Download speed difference between flashhd1 and flashhd2

2014-07-02 Thread Nick Payne
I notice a really marked difference in download speed between these two modes. I'm running get_iplayer 2.86 from the ppa jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer on Linux Mint 17, and I've noticed that if I specify --tvmode=best, then the download always first tries flashhd1 mode, and that chugs along at a fe

Re: Large filesizes (re-formatted)

2014-07-03 Thread Nick Payne
I have no problem on Linux with get_iplayer downloading files over 4Gb. One of the Wimbledon tennis matches I downloaded a couple of nights ago in HD is a 5.1Gb file. The version of rtmpdump is whatever is in the ppa I installed from: running rtmpdump -version shows: RTMPDump v2.4-n87-gita9f35

HandleInvoke, Sanity failed. no string method in invoke packet

2014-07-10 Thread Nick Payne
This error seems to be happening when I use --tvmode=best and get_iplayer tries to download the program using flashhd1 - see terminal output below. I tried the download several times and this error happened each time, but at a different point in the file each time. When the error comes up, I ca

Re: HandleInvoke, Sanity failed. no string method in invoke packet

2014-07-11 Thread Nick Payne
On 11/07/14 19:13, SquarePenguin wrote: Nick Payne wrote: but if I run iotop in another terminal, I can see that rtmpdump is running and is still downloading something...but not to the specified output folder. Are you certain it's actually downloading and not just simply still runni

Re: BBC Website problems causing difficulties to get_iplayer

2014-07-21 Thread Nick Payne
On 21/07/14 22:41, Anthony Whitehouse wrote: Well done the beeb! PVR for TV and Radio seems to be back on track for me!! Only briefly. I just ran get_iplayer --refresh --force three times in a row, and got respectively 348, 104, and 217 programs found. There should have been something over 1

Is this still a BBC problem I'm seeing?

2014-07-24 Thread Nick Payne
Just tried to download episode 4 of The Honourable Woman after performing a refresh, and I get the following error: nick@nick-lm17 ~ $ get_iplayer --get 1056 --output ~/Videos/iplayer/ --tvmode=best get_iplayer 2.86-2-g969bd34-ppa17, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with

Some programs still seem to be missing

2014-07-31 Thread Nick Payne
get_iplayer isn't indicating any errors when I refresh the cache with --refresh, but programs that I can access through the iplayer web site don't appear when I search for them in the cache. For example, the iplayer web site is showing me that there are 17 programs covering Commonwealth Games w

Re: Some programs still seem to be missing

2014-07-31 Thread Nick Payne
On 01/08/14 01:55, Andy Wedge wrote: -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Nick Payne Sent: 31 July 2014 10:39 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Some programs still seem to be missing get_iplayer isn't indic

Download showing "negative cts, previous timestamps might be wrong"

2014-10-07 Thread Nick Payne
times frame=12336 fps=1644 q=-1.0 size= 214945kB time=00:08:13.44 bitrate=3568.5kbits Nick Payne ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: More (or less) Tommies

2014-10-24 Thread Nick Payne
Go to the page on the iPlayer web site for the episode. In the address bar of the web browser you will see the URL - eg for the 14th October episode, the URL is http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03thc2q. The string of eight characters at the end is what you need to download via pid. To get this

Re: Multiple pids - another way, in some cases

2014-11-01 Thread Nick Payne
That method doesn't seem to work for me - for TV, anyway. For example, BBC4 have a number of blues programs available in their archive (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p01m79bn). If I try to use the p01m79bn pid, I get the following: >get_iplayer --pid=p01m79bn --pid-recursive --output

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.89 released

2014-11-03 Thread Nick Payne
I've noticed that the last two Windows installers I have run, for 2.87 and 2.90, have both for some reason thought I had VLC 2.06 installed and wanted to upgrade it to 2.15, whereas on both occasions I already had 2.15 installed... On 03/11/2014 10:06, dinkypumpkin wrote: get_iplayer 2.88 was

Re: Help needed with BBC Collections Archive programmes

2015-02-05 Thread Nick Payne
On 06/02/2015 10:22, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Thu Feb 5 17:29:53 GMT 2015, M Clark wrote: Whilst pid=b048s4tn doesn't need this switch, using it gives a file "Plants_-__b048s4tn_default.m4a" whilst not using it returns "Plants_From_Roots_to_Riches_-_1._A_Rose_by_Any_Other_Name_b048s4tn_defau

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.92 released

2015-03-16 Thread Nick Payne
On 14/03/2015 09:14, dinkypumpkin wrote: Release notes here: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release292 Since the upgrade (Windows 81. x64, downloaded and ran the Windows installer for the upgrade), I'm getting two copies of each file downloaded, both the filename I would exp

Re: Betjeman - Won't download, can anyone explain?

