Re: copyri...@kickass.to bounces

2014-09-15 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 15/09/2014 00:59, dinkypumpkin wrote: Is anyone else seeing bounce messages from copyri...@kickass.to as a result of posts to this list? It looks like some jackass subscribed that address to the list, but maybe it's just me that is affected. ___

Re: Problems downloading a programme

2014-09-16 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 15/09/2014 19:51, roadcone wrote: On 15/09/14 00:55, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 15/09/2014 00:27, Alan Milewczyk wrote: WARNING: No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default (available versions: audiodescribed,signed) get_iplayer is telling you what's wrong

Re: Problems downloading a programme

2014-09-16 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 15/09/2014 00:55, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 15/09/2014 00:27, Alan Milewczyk wrote: WARNING: No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default (available versions: audiodescribed,signed) get_iplayer is telling you what's wrong. This programme is available only

Re: copyri...@kickass.to bounces

2014-09-16 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 15/09/2014 00:59, dinkypumpkin wrote: Is anyone else seeing bounce messages from copyri...@kickass.to as a result of posts to this list? It looks like some jackass subscribed that address to the list, but maybe it's just me that is affected. H a spam response to my problems

Re: Quick URL doesn't work ....

2014-10-29 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Sorry roadcone On 29/10/2014 20:10, roadcone wrote: My --prefs file contains the following line: fileprefix = nameshort - senum - episodeshort - firstbcast Clive I'm a bit puzzled by this. I'm familiar with --prefs-add in its basic form but how do I achieve what you're saying above. I'm

Re: Quick URL doesn't work ....

2014-10-29 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Just following this up, I'm really struggling. I read some of the docs on substitution parameters and taking the first Autumnwatch programme which has a PID of b04n8zdp, I tried amending the example showing how to download Top Gear with this for Autumnwatch|: get_iplayer --pid ||b04n8zdp

Re: Quick URL doesn't work ....

2014-10-30 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Super, thanks both to M Clark and Vangelis forthnet. Now, it looks to me that senum, seriesnum and episodenum are broken, producing the results s01e01, 1 and 1 respectively in all cases, eg in the file previously downloaded as:

Re: Updated version of Get_Iplayer

2014-11-02 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 02/11/2014 13:18, Steve wrote: Ok, I got the new version Get_Iplayer.pl and all seems well again, I only use it for Radio 4 but all my PVR's jumped back into action and started downloading again - Great Work DinkyPumpkin! Is this a permanant fix, or will there be any more problems in the

Re: Updated version of Get_Iplayer

2014-11-02 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 02/11/2014 15:19, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I haven't seen one released since v2.79. Is that a typo? There's announcement messages posted to this mail list each time there's a new release. So - for the last few - v 2.85 on 6 Nov

A belated thank you to DP....

2014-11-03 Thread Alan Milewczyk
...for restoring normal service, you've no idea how much it is appreciated. Thank you again Alan ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
I'm amazed at these discussions. The issue for the BBC is one of the protection of intellectual property. Yes, the problem has been around since recording devices became available but since the advent of digital technology it has spiralled out of all belief as a problem to the copyright

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 04/11/2014 10:09, Tom wrote: The mistake you and they are making is that it can somehow be protected and so is worth a fortune. It cant and so it isn't. As you say they could shut down GIP today but that would not stop anything they broadcast or make available appearing on 'pirate' sites

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
But they will certainly disagree that their content belongs to you and that you have unfettered rights over it. That's what the LOL was for! A On 04/11/2014 11:11, Colin Law wrote: On 4 November 2014 11:01, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: LOL, try arguing that in a court of law

No programmes are available for this pid

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
I'm puzzled by this message: No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default which I get when trying to download two programmes (PIDs p0299nz3 and p0299ml1). Yet the programmes (Autumnwatch Extra) play on the BBC iPlayer site without problem. The other 6 programmes in the

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Yawn, is this the 5 minute argument or the full half hour? On 04/11/2014 11:33, Colin Law wrote: On 4 November 2014 11:18, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: But they will certainly disagree that their content belongs to you and that you have unfettered rights over it. That's what

Re: No programmes are available for this pid

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 04/11/2014 11:47, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I'm puzzled by this message: No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default which I get when trying to download two programmes (PIDs p0299nz3 and p0299ml1). Usually

