RE: Why no Formula E?

2021-04-26 Thread George Eycott
Wow, that seems complex, mine is just: search0 The Repair Shop Works fine for me! > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of > Don Grunbaum > Sent: 26 April 2021 08:41 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: Why no Formula E? > > As an example, this is my file

Re: Why no Formula E?

2021-04-26 Thread Don Grunbaum
As an example, this is my file for "The Repair Shop": excludecategory children,primary excludechannel alba,cymru,news,s4c,cbbc,cbeebies,parliament,bbcthree,northern ireland,wales pid b08l581p modes best output V:\BBC iPlayer

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

2021-04-26 Thread David Taylor
On 25/04/2021 19:52, Andrew wrote: A bit behind the times are we? Pit stops haven't happened since season 4 following the introduction of the Gen2 cars. Races are 45min + 1 lap with the same car. That was a welcome improvement, but they are still stuck with too many gimmicks for me,

Re: Why no Formula E?

2021-04-26 Thread Don Grunbaum
I'm not sure that you've followed the thread fully, George. Your search will pick up "The Repair Shop" programmes in the cache, no problem. The original question (from Steve Wilson) is about picking up programmes that are not in the cache, but available on iPlayer, such as "box sets" and those

RE: Why no Formula E?

2021-04-26 Thread George Eycott
Ah fair enough, I was just a bit thrown as to why you would need/want to exclude a load of channels when you have specified a PID, but it sounds like they are probably the defaults for your web PVR and get_iplayer has copied them to the pvr file. > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer

Failing to download msg

2021-04-26 Thread fred.d
I've noticed an increase over the past few months in getting the failed to download messages see sample after this message, which is the last error then success. Initially before Christmas it was every so often. Jan and Feb it moved to repeat once or twice on most of the downloads with a few

RE: Failing to download msg

2021-04-26 Thread George Eycott
I think it is the same for everyone, there were comments on here about it a month or so ago and I notice that several bugs have been raised on the github issues tracker relating to it. The developer has left them as closed/invalid (he/she has set the system to automatically close all issues logged

Re: Failing to download msg

2021-04-26 Thread James Scholes
The message explicitly says to ignore it if the program is downloaded successfully. If for some reason you are closely monitoring the output of GiP and it's getting in the way, you can exclude the CDN that is generating the errors: get_iplayer --exclude-supplier bidi ... ... which doesn't

Re: Failing to download msg

2021-04-26 Thread Chris Brady
Yes - I get these all of the time. CJB On 26/04/2021, fred.d wrote: > I've noticed an increase over the past few months in getting the failed > to download messages see sample after this message, which is the last > error then success. > > Initially before Christmas it was every so often. Jan

Re: Failing to download msg

2021-04-26 Thread James Scholes
> am I right in assuming that bidi refers to bi-directional? No. "BIDI is the BBC’s own content distribution platform and is responsible for delivering media directly to the BBC end users in the UK."[1] [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/8c6c2414-df7a-4ad7-bd2e-dbe481da3633

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

2021-04-26 Thread Chris Woods
-- Chris Woods CustomMade On 2021-04-26 08:07, David Taylor wrote: On 25/04/2021 19:52, Andrew wrote: A bit behind the times are we? Pit stops haven't happened since season 4 following the introduction of the Gen2 cars. Races are 45min + 1 lap with the same car. That was a welcome

Re: Why no Formula E?

2021-04-26 Thread Steve Wilson
I suspect I caused a bit of confusion, perhaps I should have altered the subject to reflect the trangression from the original question. Don's response mentioned using the series pid and recursive option to follow a series, as I've a simple search for "click" it could be prone to picking up

Re: Failing to download msg

2021-04-26 Thread James Scholes
Also, just to add: the BBC hosts content across three content delivery networks (CDNs). One in-house (Bidi) and two third party (Akamai and Limelight). This creates redundancy and a geographical spread. Even though Bidi is the BBC's own offering, and used exclusively for UK-based users, they