Oops - was Re: [PATCH] create non-existent output directory.

2011-02-09 Thread Jon Davies
Sorry. having carefully tried to provide a patch in a usable form I still got it wrong. I'll re-post it without the extra line-breaks. Jon ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org

[PATCH] create non-existent output directory

2011-02-09 Thread Jon Davies
sanitizing the output directory changed to use File::Spec-rel2abs since abs_path is undef for non-existent directories - this allows the code that creates the output directory to work --- I've noticed that get_iplayer failed to download programmes if the output directory doesn't exist, which

Re: Cannot play

2011-03-02 Thread Jon Davies
On 2 March 2011 16:39, Ranec get_ipla...@cemery.org.uk wrote: On 2 March 2011 16:27, Jon Davies j...@hedgerows.org.uk wrote: On 2 March 2011 16:04, Ranec get_ipla...@cemery.org.uk wrote: I get this when I try and play using the web UI. The .m3u file comes down, VLC opens

Re: any way to download this?

2011-03-24 Thread Jon Davies
On 24 March 2011 16:57, Nick Ludlam n...@recoil.org wrote: Dinky, is there a more long term fix you can think of for this? I'm sure this isn't the only time that dates will rear their heads, and it would be great to have a solution for the issue. On what types of system do the dates fail?  I

Re: any way to download this?

2011-03-24 Thread Jon Davies
On 24 March 2011 16:57, Nick Ludlam n...@recoil.org wrote: Dinky, is there a more long term fix you can think of for this? I'm sure this isn't the only time that dates will rear their heads, and it would be great to have a solution for the issue. On 24 Mar 2011, at 17:38, Jon Davies wrote

Re: [PATCH] Output AAC as M4A for iTunes with metadata tags (Shevek)

2011-03-28 Thread Jon Davies
On 28 March 2011 13:59, richard rich...@richsim900.plus.com wrote: I've done some tests with MediaInfo and AtomicParsley to try and find why EasyTag makes the m4a file playable on my Marantz cd player. ... 2. Bells_after.m4a :- This is the default file after amending in EasyTag (deleting album

Re: get_iplayer: failed to get program index feed for ..

2011-03-29 Thread Jon Davies
On 29 March 2011 10:47, Michael tiemich...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, maybe somebody can help me: I try to install and run get_iplayer (2.79) on my AC Ryan Playon!DVRHD Mediaplayer (following the installation of BBC-iPlayer on an EXTREAMER) When running get_iplayer NO feeds are indexed. There are

Re: [PATCH] Output AAC as M4A for iTunes with metadata tags (Shevek)

2011-03-31 Thread Jon Davies
On 31 March 2011 14:35, richard rich...@richsim900.plus.com wrote: Sorry to spoil things, but the patch to ffmpeg has not solved the problem with my Marantz CD6003. These are the tests I've done. ...snip We seem to have established that ffmpeg isn't generating entirely valid mpeg4 files, I

Re: bit of a newbie but...

2011-04-01 Thread Jon Davies
On 1 April 2011 11:10, Paul paul.le...@gmail.com wrote: been using get_iplayer for a few weeks and just realised that the BBCs change from Radio 7 to Radio 4 Extra looks like you can't use get_iplayer to get this new material Am I right? As I understand it the channel names are hard-coded in

Re: Possible [PATCH] Add BBC Radio 4 Extra (was: Re: bit of a newbie but...)

2011-04-01 Thread Jon Davies
On 1 April 2011 22:55, Jon Davies j...@hedgerows.org.uk wrote: 've attached a patch which doesn't crash get_iplayer, but I can't really test it until 4 extra content starts appearing on iplayer, which won't be until at least tomorrow.  Adn the live streaming bit is a guess at what the URL

Re: Possible [PATCH] Add BBC Radio 4 Extra (was: Re: bit of a newbie but...)

2011-04-02 Thread Jon Davies
On 2 April 2011 17:09, Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 10:55:33PM +0100, Jon Davies wrote: @@ -7109,6 +7109,7 @@ sub channels {               'bbc_radio_two'                         = 'BBC Radio 2',               'bbc_radio_three'                       = 'BBC

Re: legality

2011-04-03 Thread Jon Davies
On 3 April 2011 14:02, James Cook james.c...@bluewin.ch wrote: Hallo All, every since Phil stopped further development of get_iplayer I been wondering about the legality of developing code for get_iplayer. I wonder if by uploading patches we are exposing ourselves to possible legal action..