2015-04-24 Thread Nick Payne
Worked fine for me using: get_iplayer --pid=b03495yn --tvmode=best --versions default,audiodescribed,signed On 24/04/2015 15:48, C E Macfarlane wrote: ~ # gip --type tv --pid b03495yn -g get_iplayer v2.91, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;

Large downloads slowing/stopping as they progress

2015-05-07 Thread Nick Payne
I've been downloading parts of the World Snooker Championship coverage. Some of the files are quite large - four hours long and over 4Gb if downloaded as HD. I've noticed (this happens with 2.92 on both Linux and Windows) that as the downloads progress they get slower and slower, and quite a nu

Re: Downloads hanging

2015-05-13 Thread Nick Payne
On 13/05/2015 21:17, Alan Milewczyk wrote: 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 P

Re: Downloads hanging

2015-05-13 Thread Nick Payne
On 14/05/2015 01:06, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Wed May 13 09:27:37 BST 2015, 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 2.92-ppa22, ... RTMPDump v2.4-n87-gita9f353c-ppa8~saucy (c) 2010

Temp file remaining at end of download

2015-05-15 Thread Nick Payne
Using GiP 2.92 on Windows. Every so often, when a download completes, and seems to complete successfully, I find that as well as the expected downloaded file, there is also what appears to be a temporary file of almost exactly the same size in the same output folder. For instance, I just downlo

Re: [Maybe OT]British Library National Audit of Sound Collections

2015-05-19 Thread Nick Payne
On 19/05/2015 21:09, David Cantrell wrote: In this case the tapes are whatever unsigned bands consisting of impoverished students could buy in bulk. So cheap crap made out of swarf and brown paint probably. A friend of mine who spent a couple of decades repairing VCRs once said to me: "Using

Problems with --exclude-supplier=akamai and HD downloads

2015-09-14 Thread Nick Payne
For many months I have used --exclude-supplier=akamai on my GiP command line as it results in a 10- or 12-fold increase in download speed compared to the throughput I get without that option - with the option, an hour long problem @1280x720 will download in around 5-6 minutes, without it the do

Re: Problems with --exclude-supplier=akamai and HD downloads

2015-09-14 Thread Nick Payne
On 15/09/2015 09:12, tellyaddict wrote: For many months I have used --exclude-supplier=akamai on my GiP command line as it results in a 10- or 12-fold increase in download speed compared to the throughput I get without that option - with the option, an hour long problem @1280x720 will download in

Re: Audacity, get_iplayer & Windows 10

2015-11-17 Thread Nick Payne
On 18/11/2015 05:21, 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

Re: Audacity, get_iplayer & Windows 10

2015-11-18 Thread Nick Payne
On 18/11/2015 9:48 PM, CJB wrote: OK - that's all good to know. But ... do I really need to upgrade to Win 10 anyway? Its the aggressive forcing of the issue that riles me. My little Acer notebook hasn't the capacity for a full blown Windows. I only have Win 7 Starter anyway. And my 250GB hard dr

GiP mp4s and Panasonic PVR

2015-11-22 Thread Nick Payne
I recently purchased a Panasonic DMR-HWT250 PVR, which can also function as a DLNA client - I run Serviio on my PC as the server. I can use the DLNA client on the PVR to play MP4s I create myself, but if I try to play any of the MP4s downloaded by GiP, I just get a "Please wait" message on the

Re: GiP mp4s and Panasonic PVR

2015-11-22 Thread Nick Payne
On 23/11/2015 6:28 AM, Peter S Kirk wrote: On 22 Nov 2015 at 22:42, Nick Payne Nick Payne wrote: I recently purchased a Panasonic DMR-HWT250 PVR, which can also function as a DLNA client - I run Serviio on my PC as the server. I can use the DLNA client on the PVR to play MP4s I create myself

Re: BBC Web Documentary: Heroes ....

