Porridge

2019-07-07 Thread Dave Widgery
Hi 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 a valid keyword for finding the

Red Rock TV programme missing from schedule

2019-07-07 Thread artisticforge Niemand
Hello 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 series 3 episode 22. the current episode is 25. I

Re: New distro.

2019-07-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 02:47:35PM +0200, Peter Corlett wrote: > It's debatable whether a single ffmpeg instance could take advantage of that > many cores since Amdahl's Law will kick in as it tries to co-ordinate > everything. Split it into multiple four- or eight-thread encodes and run them >

Re: New distro.

2019-07-02 Thread Peter Corlett
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 11:38:12AM +0100, RS wrote: > [...] Does ffmpeg require more than 64 logical processors? Obviously not, since it works fine on machines with as few as one. Indeed, ffmpeg defaults to using just one unless you pass the "-threads" option. It's debatable whether a single

Re: New distro.

2019-07-02 Thread RS
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.

2019-07-01 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 30 Jun 2019 at 19:50, RS RS 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: > > > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/procthread/numa-support > >

Re: New distro.

2019-06-30 Thread RS
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.

2019-06-24 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Mon Jun 24 16:19:00 BST 2019, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: with someone on XP being unable to run newer versions of GiP. I haven't myself tried to run the latest Windows installer on either XP or Vista; my guess is it would run to completion, successfully installing the application

Re: New distro.

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

Re: New distro.

2019-06-24 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Mon Jun 24 11:25:50 BST 2019, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: I'm surprised it worked for you, because AFAICR I'd understood that the version of Strawberry Perl used was supposed not to support XP. ... The latest GiP installer (v3.20.0) bundles a self-contained (portable) mini-package of

Re: New distro.

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

Re: New distro.

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

Re: New distro.

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

Re: New distro.

2019-06-22 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 21 Jun 2019 at 21:42, MacFH - C E Macfarlane 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

Re: New distro.

2019-06-22 Thread RS
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: New distro.

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

Re: New distro.

2019-06-21 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 20 Jun 2019 at 13:39, MacFH - C E Macfarlane MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > > I think we all have our methods, and I'm not convinced that mine or > anyone else's is better than other possible methods, but in the > confusion of suggestions, there is the possibility of important >

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:49:10PM +0100, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: > When I used to run get_iplayer under Windows, I used to install the > perl of my choice, then ran > > cpan cpanminus > > to install 'cpanminus', then used that to install the perl modules > that the g_ip documentation

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Charles Johnson
On 20/06/2019 12:22, Nick Payne wrote: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer Best solution if you don't want to be solving dependency problems. Personally i find it better to use git to fetch the latest version and then solve them. But ... why (someone must know) has gip

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:49:10PM +0100, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: >How is a perl user supposed to know whether to go to cpan/cpanminus route or >expect their distro's package manager to deal with this? The standard approach is to use the system-packaged modules if they're available, and

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Jim web
In article <9e149f35-ac18-8321-525a-5fb0a4bec...@gmail.com>, Nick Payne wrote: > But I still think the command line is easier: FWIW for some items - gip and ffmpeg being the main examples - I prefer to fetch and make/put them in my 'user' space, not as system installs. Makes it easier for me to

Re: New distro.

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

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2019-06-19 09:34, Jim Lesurf wrote: I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my main 'work' machine. Having transferred my own programs, data, etc, I find that gip now doesn't work. This seems to be because at least some of the relevant perl modules aren't

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Nick Payne
On 20/06/2019 6:19 pm, Jim web wrote: > In article , Nick Payne > wrote: >> Using the PPA and apt will only install the needed dependencies. You're >> far more likely to be "spraying things you don't actually need into your >> install" by trying to do it manually. And apt will give you an exact

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Jim web
In article , Nick Payne wrote: > Using the PPA and apt will only install the needed dependencies. You're > far more likely to be "spraying things you don't actually need into your > install" by trying to do it manually. And apt will give you an exact > list of the additional packages that need to

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Nick Payne
On 19/06/2019 10:38 pm, Jim web wrote: > In article , Alan C. > Foster wrote: >>> Install the PPA from here >>> >>> >>> https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer >>> >>> I've been doing that in Linux Mint for years. It gets updated >>> automatically by the Mint update

