On 2015-06-23 11:05, C E Macfarlane wrote:
I still don't understand why the GIP perl script is not picking up the
path
from its own options file, though.
Running G_iP under Windows, and I expect also under Linux, there's two
options files; one
is an app (or maybe system)-wide one, and the ot
On 2015-06-24 09:53, Jim Lesurf wrote:
I don't think the following is due to a flaw in gip. But it keeps
happening
so I'd like to describe it and invite any comments regarding its cause
or
what might be done.
In general I run a small program to do a set of gip fetches each
morning,
timed to
On 2015-07-01 02:54, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
I found that simply issuing:
get_iplayer --type=podcast "Medieval Dance"
or even
get_iplayer --type=podcast "The Early Music Show - Medieval Dance"
finds nothing :-(
Might that not just be because the search logic is only looking at the
main par
On 2015-07-13 18:05, char...@the-heards.com wrote:
I have found that "best" mode often defaults to the 1 option,
which I have occasionally found to be significantly slower than 2
- which is likely to be because more people are trying to fetch items
from
that server, and it and the pat
On 2015-08-30 17:22, C E Macfarlane wrote:
I can see no evidence for any such distinction, AFAICS they are used
about
equally. For example, the following is a list of complete programmes
which
I want to watch and which either have been broadcast in the last week
or so
or will be broadcast wi
On 2015-11-17 18:21, CJB wrote:
Audacity is the music editing app. that I am most familiar with. I
like it. It works.
I also use it to process downloads from get_iplayer.
However with Microsoft's increasingly aggressive stance in forcing
upgrades to Windows 10 I am concerned. I have heard that
On 2016-07-12 21:49, Colin Law wrote:
On 12 July 2016 at 21:36, wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:38:02 +0100
Colin Law wrote:
A further interesting point, suppose I am running iplayer on my
tablet
on a bus (I have a license so that is ok). Is it illegal for someone
in the next seat to watch i
On 2016-11-28 09:11, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote:
Hello
I have a very strange problem with get_iplayer.
When I start get_iplayer, it immediately connects to a whole range of
TV channels and starts downloading live video from a range of
channels. This is eating my bandwidth and I really don't wa
On 2016-11-28 10:08, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote:
export IPLAYER_OUTDIR=/home/Media/iPlayer
/usr/bin/perl /root/get_iplayer_dev/get_iplayer/get_iplayer.cgi
--port=8080 --getiplayer=/root/get_iplayer_dev/get_iplayer/get_iplayer
... to start get_iplayer
Where do I look for an options file? I have
On 2016-11-28 12:17, d.l...@surrey.ac.uk wrote:
Mystery solved.
Someone somewhere has set up a site which accesses my get_iplayer cgi
script and kicks off downloading from live TV.
With what aim - just to slow your machine down? (It's hard to believe
that
such a person would be a closet cbb
On 2016-11-28 16:26, da...@harleystreet.net wrote:
Clearly I have not understood at all.
I thought get_iplayer.cgi was the script which was being accessed by
unauthorised folk and
thus being told to do stuff not desired by you.
If so, then protecting where it is located by .htaccess would surel
On 2017-01-24 19:18, Budge wrote:
My understanding is that if I convert to mp3 I lose more. Not sure if
this is true.
MP3 files can be created at different bit rates. Perhaps you should
take some sample
audio files and create some MP3 versions at different rates and see
whether you can
act
On 2017-01-24 20:19, Tony Quinn wrote:
On 24-Jan-17 8:16 PM, Tony Quinn wrote:
On 24-Jan-17 8:11 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote:
I have some original recordings made in the last year or two at
choral concerts - mostly
24 bit, 44.1 khz, stereo uncompressed WAV files, made with ecent
On 2017-01-25 00:04, Budge wrote:
I am certain I shall not be able to hear the differences if a young
chap like you cannot. When I find out how, in detail, I shall try
converting some samples to mp3 and thanks for the further nudge in
that direction.
I installed the 'lame' converter. I want
On 2017-05-12 16:21, Andy Wedge wrote:
I've just tried to play Casualty from the iPlayer site as a test. I
was
asked to register with a DOB, Postcode, Email address and gender
identification so changes have already happened.
I don't see that your DOB or gender are the Beeb's business. I can
On 2017-05-25 13:36, artisticforge . wrote:
hello
i find it humorous that the programme in question is a history
documentary titled:
Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls
Therein probably lies the problem. I've not watched that but I recall
that in
some of Lucy'
On 2017-07-27 17:39, RS wrote:
Yes I do mean portable or MP3 players. Thanks for the suggestion but
the Amazon description of the Fii0 X1 is a good example of what I have
been up against. There is no indication in it of which file formats
the device supports.
But there is info on Fii0's webs
On 2017-09-08 11:23, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
Couldn't agree more, it's the big failing of the IT industry. Manuals
detailing features are not what customers want, they require "how to"
tutorials.