2015-11-26 Thread Nick Payne
On 27/11/2015 2:10 AM, Rochford, Steve wrote: Now for this morning's BBC News item about the exhibition of photos from the Shackleton voyage in 1915. Completely OT, but if you're anywhere near London then do call into the Royal Geographical Society on Exhibition Road to see the photos - the ex

Re: GiP mp4s and Panasonic PVR

2015-11-28 Thread Nick Payne
On 27/11/2015 9:34 AM, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Sun Nov 22 11:42:52 GMT 2015, Nick Payne wrote: can also function as a DLNA client - I run Serviio on my PC as the server I can use the DLNA client on the PVR to play MP4s I create myself, but if I try to play any of the MP4s downloaded by GiP

Msg: non-existing SPS 0 referenced in buffering period

2015-12-16 Thread Nick Payne
I'm using GiP 2.94 on Windows 10 x64. The command line I use for download is: get_iplayer --pid= --modes=hlsbest Every single program I download shows the error msg I've given in the title in the terminal window. The downloads all complete successfully and the files play without any p

Re: BBC Breakfast News - 3 Feb 2016

2016-02-03 Thread Nick Payne
If you have the program downloaded, Avidemux can extract a segment from it. On 3/02/2016 8:12 PM, CJB wrote: Does anyone know how to extract a clip of today's News at about 8.50 am to 9.10? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z4pnd ___ get_iplayer m

Audio and video gradually go out of sync

2016-04-19 Thread Nick Payne
I've been downloading the daily highlight packages from the BBC coverage of the World Snooker Championships (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00b436n). The first two episodes play without any problem, but the audio and video on the Day 3 program gradually get out of sync as the program pr

Re: Audio and video gradually go out of sync

2016-04-20 Thread Nick Payne
On 20/04/2016 9:50 AM, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Tue Apr 19 23:00:46 BST 2016, Nick Payne wrote: but the audio and video on the Day 3 program gradually get out of sync as the program progresses - they're in sync at the start, but by the end of the 50 minutes of the program, the aud

What determines the resolution GiP selects for download?

2016-04-30 Thread Nick Payne
I've been downloading some of the coverage of the world snooker championships. All the downloads use the command line get_iplayer --pid="%1" --modes=hlsbest but I find that the resolution of the downloaded mp4 files varies quite a lot. Most are 1280x720, but some are 960x540, some are 832x468,

Spurious write permission error

2016-05-02 Thread Nick Payne
Running GiP 2.94 on Windows. I had two downloads running simultaneously, both writing to the same directory. One download completed without any problem indicated, the other put out the following on the console at the end of the download: INFO: MP4 tagging MP4 file Started writing to temp fil

Where should problems with dev version be reported?

2016-05-13 Thread Nick Payne
I was using the 2.95 dev version of get_iplayer, downloaded from git a couple of days ago. First couple of downloads completed without any problem, the third failed - looks from the messages as though there might have been an interruption to my Internet connection, but the last line seems to in

Simultaneous D/L warnings in 2.95.1

2016-07-13 Thread Nick Payne
I installed GiP 2.95.1 Windows version a couple of days ago (previously using 2.94). While downloading two programs simultaneously this morning in two terminal windows (King Lear parts 1 & 2), both downloads were periodically spitting warnings like the below, and when the downloads completed, a

Re: hlshd download speeds

2016-07-15 Thread Nick Payne
On 15/07/2016 8:24 AM, RS wrote: From what I have been reading it seems that Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 have problems with USB 3 drives. In some cases they stop being recognised after a period of idle time. I have not had that, but there is a really dramatic slowing down. I've never seen a

Re: Simultaneous D/L warnings in 2.95.1

2016-07-18 Thread Nick Payne
-4436-9815-5024e6c5dc75_b07l1wv4_1468058730774,.mp4.csmil/segment13_2_av.ts WARNING: There may be a gap near 120 secs in programme On 14/07/2016 3:03 PM, Nick Payne wrote: I installed GiP 2.95.1 Windows version a couple of days ago (previously using 2.94). While downloading two programs simultane

Error in TV modes table

2016-08-04 Thread Nick Payne
In the table of TV modes at https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modes#tv-modes, the recording mode hlshigh appears in the table twice (the 3rd and 9th rows). I think the mode for second occurrence should be hvfhigh, which is missing from the table. ___