Re: No programmes are available for this pid

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 04/11/2014 15:54, TQ wrote: On 04/11/2014 11:47, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I'm puzzled by this message: No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default which I get when trying to download two programmes (PIDs p0299nz3

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
so heaven knows how new talent can be nurtured and remunerated. Alan On 04/11/2014 15:58, Nick wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:54:47 + Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I'm amazed at these discussions. I wonder how many BBC people are actually subscribed to the list. And I'm

Re: No programmes are available for this pid

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 05/11/2014 11:12, Budgie wrote: On 04/11/14 11:39, Alan Milewczyk wrote: I'm puzzled by this message: No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default which I get when trying to download two programmes (PIDs p0299nz3 and p0299ml1). Yet the programmes (Autumnwatch Extra

Re: Episode Numbering not working

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 05/11/2014 12:38, Barry Caruth wrote: On 3 Nov 2014, at 20:43, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/11/2014 20:29, Charles Holding wrote: I've just let my pvr jobs download and the episode numbers appear to be missing in filename (getting s01e00, s02e00 etc.) and .nfo metadata?

Re: Hello World...

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 05/11/2014 14:51, J wrote: artisticforge . wrote: snip get_iplayer, bypasses all of that and is grabbing a digital copy of the BBC content. there is a fundamental difference. I don't follow your overall argument. My Foxsat DVR grabs digital copies of broadcast media and the cheapo sat

Re: Hello World...

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 05/11/2014 15:17, wacla...@btconnect.com wrote: On 05/11/14 13:56, artisticforge . wrote: get_iplayer, bypasses all of that and is grabbing a digital copy of the BBC content. there is a fundamental difference. My point is that if I can record off digital TV legally, why can we not record

Re: Hello World...

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Sorry but you've posted a totally irrelevant link. On 05/11/2014 15:54, wacla...@btconnect.com wrote: On 05/11/14 15:28, Alan Milewczyk wrote: I think you'll find that home recording would be viewed as technically illegal. As far I a read it is *not* illegal ? http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk

Re: Hello World...

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
This is a more relevant thread http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=768929 There's plenty more pages on the net if you Google legality of recording TV programmes or something similar. A On 05/11/2014 15:54, wacla...@btconnect.com wrote: On 05/11/14 15:28, Alan Milewczyk

Re: ePetition Covering Public Data From The Likes Of The BBC

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 05/11/2014 16:42, artisticforge . wrote: Hello; That would mean everyone would have to sign the official secrets act and we could never discuss what the memos said. ;-) On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:08 AM, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote: On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 14:40 +, C E

Re: Hello World...

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Agreed totally with your comments. Digital technology changed the game totally. A On 05/11/2014 17:22, artisticforge . wrote: Hello;My point was that industry was content to allow VHS recording because they knew that each duplication of the tape would degrade the quality . Therefore, VHS

Re: Hello World...

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 05/11/2014 21:25, Peter S Kirk wrote: On 5 Nov 2014 at 15:23, Alan Milewczyk Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: Except that quite often the tail end of broadcasts includes announcers giving information about upcoming programmes. That's why prefer I prefer the get_iPlayer version

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

2014-11-08 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 08/11/2014 14:10, Jim Lesurf wrote: On 08 Nov, Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: Blasted mailing list, I sent the message below as a personal reply, AGAIN. I simply cannot get my brain to accept how this list works. I'm on half a dozen other mailing lists all of which work the other

Re: mail-list behavior, was: iplayer audio to lpcm

2014-11-08 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Agree totally, it's an absolute no-no AFAIAC. On 08/11/2014 22:40, Owen Smith wrote: Cross posting between multiple mailing lists is something that I have a serious downer on. People don't always agree to their postings being published elsewhere, or their email address being publicised

Re: Your message to get_iplayer awaits moderator approval

2014-11-09 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 09/11/2014 11:18, C E Macfarlane wrote: True, you can do that, but ... 1) It is mainly the calling of external programs that causes stuttering to other processes 2) I often forget to start get_iplayer with nice, and it's nice to have the fallback position of the worst offenders

Difficulties downloading a couple of programmes - help please!