Well, not the whole IT industry. IBM's manuals (and most of those from
other software & hardware ve
On 2017-09-08 12:22, Jim web wrote:
I have a very high regard for ffmpeg and sox. Use them a lot as well.
But
life would be much easier if they had decent *user* manuals with
examples
and how-to's organised by task written in clear English.
I agree regarding sox; at least its manual (and the
On 2017-09-08 00:07, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
... as I can access my home PC during my annual 4
months in the Philippines I am able to organise recording schedules
from over 7000 miles away!)
How on earth do you catch up with 4 months' worth of unwatched
programmes
when you come back, though?
On 2017-10-26 00:51, RS wrote:
The corruption he refers to is a few spurious NUL characters in
. The subtitles themselves are in and they are
intact.
But you're a human looking at the file. XML files have a tightly
defined
syntax (defined by a formal grammar called a DTD). When a program
On 2017-10-27 11:33, RS wrote:
On 26/10/2017 01:27, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote:
On 2017-10-26 00:51, RS wrote:
The corruption he refers to is a few spurious NUL characters in
. The subtitles themselves are in and they
are
intact.
But you're a human looking at the file. XML files
On 2017-10-27 21:47, RS wrote:
If you are both right about the strictness of the standard, and I have
to defer to your superior knowledge, why does XML::LibXML have options
for recovery and validation? According to
http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-LibXML/lib/XML/LibXML/Parser.pod#PARSER_OPTIONS
a
On 2017-10-30 17:58, Graham Temple Personal wrote:
Thanks Chris, but that only brings back the same results.
In that options file there is the single text line - output
/Users/graham.temple/Desktop/New folder/ but that saves the recordings
to
the U drive. If I amend it to read - output
/C:/Use
On 2017-11-07 17:04, RS wrote:
Does Perl distinguish between desktop and laptop machines?
I wouldn't think so.
Do you run these commands in a Windows cmd.exe command window, or do
you by any chance use some other form of terminal?
If I run get_iplayer with --verbose I can get an instantaneo
On 2017-11-07 20:35, RS wrote:
One thing that has occurred to me is that my desktop monitor is wider
than the laptop screens.
Actually that's not the width that matters. The terminal window also
has
a width (and depth) and if it's set wider than your screen then you just
have to scroll it s
On 2017-11-26 14:27, John Reay wrote:
john@system7 ~ $ type -aP perl
/usr/bin/perl
But (not a linux expert here either) doesn't your earlier answer
john@system7 ~ $ echo $PATH
/home/john/perl5/bin:/home/john/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local
On 2018-01-02 21:15, RS wrote:
The Times has recently started including video clips. So far I have
been unable to play them. I don't know if they are using Flash. I do
not know enough to be able to tell from a web page whether it is using
HTML5 or Flash.
If you right-click over a video you
On 2018-02-10 07:02, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
No aardvarks were involved in accidents on the M6 today (courtesy
"I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" c1972)
The list is quiet, not because it's dead...
The way to check, if you think you're not getting mails, is to
follow the URL that's in the signature
On 2018-03-24 09:43, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Yes, I expect you're right. Fortunately, I've only had a little
exposure to that in the days of DOS. :-) If Windows doesn't treat
«^» specially then that could be used instead with no quoting needed.
The ^ character is Windows' escape character for
On 2018-12-21 14:27, Paul Thornett wrote:
VPNs are often very slow. Much faster, and a solution that works well
for me, is something called Smart DNS, which is essentially a
different set of DNS addresses.
Do you mean you're using different (from what?) DNS servers?
How does that help? You st
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 pid
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 exp
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 insta
On 2019-07-19 09:57, CJB wrote:
BritBox: BBC and ITV set out plans for new streaming service
Wonder if this will impact GiP?
Apart from that, I wonder if it means that back-catalogue shows,
which make up quite a lot of what terrestrial TV (& hence iPlayer)
show now, will all migrate to the pai
On 2019-07-28 00:36, Kevin McCarthy wrote:
I'm getting an message regarding excessive bounces too without me
posting to the group!
Why the "!"? "Excessive bounces" means that the mail-list server is
regularly failing to send messages TO you, which it will try to do
with every message someone e
On 2019-08-01 12:01, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote:
"BBC iPlayer gets Ofcom green light to make shows available for a year
The BBC's iPlayer now has permission to routinely keep shows available
for a year rather than just 30 days, after Ofcom said it could expand
its service.
Some shows will be
On 2019-09-04 14:46, Jim web wrote:
A give-away is to look at 7:30pm on Monday. Here in Scotland that was
the
programme about travelling the Scottish Lochs. I've not yet found a
schedule which includes this.
I just went to the BBC1 schedule, scrolled down to the foot, clicked to
change from L
On 2019-09-05 09:59, Jim web wrote:
I'm using FF in the standard version current for Linux Mint xfce LTS.
I've
turned off all the things I regard as 'snoopy', but not made other
changes
to FF beyond tweaking the scaling and using my own home page listing
the
URLs I use a lot.
