Re: Recursive download with episode name filter?

2024-04-24 Thread iz
> On 24 Apr 2024, at 13:11, Nick Payne wrote: > > Interestingly, if I run > > get_iplayer "Snooker* > > all that finds are the various Day 1, Day 2 etc videos. None of the A vs B > match videos are found. The docs explicitly state that web-only items are not searchable. As to the original

Re: Recursive download with episode name filter?

2024-04-24 Thread Nick Payne
Have a look at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b010nsbf/snooker-world-championship, and underneath that they have "Day 1 Round 1", "Day 2 Round 1" etc up to "Today". Under each of those there are videos of a particular match - eg under Day 1 there is

Re: Recursive download with episode name filter?

2024-04-24 Thread Chris Walker
On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:33:40 +1000 Nick Payne wrote: > For example, with the coverage of the current world snooker > championships, I'm only after the videos of one specific player > versus another, and they all have episode names of the format A_v_B, > where A and B are the players. > > BBC

Re: Duplicates, triplicates, quadruplicates…

2024-03-29 Thread Mike Pollock
A great suggestion, thanks, but it's a little tougher with a keyword search. I'm casting a wide net for topics that could show up in any programme on any station. The catches might not always interest me, but if that's the case, I'd rather not watch get_iplayer download six identical uninteresting

Re: Duplicates, triplicates, quadruplicates…

2024-03-29 Thread Chris Walker
On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:40:26 -0400 Mike Pollock wrote: > Since the consolidation of much of BBC Local Radio, syndicated > programmes airing across multiple local stations are now replicated in > the archive with different PIDs and suffixed names. This has the > unpleasant effect of causing

Re: Seeking Help with Downloading AD Films

2024-03-09 Thread iz
> On 9 Mar 2024, at 12:21, Darran Ross wrote: > > What I'd like to know is, would it be possible to ask GiP to search all > available films and then download only those with audio description? The short answer is no. GiP cannot search by category or version, nor can it search the entire

Re: Searching failing

2024-03-09 Thread iz
> On 9 Mar 2024, at 14:46, Charles Johnson wrote: > > On 06/03/2024 20:56, iz wrote: >> "firstbcastdate" is not a search field. Use --fields=available > Thank you. So I therefore must take it that all tokens that match the pattern > ^\w+: in a listing (such as firstbcastyear:, firstbcastrel:,

Re: releaseyear metadata get_iplayer extracts for Films

2024-03-07 Thread David
On 06/03/2024 19:42, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: Eh?  Surely this film is way older than that?  ISTR first seeing it in the 70s?  Let's see what IMDB says, yes, thought so, 1971. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067116/ Sorry that was a terrible example on my part! No idea what I was

Re: Fifty frames per second with half of them redundant.

2024-03-06 Thread Chris Woods
On 05/03/2024 12:23, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, I'm used to an hour of iPlayer video needing about 1 GiB. In the past, this doubled for a while because the frame rate doubled from 25 to 50 per second. But stepping through the frames, say with mpv(1)'s ‘.’, showed the first frame of a pair

Re: releaseyear metadata get_iplayer extracts for Films

2024-03-06 Thread iz
> On 6 Mar 2024, at 18:49, David wrote: > > Unfortunately neither of my examples is currently listed in the iPlayer > schedules on so I am unable to confirm via the website if the Beach does not > the original release year (so its extracting ), but all my > spot checks of current films on

Re: Searching failing

2024-03-06 Thread iz
> On 23 Feb 2024, at 11:00, Charles Johnson wrote: > > I don't really do much searching so I might be doing something wrong, but the > following search fails to produce any results for me: > > get_iplayer --type=radio --fields=firstbcastdate "2024-02-22" > > I know for a fact that certain

Re: releaseyear metadata get_iplayer extracts for Films

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

RE: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically

2024-02-26 Thread jon928se
different manner. Jon -Original Message- From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of geo...@eycott.co.uk Sent: 15 February 2024 00:27 To: jon92...@gmail.com; 'Tom Guest' ; get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically This has become