2014-11-09 Thread Alan Milewczyk
The problem I'm about to describe is affecting two programmes I was hoping to download, BOTH of which are playing normally in BBCs iPlayer and can be saved and played in BBC iPlayer Downloads without difficulty. The programmes in question are from yesterday (Saturday 8th November) on BBC1,

Re: Your message to get_iplayer awaits moderator approval

2014-11-09 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 09/11/2014 13:33, Tom wrote: On 09/11/14 13:18, Alan Milewczyk wrote: You and a few others have mentioned nice in the last few days. I've never heard of it before. What is it and what are its benefits? Sorry about last blank response! nice is a unix/linux command that sets the priority

Re: Difficulties downloading a couple of programmes - help please!

2014-11-09 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 09/11/2014 16:21, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 09/11/2014 14:55, Alan Milewczyk wrote: INFO: No specified modes (flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal,flashlow) available for this programme with version 'default' (try using --modes=flashaacstd,rtspaacstd) ERROR: Failed to record

Re: Problems with Strictly Come Dancing...

2014-11-10 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Hi Jan I had the same problem and got the following reply from DP which worked for me: On 09/11/2014 16:21, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 09/11/2014 14:55, Alan Milewczyk wrote: INFO: No specified modes (flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal,flashlow) available for this programme

Re: Problems with Strictly Come Dancing...

2014-11-10 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Jan PS I forgot to say, DP's hack worked beautifully in both cases with addition of --force and a --tvmode=best so I got the HD version. Alan On 10/11/2014 16:51, Jan wrote: Hi, i'm unable to download 'Strictly Come Dancing' from last Saturday and also the week before using either the

Re: The Ballad of the Great War - 1914

2014-11-14 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 13/11/2014 18:12, Don Grunbaum wrote: - Original Message - From: CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com To: get_iplayer-request get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 5:54 PM Subject: The Ballad of the Great War - 1914 The Ballad of the Great War - 1914 World War

Re: The Ballad of the Great War - 1914

2014-11-14 Thread Alan Milewczyk
. This implies that although the file was on the server for iPlayer, it wasn't yet indexed. Chris B. On 14/11/2014, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: On 13/11/2014 18:12, Don Grunbaum wrote: - Original Message - From: CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com To: get_iplayer-request get_iplayer

Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-17 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 18/11/2014 06:18, TQ wrote: On 18 November 2014 at 00:05 Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: Is anyone else experiencing painfully slow radio downloads (Radio 4 and Radio4Extra)? No problems here at 06h15 - seems pretty much what I'm used to at this time of the morning. Thanks

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 18/11/2014 15:29, Simon Morgan wrote: -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer Sent: 18 November 2014 13:47 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Slow radio downloads Dave Liquorice

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 18/11/2014 19:01, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: In that case, I'd better not mention the 156Mbps downloads and 11.6Mbps uploads I get from Virgin here in Greater Manchester. My 60 Mbps connection is also a Virgin one; what actual download

Re: OT MF interference and ADSL {Was: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic}

2014-11-19 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 19/11/2014 15:08, Dave Liquorice wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:57:30 + (GMT), Jim web wrote: Be interested to hear if anyone else has had the same sort of weird behavior that seems to be phased with sunset! ADSL is affected by interference from MF broadcast stations. I used to be a

Re: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site

2014-11-23 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Must admit, I've been caught by this myself on many occasions - the number 1 and the letter l look pretty similar on BBC pages, which is why I've given up typing in the PID and do a cut and paste instead. A On 23/11/2014 02:34, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 wrote: Oh, foo. those are the

Re: Strictly causing grief again

2014-11-30 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 30/11/2014 15:13, Michael Pavling wrote: On 30 November 2014 at 13:16, Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: Good afternoon, Michael :-) Please refer to this Support forum thread: https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/topic/unable-to-download-strictly-cd/#post-10619 Hiya, No

test from my main acct

2014-12-01 Thread Alan Milewczyk
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GitHead questions from the uninitiated

2014-12-02 Thread Alan Milewczyk
In the last week or so, I've been patching get_iplayer using GitHeadWin to make sure I'm using the latest version. I presume GitHead is a way of advising interim patches prior to issuing an official update? But I'm puzzled, how do we know when this has been updated? It not like some file list