Beeb encoding different programs at quite different framerates

2016-10-27 Thread Nick Payne
The video quality seems perfectly fine in both cases, but I was surprised to see that one download was more than twice the size of the other, both being virtually the same duration and at the same resolution and frame rate. I just compared recently downloaded episodes of The Fall and The Missing. T

Re: Beeb encoding different programs at quite different framerates

2016-10-27 Thread Nick Payne
gt; playback downloads. Recently I have downloaded two programmes - one > payed smoothly with well sync'd audio - the other was 'jerky' with > well out of sync'd audio. I shall have to look at the properties. CJB > > On 27/10/2016, Nick Payne wrote: >> The video

Re: Beeb encoding different programs at quite different framerates

2016-10-28 Thread Nick Payne
On 28/10/2016 9:04 PM, RS wrote: > >> Well, the size keeps shrinking. The very latest episode of The Fall >> (just downloaded using hvfhd1 but not yet watched) is down to 647Mb for >> 59 minutes of 1280x720@50fps, video bit rate 1403kbps. This is about 2/3 >> the size of the old flashhd GiP 1280x72

Recover file from "failed to download segment"

2016-12-03 Thread Nick Payne
I had one of the "Failed to download segment" errors right near the end of downloading coverage of the UK snooker championship, and I'm left with a partial.mp4.ts file. The file is 5Gb in size - GiP expected a file size of 5066Mb and had downloaded 5067Mb at the point where the error occurred. As I

Re: Recover file from "failed to download segment"

2016-12-03 Thread Nick Payne
On 4/12/2016 10:25 AM, Vangelis forthnet wrote: > On Sat Dec 3 21:32:54 GMT 2016, Nick Payne wrote: > >> what do I need to run to convert the partial.mp4.ts file to an mp4? > > In all probability, you should still be able to play > a partial MPEG-TS file (.ts extension,

Re: Why mp4 or mp4.ts from identical installation?

2017-02-06 Thread Nick Payne
Well both downloads I've done since installing 2.98 yesterday (on Windows 10) have resulted in three output files in the download directory after the download completed, all three files being approximately the same size: the expected download with mp4 file extension, a temp-n.mp4 file (n be

Re: No programme schedules?

2017-03-13 Thread Nick Payne
On 14/03/2017 11:53 AM, tellyaddict wrote: > Downloading is impossible by any method at the moment due to the missing xml > feeds. Not so. I started a D/L using --pid= a few minutes ago, and it's running as I type... ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_ipl

Re: No .xml - what is work-around?

2017-04-28 Thread Nick Payne
On 28/04/2017 11:21 PM, artisticforge . wrote: > get_iplayer-2.99 > > completely and utterly broken. Nonsense. I started this D/L five minutes ago. I get no meaningful filename or embedded program information, but the program downloads ok: D:\Users\Nick\scripts>get_iplayer --pid="b08nz0j0" --outpu

GiP 2.30 - unexpected size for segment

2017-05-03 Thread Nick Payne
Was simultaneously downloading the afternoon and evening sessions of the final day of the World Snooker Championships. The afternoon session downloaded without any hiccups at all, but the download of the evening session had several instances of reporting "Unexpected size for segment". The download

Re: Red Button now on iPlayer

2017-05-15 Thread Nick Payne
On 15/05/2017 8:50 PM, RS wrote: > [snip]... > > There are no HLShd modes, but this appears to be normal for Red Button > coverage. What I noticed with the red button coverage for the recently finished World Snooker Championships was that if I downloaded the coverage as soon as it became available,

Re: TV Audio Bitrates

2017-08-24 Thread Nick Payne
On 24/08/2017 8:49 AM, tellyaddict wrote: Hi All, With 3.02 of GiP, all HVF modes now use 320 kbps audio. Not so. I just downloaded the BBC Proms recording of Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass using 3.02 and hvfsd, and MediaInfo reports the video as 960*540 @50fps and the audio as 48kHz 2 channel AAC

ffmpeg conversion

2017-09-02 Thread Nick Payne
What is the ffmpeg command that GiP uses to convert the ts downloads to mp4? I occasionally find after downloading a program that for some reason the conversion to mp4 has not happened and I only have the ts file. I can convert this to mp4 with ffmpeg using the following command, but that takes