Re: [PATCH] Re: atomicparsley tagging issue

2011-04-03 Thread Jon Davies
On 3 April 2011 00:12, Jimmy Aitken jimmy.ait...@gmail.com wrote: I've actually patched my get_iplayer to use eyeD3. On 3 April 2011 11:45, Shevek she...@shevek.co.uk wrote: I personally would prefer not to add any further dependencies to get_iplayer. Nor would I. I'd prefer to move towards

Re: legality

2011-04-05 Thread Jon Davies
On 4 April 2011 17:34, Paul ukki...@gmail.com wrote: Surely one of the biggest distinctions made by the BBC is whether material is viewed 'on air' or 'on demand', after all that is the basis of the requirement to have a TV licence. There's no point in having a discussion about what the BBC's

Re: Re: Patched versions available on github

2011-04-06 Thread Jon Davies
On 6 April 2011 20:47, geoff.getiplayer_l...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote: Am I right in thinking that m4a tagging is still work in progress? m4a files are tagged (and previously pretty much everything that get_iplayer produced) - the work in progress is primarily a discussion about what information

Re: every stream stopping after 20-40 sec

2011-04-08 Thread Jon Davies
On 8 April 2011 09:03, Michael tiemich...@gmail.com wrote: Too bad, it seems nobody is able to help here You're in Singapore. BBC iPlayer content is not generally available in Singapore. Jon ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Workaround for broken(?) m4a files from ffmpeg, was Re: [PATCH] Output AAC as M4A for iTunes with metadata tags

2011-04-08 Thread Jon Davies
dinkypumpkin did some great work putting together a patch which makes mpeg4/m4a the default file format for aac sources, rather than raw aac. This works for most people but ... On 1 April 2011 21:15, richard rich...@richsim900.plus.com wrote: The m4a file did not play in the Marantz CD

Applying patches to get_iplayer

2011-04-18 Thread Jon Davies
On 18 April 2011 07:52, Hazel Jordan hazelmjor...@gmail.com wrote: As a complete beginner to this  - how can I apply the patch to my (windows 7 installed) version of get_iplayer? Make a backup first... Grab a copy of the latest patched version of the get_iplayer script from the git repository

Re: new programmes notavailable

2011-04-26 Thread Jon Davies
On 25 April 2011 22:50, chris chery chrisch...@free.fr wrote: thanks  jon get_iplayer --refresh    did the job but it used to be automatic before It is automatic usually. If I recall correctly get_iplayer updates the cache when it's four hours old - it's possible that the programmes you were

Re: Sony Bravia iPlayer stream

2011-04-26 Thread Jon Davies
On 26 April 2011 09:13, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:05:16AM +0100, tim lane wrote: Would some kind of packet sniffer be the right tool for the job? I believe tcpdump is available for Windows: http://www.winpcap.org/windump/ ... So the next thing to

Re: new programmes notavailable

2011-04-26 Thread Jon Davies
On 26 April 2011 11:08, Ranec get_ipla...@cemery.org.uk wrote: On 26 April 2011 09:31, Jon Davies j...@hedgerows.org.uk wrote: OS is windows xp get_iplayer --prefs-show  === 'C:\documents \...\../.get_iplayer/options' refreshfuture=1 nothing unusual there. Cheers Jon I

Re: BBC News pages

2011-05-03 Thread Jon Davies
On 3 May 2011 15:46, Rob Styles rob.sty...@dynamicorange.com wrote: Interesting, I just tried this is on my fedora machine and both download straight away, just with get_iplayer and the URL of the page. On OSX they don't work, they give: ./get_iplayer

Re: recording radio in best format available

2011-05-25 Thread Jon Davies
On 24 May 2011 07:32, chris chery chrisch...@free.fr wrote: could anybody give me an example of the command line to be typed in windows to get the best possible available format of a programme using its number ( with all the modes in decreasing order of quality) as per previous posts on this

Re: Massive download problems..

2011-05-26 Thread Jon Davies
On 25 May 2011 22:30, Nic Siddle nicsid...@gmail.com wrote: Today I set the PVR to run from the list previously used, but came back to find that it had already downloaded 22 gb of programmes and appeared to be working its way through the compete A-Z list of available programmes. Any advice

Ubuntu packages for get_iplayer and dependencies

2011-06-07 Thread Jon Davies
A number of things in get_iplayer have appeared recently which require newer versions of tools than are available on Lucid, the long-term support version of Ubuntu that my media system runs. So I've put together a ppa with more recent versions of get-iplayer ffmpeg atomic parsley x264

Re: Green strip on HD video

2011-06-11 Thread Jon Davies
On 9 June 2011 20:57, Jesus Shave addicted2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I can download HD streams just fine thanks to the patched script, but when I play the videos on my pc I get a green strip at the top on the screen, and my TV set freezes. flashvhigh mp4's play just fine everywhere. Is it a

Re: Default record directory question - probably a stupid question at that!

