ndXg3V4F+=xaobvqz6gzj...@mail.gmail.com, Kevin Lynch klyn...@gmail.com wrote: Although this discussion is largely closed I just wanted to draw attention to this show on R4 that investigates the whole art of remastering

Re: Sampling frequency on Radio programmes - Taking it off topic

On 20/04/15 14:16, Kevin Lynch wrote: When people talk about music/audio quality there can be a tendency towards group think. I just wanted to open up the discussion to the other more subtle, subjective. parameters of quality and how they are lost in the musician to consumer (mass market)

Re: Requests For Features

On 17/04/15 12:31, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:31:36AM +0100, Peter S Kirk wrote: My hope is that some day ITV, C4 and C5 see the light and realise that all the obstacles they erect have no effect on preventing leaks, but only annoy and inconvenience UK residents. But

Re: Recent spam surge...

On 08/04/15 15:52, Steven Carr wrote: On 8 April 2015 at 13:31, tellyaddict tellyaddic...@gmx.co.uk wrote: The thing is though you don't actually have to be subscribed to the list to post to it. Anyone with an email address can post to the list. You only need to subscribe if you want the

Re: Pay for driving on toll road, invoice #00660545

On 04/04/15 13:53, Terry L. Ridder wrote: Hello Next someone will tell me I was caught speeding in my wheelchair. ;-) Sent from my iPad terry l. ridder ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: radio sample rates.

On 16/03/15 14:33, Jim web wrote: I'll try to find out if that's still the case. I've ended up deciding to try and write a potted 'technical history' of the iplayer development. So I'll take this elsewhere as not 'on topic' for this list unless people are interested. Jim Jim I'd be in

Re: Live TV pining for the fjords

On 09/11/14 10:27, Jim Lesurf wrote: For the moment I'm occupied with fixing things still broken by the loss of the programme feeds, but HDS is a can of worms that will have to be opened eventually. The BBC have already declared they are moving to HDS for AOD in 2015. If they are going to

Re: Live TV pining for the fjords

On 09/11/14 13:01, Jim Lesurf wrote: In article 545f5658.3030...@gmail.com, michael norman michaeltnor...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/11/14 10:27, Jim Lesurf wrote: FWIW I've just written an 'opinion' column for Hi Fi News magazine about the way the BBC dropped the feeds and raising the general

Re: BBC Archive Blues Collections

On 21/02/14 11:45, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 19/02/2014 14:10, michael norman wrote: To be specific I would like to find the pids for the programmes here http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p01m79bn/blues and download them either individually or as a batch There are some things you can

BBC Archive Blues Collections

I would like to use GiP to download these programmes http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p01m79bn/blues But I am not sure how to do it I have tried a few searches without success, can somebody advise please ? Using CLI on Linux. Thanks Michael

Re: BBC Archive Blues Collections

On 19/02/14 13:04, Don Grunbaum wrote: I would like to use GiP to download these programmes http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p01m79bn/blues But I am not sure how to do it I have tried a few searches without success, can somebody advise please ? Using CLI on Linux. Thanks Michael

Re: BBC Archive Blues Collections

On 19/02/14 13:55, Don Grunbaum wrote: Recording fine here. You realise that the third character is the letter l, not the number 1, don't you? Don Don What command did you use to do that ? Michael get_iplayer --type=tv --pid=p00lk4rq (Yes, it's the 4th character of the pid that is l)

Re: New Website

On 17/07/13 09:22, Square Penguin wrote: I appreciate that you are able to recognise the emotional nature of your reaction. Logo: I may need to make this point again - I didn't make the logo. It's from Phil Lewis' original site. It's still there now if you want to take a look. As I said, if

Re: New Website

On 17/07/13 10:01, Square Penguin wrote: I discussed the matter directly with get_iplayer's maintainer, who is fully on board. It has struck me throughout this discussion that he has not said so, unless I have missed something. I have already said I am prepared to use another logo and use

Re: Under the radar

On 17/07/13 10:31, Philip Colmer wrote: get_iplayer differs fundamentally from a VCR/PVR in that programs may be recorded without the use of an aerial feed and, therefore the need to acquire a TV Licence. Isn't that what Sky, Virgin and YouView offer, though? They all download the programmes

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