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim web
In article <57c692e511...@audiomisc.co.uk>, Jim web wrote: > Well, simply following the first advice and adding the libxml2-dev > package (the non -dev already being present) didn't work. So I'm trying > to establish which packages I *do* need (or not). Partly so I > understand, partly to avoid

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim web
In article , Alan C. Foster wrote: > > Install the PPA from here > > > > > > https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer > > > > I've been doing that in Linux Mint for years. It gets updated > > automatically by the Mint update manager when appropriate. > Jim, > Why don't

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:38:48PM +0100, Jim web wrote: > Following up one of my own emails. I've looked at > > https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/unix > > and that says: > > "For example, to install the packages for get_iplayer in Debian 9+/Ubuntu > 18.04+/Mint 19+: > > apt

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Alan C. Foster
On 19/06/2019 11:06, michael norman wrote: 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

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim web
Following up one of my own emails. I've looked at https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/unix and that says: "For example, to install the packages for get_iplayer in Debian 9+/Ubuntu 18.04+/Mint 19+: apt install libwww-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libmojolicious-perl

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim web
In article <20190619103730.gb28...@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk>, David Cantrell wrote: > libxml2 is a C library that the perl code wants to use. libxml2-dev is > the headers for that C library so that the perl code knows how to link > it. > You'll need both of those in addition to the perl code.

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:52:58AM +0100, Jim web wrote: > In article , MacFH - C > E > Macfarlane wrote: > > AFAICR, LibXML is a dependency of XML::Simple, and, as you suggest, on > > Ubuntu systems you install a module using apt-get. I setup and > > configure Ubuntu using a bash script, and

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread michael norman
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: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:52:58AM +0100, Jim web wrote: >I installed libxml2-dev as well, but, alas, it still doesn't work. :-/ In my Debian system, LibXML.pm (note the capitalisation) is provided by libxml-libxml-perl. This is a dependency of libxml-simple-perl so should have been installed

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Geoff Smith
It's a while since I installed get_iPlayer on Mint 18, but I found this useful : https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/unix#perl-packaged Geoff Smith On 19/06/2019, Jim Lesurf wrote: > I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my > main 'work' machine.

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim web
In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > AFAICR, LibXML is a dependency of XML::Simple, and, as you suggest, on > Ubuntu systems you install a module using apt-get. I setup and > configure Ubuntu using a bash script, and its module list contains > libxml2 and libxml2-dev, so most probably

Re: New distro.

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

New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim Lesurf
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 installed by default. However I can't work out

Live Streams from Beeb

2019-06-18 Thread CJB
Folks might be interested in the live streams that the Beeb issue to feed iPlayer. A number of iPlayer downloads using get_piayer get truncated either at the start or end due to timing issues. Video files do not sem to suffer from this. However radio (sounds) do. There is a web age whch explains

Re: get_iplayer odd behaviour

2019-06-12 Thread artisticforge Niemand
hello the Flaky makes sense. The network has been acting up for the last several weeks. I have been trying to fix it but with my restricted mobility I cannot check the routers nor the microwave radio. I need to get my friend to check on it for me. On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:01 AM MacFH - C E

Re: get_iplayer odd behaviour

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

get_iplayer odd behaviour

2019-06-12 Thread artisticforge Niemand
Hello get_iplayer-3.18 (yes, i know it is not the latest) aperiodically while downloading a media file will drop the connection, reconnect and upon reconnecting starts re downloading from Zero bytes. it just did it on a file that was 95% complete over 4GB all ready downloaded upon reconnecting it

Re: Checking my emails are received - grateful if one person would respond

2019-05-27 Thread Colin Law
You can check whether they were received ok by looking in the archive http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/ Colin On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 17:54, Clive wrote: > > Over the last few weeks I have sent two emails to this group and I am > not sure if either have been received. I see my

Thank you to all that have responded ... and I've now found one answer to my own question

2019-05-27 Thread Clive
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Re: Checking my emails are received - grateful if one person would respond

2019-05-27 Thread James Scholes
Came through fine. Regards, James Scholes On 27/05/2019 at 5:54 pm, Clive wrote: Over the last few weeks I have sent two emails to this group and I am not sure if either have been received. I see my own copy but have not seen/received any responses - and that is very unusual for this group.