Re: Searching failing

2024-02-24 Thread Chris Walker
On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 10:27:02 + Chris Walker wrote: > On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:11:34 + > Charles Johnson wrote: > > > On 23/02/2024 11:11, Chris Walker wrote: > > > Does this help? > > > get_iplayer --since=24 ".*" > > > > Yes, that does return results thanks. Just wondering why my > >

Re: Searching failing

2024-02-24 Thread Chris Walker
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:11:34 + Charles Johnson wrote: > On 23/02/2024 11:11, Chris Walker wrote: > > Does this help? > > get_iplayer --since=24 ".*" > > Yes, that does return results thanks. Just wondering why my original > does not Could it be because you didn't specify any programmes to

Re: Searching failing

2024-02-23 Thread Chris Walker
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:00:46 + Charles Johnson wrote: > I don't really do much searching so I might be doing something wrong, > but the following search fails to produce any results for me: > > get_iplayer --type=radio --fields=firstbcastdate "2024-02-22" > > I know for a fact that

RE: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically

2024-02-21 Thread jon928se
Message- From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of geo...@eycott.co.uk Sent: 15 February 2024 00:27 To: jon92...@gmail.com; 'Tom Guest' ; get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically This has become such a long complex layout of an email

Re: Dates in filename change

2024-02-19 Thread Chris Walker
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:52:13 + Chris Walker wrote: Arrgghh. > I might be able to help with that problem. Attached is a zip of a bash Finger trouble on my part of course. I definitely didn't mean to send this to the list. Sorry about that. -- __ __| |_ __ __

Re: Dates in filename change

2024-02-19 Thread Chris Walker
On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 21:11:12 + MrBrunes wrote: > That's very useful info and I had no idea that it was possible to > change the filename, let alone that such metadata as tracklistings > etc. were even available, so that is now added to options! > It leaves me with a bit of a quandary in that

Re: Dates in filename change

2024-02-18 Thread MrBrunes
That's very useful info and I had no idea that it was possible to change the filename, let alone that such metadata as tracklistings etc. were even available, so that is now added to options! It leaves me with a bit of a quandary in that now I'd like to use ISO dates e.g. firstbcastdate as an

Re: Dates in filename change

2024-02-18 Thread Chris Walker
On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:03:34 + MrBrunes wrote: > Hi > > I regularly download TOTP episodes which contain the date. [snip] > 7152:Top of the Pops - 29/12/1983, BBC Four, b08rc78m firstbcastdate: 1983-12-29 > > Filenames were of the form “Top of the Pops - 29 12 1983 b08rc78m >

Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

2024-02-15 Thread fred.d
The text as originally presented here reads more like this is being done as a cost saving exercise in terms of saving effort by reducing the amount of software dev and support required on their platform of programme delivery rather than something around control of who can access what. That's

Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

2024-02-15 Thread Mark Goodge
On 15/02/2024 12:27, Jim web wrote: Is the idea/aim that *only* a 'BBC app' will work? If so, why impose that on License Fee payers? Some of whom may simply not have a 'device'. (I don't.) It's currently the case that only a BBC app is supported. Web downloads aren't raw mp4 files,

Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

2024-02-15 Thread Jim web
In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: > >> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The BBC's iPlayer streaming service is to end > >> downloads for users who watch on desktop or laptop computers. > >> > >> Programmes will still be available to download on tablets and phones > >> via the mobile iPlayer

Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

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

RE: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically

2024-02-14 Thread george
This has become such a long complex layout of an email I have binned it and started again! I think there are two issues getting confused here, refreshing the web page on the web PVR (which is a browser issue) and refreshing the cache which is a different thing. I am not aware that the web PVR

Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

2024-02-14 Thread Jim web
In article , David Woodhouse wrote: > Hm? My reading of that is just that they're just going to stop building > the native applications for Windows and MacOS, which they believe were > the only way to download programmes on those platforms. > The web site will still work for streaming (and