2011-06-29 Thread Jon Davies
On 28 June 2011 10:11, Tony Quinn t...@tqvideo.co.uk wrote: In message BANLkTi=+-+2eo_591Q2hK0Rk6=jjg_f...@mail.gmail.com, Vince vin...@gmail.com writes On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Tony Quinn t...@tqvideo.co.uk wrote: Having installed the latest version last night, I find that

Re: Get Iplayer for Windows

2011-08-14 Thread Jon Davies
On 14 August 2011 01:49, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/08/2011 13:22, Jon Davies wrote: The thing I was scratching my head about and wondering how best to solve was the eternal problem of updating things for windows. This touches on a thorny question vis-a-vis a get_iplayer

Re: PVR and CGI question - automatic unattended download

2011-08-18 Thread Jon Davies
On 18 August 2011 21:11, Jon Nicoll jkn+...@nicorp.co.uk wrote: Hi All        I've been a happy command-line user of get_iplayer fro quite a while now ... running fine under Gentoo, mainly to grab radio content. I'm a little bit puzzled about one aspect of this though. It looks as though I

Re: [ANN} get_iplayer 2.80 and Windows installer version 4.3 released

2011-08-31 Thread Jon Davies
On 29 August 2011 20:53, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: Version 2.80 of get_iplayer has been released.  Changes here: http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/CHANGELOG-get_iplayer Upgrade information is below.  Any problems or questions should be posted to this list. Ubuntu

Re: ffmpeg and libav fork - Ubuntu Debian users

2011-09-14 Thread Jon Davies
On 13 September 2011 22:08, richard_get_iplayer richard_get_ipla...@richsim900.plus.com wrote: Will this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?s=ee8bba144653c4ea9453d5c69928b2f5p=11231334postcount=1836 mean that I won't be able to use get_iplayer on Ubuntu if I upgrade to Natty+? If you use

Re: Re: AtomicParsley - Failed to tag M4A file

2011-09-28 Thread Jon Davies
On 24 September 2011 13:54, richard rich...@richsim900.plus.com wrote: On Sat Sep 24 07:13:22 EDT 2011 David Woodhouse wrote: I was after the AtomicParsley command line. Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know what the AtomicParsley command line is. I don't use any tagging options. I assume

Re: Re: AtomicParsley - Failed to tag M4A file

2011-09-30 Thread Jon Davies
On 29 September 2011 11:53, richard rich...@richsim900.plus.com wrote: On Wed Sep 28 15:26:48 EDT 2011 Jon Davies wrote: Could you confirm which versions of get_iplayer, ffmpeg and AtomicParsley you're using please? get_iplayer v2.79 ffmpeg version UNKNOWN, built on Jun 14 2011 19:32:44

Re: Quick and dirty fix to get get_iplayer 2.80 working on Ubuntu 11.04

2011-10-14 Thread Jon Davies
On 14 October 2011 11:32, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing to check: Make sure you upgrade the librtmp0 package from 2.3 (from Ubuntu repo) to the 2.4 version in the PPA.  I noticed that librtmp0 2.3 is included in the base install for Ubuntu 11.10 desktop edition (it

Re: Quick and dirty fix to get get_iplayer 2.80 working on Ubuntu 11.04

2011-10-17 Thread Jon Davies
On 14 October 2011 20:15, Jon Davies j...@hedgerows.org.uk wrote: On 14 October 2011 11:32, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing to check: Make sure you upgrade the librtmp0 package from 2.3 (from Ubuntu repo) to the 2.4 version in the PPA.  I noticed that librtmp0 2.3

Re: Re: Quick and dirty fix to get get_iplayer 2.80 working on Ubuntu 11.04

2011-10-17 Thread Jon Davies
On 17 October 2011 13:17, John Rose john.aaron.r...@googlemail.com wrote: I had got_iplayer working OK under Ubuntu 10.04 (32 bit Desktop Netbook Edition). Then suddenly it stopped working: usual problem was it hung when recording. I messed around a lot (including using versions 2.79 2.80)