Re: GitHead questions from the uninitiated

2014-12-02 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 02/12/2014 23:47, Shevek wrote: On 2 December 2014 at 22:32, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: snip how do we know when this has been updated? It not like some file list where we can see the date stamp of the files. There is a commit log which is updated on every change: http

Re: GitHead questions from the uninitiated

2014-12-02 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Thanks Vangelis! On 02/12/2014 23:59, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Tue Dec 2 22:40:34 GMT 2014, Peter S Kirk wrote: I presume GitHead is a way of advising interim patches prior to issuing an official update? But I'm puzzled, how do we know when this has been updated? It not like some file list

Re: GitHead questions from the uninitiated

2014-12-02 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 03/12/2014 00:05, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 02/12/2014 23:47, Shevek wrote: On 2 December 2014 at 22:32, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: snip how do we know when this has been updated? It not like some file list where we can see the date stamp of the files. Oh yes there is. Go

Re: --force loads repeats for radio programmes

2014-12-02 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 03/12/2014 01:11, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: Don't think anyone has raised this previously. Occasionally a programme download gets screwed up or I need to re-download a prog that's already been downloaded. I've set my prefs to append

Re: GitHead questions from the uninitiated

2014-12-02 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 03/12/2014 01:23, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: In the last week or so, I've been patching get_iplayer using GitHeadWin to make sure I'm using the latest version. That's not necessarily very sensible. Can't do right for doing wrong

Re: --force loads repeats for radio programmes

2014-12-03 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 03/12/2014 14:25, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: The pvr doesn't download the repeats first time around, but doing a --force on the programme name does, irrespective of the fact that it's the same PID. A --force isn't on the programme name

Re: PVR search term suggestions

2014-12-11 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 11/12/2014 23:46, Terry L. Ridder wrote: To download the BBC Radio 4 Extra item Vent, i used the single word vent. Downloaded Advent, Coventry, Adventure, inventory, etc. I am still sorting through the download directory. I killed the download because it had found over 3000 programmes to

GIP v2.92 update changes PVR setting

2015-03-16 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Hi there Before the update I change the PVR setting from every 4 hours to every 2. I notice that running the v2.92 update (Win7 x64), it resets back to the default. Surely it should read the settings and keep them intact? Just wondering what else might have changed without me noticing? Alan

Setting PVR for 2 hour updates

2015-03-20 Thread Alan Milewczyk
I'm struggling. Before the very recent update, my PVR was set to update and run every 2 hours. Now, after the update to v2.92, it only updates every 4 hours despite me amending the setting in the PVR Manager under the Recording tab under Auto-run PVR interval where I have applied the settings

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.92 released

2015-03-16 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Thirded! On 16/03/2015 17:27, Lorenzo Martinelli wrote: Seconded! I, like many others I am sure, would like to add my thanks to Dinkypumpkin for the sterling work in keeping getiplayer up and running. I am sure there are others who deserve thanks as well.

Re: Episode numbers missing

2015-03-09 Thread Alan Milewczyk
: On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 16:13:20 +0800, Alan Milewczyk wrote: Running v2.91 on Win 7 x64. Not sure if it's something I've done but I've noticed that in the last few weeks where a TV episode used to have an episode number and name in the title field, now just the name appears. All TV series or just

Sampling frequency on Radio programmes

2015-04-19 Thread Alan Milewczyk
I've noticed that recently the sampling frequency on Radio programmes has changed in the last few months from 44.1kHz to 48kHz. I always thought 48kHz was only used as the audio component of video files whereas 44.1kHz was the standard for standalone audio.