RE: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically

2024-02-14 Thread jon928se
-Original Message- From: jon92...@gmail.com Sent: 09 February 2024 10:05 To: 'Tom Guest' ; 'get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org' Subject: RE: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically -Original Message- From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of Tom Guest

Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

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

Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

2024-02-13 Thread Owen Smith
It seems unlikely this will mean the end of get_iplayer. The streams are still available for playing with browsers or apps on phones/tablets, and the data saying what programmes are available is still around in various forms. I'm not even convinced this will require any changes to get_iplayer.

Re: End of get_iplayer is nigh?

2024-02-13 Thread Mike Conley
On 13 Feb 2024, at 13:13, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > This BBC News article has appeared today: > > https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68283165 > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > The BBC's iPlayer streaming service is to end downloads for users who watch > on desktop or laptop computers. Well, that

RE: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically

2024-02-08 Thread jon928se
-Original Message- From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of Tom Guest Sent: 09 February 2024 06:32 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically -- Original Message -- >From jon92...@gmail.com To get_ipla

Re: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically

2024-02-08 Thread Tom Guest
-- Original Message -- From jon92...@gmail.com To get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Date 28/01/2024 02:50:46 Subject get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically I think this started in version 3.34.0. It seems the web PVR is not automatically refreshing

Re: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically

2024-02-08 Thread Charles Johnson
On 08/02/2024 07:45, jon92...@gmail.com wrote: -Original Message- From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip Sent: 29 January 2024 03:39 To: ML - get_iplayer Subject: Re: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically On 2024-01-28 02:50, jon92

RE: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically

2024-02-07 Thread jon928se
-Original Message- From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip Sent: 29 January 2024 03:39 To: ML - get_iplayer Subject: Re: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically On 2024-01-28 02:50, jon92...@gmail.com wrote: > I think this star

Re: "Quality not specified" - when it is ...

2024-01-29 Thread Clive Buckley
Hi Mark - thank you for the reply and yes, it worked. I have never previously needed to specify quality, having set it up in prefs so had not appreciated that there needed to be a space rather than a hyphen or equals sign. Downloaded now so thanks again. Clive > On 29 Jan 2024, at 09:22, Mark

Re: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically

2024-01-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2024-01-28 02:50, jon92...@gmail.com wrote: I think this started in version 3.34.0. It seems the web PVR is not automatically refreshing the cache as it is supposed to, by default every 4 hours. I have Auto-Refresh Cache Interval and Auto-Run PVR Interval both set to 4 hours. My

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-22 Thread Jim web
Dowloaded the fill 3h+ version fine this morning using the 'editorial' setting. The result is HD in terms of declared picture size in pixels. But blurred in a way that looks like upscaled SD. The file size is c 7Gigs. Regardless of tech details seeing the rest is useful. If only to watch top

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-22 Thread Jim web
In article <3a4acfb6-304d-c48c-8af3-c54bf1ae0...@macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: > > You need NTFS for it to work for bigger files than 4 GB > No he doesn't! As he has already stated, he uses Linux which has a > choice of different possible file systems, and he is only using

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-21 Thread Jim web
In article <5b5737ed-dcd3-4ca9-a77e-4f7eb9c30...@mikegregory.net>, Michael Gregory wrote: > FYI, BBC Parliament is HD on satellite... not upscaled. Thanks. Useful to know. May be examples where that helps. Although the drawback is seeing some of our politicians in even more hideous detail.