Checking my emails are received - grateful if one person would respond

2019-05-27 Thread Clive
Over the last few weeks I have sent two emails to this group and I am not sure if either have been received. I see my own copy but have not seen/received any responses - and that is very unusual for this group. If this email is received I would be grateful if someone would pop a response to that

Indexing?

2019-05-26 Thread Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197
"INFO: Indexing radio programmes (concurrent)" How can I stop this from happening when I start the program? It takes a lot of time and bandwidth. If I start the porgram when I've not got an internet connection, it fails, but seems to make no difference when I do connect and start a download.

Radio: podcast vs podcast2

2019-05-24 Thread Clive
13 Minutes to the Moon: Episode 2 downloads a 115MB m4a version which appears to be --mode=dafhigh1. Episode 1 fails with the message "INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (available versions: podcast2)". --info shows podcast2 and lists a load of modes, including dafhigh1. I have

Re: Off-line conversion- M4A toMP3

2019-05-13 Thread Christopher Woods
On 13 May 2019 09:28:32 get_ipla...@big-tick.co.uk wrote: On 13/05/2019 03:32, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 wrote: What's a good Windows program for batch converting a group of M4A files to MP3's? I'm sure there are other options out there, but I find LameXP both quick and easy to

Re: OT problems listening to BBC Radio (via internet on Android and Firestick)

2019-05-13 Thread Budge
On 25/04/2019 14:43, Dave Widgery wrote: Hi Sorry for posting this but having searched the internet haven't found anywhere to ask the question. For many years I have used a MXQ android (v4.2) box for a bit of TV but mainly for listening to BBC Radio, I always used Firefox rather than the BBC

Re: Off-line conversion- M4A toMP3

2019-05-13 Thread get_iplayer
On 13/05/2019 03:32, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 wrote: What's a good Windows program for batch converting a group of M4A files to MP3's? I'm sure there are other options out there, but I find LameXP both quick and easy to use http://lamexp.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Dave

Re: Off-line conversion- M4A toMP3

2019-05-13 Thread george
I used to do this, but then discovered that my player would happily play the unconverted file (even though it was not on the list of supported formats). I would give that a try before doing anything else, you may find that the conversion step is completely unnecessary anyway On Mon, May

Re: Off-line conversion- M4A toMP3

2019-05-13 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 07:59, Shevek wrote: > > for %%F in (*.m4a) do "C:\Program Files > (x86)\get_iplayer\utils\ffmpeg.exe" -i "%%F" -y "%%~nF.mp3" the list has put a line break - note that this ^ is a single line in the .bat ___ get_iplayer mailing

Re: Off-line conversion- M4A toMP3

2019-05-13 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 03:33, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 wrote: > What's a good Windows program for batch converting a group of M4A > files to MP3's? You can do this with the ffmpeg executable included with get_iplayer and a batch file @Echo Off for %%F in (*.m4a) do "C:\Program Files

Off-line conversion- M4A toMP3

2019-05-12 Thread Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197
I have the line in my options file that converts downloaded files to MP3, since I usually listen on an MP3 player. But there are times when I want to minimize the time I'm actually using the internet and download as quickly as practical,and then do that conversion later, without an internet

5-10-19

2019-05-10 Thread Timothy Petrone
Good day, I have this proposal to share with you and I'm hopeful your experience will be helpful in closing. Get back to me for more details if interested. Regards, Timothy Petrone. T: +31 970 050 34732 ___ get_iplayer mailing list

mojolicious SSL verify warning

2019-04-30 Thread Jonathan Larmour
Hi, I recently did a somewhat-overdue system update on my CentOS 7 server, which included an update to perl-Mojolicious. I now get these annoying warnings: --- *** Using the default of SSL_verify_mode of SSL_VERIFY_NONE

OT problems listening to BBC Radio (via internet on Android and Firestick)

2019-04-25 Thread Dave Widgery
Hi Sorry for posting this but having searched the internet haven't found anywhere to ask the question. For many years I have used a MXQ android (v4.2) box for a bit of TV but mainly for listening to BBC Radio, I always used Firefox rather than the BBC app as It was nice to be able to pause or

radiomode

2019-04-06 Thread Clive
Hello All, I download radio using Linux Terminal on Mint 19.1. Modes is not set in the preferences file and I download with no mode settings, so get the default.  I have an issue I do not understand and hope this group can enlighten me. For podcasts, downloaded using the PID, I invariably get a