Re: Quick and dirty fix to get get_iplayer 2.80 working on Ubuntu 11.04

2011-11-01 Thread Jon Davies
On 31 October 2011 10:21, Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:08:43PM +0100, Jon Davies wrote: I had a look at what I've done with dependencies, and I'm confused as to why this breaks. Perhaps someone who knows ubuntu and/or debian packaging better than I do

Ubuntu - get-iplayer updates

2011-11-04 Thread Jon Davies
I've pushed a couple of updates for get-iplayer dependencies to ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer - a couple of days ago I did an update to AtomicParsley to incorporate the fix for the AtomicParsley: free(): invalid next size bug that some people have been having problems with. AtomicParsley is now

Re: symantec warning about rtmpgw.exe

2011-11-05 Thread Jon Davies
On 5 Nov 2011, at 00:53, Kevin Lynch klyn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm assuming this is a false positive detection by symantec FilenameRiskActionRisk TypeOriginal Location rtmpgw.exeTrojan.ADHQuarantinedFileC:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\RTMPDump\ It may

Re: Suddenly recording every programme...

2011-11-21 Thread Jon Davies
On 21 November 2011 11:34, Nic Siddle nicsid...@gmail.com wrote: However, given that I sometimes download 'unattended, I think it would be prudent to limit the number of programmes downloaded in any one run. get_iplayer --prefs-add --limit-matches 5 will add the match limit to every

Re: BBC Radio1's Essential Mix November 2011

2011-12-01 Thread Jon Davies
On 1 December 2011 17:54, Fenwick Cooper fenwi...@hotmail.com wrote: get_iplayer quits normally in the first mins of downloading BBC radio 1'sessential mix. It returns: INFO: All streaming threads completed But the show is only partially downloaded. (e.g. I have the first 10 MBof about 84

Re: Can't resume

2011-12-04 Thread Jon Davies
On 4 December 2011 21:06, Ed hoare edspam...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I am new to get_iplayer and am very pleased with it (many thanks to the devs) except that I am finding it impossible to resume recordings. I think rtmpdump (which does the actual downloading) is supposed to be able to resume,

Re: PS3 get_iplayer conversion

2011-12-26 Thread Jon Davies
On 24 December 2011 16:30, don rossie don.ros...@googlemail.com wrote: I am trying to find a way to use get_iplayer that downloads files that can run on the PS3 and the ipadI have a (slight) interest in fixing this, and a patch for ps3 users would probably be pretty straightforward. I had a

Re: PS3 problem playing get_iplayer h.264 videos

2011-12-29 Thread Jon Davies
On 28 December 2011 17:47, spam.mc spam...@gmail.com wrote: I have downloaded  b018xsm2  (I've Never Seen Star Wars) today and it was encoded with the version of  ffmpeg I posted a link to earlier.  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7678269/Ffmpeg_getiplayer.zip SVN-r22140-Sherypya built 02 March 2010.

Re: AP Tagging Error

2012-01-02 Thread Jon Davies
On 1 January 2012 23:19, Magic Cheezer magic_chee...@hotmail.com wrote: just as an fyi, ... but a last-minute error occurred in tagging with Atomic Parsley: INFO: MP4 tagging MP4 file APar_readX_noseek read failed, expect 12, got 0: No error

Re: Instructions for noobie, please

2012-01-02 Thread Jon Davies
On 2 January 2012 14:43, Timothy Murphy gayle...@alice.it wrote: If I give the command get_iplayer I am given a list of 713 titles, which I presume are all the programs currently available? But I have no idea what to do then. Are there instructions anywhere? The man page struck me as more

Re: Accessing the BBC from outside the UK

2012-01-06 Thread Jon Davies
On 5 January 2012 20:39, bat guano batguano...@hotmail.com wrote: ...this is the relevant section from Terms of Use of BBC Online Services that applies to get_iplayer 3.2.1 If you are outside the UK You may not access, view and/or listen to certain parts of BBC Content [...] if you are

Re: After windows re-install pvr mode not working

2012-01-07 Thread Jon Davies
On 7 January 2012 09:57, John Sewell johnesew...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, Wondering if anyone can shed any light on this issue.  I re-installed my PC and re-installed get_iplayer from the windows installer and now when running get_iplayer --pvr-run it does not perform any of the

Re: Help with REGEX please.

2012-01-08 Thread Jon Davies
On 8 January 2012 17:01, Alastair aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: Hi, I want to download part of the BBC In Our Time podcast archive. I believe it should be possible to download multiple files by using the correct REGEX in the get_iplayer command but am stuck with the regular expression syntax.  