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-21 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 21/01/2024 14:36, Jim web wrote: In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: Not sure where you got the pid m001vxvk from Used gip to give me the info on the pid. That showed that the 'editorial' version had a different pid as per above. Ah! Didn't notice that. (1) BTW I

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-21 Thread Michael Gregory
FYI, BBC Parliament is HD on satellite... not upscaled. 21 Jan 2024 14:41:27 Jim web : > In article , MacFH - C > E > Macfarlane - News wrote: >> On 21/01/2024 11:51, Jim web wrote: >>> >>> Question: Should simply giving the pid as m001vxvk rather than >>> m001vkll cause gip to get the

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-21 Thread Jim web
In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: > On 21/01/2024 11:51, Jim web wrote: > > > > Question: Should simply giving the pid as m001vxvk rather than > > m001vkll cause gip to get the full-length version? Or is that not > > sufficient? As yet I've always used the pid of the webpage

Re: m001vkll puzzle

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

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-21 Thread Jim web
In article <70cc91a8-cb60-42e8-9f4d-0b0b005b8...@gmx.com>, iz wrote: > > On 20 Jan 2024, at 11:16, Jim web wrote: > > > > This *also* was ended part-way though the sitting. So I checked the > > webpage and that states the duration is over 3 hours. Yet what I got > > was 1h 33m long. > Use

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-21 Thread Jim web
In article <2e076214-aa04-da58-d253-26b497e64...@macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: > > Playing either file is fine ... for what it contains. Just that the > > following section of the sitting seems not to be present. > Sorry, there was such a break between setting the test

Re: m001vkll puzzle

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

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread iz
> On 20 Jan 2024, at 11:16, Jim web wrote: > > This *also* was ended part-way though the sitting. So I checked the webpage > and that states the duration is over 3 hours. Yet what I got was 1h 33m > long. Use --versions=editorial ___ get_iplayer

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread Jim web
In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: > oad it as a test, and have just noticed that it finished around > 1330hrs. It downloaded successfully as "Select Committees Horizon IT > Scandal Inquiry.mp4" 3.09GB, 1:33:18 long, 1280x720x50 and random > seeking within the file seems to play

Re: m001vkll puzzle

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

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread James Robinson
You need NTFS for it to work for bigger files than 4 GB > On 20/01/2024 15:42 GMT Jim web wrote: > > > In article <798a68e4-3fb7-4416-b9cf-31ca1e9b3...@writeme.com>, David > Taylor wrote: > > > BTW: all but one of my 20+ Linux systems all have a FAT/FAT32 partition > > on their boot

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread Jim web
In article <798a68e4-3fb7-4416-b9cf-31ca1e9b3...@writeme.com>, David Taylor wrote: > BTW: all but one of my 20+ Linux systems all have a FAT/FAT32 partition > on their boot disc Beats me. I only use 5 at present. :-) IIRC The RO box I use also has a FAT partition to aid booting. Doesn't

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread David Taylor
On 20/01/2024 12:40, Jim web wrote: Erm. I'm using Linux. No FAT involved here.(1) And so far as I know the BBC aren't bonkers enough to use FAT for their iPlayer store, etc! And I've downloaded bigger files in the past. Doesn't explain the curious change in file name, either. Jim (1) No

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread fred.d
Sounds to me more like there's an issue at the far end, someone tried to correct it and didn't but renamed it. If you play it on iplayer on a device or smart tv, does it also stop halfway through? Rgds. On 20/01/2024 12:40, Jim web wrote: In article , David Taylor wrote: [snip] Jim, It's

Re: m001vkll puzzle

2024-01-20 Thread Jim web
In article , David Taylor wrote: [snip] > Jim, > It's not the FAT/FAT32 file size limit? Erm. I'm using Linux. No FAT involved here.(1) And so far as I know the BBC aren't bonkers enough to use FAT for their iPlayer store, etc! And I've downloaded bigger files in the past. Doesn't explain the

Re: m001vkll puzzle

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

Re: m001vkll puzzle

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

Re: PVR process stops working

2023-12-14 Thread iz
> On 13 Dec 2023, at 11:16, MrBrunes wrote: > > I've tried removing "--quiet 2" and then adding --verbose and Remove --quiet but not "2" ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: PVR process stops working