Re: New Computer

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

Re: New Computer

2019-04-03 Thread CJB
Hi - thanks for all of th tips. It all worked OK - except that TextPad refused to delete all of the duplicate lines. And I found the History file actually duplicated in both folders: .get_iplayer .get_iplayer/pvr But the web PVR does seem to run OK. Chris B. On 03/04/2019, MacFH - C E

Re: New Computer

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

Re: New Computer

2019-04-03 Thread S Byers
Good points. Thank you. Its only a Win 7 to Win 10 transfer. Small additional issue is merging the two History files! Chris B. On Wed, 3/4/19, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Subject: Re: New Computer To: "CJB" , "get_iplayer-request" Date:

Re: New Computer

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

New Computer

2019-04-03 Thread CJB
Just a quick question - installing get_player on a new computer I need to transfer the History and PVR List files across (likely using a USB drive). I know that they are in the \User\get_iplayer folder. But what are these called? And what other files need to be copied across. Thanks. Chris B.

Best Video is Limited to hvfxd for Pairs Free in World Figure Skating Championship 2019

2019-04-03 Thread Live Musicfs
Hello Everyone, I checked all the episode in the series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b0070mk0/world-figure-skating-championships All of them provide hvfhd format except for https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07391pn/world-figure-skating-championships-2019-pairs-free-skating.

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-27 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 26 Mar 2019 at 14:32, David Cantrell David Cantrell wrote: > Also note > that while the government made the BBC fund the World Service recently, > it has historically not been funded from the licence fee. Now that it > *is* funded by the licence fee we should welcome adverts on it as a way >

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 06:51:08AM +, S Byers wrote: > Re: top and tail adverts. > > Surely advertising is against the BBC Charter - in tne UK anyway. They've always been able to promote their own content. > But when we were in Malta recently the BBC News website was heavily > advertising

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread Roger Wilkins
Completely agree Mark. The kid intoning "BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts" at the start of last week's In Our Time, and then the blast of electric guitar and drums assaulting one's ears at the end (music under some internal advert for another podcast purporting to distinguish "what's fact

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread Jim web
In article <1891565781.18066301.1553583068...@mail.yahoo.com>, S Byers wrote: > Re: top and tail adverts. > Surely advertising is against the BBC Charter - in tne UK anyway. As Mark has said, it tends to 'promote' "BBC Sounds" and/or give some "extended stuff" from the main programme. Usually

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread Mark Carroll
For me the annoying top-and-tail stuff that's appeared, sometime since BBC Sounds, has been that the only version of a radio show that get_iplayer can see is now one where at the start and end there are extra things telling us how wonderful BBC Sounds is or has some earnest fellow thinking that we

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread S Byers
Re: top and tail adverts. Surely advertising is against the BBC Charter - in tne UK anyway. But when we were in Malta recently the BBC News website was heavily advertising Vodaphone and even after reporting these intrusions to Google they persisted and took up much of the screen display. And

WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-25 Thread Jim web
In article , RS wrote: > Why do you need to use get_iplayer? Click the link in your email. > Click the link to the episode you want to download. Click Download. > Select Higher quality or Lower quality. Choose where to download it. > If you really want to use get_iplayer > get_iplayer --pid

Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-25 Thread CJB
Thanks - it is for a newbie to get_iplayer - he wants the 108 files. Chris. On 25/03/2019, RS wrote: > On 25/03/2019 11:04, CJB wrote: >> Please can someone suggest how to use get_iplayer in command mode to >> download these podcasts. >> >>

Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-25 Thread RS
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

Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-25 Thread CJB
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. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

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

2019-03-21 Thread RS
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: Radio Comedy: Dad's Army et al ....

2019-03-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:24:30AM +, ipla...@nutwood.net wrote: > I have been able to compare a handful of programmes of the type you > describe with the same examples which I downloaded some time ago, using > the now defunct 'Radio Downloader'. In these cases, the older downloads > were

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

2019-03-21 Thread CJB
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' sans imagined un-PC references.

