Re: hvf HD and SD missing

And like magic they suddenly re-appear. > > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 2:02 PM > > From: "tellyaddict" > > To: get_iplayer > > Subject: hvf HD and SD missing > > > > Since around about midday, the hvf HD and SD modes seem to have disappeare

hvf HD and SD missing

Since around about midday, the hvf HD and SD modes seem to have disappeared from GiP. Has the BBC changed something? ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: world service 96k

I've also noticed that there seem to be inconsistencies in the audio on the TV side of things since the recent changes. With regional programmes for example (like the London News) hvfxsd or dvfxsd was always the best quality that was available for those, and it seems that even with the bug

Re: Digging for Britain Episode

The DASH downloads come in 2 separate parts. Audio and video. FFMPEG then muxes the 2 files together into 1 mp4. > Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 12:36 AM > From: "MacFH - C E Macfarlane" > To: "artisticforge Niemand" , get_iplayer > > Subject: Re: Digging for Britain Episode > > This

403 Forbidden Errors on Playlists

Hi all, I'm getting a lot of "403 Forbidden" playlist errors today in get_iplayer. Some programmes don't show any errors and download fine and others either get there after a few tries or fail. Using todays 10 O'clock News as an example (m000bqq3) I get lots of this in the output: ERROR:

Re: GiP trying to download incorrect PID

Yes as James rightly says, there can be multiple vPIDs with any PID. You can see from looking at your output that World Championship Snooker Extra: 2018 - 8. Day 8 (b0b1y57h) has at least 2 vPIDs associated with it. You've got the Original version (b0b1y54f) and the Shortened version

Re: BBC JSON feeds to be discontinued from 1st May

Thanks Peter. The question is though, once the JSON feeds do go, where will GiP get the VPIDs from? It needs these to access the playlists to start a download? Will GiP have to start scraping iPlayer programme pages to get these? > I didn't know JSON feeds were still available. I updated my

Re: BBC JSON feeds to be discontinued from 1st May

UK > > > On 13 Apr 2018, at 00:24, tellyaddict <tellyaddic...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > The JSON feeds that are used to get playlist data will be discontinued by > > the BBC from the 1st May 2018. Has G

BBC JSON feeds to be discontinued from 1st May

Hi All, The JSON feeds that are used to get playlist data will be discontinued by the BBC from the 1st May 2018. Has GiP been patched with a fallback to keep it running when this happens? ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: The Coroner series 2 Episode 8 not available

Hi Dave, > but even if they hadn’t broadcast it live you would think that it could still > be available on iplayer. The BBC would probably say that rights restrictions stop them doing that if they haven't broadcast it. Having said that, they already do this with a lot of programmes. > Having

Problems with --info

Is anyone else finding that --info no longer works in 3.02? Running "get_iplayer --pid b08z0lfw --info" now only does this: get_iplayer v3.02, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free software, and you are

Re: TV Audio Bitrates

> 320kbit/s audio does not increase the file size much whereas 50fps is a > huge increase. Have you thought about multiplexing the 320kbit/s audio > with 1280x720 25fps video from HLShd? Sounds interesting. How would I do that? Yes the file size increase for 50fps is massive. The BBC always

TV Audio Bitrates

Hi All, With 3.02 of GiP, all HVF modes now use 320 kbps audio. The old HLS modes still use only 96 kbps. I'm wondering whether to continue to use hlshd 1280x720 25fps 96kbps streams or whether I should switch to the slightly smaller but higher frame rate and audio bitrate hvfsd 960x540 50fps

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters

> > But there is a potential problem with [a-z0-9] > > because it would pick out many normal English words, > > for example, ironically, 'programmes' and 'programming'. > > Again, forgive me for being obtuse, still learning things, > but isn't that scenario assuming one actually inputs > >

Re: version iplayer

That may well mean that the Watchdog team have edited the programme themselves rather than getting the iPlayer team to do it. Possibly in that case, giving it the clear label "iPlayer" would make it easier for them to make sure the right version gets sent to the transcoders. The watchdog team

Re: GiP 3.10 crash ...

Alan is right artisticforge. The 1280x720@25fps streams ARE still there and working. The evidence IS actually there in Alan's output if you read the modes list he has posted. >From looking at your output, I can see that both of the hls modes (hlshd and >hlsvhigh) are missing from your modes

Re: daf* radiomodes broken by the BBC!