2023-12-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2023-12-13 11:16, MrBrunes wrote: I created the task similarly to previously suggested: schtasks /create /ru /rp /sc hourly /mo 4 /tn get_iplayer_pvr_task /tr "get_iplayer --pvr --quiet 2>> \"F:\iplayer recordings\get_iplayer_pvr_task.txt\"" Currently I just see a single line e.g. "New

Re: PVR process stops working

2023-12-13 Thread MrBrunes
Tx for the info - the actual scripts would help a lot as I often struggle with getting them to work. For now though, my task scheduler seems to be working fine so far, once I'd ironed out the pesky path syntax that was causing the script to silently fail when run by the scheduler. Only thing that

Re: PVR process stops working

2023-12-09 Thread John Coucher
Hi, I’ve had problems with task scheduler too on old windows machines. So what I do is use a batch file that loops continually. You can add tasks to the loop. So you can do: 1. Check VPN still running and reconnect if not 2. Refresh Programme Index 3. Run PVR 4. Robocopy downloaded files to

Re: PVR process stops working

2023-12-05 Thread iz
On 5 Dec 2023, at 16:41, wrote: > > On Windows I can confirm it does not always clear the lock file when > starting. Very occasionally on a freshly booted machine pvr will fail to run > due to an old lock file. Delete and try again and all is good. It doesn't > happen ofyen (every 3 - 4

Re: PVR process stops working

2023-12-05 Thread MrBrunes
Tx to all for the info. No idea how I ended up with old docs. Before I saw this I did delete the pvrlock file (which contained the old PID) which did the trick and only then I was able to run the PVR scheduler. This time I did it from a command prompt which displays the activity and also

Re: PVR process stops working

2023-12-05 Thread iz
On 5 Dec 2023, at 13:13, Don Grunbaum wrote: > > The pvr creates a small file called pvrlock in the get_iplayer folder. Try > deleting that. Not such a good idea since in this case since the previous PVR invocation is still running, or at least its Perl interpreter is still alive. Even if GiP

Re: PVR process stops working

2023-12-05 Thread Don Grunbaum (PlusNet)
- Original Message - From: MrBrunes To: Sent: 04/12/2023 19:02:34 Subject: PVR process stops working Occasionally I notice that the PVR process has stopped downloading. Now that it's configured to

Re: PVR process stops working

2023-12-05 Thread Don Grunbaum
- Original Message - From: MrBrunes To: Sent: 04/12/2023 19:02:34 Subject: PVR process stops working Occasionally I notice that the PVR process has stopped downloading. Now that it's configured to

Re: PVR process stops working

2023-12-05 Thread iz
On 4 Dec 2023, at 19:02, MrBrunes wrote: > > The PID never shows up in Task Manager or Process Explorer so it's reboot > time. At most, you should only need to kill the Perl interpreter (perl.exe) process. > > How can I diagnose this? > Failing that, is there any way to make the PVR process

Re: PVR process stops working

2023-12-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2023-12-04 19:02, MrBrunes wrote: Occasionally I notice that the PVR process has stopped downloading. I've never used the PVR, but does it not create any kind of log file? Searching for 'iplayer' in Event Viewer's application log doesn't find anything recent. If the PVR is written in

Re: Is there an issue with current Shakespeare episodes

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

Re: Is there an issue with current Shakespeare episodes

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

Re: Is there an issue with current Shakespeare episodes

2023-10-30 Thread Budge
On 30/10/2023 21:09, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: On 30/10/2023 19:49, Budge wrote: This doesn't work and my pvr list which includes "Beck" the TV programme also downloads several radio programmes with names which start with Beck but are from radio stations I didn't want ie:-

Re: Is there an issue with current Shakespeare episodes

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

Re: Is there an issue with current Shakespeare episodes

2023-10-30 Thread Budge
On 30/10/2023 10:39, Budge wrote: On 30/10/2023 09:58, Chris Walker wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:35:21 + Budge wrote: I have been trying to get the current repeat of As You Like It (BBC4 TV) and have an error message I do not understand:- The BBC Television Shakespeare - As You Like