Re: Sampling frequency on Radio programmes

2015-04-19 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 19/04/2015 12:23, Jim web wrote: In article 553370da.90...@soulman1949.com, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I've noticed that recently the sampling frequency on Radio programmes has changed in the last few months from 44.1kHz to 48kHz. I always thought 48kHz was only used

Re: Sampling frequency on Radio programmes

2015-04-19 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 19/04/2015 14:18, Jim web wrote: In article 55339c51.9040...@soulman1949.com, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: The endgame should be that we can now all get better quality 48k. I would have thought that the difference in audio quality between 44k1 and 48k would be marginal

Re: Sampling frequency on Radio programmes

2015-04-19 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 19/04/2015 14:18, Jim web wrote: In article 55339c51.9040...@soulman1949.com, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: The endgame should be that we can now all get better quality 48k. I would have thought that the difference in audio quality between 44k1 and 48k would be marginal

AVG tries to block perl.exe

2015-04-19 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Just a quick heads up Don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but this afternoon I had an error message popping up to tell me that AVG was trying to protect me from perl.exe - unfortunately I allowed it to delete the file before I quite realised what I'd done. Anyway a quick

Re: secret history of our streets - sd or hd

2015-04-29 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 29/04/2015 14:18, Jim Lesurf wrote: I'm puzzled by an inconsistency I've encountered between episodes of this series. Series 1 episode 1 - Deptford = HD file obtained (pid b01jt96v) Series 1 episode 2 - Camberwell = SD file obtained (pid b01jzpm3) I used the same options as usual for both

Re: Downloads hanging

2015-05-13 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 13/05/2015 09:27, Jed Robbins wrote: In the last few weeks my downloads have stopped working. Get_iplayer seems to connect but then nothing happens i.e. get_iplayer --get --type=radio --pid b05tl3jk get_iplayer 2.92-ppa22, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with

Re: Downloads hanging

2015-05-13 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 13/05/2015 09:27, Jed Robbins wrote: In the last few weeks my downloads have stopped working. Get_iplayer seems to connect but then nothing happens i.e. get_iplayer --get --type=radio --pid b05tl3jk get_iplayer 2.92-ppa22, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with

Re: Web PVR Not a SCALAR reference at get_iplayer.pl line 7099

2015-05-16 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 16/05/2015 18:32, Paul Phillips wrote: I've started getting this error message periodically only on certain programmes. Any ideas? thanks Recording The Following Programmes http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05v29y7/talking-pictures-series-2-9-hitchcocks-leading-actors - -

Problems downloading Springwatch

2015-04-03 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Having problems downloading last night's episode of Springwatch. Whether I try to load by the programme name Springwatch, PID or URL I get the following message: get_iplayer v2.92, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.

Re: Problems downloading Springwatch

2015-04-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 04/04/2015 03:38, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Sat Apr 4 02:42:45 BST 2015, Alan Milewczyk wrote: Having problems downloading last night's episode of Springwatch. Whether I try to load by the programme name Springwatch, PID or URL, I get the following message: (snip) WARNING: The 'default

Re: Problems downloading Springwatch

2015-04-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 04/04/2015 18:20, tellyaddict wrote: Better report this to BBC to expedite rectification (avenues of doing this were discussed some weeks ago in the list - Twitter being the best...) - I wouldn't expect much before the Easter holidays are over, though... It has also made it onto the Latest

Re: Problems downloading Springwatch

2015-04-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 04/04/2015 18:20, tellyaddict wrote: Better report this to BBC to expedite rectification (avenues of doing this were discussed some weeks ago in the list - Twitter being the best...) - I wouldn't expect much before the Easter holidays are over, though... It has also made it onto the Latest

Re: Recent spam surge...

2015-04-08 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 08/04/2015 16:28, michael norman wrote: That's not how mailing lists generally work and if this one is setup like that it needs to be changed. You should only be able to post to the list if you are a member of the list. +2 I've been a member of quite a few lists over my 20+ years on the

Re: Recent spam surge...

2015-04-08 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 08/04/2015 20:43, Simon Ward wrote: On 8 April 2015 16:36:05 BST, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: On 08/04/2015 16:28, michael norman wrote: That's not how mailing lists generally work and if this one is setup like that it needs to be changed. You should only be able to post

Re: [offtopic] Re: Recent spam surge...