> >Indeed whatever it was that the BBC changed that broke daf modes, they have > >changed back so this is no longer a problem. > > Thanks for clearing that up. I was in Spain at the time, throttled to > 40kbit/s or even 15kbit/s, taking 2h to download a 30min radio programme, so > I couldn't

Re: modes question

Can we see the info output for one of the programmes? > hello > > that is the odd part, I am not seeing any hlshd modes in any info listings. > this started probably a week ago. cannot be more precise my sense of "time" > is not what it use to be. ___

Re: daf* radiomodes broken by the BBC!

> avoiding DAF, but is that no longer necessary? As tellyaddict says, I get > good speeds (about 40Mbit/s, the same as DAF, as against 4Mbit/s for HAF) > from hlsaacstd, but only up to 128kbit/s. I have just downloaded b08ndm0f > from DAFhigh1, and there did not seem to be any problem. Indeed w

Re: Red Button now on iPlayer

> So those numbers are a red herring. Yes. As James said, those numbers have no relation to speed. Just the order they are tried in. > Even so there are some dramatic differences between the sub-modes. I haven't > tried them all but hlsvhigh1 > and hvfxsd5 both download at about 60Mbit/s,

Re: RE: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

> I've just tried to play Casualty from the iPlayer site as a test. I was > asked to register with a DOB, Postcode, Email address and gender > identification so changes have already happened. The subsequent > playback though was terrible. I could hear the audio OK but the video > was more a

Re: HLSHD downloads settling down

The Flash modes are mostly still there but are being missed by get_iplayer. Have a look at Vangelis's analysis here http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2017-May/010720.html > I've noticed that in the last two or three days, all HLSHD downloads > have been fault free whereas last

Re: daf* radiomodes broken by the BBC!

Dinky says that this is due to BBC changes but what has actually changed? The feeds are still there in the mediaselector. Any ideas what needs to be changed to fix it? I'm finding it very frustrating at the moment since Dinky has stopped publishing fixes in the development version on Github

Re: BBC failures and PVR

> Is there then no feedback from anywhere to the BBC over these faults? I had > assumed that they would re- > upload the failed files at some point. Unfortunately the standard HLS streams seem to be in the list of legacy formats which don't get much attention or maintenance. And this problem is

Re: Can't download with GiP 3.00

> The BBC's rationale for video profiles is explained here. > http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015-07-the-development-of-new-video-factory-profiles-for-bbc-iplayer > It is based on encoder performance for Strictly Come Dancing, East Enders > and Top Gear (presumably, given the date of the article,

Re: Can't download with GiP 3.00

> > HVF modes are processed by the BBC > > Actually, all DVF/HVF/DAF/HAF modes > (plus AdobeHDS streams for TV/Radio that > GiP does not support) are delegated to > "Unified Streaming Platform", a BBC partner: > > http://www.unified-streaming.com/news/bbc-extends-contract-unified-streaming

Re: BBC failures and PVR

> I assume that the PVR will again attempt to fetch the complete fail > programmes on each run, since they will not be flagged as downloaded. It will attempt any that completely failed when it runs again but you may well find that they fail again. > Equally, since the downgraded examples

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer v3.01 released

> I see that some of the TV modes do, indeed, allow the possibly of high > resolution 25fps with 320k aac. But say "or 90k". So I assume the 320k > would be fetched if available. (?) Yes the default is to go for the highest sounds option linked available for the mode being downloaded. HVF modes

Re: Can't download with GiP 3.00

Unfortunately I have also found a number of programmes where both hlshd and flashhd are corrupted. I totally agree that the flash modes should not have been axed from GiP while they are still available. Mainly because there is no alternative 720p 25fps stream available in hvf. And with neither

Re: Segment not available from server

@Jim Web - Would it be possible for you to raise this with your BBC contact again? > First of all thanks for all the work to get gip working again. > > I have suddenly discovered that some of my downloads are happening at > reduced resolution, on looking at the problem I have discovered that >

Re: Can't download with GiP 3.00

That's my fault. I was looking at the mode you had tried for Masterchef rather than the mode I knew you were after. What you actually want is hvfxhigh which should be the sort of size and quality you are used to. The dvf modes download as 2 separate files (audio + video) and then use ffmpeg to

Re: Can't download with GiP 3.00

Hi Chris At the moment there are a lot of programmes appearing with missing segments on hls modes. Which modes it affects is random. At least with Masterchef you found that it failed right at the beginning on segment 1, but you could easily find that with some programmes you get half way

Re: pid-recursive in options file, bug or feature?