3.05 separate downloads for video+audio and audio

2017-10-18 Thread Nick Payne
I recently upgraded from 3.02 to 3.05. I notice that with the new version, when I download a TV programme GiP performs two separate downloads. The first is shown in the terminal output as being [audio+video], the second much smaller download as just being [audio]. Why the two separate downloads? If

Re: Recordings folder changed

2017-10-30 Thread Nick Payne
Out of curiosity I changed the drive letter for my external backup drive to U: and then ran the get_iplayer command to change the output folder in the options file (GiP 3.06 on Windows 10) D:\Users\Nick>get_iplayer --prefs-add --output="C:\Users\graham.temple\Desktop\New folder" INFO: Changed opti

3.06 and 25fps/50fps modes

2017-11-06 Thread Nick Payne
I'm trying to download episodes 9 and 10 of Ken Burns' Vietnam War series via the command line. The previous eight episodes (downloaded with older versions of GiP) all downloaded as hlshd by specifying --tvmode=best, but when I use --tvmode=best for episodes 9 and 10, they are both downloading as d

Re: 3.06 and 25fps/50fps modes

2017-11-06 Thread Nick Payne
On 6/11/2017 7:43 PM, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > On 06/11/2017 08:03, Nick Payne wrote: >> I'm trying to download episodes 9 and 10 of Ken Burns' Vietnam War >> series via the command line. The previous eight episodes (downloaded >> with older versions of GiP) all do

Sometimes get file rename error at end of download

2017-11-25 Thread Nick Payne
Running get_iplayer 3.06 on Win10 x64. Sometimes the rename of the mp4 file at the end of a download fails. ffmpeg creates the partial.mp4 file without any problem, but get_iplayer.pl then fails to rename .partial.mp4 to mp4. It's not a permissions problem, else ffmpeg would not be able to create t

Re: Sometimes get file rename error at end of download

2017-11-25 Thread Nick Payne
suffix where x is a random series of numbers. IIRC it's > been put down to connnection issues. I've read that repeating the > download instruction is supposed to force the correct actions but > that's not worked for me. Forcing a download usually does the job th

Cannot download b09hzwsn

2017-12-02 Thread Nick Payne
GiP 3.07 on Windows 10 x64. When I try to download this pid (UK Snooker championship round 2 highlights part 2), it comes back with "no streams found". If I use --info on this pid, I can see that GiP doesn't find any available modes:

Re: Cannot download b09hzwsn

2017-12-03 Thread Nick Payne
On 3/12/2017 3:04 PM, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > On 03/12/2017 10:08, Nick Payne wrote: >> GiP 3.07 on Windows 10 x64. When I try to download this pid (UK Snooker >> championship round 2 highlights part 2), it comes back with "no streams >> found". If I use --info

With 3.07 .dash.m4v left behind

2017-12-05 Thread Nick Payne
I've had three instances since installing 3.07 where the download of a programme finishes without any problems or errors indicated in the console output, but as well as the mp4 file there is also a .dash.m4v file of slightly smaller size. I assume this is meant to be deleted once the conversion to

Re: With 3.07 .dash.m4v left behind

2017-12-05 Thread Nick Payne
On 5/12/2017 9:44 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Nick, > >> I assume this is meant to be deleted once the conversion to mp4 has >> been completed, but this isn't happening consistently. >> >> OS is Windows 10 x64. > Does Windows allow a file to be deleted if a process still has it open? > Unix does

Re: With 3.07 .dash.m4v left behind

2017-12-07 Thread Nick Payne
On 7/12/2017 3:00 AM, RS wrote: > From: Ralph Corderoy > Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 2:08 PM > >> That just means get_iplayer is ignoring the failure to remove the file >> rather that report it to you.  A quick skim of all the `unlink' function >> calls show none have their return value check

Modes and best quality

2017-12-13 Thread Nick Payne
I have noticed, on numerous pids, that if I download them using --tvmode=best then the highest quality 25fps stream that is found is dvfxhigh (704x396 25fps). However, if I explicitly use --tvmode=hlshd, then I get the 1280x720 25fps stream. As an example, here's the console output from downloa