Re: Is there an issue with current Shakespeare episodes

2023-10-30 Thread Budge
On 30/10/2023 09:58, Chris Walker wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:35:21 + Budge wrote: I have been trying to get the current repeat of As You Like It (BBC4 TV) and have an error message I do not understand:- The BBC Television Shakespeare - As You Like It, BBC Two, p014jvqc INFO: 1 total

Re: Is there an issue with current Shakespeare episodes

2023-10-30 Thread Chris Walker
On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:35:21 + Budge wrote: > I have been trying to get the current repeat of As You Like It (BBC4 > TV) and have an error message I do not understand:- > > The BBC Television Shakespeare - As You Like It, BBC Two, p014jvqc > INFO: 1 total programmes > > WARNING: No media

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-10-01 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
as opposed to SD, and they're awful - in wildlife programmes rivers flow stop-start, etc - but the older SD encodings to which I was referring were fine. It also seems to depend on who does the encoding, some occasional individual programmes were done really badly, and for them any re

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-10-01 Thread MrBrunes
the BBC logo is on the black left vertical border, but in dashhfd1 it's a semi-transparent BBC FOUR ident in-screen. So it appears that it is not just a re-encode. If there were no benefit then why would the Beeb reencode them? With storage being relatively cheap, I've just opted to go with the Wildean

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
nd another similar script to report the resolution. You could use these in another small script of your own to conditionally re-download only those that aren't in your desired quality: https://github.com/DrHyde/shellscripts/blob/master/fps https://github.com/DrHyde/shellscripts/blob/master/ffres

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-09-30 Thread fred.d
... he might be a fan of Pan's persons and wanting the best quality video he can to spark youthful memories. but your point is correct, of the few I have watched I never saw what I would call HD quality output and you can often get better music quality on Spotify or even Youtube - of course

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-09-30 Thread fred.d
knew it would be on and logged in. then every few days I'd copy new episodes from the download directory to the directory I store them in for her to access via Plex. Anything that I'd already downloaded was of course not re-downloaded so if there are no new episodes it takes seconds to run. Took

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

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

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-09-30 Thread MrBrunes
these, meaning that I needed to re-download all the non-dashfhd1 programmes as they are just 540/720 rather than 1080. I then used NP++ Search, Mark / Bookmark line /Mark All functions to bookmark all the lines matching a certain title, then cut and pasted all bookmarked lines into a separate file. Edited

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-09-30 Thread Michael Gregory
You can use NP++ to sort your download_history starting at column 10 to get all the TOTP together to help. Should have quality there too, in the field after pid, eg: hvfhdq1, dashfhd1, (HQ which you want to leave) But some in my file do not have that field populated... I think they are ones I

Re: Overwriting lower quality files

2023-09-30 Thread Chris Walker
On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 12:05 +0100, MrBrunes wrote: > I've just realised that some of my historical downloads of TOTP are in > SD or non-50fps HD but the download history doesn't seem to note the > quality, so I need to force download them again. Since new programmes > are currently made available

Re: New Installation External Programs

2023-09-20 Thread Peter Corlett
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 06:09:27PM +0100, Budge wrote: [...] > My openSUSE repo does not have atomicparsley. It has libatomicparsley0 > which is apparently in a gtkpod. I don't know much about SUSE (apart from that it used to be a half-arsed Red Hat remix which was in severe decline by the 2000s

Re: Deleting One Off / Single Entry PVR Searches?

2023-09-09 Thread Chris Walker
On Thu, 7 Sep 2023 14:09:20 -0400 Peter Kok wrote: > Hello - > > Is there a command line that would enable deletion / removal of one > off / single entry PVR searches? For instance, The Banksy Story - > Omnibus 2, BBC Radio 4, m001p237, isn't available (never was), but > continues to be part

Re: Deleting One Off / Single Entry PVR Searches?