Re: Subtitles

2012-01-18 Thread Jon Davies
On 18 January 2012 12:26, Fintan Gaughan fgaug...@gmail.com wrote: ... rely on subtitles , take a look on BBC iplayer website and watch BBC Click when playing click on small S next to volume and wait a few minutes . You normally find previous programme subtitle usually the weather before BBC

Re: Naive questions: RTMP packets output

2012-01-23 Thread Jon Davies
On 22 January 2012 16:33, John Rose john.aaron.r...@btconnect.com wrote: ... RTMPDump v2.4-n25-git60218d0-ppa5~lucid ... ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet body. len: 65590 428727.861 kB / 2335.80 sec (65.7%) INFO: Connection timed out, trying to resume. Resuming download at:

Re: Naive questions: RTMP packets output

2012-01-26 Thread Jon Davies
On 24 January 2012 13:34, John Rose john.aaron.r...@btconnect.com wrote: [...] , I have to do the workaround 10 times, each time failing at any time between 1 second and near the end of a programme. This means that it can take 5 hours plus to do a download. We've been trying out solutions to

Ubuntu - get_iplayer ppa updates

2012-01-26 Thread Jon Davies
Coming some time later tonight ... when launchpad gets around to building it... This applies is you use the Ubuntu ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer, if not, and you'd like to, then in Ubuntu do $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install

[PATCH] Update Channel Lists

2012-02-27 Thread Jon Davies
commit 35b6433600725a70b08755f9ec065d6385001e95 Author: Jon Davies j...@hedgerows.org.uk Date: Mon Feb 27 19:01:43 2012 + update channel lists remove radio 7, update/add local tv and radio channels, add bbc alba to live channels diff --git a/get_iplayer b/get_iplayer index

Re: No BBC Alba in type=livetv?

2012-02-27 Thread Jon Davies
On 2012/2/26 Имя отправителя писем r...@pisem.net said: (well, said nothing much at all actually) but the message subject was No BBC Alba in type=livetv? It's not listed in the available live channels in get_iplayer, patch to follow. Jon ___

Re: [PATCH] Update Channel Lists

2012-02-27 Thread Jon Davies
On 27 February 2012 21:17, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/02/2012 20:58, Brian Penn wrote: Please do not remove BBC 7 just yet. It is quite annoying but, some programs are still being marked at BBC7... Sad, but true.  BBC 7 has been restored to channel list in Git HEAD.

Re: How to find a particular episode

2012-03-03 Thread Jon Davies
On 3 March 2012 10:25, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: I would like to find a way of finding just a particular episode. Something like this: get_iplayer --type tv --fields name,episode The Bottom Line.*Episode 5 might work for you. Cheers Jon

get-iplayer-testing repository, including support for Ubuntu Precise Pangolin

2012-03-18 Thread Jon Davies
There's already an Ubuntu package repository with recent pretty stable builds of get_iplayer and its dependencies here: ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer (just in case someone asks: to install get_iplayer from here do: $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer $ sudo apt-get

Re: Best Recording Modes

2012-03-25 Thread Jon Davies
On 25 March 2012 13:55, MrArtist ta-getipla...@logonoff.com wrote: Hi, I just wanted to confirm the best Recording Modes for use in Web PVR Manager Try best, this is expanded into a list of the best available recording modes inside the get_iplayer script. Jon

ffmpeg/avconv bitstream filter options

2012-04-17 Thread Jon Davies
I had a bug report relating to the ubuntu precise builds I've put together, the relevant bit of which is as follows: avconv version 0.8.1-4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the Libav developers built on Mar 22 2012 05:29:10 with gcc 4.6.3 Input #0, aac, from

Re: ffmpeg/avconv bitstream filter options

2012-04-18 Thread Jon Davies
On 17 April 2012 21:36, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/2012 18:31, Jon Davies wrote: Unrecognized option 'absf' Failed to set value 'aac_adtstoasc' for option 'absf' INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256) I checked this Libav version on Debian Wheezy, and it works

Re: ffmpeg/avconv bitstream filter options

2012-04-19 Thread Jon Davies
On 17/04/2012 18:31, Jon Davies wrote: Unrecognized option 'absf' Failed to set value 'aac_adtstoasc' for option 'absf' INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256) [blah...] should anyone be testing ubuntu precise, you might be interested to know (or might have already noticed

Re: Remuxing get_iplayer downloads to play on my TV

2012-04-20 Thread Jon Davies
On 20 April 2012 12:56, Steve Champion st...@stevechampion.com wrote: ...is there a format that my TV can play which requires only a remux (of what get_iplayer downloads) rather than a conversion? Unfortunately not. The .mp4 files contain a video stream in avc format (now part of mpeg4, but

Re: Help with downloaded radio file formats and thumbnail jpgs please.

