Is there any way (apart from running ffmpeg manually) to get get_iplayer to
respect the --radiomode flashaaclow option when --aactomp3 is used?
In get_iplayer v2.91 --radiomode flashaaclow causes the download to be
at 48kbit/s as expected. The --aactomp3 conversion then changes the bit
rate to 12
Some podcasts, such as Moneybox, are at 48kbit/s . It is adequate for mono
speech programmes, especially if it is to be listened to on a cheap mp3
player
while walking. Once it has been compressed to 48kbit/s, any higher
frequency
information is gone. It cannot be retrieved by converting at a
Does anyone know what software the BBC uses to encode its .m4a files? I am
unable to play them on an AGPtek Longevity player, which says it supports
AAC-LC. If I let get_iplayer default to flashaacstd, I get .m4a files with
a bit rate of 128kbit/s and a sample rate of 44.1kHz or 48kHz (dependi
g anything.
Playing aac/.m4a files does seem to be problematic. At one time the iPod
Shuffle 2 would not play files from some versions of Nero.
https://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=57805
On Friday, September 11, 2015 12:32 PM Jon Davies wrote:
On 9 September 2015 at 11:05, RS wrote
Looking quickly at the BBC One schedule on iPlayer it looks as if Breakfast
is never available on the iPlayer, nor is regional News. National News is
only available on the day of broadcast.
- Original Message -
From: CJB
To: Rob Wood
Cc: get_iplayer-request
Sent: Wednesday, February
I think I understand now what I did wrong (what you have referred to as
thread hijacking). Would it be possible to change the bounce message so
that it says that, instead of promising moderator action which is not going
to happen?
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Like Jim I hope that the EU will outlaw national copyright licences on the
ground that they partition the single market. I do find it disturbing that
now this is on the horizon there have been moves in the opposite direction.
If you look at the footprints of Hotbird 13 and Astra at 19°E there i
If you Google "550 verification failed" you will see some possible causes of
the error message d4x is getting. In general it is not a fault of the
sender's email client. It may be that TalkTalk has not set up the address
records correctly on its email server. Good luck in getting TalkTalk to
- Original Message -
From: Peter Corlett
Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Receiving a "You have been unsubscribed" email when not actually
unsubscribing
...
The likely reason Google is bouncing some list mail is that a few spams ha
The release of v2.95 seems to have had quite an impact on hlshd download
speeds. I have been using a dev version of 2.95 for some time. I am not
sure which one, but I haven't changed anything so I am comparing like with
like. With Vista I was regularly getting hlshd download speeds of over
-Original Message-
From: James Scholes
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 15:35
This is probably caused by the switch to using a built-in HLS/DASH
downloader, rather than FFmpeg.
Sorry, when I said I hadn't changed anything I meant I hadn't changed
anything. I have not installed the relea
The timestamp of the dev version I am referring to is 14 Feb 2016 at 2305.
The Perl includes this
# require ffmpeg for HLS
if ( $mode =~ /^(hls|hvf)/ && (! main::exists_in_path('ffmpeg')) ) {
if ( $opt->{hlsffmpeg} ) {
main::logger "\nWARNING: --hls-ffmpeg specified and required
ffmpe
From: tellyaddict
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 20:33
The Pure Perl HLS Downloader that is now built into 2.95 is much faster
than downloading with FFMpeg.
Thanks, I'll give it a try. I was just surprised at such a dramatic
reduction in speed for ffmpeg.
__
From: Colin Law
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 21:27
I cannot see that the release of v2.95 can have any impact if you are
not actually using that version. I would assume it is just
co-incidence.
Colin
I did think if there were now many more people using the HLS streams that
could slow thing
From: Alan Milewczyk
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 22:05
I'd second that, over the weekend I was downloading a fortnight's worth of
Wimbledon on my laptop using 2.95 Win 7 x64 and getting speeds typically of
20-30Mbps, although I noticed there were periods where it dropped to about
3Mbps. I'm on V
From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Sunday, July 3, 2016 22:35
And Vista, unlike Win7, isn't eligible for the free Win10 upgrade, which
will expire on July 29th (2016) anyway...