2023-09-08 Thread Don Grunbaum
The pvr is controlled by text files held in the pvr folder. The simplest way is to delete the unwanted file from there. HTH Don - Original Message - From: Peter Kok To: Sent: 07/09/2023 19:09:20 Subject: Deleting One Off / Single Entry PVR Searches?

Re: Deleting One Off / Single Entry PVR Searches?

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

Re: Programmes over 30 days old - incorrect warning

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

Re: Get_iplayer error when launching

2023-06-11 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2023-06-11 10:28, sous...@sousous.org wrote: but now, when trying to launch Get_Iplayer Update cmd or Get_Iplayer cm (always through the icons on my desk), i got this message inside the cmd popup : "La ligne d'entrée est trop longue - la syntaxe de la commande n'est pas correcte" which can

Re: Blocked from streaming

2023-06-05 Thread Expert Geeks
Thanks Mark. Interestingly the browser version of BBC sounds and the android app are both still working. Presumably the intent is to block 'unusual' anonymous access. I've since set up my transcoder using TVHeadend.. shame I didn't do that in the first instance, but I didn't think I'd get

Re: Blocked from streaming

2023-06-05 Thread Mark Carroll
On 05 Jun 2023, Expert Geeks wrote: (snip) > However, none of the stream links are working for BBC radio now.. Oddly, > neither is it working for LBC.. I am able to listen to both BBC & LBC > when connected to a VPN, which makes me think that my home IP is on a > radio streaming blocklist.

Re: How can I create a list of programmes from BBC Sounds

2023-05-26 Thread Budge
On 24/05/2023 21:35, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: On 2023-05-20 18:37, Budge wrote: Using the pid for the entire archive I can get a list of the entire archive but I have not found out how to sort the list by genre or obtain a list of a single genre. It looks to me as "genre" is an

Re: How can I create a list of programmes from BBC Sounds

2023-05-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2023-05-20 18:37, Budge wrote: Using the pid for the entire archive I can get a list of the entire archive but I have not found out how to sort the list by genre or obtain a list of a single genre. It looks to me as "genre" is an arbitrary tag that the BBC do not expose on any of the html

Re: Some questions on PVR

2023-05-20 Thread Kevin Lynch
No Problem - the 2.97 is probably the freshest port that's available to my Raspberry PI, pi@osgood:~$ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="10" VERSION="10 (buster)" VERSION_CODENAME=buster On Sat, 20 May 2023 at 17:52, Budge

Re: Some questions on PVR

2023-05-20 Thread Budge
Hi Kevin, I have been away and coming back to this I think I have missed something somewhere.  You have shown a command which is revealing get_iplayer v2.97 and showing podcasts.    I am using v3.31 and the deprecated podcast type is no longer supported. I too am confused by the conflicting

Re: Some questions on PVR

2023-05-13 Thread Kevin Lynch
I looked at the podcast thing while watching Eurovision and I found that it still works, but there are definite limitations. pi@osgood:~$ get_iplayer --type=podcast --refresh nomatch get_iplayer v2.97, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for

Re: Some questions on PVR

2023-05-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2023-05-13 20:18, Kevin Lynch wrote: ... Since then the BBC had an "audio product" whose name escapes me that then was rewritten to be "BBC Sounds". If you look carefully the BBC doesn't promote "BBC Radio" anymore. It's all "BBC Sounds". The BBC now deprecates podcasts, driving users to BBC

Re: Some questions on PVR

2023-05-13 Thread Budge
er website. I shall examine further when I have time but it is not an issue at present. I note Kevin's advice and I recall using --pid-recursive in the past. My history file is a trip down memory lane, as is my .mp4 and .m4a database. Re-activating my pvr lis

Re: Some questions on PVR

2023-05-13 Thread Kevin Lynch
t; The fact that podcast is deprecated makes sense and I can avoid in future if > necessary. > > I haven't yet looked for or found a podcast but I recall they are used on the > iPlayer website. I shall examine further when I have time but it is not an > issue at present. >

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