Re: Modes and best quality

2017-12-13 Thread Nick Payne
On 13/12/2017 10:19 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Nick, > >> I have noticed, on numerous pids, that if I download them using >> --tvmode=best then the highest quality 25fps stream that is found is >> dvfxhigh (704x396 25fps). >> >> However, if I explicitly use --tvmode=hlshd, then I get the 1280x7

Re: Format of options file

2018-03-03 Thread Nick Payne
On 4/03/2018 9:54 AM, Bernard Peek wrote: > > On 03/03/18 17:33, James Scholes wrote: >> RS wrote: >>> The Windows download_history file seems to work correctly.  I hope I >>> don't need to edit it. >> >> You've probably edited your options file by hand in the past, >> resulting in a mixture of wei

Re: Using ffmpeg to halve frame rate

2018-04-15 Thread Nick Payne
On 16/04/2018 2:18 AM, RS wrote: > A couple of years ago there were problems with HLS and there was > speculation that we might have 50 fps HVFhd and DVFhd as the only HD > modes.  At that time I wondered if it would be feasible to drop every > other frame to reduce the frame rte to 25 fps.  I thou

Re: Using ffmpeg to halve frame rate

2018-04-16 Thread Nick Payne
On 16/04/2018 5:21 PM, Steve Dodd wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 9:59 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > >> I experimented a while ago with running some GiP downloads through >> Handbrake to convert the video to the x265 codec. That reduced the file >> size to about 1/3 of the or

Re: Using ffmpeg to halve frame rate

2018-04-17 Thread Nick Payne
On 16/04/2018 6:59 AM, Nick Payne wrote: > On 16/04/2018 2:18 AM, RS wrote: >> A couple of years ago there were problems with HLS and there was >> speculation that we might have 50 fps HVFhd and DVFhd as the only HD >> modes.  At that time I wondered if it would be feasible t

Re: Cannot play downloads from get_iplayer!

2018-04-18 Thread Nick Payne
On 18/04/2018 8:05 PM, Paul Thornett wrote: > As a matter of interest, how do I check if hls is available for a > particular file? I thought --info would show this, but using this > option on "Ordeal by Innocence Episode 1" does not reveal the > availability of the hlshd stream, even though it is t

GiP trying to download incorrect PID

2018-04-28 Thread Nick Payne
I've noticed this now a couple of times on different downloads - I give GiP a PID on the command line, and it errors out on a different PID number. See console output below for an example - I've asked for PID b0b1y57f, and that initially gets echoed back in the console output, but further on it the

Re: no more hslv format ?

2018-05-02 Thread Nick Payne
t is not possible to change the frame rate using -c:v=copy in ffmpeg; > it is necessary to re-encode which is why it takes so long.  > Inevitably there will be losses, added to which the codecs available > to us may be inferior to those used by the BBC. > > I think it was Nick Payn

Re: pid-recursive broken?

2018-06-27 Thread Nick Payne
Same problem with 3.14. Here's the output from trying to retrieve episodes of Hidden (using pid from https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p066st1w, which shows four episodes available): D:\Users\Nick>get_iplayer --pid="p066st1w" --pid-recursive get_iplayer 3.14.0, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Le

Re: Slightly OT Video conversion

2018-12-09 Thread Nick Payne
Have you tried Handbrake. Free and open source and available for Windows, Mac, Linux. https://handbrake.fr/ ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: BBC-wants-shows-available-iPlayer-12-months-bid-compete-rivals

2019-01-08 Thread Nick Payne
Public broadcasters in other countries already have fairly extensive on-demand access to their back catalogue. The SBS in Australia, for example, has an on-demand website/app along the lines of iPlayer, and most programs seem to be available regardless of how long ago they were broadcast. Nor does

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Nick Payne
On 19/06/2019 10:38 pm, Jim web wrote: > In article , Alan C. > Foster wrote: >>> Install the PPA from here >>> >>> >>> https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer >>> >>> I've been doing that in Linux Mint for years. It gets updated >>> automatically by the Mint update manag

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Nick Payne
On 20/06/2019 6:19 pm, Jim web wrote: > In article , Nick Payne > wrote: >> Using the PPA and apt will only install the needed dependencies. You're >> far more likely to be "spraying things you don't actually need into your >> install" by trying to do