2015-04-08 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 08/04/2015 23:08, Simon Ward wrote: On 8 April 2015 21:50:01 BST, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I've been a member of quite a few lists over my 20+ years on the net and all lists I've ever been on required you to be a member to be able to post to it. Are these the lists

Re: Numeric Only Search

2015-05-20 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 20/05/2015 20:46, Derek Kaye wrote: Good evening all, Having a bit of trouble setting up a pvr search where the term is numeric only. I'm looking to download the BBC four programme '1864', but the best search I can come up with is the following: $ get_iplayer --fields title --channel 'BBC

Re: tv series not in (my) cache (with v2.93)

2015-06-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 05/06/2015 01:32, M Clark wrote: Just a 'heads-up' that the following tv series are not appearing in my cache (after updating to v2.93); springwatch extra springwatch unsprung Currently downloading via CLI. Regards, M. Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't noticed but I have the same

Re: tv series not in (my) cache (with v2.93)

2015-06-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 05/06/2015 12:47, Karen wrote: On 5 June 2015 at 11:53, Alan Milewczyk soulman1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 05/06/2015 01:32, M Clark wrote: Just a 'heads-up' that the following tv series are not appearing in my cache (after updating to v2.93); springwatch extra springwatch unsprung

Re: cache refresh/index feed

2015-06-03 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 03/06/2015 06:37, YellowYeti wrote: On 02/06/2015 22:52, Alan Milewczyk wrote: A few programmes have downloaded since lunchtime when it stopped working for me but this fix is working for programmes which weren't working until I applied your quick fix. Many thanks YellowYeti! Regards

Re: cache refresh/index feed

2015-06-02 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 02/06/2015 21:33, YellowYeti wrote: The 'quick fix' I applied, which solved my problem, involved manually editing the get_iplayer.pl file. This is probably wrong on many levels but it did the job, and I believe my changes will magically disappear at the next upgrade - but still be warned,

Re: Still no joy for me

2015-06-04 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 04/06/2015 02:22, SquarePenguin wrote: On 04/06/2015 01:54, John Reay wrote: Any ideas? You haven't really given a huge amount of detail here. What is your OS? His posting infers Linux: john@system7:~$ ./get_iplayer --pid=b05xxh0h --file-prefix=title_episode_pid --force His message

Re: Can't get Episode 3 of The Art of Germany

2015-06-25 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 25/06/2015 12:56, tellyaddict wrote: You can watch it fine by starting from the link on here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wlrzx But the PVR failed to download it (it got the first two episodes OK) and when I tried from the command line - I got this: andrew@andrewhome:~$ get_iplayer

Re: Look East Monday 15/06

2015-06-18 Thread Alan Milewczyk
I was under the impression that local and national news programmes are not available for download and the Look xxx regional programmes are in that category. Alan On 18/06/2015 18:01, Fred Gmail wrote: Does the URL option on the web pvr not work ? It usually does for me F. Sent from my

Linux Mint woes

2015-07-01 Thread Alan Milewczyk
I'd love to like Linux but why is it such a struggle Running a dual boot Win 7 x64/Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca 64 bit system and previously installed get_iplayer v2.92 on the Linux partition. It's Wimbledon, the season of humungous file sizes so I turn to Linux to do the honours without

Re: Massive Failure of PVR List

2015-06-29 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 29/06/2015 14:29, CJB wrote: Latest GiP on Win 7 Apparently xml files not available ... ONCE_http_www.bbc.co.uk_iplayer_episode_b046pb27_britains-whale-hunters-the-untold-story-episode-1 WARNING: rdf URL contained no data WARNING: PID URL contained no RDF data. Trying to record PID

Re: Massive Failure of PVR List

2015-06-29 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 29/06/2015 16:29, Alan Milewczyk wrote: On 29/06/2015 14:29, CJB wrote: Latest GiP on Win 7 Apparently xml files not available ... Very odd both programmes are still playing in BBC's iPlayer and I can download both fine using either PID or URL. I notice that programme 2

Re: Linux Mint woes

2015-07-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
I'd already done) and the update seems to have held and things are working fine now. Cheers guys. Alan On 01/07/2015 15:34, Jim web wrote: In article 5593e85a.10...@soulman1949.com, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I'd love to like Linux but why is it such a struggle Running

Re: Embedded not downloading

2015-07-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 05/07/2015 02:23, Vangelis forthnet wrote: Hello Peter :-) ==snip The solution to your predicament is fairly simple: just add --mediaselector=4 to your GiP command; GiP then uses another formula and this time issues the right rtmpdump command: ==snip Cheers,

Re: Unable To Download

2015-07-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Hi Lewis That output occurs when you're giving a get_iplayer an unrecognised or invalid switch. I've just tried get_iplayer --pid=p02tw8xk and it's downloading fine for me. I'm on win7 x64. The last part of the output tells you it's unable to find the output type you've specified:

Re: Able To Download!