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

2019-03-21 Thread iplayer
On 20/03/2019 19:34, CJB wrote: Just been downloading the first series of DA radio eps. from iPlayer using get_iplayer. However I noticed some discrepancies. Some are 'original' others are 'shortened' Same pertains to Steptoe, Navy Lark, Hancock, etc. Why so? I have been able to compare a

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

2019-03-20 Thread CJB
Just been downloading the first series of DA radio eps. from iPlayer using get_iplayer. However I noticed some discrepancies. Some are 'original' others are 'shortened' Same pertains to Steptoe, Navy Lark, Hancock, etc. Why so? Chris. INFO: Downloading radio: 'Dad's Army: Series 1 - 3.

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2019-03-18 Thread RS
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

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2019-03-17 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 17/03/2019 16:32, Nick wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 14:08:32 + (GMT) Jim web wrote: I'll experiment a bit more, then abandon this if I get no-where. I can live without the relevant files. I was just curious about the 'radio' ones in particular. Either way: thanks to

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2019-03-17 Thread Nick
On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:58:19 + (GMT) Jim web wrote: > In article <20190317163236.7034d...@roadkill.i.lucanops.net>, Nick > wrote: > > > The audio is a total of 67.2MB, if you're still stuck shall I just > > email the files to you? > > Not email, please! 8-] Understandably. A poor

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2019-03-17 Thread Jim web
In article <20190317163236.7034d...@roadkill.i.lucanops.net>, Nick wrote: > The audio is a total of 67.2MB, if you're still stuck shall I just email > the files to you? Not email, please! 8-] I'd be grateful if you could let me have the 'sound radio' files via the 'drag and drop' form on this

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2019-03-17 Thread Jim web
In article , Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: > On 2019-03-17 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. :-/ > For a piece of video created as long

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2019-03-17 Thread Nick
On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 14:08:32 + (GMT) Jim web wrote: > I'll experiment a bit more, then abandon this if I get no-where. I > can live without the relevant files. I was just curious about the > 'radio' ones in particular. > > Either way: thanks to everyone for the help/ideas. > > Jim > I got

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2019-03-17 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 17/03/2019 15:37, RS wrote: wget http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/gtis/?server=cp47317.edgefcs.net=archive/white/OAT_BBC_7312=akamai=ondemand You beat me to it!  However, your error message was caused by failing to put quotes around the URL ... $ wget

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2019-03-17 Thread RS
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

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2019-03-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2019-03-17 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. :-/ For a piece of video created as long ago as 1980, I don't quite understand why you would

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2019-03-17 Thread Jim web
In article <33f7505c-e4f8-c368-82a6-3195f34b0...@macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: [snip] > FTR, in case it may be helpful in spotting a pattern, it was ... > perl C:\Programs\GetIPlayer\get_iplayer.pl --pid p06ks6fd > ... that worked. > Undeniably a tedious chore, but

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2019-03-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2019-03-16 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

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2019-03-17 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 17/03/2019 10:10, Jim web wrote: Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong or missing? If not, I'll look at the 'youtube' approach. (Will that work for 'radio' examples, BTW?) I can't necessarily help with this specific problem, but recently I was trying to download a

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2019-03-17 Thread RS
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

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2019-03-17 Thread Jim web
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 before the ".shtml" to suit). On two

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2019-03-17 Thread Jim web
In article <20f5b421-e006-d0dd-78f9-7c8f66c06...@zoho.com>, RS wrote: > 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. > >

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2019-03-17 Thread Jim web
In article <5c8d479f.30849.24093...@peter.kirk.isauk.biz>, Peter S Kirk wrote: > On 16 Mar 2019 at 12:42, Jim web Jim web wrote: > > (Prompted by some Tv programmes on 'Hornby' :-) ) > James May? > Hornby scrapping all the old dies had me ranting, they should have > sold/auctioned/ebayed

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2019-03-16 Thread RS
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

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2019-03-16 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 16 Mar 2019 at 12:42, Jim web Jim web wrote: > (Prompted by some Tv programmes on 'Hornby' :-) ) James May? Hornby scrapping all the old dies had me ranting, they should have sold/auctioned/ebayed them. Lesson for woman in shop: don't make up excuses for Hornby's delays, tell the truth

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