I know it scrubs non text attachments but that signature is terrible. > hello > > that is what amazes me, it that the mailing list is not bouncing the > posts for the html. > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > > On 04/05/2017 00:04, artisticforge .

Re: hlsstd mode not available for most programmes

Changes at the BBC broke some of the hls modes in 2.99 which might be why you can no longer see them. This was fixed in 3.00. > hello > > to determine the smallest file available you may want to use: > get_iplayer-2.99/get_iplayer --info --verbose --type=radio --pid= > > you should see output

Re: Issues Log/Development

> I, for one, found the issues tracker to have been a veritable vault > of invaluable info/documentation on the way GiP evolved/changed > over the last years and a very easy reference to the actual commits > that brought on those changes. > > The way the tracker worked was that usually the

Re: HLS modes being missed by GiP

> ... It used to be that way in the past, but not since the beeb > started using HTTPS for their streams. > E.g. if you --info (-i) a pid you'll often see 4 dvf* tvmodes; > these are spread over just two CDNs (Akamai, Limelight) > but with each of them having both HTTP/HTTPS stream URIs. >

Re: HLS modes being missed by GiP

> I see the forum thread has now been closed on the grounds that there may be > use outside the UK. I did wonder about that from the US date format in the > bottom right hand corner and the discrepancy in the times. Well spotted. I didn't even notice that! > I had not thought about the point

Re: HLS modes being missed by GiP

> >I don't know the answer to your question, but I have a couple of comments. > >Why doesn't treker68 use --tvmode=hvfxsd as suggested? News programmes are > >removed fairly quickly. For example the London lunchtime news is not > >available at all at the moment. Are there normally HLS modes

HLS modes being missed by GiP

Interesting one on the forums. https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/thread-1265-post-5636.html HLS modes aren't showing in GiP for an episode of the London News from today but a manual look at the mediaselector pages shows that it does exist. (PID: b08mhcdq VPID: b08mhcdh) --verbose output in

Issues Log

Is it just me or has the GiP Issues Log disappeared from github? ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: BBC's iPlayer works when get_iplayer doesn't

Interesting find there Alan. You are right, GiP 2.99 only picks up the audiodescribed version. As you can see when you play the programme on iPlayer and right click, the vpid for the non AD version is b08l4283 but GiP misses it completely. Version 2.94 can see it but anything after that for

Re: VERSION-get_iplayer Says 2.94.

Thanks Vangelis. So effectively as long as I have the windows installer for 2.99 saved locally, I should always be able to install that and then downgrade the get_iplayer.pl script if needed and as all the necessary packages are included in that installer, older scripts should continue to work?

Re: VERSION-get_iplayer Says 2.94.

> The installer contains a customised trimmed package > of Strawberry Perl 5.24.0.1 (x86) portable. > While v2.98+ no longer depends on some perl modules: > > Authen::SASL > MP3::Info > MP3::Tag > Net::SMTP::SSL > Net::SMTP::TLS > Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained > > those weren't yet removed

Re: VERSION-get_iplayer Says 2.94.

> I'm using 2.94 and finding --pid does not work now the BBC data has gone > AWOL again. Correct! An extra fallback was added from 2.95 onwards for this sort of scenario. > What are the downsides to manually moving up to 2.99? I don't think there's any problem manually updating. For the time

Re: No programme schedules?

amme schedules? > > On 14/03/2017 11:53 AM, tellyaddict wrote: > > Downloading is impossible by any method at the moment due to the missing > > xml feeds. > Not so. I started a D/L using --pid= a few minutes ago, and it's running > as I type... > >

Re: No programme schedules?