2015-07-06 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 06/07/2015 11:16, Lewis Croll wrote: Hi Lewis (and Steve) Yes Steve, you're right, I missed the Command Line instruction! You can set modes from the Command Line for example: get_iplayer --modes=best --pid=p02tw8xk This will download the best version available for the programme, HD if

Re: Does RTMP still have the 4GB problem?

2015-07-06 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 06/07/2015 07:30, C E Macfarlane wrote: -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of Vangelis forthnet Sent: 06 July 2015 01:50 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Does RTMP still have the

Re: Able To Download!

2015-07-06 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 06/07/2015 11:16, Lewis Croll wrote: Hi Lewis (and Steve) Yes Steve, you're right, I missed the Command Line instruction! You can set modes from the Command Line for example: get_iplayer --modes=best --pid=p02tw8xk This will download the best version available for the programme, HD if

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

2015-07-06 Thread Alan Milewczyk
Can we please keep party politics off the list? I could quite happily bore everyone senseless with my political rants but I'm sure you wouldn't want that! Alan ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

2015-07-06 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 06/07/2015 13:20, michael norman wrote: On 07/06/2015 12:08 PM, Jim web wrote: In article CANGN4UPV=DTYdAwn=_crsnpakuqf+z6lfb87yjk69qywby-...@mail.gmail.com, Shevek she...@shevek.co.uk wrote: Some more analysis:

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

2015-07-06 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 06/07/2015 22:11, michael norman wrote: On 07/06/2015 09:47 PM, Alan Milewczyk wrote: Can we please keep party politics off the list? I could quite happily bore everyone senseless with my political rants but I'm sure you wouldn't want that! Alan

Re: Unable To Download

2015-07-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 05/07/2015 23:03, Lewis Croll wrote: Hi Alan, Thanks for your assistance! The exact line I entered was 'get_iplayer --pid=p02tw8xk' that's strange as I'm also on windows 7 x64bit too. As for 'alternative modes', how do I use these? I don't know if a tv mode is set in preferences,

Re: Does RTMP still have the 4GB problem?

2015-07-05 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 06/07/2015 00:11, C E Macfarlane wrote: I've been encountering problems playing back some of the long Wimbledon programmes. The files play so far, and then hang. I suspect that this is the rtmpdump 4GB problem which some research threw up, and that I am going to have to split the downloads

Re: Help with Linux installation please

2015-05-24 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 24/05/2015 15:47, Alan Milewczyk wrote: I've been trying to download a large programme (around 6GB) and it barfs at the 4GB point using win7x64. I remembered I had this problem last year with some large Wimbledon programmes and the only solution that worked then was using a Linux

Help with Linux installation please

2015-05-24 Thread Alan Milewczyk
I've been trying to download a large programme (around 6GB) and it barfs at the 4GB point using win7x64. I remembered I had this problem last year with some large Wimbledon programmes and the only solution that worked then was using a Linux installation (at that time Linux Mint-16 32 bit.

Re: Paywall for iPlayer?

2015-07-07 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 07/07/2015 13:40, michael norman wrote: On 07/07/2015 01:17 PM, Owen Smith wrote: I have no children so don't use schools, but I still pay for them and am happy to do so. I regard the BBC as being on the same footing, everyone in the UK should pay for it. I think that's called

Re: Radio broken??

2015-08-17 Thread Alan Milewczyk
I downloaded this successfully yesterday morning using the programme title and again just now using PID with no problems. I've noticed from time to time the servers seem to hiccup and don't find a programme but do when trying again later on. Can't really suggest anything other than trying

Re: Can't get Episode 3 of The Art of Germany

2015-06-29 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 25/06/2015 13:10, Alan Milewczyk wrote: On 25/06/2015 12:56, tellyaddict wrote: You can watch it fine by starting from the link on here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wlrzx But the PVR failed to download it (it got the first two episodes OK) and when I tried from the command line - I

Re: Clangers missing

2015-08-10 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 10/08/2015 09:14, Colin Law wrote: 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

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