And what versi
On 2020-02-19 04:38, Paul Thornett wrote:
Unfortunately the problem certainly doesn't lie with my ISP. I say
unfortunately, because it's relatively easy to change ISP.
Your ISP, if it's a national company, have more than just the server
(or whatever it is) that your modem connects to. They wil
On 2020-03-05 14:52, CJB wrote:
There are over 20 epsiodes incl. series 5 eps 1 - 20 on iPlayer.
It's weird that S5 is described as having 40 episodes, but only the
first 20 have been shown, so far.
I note that the first episode of S6 is due to be transmitted on 18
Mar... but this apparently i
On 2020-03-30 08:47, Budge wrote:
This problem
only recently appeared after I had relocated all the equipment but I
have checked the basics and found nothing wrong. The clicks are only
heard in headphones using bluetooth transmitter.
Was this relocation within your home - ie something you co
On 2020-07-21 21:54, CJB wrote:
Wondering if anyone downloaded these episodes? Actually we are seeking
the subtitle files please.
Note: episodes 11 - 40 were never aired even if the iPlayer website
says
so!!
Episodes 11-20 were certainly available on iPlayer; I saw them.
Moreover
I recogn
On 2020-10-14 16:46, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
On 14/10/2020 16:27, David J Taylor wrote:
I already have ActiveState Perl (v5.16.3) installed and in constant
use.
Is there a way to prevent the Windows installer overwriting that
version
of Perl, and allowing get-iplayer to use it?
On 2020-10-30 17:36, Jim Lesurf wrote:
This morning when I tried to fetch some items the download rate was
much
slower than usual. i.e. about a 1/10th what is normal. In effect, the
result is 'real time' - so a 30 min TV program takes, erm, about 30
mins
to obtain rather than the usual 3 - 5
On 2020-11-01 10:40, Jim web wrote:
So it does look like a CDN problem.
Or something about the route the data is taking, which
might be a quirk that's got something to do with local
conditions (which could explain why others elsewhere in
the UK are not reporting issues), as (as far as I
unders
On 2021-01-30 20:57, majid hussain wrote:
is there any way of makeing get_iplayer check download history and not
redownload the programme?
It's been ages since I used get_iplayer, but it always used to make
that check.
However there's a parameter that can be used to force a redownload
(which
On 2021-06-24 19:46, Martin Powell wrote:
Hi, I'm sure I've done something very stupid here but when I run
get_iplayer --raw --get "Gardeners' World"
output=Factual/Gardening/GardenersWorld/2021
Why is there no double dash before "output"?
--
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own
_
On 2021-12-07 06:39, David Taylor wrote:
I would like to add the Win32::API to the Perl which comes with
get_iplayer.
Is that possible?
I don't know. When I used get_iplayer I chose not to use its installer,
but
to install my own distribution of perl and then the extra modules it
needed,
s
On 2022-02-08 19:24, Budge wrote:
Before making this change I tried to delete old setting as in:-
get_iplayer --pref-del tvmode = best.
This didn't work
The example in the release notes gave the command as
get_iplayer --prefs-delwhatever
ie there's an "s" on prefs, so your "--pref-del
On 2022-02-14 15:15, Clive wrote:
Hello,
I'm sure I had this problem previously but can't recall the solution.
So ... you should have kept notes last time...
You asked the same question about 3.28 on 9 Dec 2021. Someone gave you
some advice; maybe it helped?
I'm running v3.28 on W11 with
On 2022-02-14 19:22, Clive wrote:
With recall like that Jeremy you should be on Mastermind.
I didn't recall it. I just took a quick look at your previous posts.
I did remember I was helped but the email has been culled so can't
thank the person that helped.
The list has archives; see the
On 2022-03-14 03:02, Nick Payne wrote:
No, here's an example of the quite different speeds for the audio and
video portions of a dash download - the 158Mb of audio took 31 minutes
to download...
It was 158 MB of audio data which is at least 8 times larger (more than
8* if it includes transfer
Oops, re-sending, as my first reply wasn't to the list.
On 2022-07-05 09:42, Budge wrote:
I am reluctant to download them all again so am posting a request for
help please to curate these files and sort the unsorted programmes
into the original categories. Is this possible and if so how please
On 2022-10-13 11:40, Chris Walker wrote:
I sort them into the relevant year using /
but I then have to run a bash script to create a folder for the
relevant
month with this code :-
newdir=$month" "$(date -d $month/01 +%b) where the month has been
extracted earlier such that I get a folder name
On 2022-10-13 18:00, Chris Walker wrote:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:38:54 +0100
Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote:
What IS the format you desire?
I want the format to be //10 Oct where 10
Oct is derived from the
Ah, I think I thought you meant "10 Oct" as in the 10th of Oct, but now
I
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
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 p
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 b
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 pe
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 rad
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 installati
On 2024-07-25 15:26, Dave Widgery wrote:
My first mistake (possibly) was installing Linux MINT, I had played
around with it on a friend's machine, and it looked simple enough, of
course when I go to the next step and try and download get_iplayer,
there isn't a build for MINT. So before I go abou
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