Downloading is impossible by any method at the moment due to the missing xml feeds. > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 12:45 AM > From: RS > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: No programme schedules? > > >From: Alan Milewczyk Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

Thanks Jim, > Afraid the info I have is limited. But it makes clear that the BBC realise > there *is* a problem with the hls segmentation and that Akamai are said to > have a fix which is supposed to be being put in place. However I'd have > thought that would happen today. Might be my

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

Great so now the programmes are mostly made up of missing segments. Hopefully this shows they are trying to do something to the servers to fix this issue. Whatever they have done so far though appears to have had the opposite effect. @jim Do you have any info on what the problem is or what's

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

Sounds positive :) Any ideas what the problems are and why they've taken so long to fix? > Had an email this morning. Just to say that, with some luck, we may find > that the missing segments problem could be cured soon. Fingers crossed... ___

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

> I've never tried the --raw option. Might it help with the following? > > A number of the files I fetched yesterday morning had reported missing > segments. This specified time offsets in secs. I had a look at those > points. > > In some cases there was no sign of a problem. In others the video

Re: RE: Audio/Video Out of Sync

I don't think it's speed that's the issue. You can try downloading the failed segments in a browser and they fail because they are just not on the server. Working segments (eg. the one before the failure) will download fine. __ > Having a thought about this, when you stream something

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

The sync problems are caused by converting a programme with missing segments after download. --raw files have no sync issues even if there are segments missing. > > I'm still using V2.94 and no sync problems. > > > > Is the audio out by a constant time (eg 0.3 secs) in a programme? > > > > I

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

> Not much point in going much further on that point. But over the years I > have learned that speculations about the cause or reason for something are > often helpful in being able to get something sorted out. So I don't agree > with you. We''ll have to differ in our views on this. I think so

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

> But they want people to shift away from using Akamai, so may not be > concerned. I don't use the standard BBC webpage interfaces, etc, these days > so have no idea if current browsers or BBC apps are being affected by this. > If they are, I'd have expected an outcry by now as this has been

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

> OK, I think this thread has now ran it's course. Enough of the > speculation and OT chatter. I have to disagree. I don't think this is OT. This is a current problem with the current version of GiP that we are trying to work out. > The workaround for most users is to use the old flash streams

Re: RE: Audio/Video Out of Sync

> I can only speculate here, but: It might be the case that some of Akamai's > non-BBC 'clients' are wanting the changes for some reasons of their own. Why would anyone ask for broken streams though? > Or they stem from an arrangement the BBC aren't party to. They might be > dealing with it in

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

The HVF streams are still HLS. The HLS streams that are being classed as legacy though sadly are the 25fps equivalents. __ > It says,"A key to making this work was a switch to chunked HTTP video > formats. We already use these for our live streams and with this change all > new

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

Another thing to remember is that both Limelight and Akamai are serving the dashhigh streams, so it could be that 1 is behaving better than the other. I might have got lucky yesterday and hit the right server and you might have got unlucky this morning and hit the troublesome one and got the

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

> ... and, as Jim has said, it's a legacy system, so why would they be > changing it? It's not impossible of course, but doesn't seem likely if it's > deprecated and due to be discontinued anyway. It may only be depreciated as far as the BBC is concerned. Although the BBC is now moving towards

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

It could be that when a missing segment is found, the servers log it as an error. Then when they review things later, they go back and correct what's been flagged up. As you say it could also be reports from the BBC and users that causes Akamai to go back and fix it. As for why things have got

Re: Cant download Rio videos

Hi Andrea, You have indeed missed something :) Any Olympic content that isn't actually broadcast is only available in a limited number of modes. Have a look at this: https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/thread-982.html You say that you are using the most recent version of GiP, however your output

Re: RE: Audio/Video Out of Sync

I wouldn't really say that I have any superior knowledge on this. My best guess on why these problems suddenly started about a month ago would be... All of the segmenting, playlist creation etc will be done by some software at Akamai if they are doing the packaging. It's possible that maybe they

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

It depends what you want. As Richard has said, flashhd and hlshd are pretty much equal to eachother BUT we now know that HLS is on a legacy system and Flash is due to be phased out at some point. All the HLS options run at 25fps but are only supplied by Akamai who (at least for the time being)

Re: Olympics 2016 RedButton content, offered as catch-up

Hi Owen, How about Olympic Sportsday on the BBC News Channel? 30 mins of highlights at 18.30 every night. __ > The transformation in my case is that iPlayer has ruined the Olympics for me. > We used to get a daily highlights show on an HD channel between 30 mins and > an hour long,

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

Hi Jim, How many times did your first command fail? The reason you have ended up with a non HD version using the Flash method is that there is only 1 supplier if flashhd content which is Akamai. As you had excluded that, it had to jump down a mode to flashvhigh which is supplied by 2 suppliers

Re: Get_iplayer 2.95 radio errors

Thanks Clive, Your options file specifies flashaacstd. Kevin's is better so he may well be downloading the HLS stream. These have major problems at the moment with missing segments so it could be those errors which are tripping up the conversion. Even without converting though he would still