2012-05-20 Thread Jon Davies
On 20 May 2012 16:52, Alastair aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: ... Where I am having problems is with downloaded radio shows which are saved as .m4a files which I understand to be MP4/AAC files.  I could convert these using soundKonverter or similar for example and in future I assume I could

Re: RTMPDump Errors

2012-06-16 Thread Jon Davies
On 16 June 2012 12:34, Shevek she...@shevek.co.uk wrote: [snip] Its failing on RTMPDump, before it gets to ffmpeg what do you get if you run get_iplayer in verbose mode under task scheduler? Jon ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: PVR Manager not finding The Strange Case of the Law

2012-07-04 Thread Jon Davies
On 4 July 2012 20:27, Derek Moss d...@stoptheviolence.co.uk wrote: I'm trying to find the TV Series The Strange Case of the Law http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=strange%20case with the PVR Manager but it's not giving any results. In fact, even if I just search for Law it doesn't return

Re: Radio Thumbnails

2012-10-02 Thread Jon Davies
On 1 October 2012 17:23, Shevek she...@shevek.co.uk wrote: I knocked up a quick C# app to loop through all widths up to 1280, This is the list of all valid sizes for Doctor Who: [snip] that's a weird set of sizes! Jon ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Massive Failure to Download

2012-12-15 Thread Jon Davies
On 14 December 2012 18:13, Chris J Brady chrisjbr...@yahoo.com wrote: It seems that the new BB iPlayer has completely screwed up downloading of radio progs. All was K with the old iPlayer until this week. It hasn't, al least, not yet. I have been trying to get these: Mike Harding 12-12-12

Re: Stream corrupt error and then rtmpdump goes nuts!

2012-12-22 Thread Jon Davies
On 21 December 2012 16:57, Neill Mitchell ne...@nlkmitchell.com wrote: I'm running the latest git versions of get_iplayer and rtmpdump on Ubuntu 12.10. I am regularly having failures downloading programmes now. exactly which versions? which programmes? have you tried the repo here:

Re: get_iplayer Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8

2012-12-22 Thread Jon Davies
On 21 December 2012 17:22, Chris J Brady chrisjbr...@yahoo.com wrote: I too have been getting regular failures. I am usually trying to download radio progs. with get_iplayer. RadioDownloader which also uses rtmpdump is also failing regularly. to be able to help, we need to know exactly what

Re: Stream corrupt error and then rtmpdump goes nuts!

2013-01-02 Thread Jon Davies
On 31 December 2012 21:11, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: That's a different sort of buffering. Ah, my knowledge of how rtmpdump works has evidently just doubled... Perversely, I look forward to suffering from this problem should FTTC reach my area before the sun burns out. don't

Re: Further question: Re: 3 questions, from a newby!

2013-01-04 Thread Jon Davies
On 4 January 2013 12:37, Lorenzo Martinelli * lnzli...@googlemail.com wrote: And additionally, I am getting a warning that ffmpeg does not exist and the flv files are not getting converted. How can I get them converted to mp4 automatically, just like the Windows version? this should fix it:

Re: [BUG] get_iplayer 2.82 PVR function is ignoring recording modes

2013-01-12 Thread Jon Davies
On 10 January 2013 01:02, Phil Elvey phil.el...@gmail.com wrote: I have set the default recording modes as a list excluding flashhd (I don't want the recordings to download as flashhd). However, when I run the PVR, it downloads the programme/s in flashhd!! Grrr!! I managed to reproduce

Re: [BUG] get_iplayer 2.82 PVR function is ignoring recording modes

2013-01-12 Thread Jon Davies
On 12 January 2013 11:16, Jon Davies j...@hedgerows.org.uk wrote: On 10 January 2013 01:02, Phil Elvey phil.el...@gmail.com wrote: I have set the default recording modes as a list excluding flashhd (I don't want the recordings to download as flashhd). However, when I run the PVR

Re: [BUG] get_iplayer 2.82 PVR function is ignoring recording modes

2013-01-14 Thread Jon Davies
On 13 January 2013 22:27, Phil Elvey phil.el...@gmail.com wrote: Just to help me understand, there are two options files, one in /etc/get_iplayer, and one in ~/.get_iplayer/ Does the one in /etc/get_iplayer have preference over the other, or is the one in ~/.get_iplayer not used/relevant at