Re: OT Video Conversion

2019-10-13 Thread Nick Payne
I use MakeMKV (which isn't free) for ripping the DVDs or BluRays, followed by Handbrake to convert the resulting files to the H.265 video codec to reduce the file sizes (which is a pretty slow process). As I have an nVidia Quadro video card in the PC, I tried the NVENC version of H.265 in Handbrake

Re: odd problem with downloading

2019-11-25 Thread Nick Payne
On 26/11/2019 8:59 am, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > On 25/11/2019 01:58, artisticforge Niemand wrote: >> Hello >> >> Downloading the current episode of Seven Worlds One Planet >> starts out okay, when if has to restart the download it fails. > > I'm not even getting that far, I get ... > >     S

Re: His Dark Materials m000csdk: only audiodescribed available?

2019-12-26 Thread Nick Payne
I used: --tvmode=dvfhd --exclude-supplier=bidi on the command line, and the program downloaded as version 'technical': INFO: Mode list: dvfhd INFO: Searching for version: 'technical' INFO: Found version: 'technical' INFO: Modes to try for 'technical' version: dvfhd1 INFO: Downloading tv: 'His Da

Re: get_iplayer -g --force --pid-recursive http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p01277qd

2019-12-29 Thread Nick Payne
On 30/12/2019 5:08 am, Sharon Kimble wrote: > get_iplayer -g --force --pid-recursive > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p01277qd That pid doesn't seem to be classed as a series, so the recursive parameter doesn't work. You can download all the episodes of "The Train Now Departing" using the ser

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-17 Thread Nick Payne
On 16/02/2020 10:57 pm, RS wrote: > I should have added that --audio-only, radio and the audio part of DVF > downloads are much slower, at a maximum of 7Mbit/s. I find the same with the audio part of DVF downloads - the speed of the audio download is always at less than 10% of the speed of the vide

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-18 Thread Nick Payne
On 19/02/2020 11:21 am, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > RS wrote: >> Your only real remedy is to complain, complain and complain again to >> your ISP, or find a better ISP. > I'd have thought it's the CDN choice that's being made rather than ISP. > For example, having the line ‘exclude-supplier bidi’ in m

Re: Which Linux distro with get_iplayer support

2020-05-28 Thread Nick Payne
The GUI in Linux Mint with Cinnamon will be fairly familiar to a Windows user, and it also has a PPA for get-iplayer that keeps it current: https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer. The next LTS version of Mint is due for release in about a month. ___

GiP size estimates for 1080p downloads are several times too big

2022-03-06 Thread Nick Payne
I've noticed, since downloading a few programs with GiP in 1080p, that that the estimated download size is usually too big by a factor of around three or four times. This for example, is typical - the estimate for the dash video size is 10339MB, but the actual download is 3536MB: =

Audio portion of dash downloads slow

2022-03-13 Thread Nick Payne
When I download a program with GiP using dash rather than hls, the initial separate download of the audio always comes down at only somewhere between 5% and 10% of the speed that I get when the video portion of the download is happening. Do other users see the same? This is with the latest v3.2

Re: Audio portion of dash downloads slow

2022-03-13 Thread Nick Payne
On 14/03/2022 09:30, VeniVidiVideo wrote: On Mar 13, 2022, at 5:45 PM, Nick Payne wrote: When I download a program with GiP using dash rather than hls, the initial separate download of the audio always comes down at only somewhere between 5% and 10% of the speed that I get when the video

Recursive download with episode name filter?

2024-04-24 Thread Nick Payne
with --pid-recursive, but I'd like to filter it down to only episodes that contain "_v_" in their name. Is this possible? Nick Payne ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Recursive download with episode name filter?

2024-04-24 Thread Nick Payne
cursive downloads, rather than . Interestingly, if I run get_iplayer "Snooker* all that finds are the various Day 1, Day 2 etc videos. None of the A vs B match videos are found. On 24/04/2024 20:48, Chris Walker wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:33:40 +1000 Nick Payne wrote: For example, wit

Re: Help migrating get_iplayer from windows to linux

2024-07-25 Thread Nick Payne
For Linux Mint, you can use the Ubuntu ppa to install get_iplayer - instructions here: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/12/get-iplayer-bbc-tv-ubuntu/. I mainly use get_iplayer on a headless Raspberry Pi, and use PuTTY on my Windows desktop to ssh into the Pi to run GiP, and have seteu