Re: Get_iplayer 2.95 radio errors

Hi Kevin, GiP 2.95 uses a different downloading method by default to the default in 2.94 which is probably why you are seeing problems since upgrading. My guess at this stage would be that you are also getting errors in the download output before the converting starts but you haven't included

Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync

My understanding of what Jim has said is that all the HLS recording modes are legacy streams served only by Akamai. For these legacy streams, the BBC send the programme files to Akamai and they (Akamai) then segment and upload the programme to their servers. It seems that the processing that

Re: Olympics Might be hvf Only

I would have thought that anything that is broadcast will probably be processed into all formats as usual. But Red Button and Web Only content might only be processed into hvf. > The opening ceremony at least is available in "flashhigh", which is my > standard download mode.

Olympics Might be hvf Only

Hi All, Dinky has pointed out on the forum that Olympics coverage might only be available using hvf streams. He has created a topic about this here: https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/thread-982.html ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Red button Olympics

It would be easier to wait until the events are uploaded to iPlayer and then download them in the normal way. > I have found this which says, in effect, recording red button will be easier > when we can record HLS. > https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/issues/171#issuecomment-116323399 >

Re: History File Not Updated

I have also had this before as well. I think it might depend on how the download fails. It seems that sometimes GiP is getting the message that the download is complete even though it obviously isn't. Maybe if the CDN hasn't sent any error messages during the download, GiP assumes it's complete

Re: History File Not Updated

Hi Chris, The History file gets updated after GiP determines the download has fully completed (the same time as it removes .partial from the filename). If a download stalls and fails it won't be added to the History file. As the files you had to delete were still .partial files, GiP knew they

Re: hlshd download speeds

The Pure Perl HLS Downloader that is now built into 2.95 is much faster than downloading with FFMpeg. > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 at 4:59 PM > From: RS > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: hlshd download speeds > > -Original Message- > From: James

Re: BBC News/Sports Clips

Apologies I kept meaning to pass that across. Thanks for the update on how to handle the current BBC chances with News clips :) > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 at 4:51 PM > From: "Vangelis forthnet" > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: BBC News/Sports

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

I don't think that was quite what Dennis meant. Obviously a reply like you've just done needs to be done in that way to make any sense. I was taught when I first started using this list that you were supposed to post new replies at the top of the email with the message you are replying to

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

I think there is still a benefit to having the list. I don't really mind the off topic stuff and if I don't want to read it then I won't. I have learned some interesting things from the stuff that gets posted here. I've learned stuff about Audio/Video Factory and composing commands etc that I

Re: (SOLVED) get_iplayer broken again!! (April 2016)

; Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 at 4:46 PM > > From: "Mark Carroll" <m...@ixod.org> > > To: tellyaddict <tellyaddic...@gmx.co.uk> > > Subject: Re: get_iplayer broken again!! (April 2016) > > > > FYI, from those links I keep ju

Re: get_iplayer broken again!! (April 2016)

Hi Majid, It could be something to do with the move over to the new Nitro system that the BBC is rolling out. One idea is that the BBC might keep disabling the feeds to see what breaks when they do. > this is very annoying!! > why do the bbc do this? > is there any news as to what they are

get_iplayer broken again!! (April 2016)

Hi all, The BBC have broken GiP again by removing the data sources it uses to refresh the cache and download any programmes. Dinky has posted an announcement here: https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/announcement-7.html ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Unable to download "Thirteen" episode 5

Unfortunately the BBC have removed GiPs data sources to refresh the cache and download programmes at least for the time being. This is the 3rd time this year that they have done this and the first 2 were between 1 and 3 days before the feeds were restored. There is no guarantee though that

Re: BBCThree Down?

BBC Three only actually went properly off air a couple of days ago and until then they were still broadcasting programmes in the early hours of the morning every day. The feeds for BBC Three are still refreshing the cache with those programmes BUT the BBC have again disabled all the data

Re: Re: Get_iplayer install problem

Dinky has posted an alternative installer for use on Windows XP to work around this problem. You can download the installer from https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/thread-686-post-3739.html#pid3739 > Hi > > Any help with this problem would be hugely appreciated > > Thanks > Martin

Re: Get_iplayer install problem

Hi Martin, The installer downloads all the components from infradead.org and from time to time infradead goes down for a day or two which will cause the installer to fail. Hopefully infradead will come back online soon and the installer will then work as normal. > Hi > > I've been using