Re: RadioArchive.cc - RIP

2013-01-18 Thread Jon Davies
On 18 January 2013 09:57, Chris Marriott ch...@chrism.demon.co.uk wrote: Actually, Jon, British copyright law is surprisingly lax when it comes to radio broadcasts. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the copyright on UK radio broadcasts, in its article Copyright Law of the United Kingdom

Re: rtmpdump updates for Ubuntu and derivatives

2013-01-22 Thread Jon Davies
On 21 January 2013 18:51, JB Caruth jbc-pub...@caruth.com wrote: Are these changes something which should be fed back to the rtmpdump developers and checked in to the original source? Yes, though I was wanting some feedback from people as to whether the change I put in place actually works (it's

Re: rtmpdump updates for Ubuntu and derivatives

2013-01-22 Thread Jon Davies
On 22 January 2013 21:44, Alex Eames a...@translatortips.com wrote: I've already had to update the installation instructions several times as the OS changes so rapidly on the Pi. (although I think I need to do it again now if recent comments are anything to go by) as of now, the simplest way

Re: rtmpdump updates for raspberry pi/raspbian

2013-01-23 Thread Jon Davies
On 23 January 2013 15:25, Jon Davies j...@hedgerows.org.uk wrote: Please consider this experimental, and please don't post these links elsewhere (this is a temporary home, I'll move it somewhere permanent in due course). I've put a build of rtmpdump (git head as at 22/01/2012 plus the 64

Re: rtmpdump updates for raspberry pi/raspbian

2013-01-24 Thread Jon Davies
On 24/01/2013 17:36, Neill Mitchell wrote: Hi Alex. So were your downloads typically failing before the new version? If so, this goes some way to confirm that increasing rtmpdump's working buffer helps solve this problem with fast connections :) Alex, there are a couple of things you could

Re: Hanging Workaround - PVR Runner

2013-01-25 Thread Jon Davies
On 25 January 2013 16:54, Kapitano kapitan...@gmail.com wrote: I've come up with a workaround to the problem of GiP hanging when it receives bad data. which problem is this? (this isn't a problem I've seen, nor one I can find in the mailing list, though that doesn't mean it isn't there... ;-)

Re: get_iplayer hangs after 'Started writing to temp file.'

2013-01-26 Thread Jon Davies
On 26 January 2013 00:32, alan azto...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hi: I just installed the jon-hedgerows ppa on Ubuntu 10.04. Is that ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer, or ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer-testing? Get_iplayer hangs immediately after 'Started writing to temp file': I can't see what's

[PATCH] Generate subtitle files in UTF8, closes debian bug #697976

2013-01-26 Thread Jon Davies
Generate subtitle .srt files in UTF8, closes debian bug #697976 The conversion from .ttxt creates representations of characters like “₤” that M Player, for instance, displays incorrectly. diff --git a/get_iplayer b/get_iplayer index db3dc1e..c17b364 100755 --- a/get_iplayer +++ b/get_iplayer @@

Re: Hanging Workaround - PVR Runner

2013-01-26 Thread Jon Davies
On 26 January 2013 08:49, Kapitano kapitan...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/25/2013 22:59 PM, Jon Davies wrote: I've come up with a workaround to the problem of GiP hanging when it receives bad data. which problem is this? (this isn't a problem I've seen, nor one I can find in the mailing list

Re: Hanging Workaround - PVR Runner

2013-01-26 Thread Jon Davies
On 26 January 2013 10:01, Kapitano kapitan...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/26/2013 12:47 PM, Jon Davies wrote: I was interested in fixing the underlying problem rather than doing anything with the workaround. I'd rather get_iplayer just didn't hang, I agree, but it takes time to fix underlying

Re: get_iplayer hangs after 'Started writing to temp file.'

2013-01-29 Thread Jon Davies
On 29 January 2013 18:49, alan azto...@fastmail.fm wrote: Jon: Thanks for thinking about this but I now see it has nothing to do with get_iplayer or the atomicparsley command it builds - I get the same result with any simple call to atomicparsley. Alan. I'd got as far as failing to reproduce

Re: get_iplayer hangs after 'Started writing to temp'

2013-02-02 Thread Jon Davies
On 31 January 2013 00:26, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/01/2013 19:15, alan wrote: Does this happen when you run atomicparsley on /any/ mp4 file? or just this particular one? If it's all, then I'd try reinstalling atomicparsley: Jon - happens on any file, and continued

Re: get_iplayer hangs after 'Started writing to temp' (Jon Davies)

2013-02-03 Thread Jon Davies
On 3 February 2013 01:04, alan azto...@fastmail.fm wrote: In any case, I've now replaced it with 12.04 and your ppa is working beautifully. Thank you, and I'm sorry to have bothered you with this. No problem at all. Glad things are working for you now, which is what matters :-) jon

Re: Stream corrupt error and then rtmpdump goes nuts

2013-02-18 Thread Jon Davies
On 4 January 2013 09:51, Neill Mitchell ne...@nlkmitchell.com wrote: [lots of helpful stuff about rtmpdump going nuts] I posted a patch on the rtmpdump mailing list, and was asked if I'd tried a different (not-committed) patch, attached below. I'm not convinced this will really help, but does

Re: Stream corrupt error and then rtmpdump goes nuts

2013-02-18 Thread Jon Davies
On 18 February 2013 20:21, spam.mc spam...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I'm being thick, but can't someone setup a server on a local network to stream from and then test connecting the rtmpdump client to that? I guess so, but I can't find one that I can make work... it's just easier to try it out

Re: Ability to specify a temporary directory.

2013-02-19 Thread Jon Davies
On 19 February 2013 21:27, John G. Dargie john.g.dar...@btinternet.com wrote: On both computers the --info command returns The Bell Jar. On both computers the subdirectory created is called The_Bell_Jar_Episode_6 which is not what I expect. you probably want nameshort instead of episodeshort

Re: Ability to specify a temporary directory.

2013-02-20 Thread Jon Davies
On 19 February 2013 22:52, dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/02/2013 22:31, Jon Davies wrote: you probably want nameshort instead of episodeshort For things like Book at Bedtime, you can use episodeshort to partition each work into its own folder, instead of lumping

Re: rtmpdump updates for raspberry pi/raspbian

2013-02-20 Thread Jon Davies
On 23 January 2013 19:38, Jon Davies j...@hedgerows.org.uk wrote: This isn't a proper repo, so you can't automagically update it, hence it being a temporary home. well, I've finally sorted out a proper repository for get-iplayer on raspbian wheezy, which /does/ support all the right things

Re: web-settings-and-get_iplayer-defaults-harmonisation

2013-02-20 Thread Jon Davies
On 30 January 2013 22:39, Pete Beardmore pete.beardm...@msn.com wrote: #patch attached (hopefully!) ... anyway. finally i got up and running and so on to the hackery. the attached patch makes the web server work as i want it to with regard to where defaults come from. specifically it: looking

Re: rtmpdump updates for raspberry pi/raspbian

2013-02-24 Thread Jon Davies
On 24 February 2013 19:04, Steve startrek.st...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks! that works great! please reply to the list, not to me. glad you find the repo useful. Is there a way to automatically convert the M4a to mp3? I currently use AVconc in my own script after running get_iplayer yes, you

Re: meta-enquiry

2013-03-02 Thread Jon Davies
On 2 March 2013 17:15, stephen s.parry...@btinternet.com wrote: I received a response to a post earlier, This post has to be approved by a moderator due to suspect headers Could someone explain please, I don't think my email set-up has anything out of the ordinary (?) It's usually because

Re: UTF8 subs in get_iplayer

2013-03-10 Thread Jon Davies
On 9 March 2013 20:13, Mark Barker mark.bar...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi Jon, please write to the get-iplayer list, not to me directly. I was just updating all things get_iplayer on my Win7 x64 setup today. One thing I noticed is that your git repo commit:- ... modifies the character encoding used in

get-iplayer on Ubuntu Raring

2013-04-24 Thread Jon Davies
Ubuntu Raring is due out tomorrow. get-iplayer works reasonably well out of the box, but if you want a later (and more functional) build of get-iplayer, atomicparslet and rtmpdump, then try one of these, both of which now have builds of everything for raring: $ sudo add-apt-repository

Re: get-iplayer on Ubuntu Raring

2013-05-01 Thread Jon Davies
On 1 May 2013 08:57, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: apt-cache policy get-iplayer will tell you which version is installed and where it came from. On 1 May 2013 14:34, Andy Stevens insomniacpeng...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks. That command was informative: $ apt-cache policy

Re: AtomicParsley hanging

2013-06-12 Thread Jon Davies
On 12 June 2013 12:15, Andy Stevens insomniacpeng...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm using get_iplayer v2.82-25-g3547d05-ppa8 on Ubuntu 13.04, and downloading to a network drive via SMB. ... some (not all) of the time AtomicParsley is hanging after the INFO: MP4 tagging MP4 file line. I can quit

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