Re: BBC Three

Yes and no. Anything broadcast before the switch off will still be cached for the usual 7 days, BUT BBC Three is actually still broadcasting programmes between 2 and 4am and these are also appearing on iPlayer for their 30 day availability. Those 3 episodes of Uncle for example were broadcast

Re: Another BBC News Clip

Where do you get the VPID from to open the playlist to make the command? > Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 at 5:07 PM > From: batguano999 > To: CJB > Cc: get_iplayer-request > Subject: Re: Another BBC News Clip > >

Re: Another BBC News Clip

s > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2016-January/008550.html > > > Thank you I'l look at OpenBSD too. > > Nothing against OpenBSD or other OS, > but there's no need to install a second OS > on your machine (natively or via VM) > to use

Re: Warning: Failed to download programme schedule http:// .... all TV ... /this_week.xml

Hi All, This is a widespread issue which started late this afternoon. https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/thread-623-post-3377.html#pid3377 > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 6:02 PM > From: "Len Lawrence" > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: Warning:

Re: get_iplayer currently broken...

ment" notice). > > Another case where the existence of a "--vpid" switch > in GiP could've proved a lifesaver; I can find manually > the vpid (right-clicking the embedded player, via page > source, via JSON playlist etc.), the mediaselector/5 URLs > do still function no

Re: get_iplayer currently broken...

t; <dirk+getipla...@d2h.net> > To: tellyaddict <tellyaddic...@gmx.co.uk>, get_iplayer > <get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org> > Subject: Re: get_iplayer currently broken... > > PIDs can still be retrieved via the > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide/bbc/20160113 U

Re: BBC to move to HTML5/DASH video

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/30/bbc_iplayer_html5/ > > Sorry, not enough of a video streaming expert here, but does this render > the need for rtmpdump unnecessary? Can perl do this directly now? The BBC have been saying for a while that RTMP streams will be going from iPlayer soon

Re: Problems with --exclude-supplier=akamai and HD downloads

> For many months I have used --exclude-supplier=akamai on my GiP command > line as it results in a 10- or 12-fold increase in download speed > compared to the throughput I get without that option - with the option, > an hour long problem @1280x720 will download in around 5-6 minutes, >

Re: Level3 CDN issue affecting RTMP HD downloads

> 2) That limelight now seems not to serve 1280x720. So if I keep excluding > akamai I can only get 832x468... But if I include akamai I usually now get > the very familiar symptom (1). I dont think Limelight has never served HD content. Akamai does both SD and HD and Level3 (the problem server)

Re: Level3 CDN issue affecting RTMP HD downloads

> Sorry, I'm not certain what you meant. Did you mean to say "I don't think > limelight has *ever* served HD content"? Or are you saying it has served it > in the past, but not now? Or?... That should have been I don't think limelight has ever served HD content. > So when I've been excluding

Re: Clangers missing

I wonder what gip command it uses to fetch all the episodes. I have not found it yet. You can use the series PID from iPlayer. When you search for clangers and look at the 26 available you get taken to this page http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b05zfxkz the PID in there (b05zfxkz) is

Re: Clangers missing

Can someone tell me whether this is a problem with me or with the BBC please? Using version 2.94, from https://raw.github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/latest/get_iplayer, when I run get_iplayer clangers it finds 12 episodes but when I look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/clangers

Re: Region blocking?

Hi, Would someone in UK - but not in Scotland - please check if this is available to watch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b065ylqd Hi Peter, Episode 1 of the series is available but the episode you linked to is not being broadcast until Tuesday so is not available yet.

Re: PVR not finding web programmes

Ah, thanks. That sounds like a better approach than my screen-scraping. How did you find that pid string? It is not the same as the one I found when searching for T in the Park on the iPlayer site. The PID Vangelis has used (b061pqkb) is a series PID which is specific to T in the Park

Re: Checking available modes before download

I use the --tvmode=best switch to download the best available mode but as mentioned in a previous post sometimes the 832x468 version is downloaded in a series where 1280x720 is the norm. I keep an eye out for programme repeats to get the full-fat version but I was wondering if it is

Re: RE: hlsvhigh4 error

I have found that best mode often defaults to the 1 option, which I have occasionally found to be significantly slower than 2 - which is likely to be because more people are trying to fetch items from that server, and it and the paths to it are busier So I reran the

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