For anyone concerned about the demise of Vista, it is still possible to buy
Windows 7 on Amazon for around £20 and there
From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 03:08
so your assumption inside this thread that your
2.95-dev snapshot was using ffmpeg to fetch hlshd
is at fault; please read further down:
Hello Vangelis
Many thanks for the detailed clarification. I have a vague recollection
that when
From: Nick Payne
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 09:46
I've never seen a USB3 slowdown on either operating system on any of our
PCs or laptops, nor had any USB3 connected devices suddenly drop from view.
I run my backups to external USB3 drives, and the Robocopy log from the
latest backup of my PC
From: artisticforge .
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 15:15
My gut feeling is that Windows 10 is going to sleep/suspend mode and
that is why get_iplayer-2.95 via the Web Manager is not running.
It is several years since I used the PVR and I have never used the web PVR,
so I can't help with that.
From: Nick
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 14:19
There was a thing at some point with Windows where external drives
would not have write caching enabled. Perhaps the different OS versions
and/or different drives have ended up with different settings?
Drive caching being off means that external dr
From: RS
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 16:02
The performance of the two drives was much more similar. The Samsung drive
started at 79GByte/s. It then fell to 30GByte/s after about 500MByte and
remained at that level. The Maxtor drive started at 77GByte/s and also
fell to 30GByte/s after
From: Nick Payne
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 00:31
WARNING: Segment not found (13)
WARNING: There may be a gap near 120 secs in programme
I have the same error.
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From: iz
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 03:00
WARNING: Segment not found (13)
That is due to a server error. It means that piece of the programme is
missing or unavailable on the server.
I got fed up with waiting for the BBC to find the missing HLSHD segment 13
of The Moth and the Flame. I d
From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 00:42
Both drives are formatted as FAT32.
How are you managing > 4GB video files with the above file system on those
drives?
The solution adopted in the satellite receiver is to break a recording up
into 500MByte segments (about 10min at
From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 01:25
You could also have asked me how I handle files with colons in the names.
In all honesty, how could I?
Sorry, my comment was not intended to cause offence. You asked me how I
coped with a limitation of a file system I was using. I
From: Chris Allison
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 22:37
To: RS
You could use the linux/freebsd utility detox, compiled under cygwin
to clean up file names.
Many thanks for the suggestion. I think it is probably easier to use Linux
directly rather than install and learn to use cygwin. detox
From: Alan Milewczyk
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 5:20 PM
I've been fetching and watching the recent 'Forces of Nature' BBC1 TV
series presented by Brian Cox. There are four episodes and I've had no
problem getting episodes 1, 2, and 4. But episode 3 seems different for
some reason.
Yes I had t
From: J K.Eason
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2016 7:15 PM
Can't you use the --fatfilename or --hfsfilename Output Option switches
on GIP's command line? I assume it works the same under Linux as Windows.
--fatfilename Remove FAT forbidden characters in file and
directory nam
From: Jim web
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 12:12 PM
I'd tried twice on the morning after the broadcast. Then a couple of times
on later days. Got the same "halt after about 2 mins".
I tried again using the same method yesterday after seeing a reply here.
Still stopped. I then tried the
-
I have found this which says, in effect, recording red button will be easier
when we can record HLS.
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/issues/171#issuecomment-116323399
We now have HLS recording. Are there any suggestions for finding the wanted
red button stream and recording it? Is
From: tellyaddict
Sent: Saturday, August 6, 2016 00:13
Dinky has pointed out on the forum that Olympics coverage might only be
available using hvf streams.
He has created a topic about this here:
https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/thread-982.html
Thanks for the link.
As for downloading fro
From: David Cantrell
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 13:08
At least after the previous Olympics *everything* was available for
download on iPlayer.
I must be being very stupid then, because I can't find it. If I go to a day
in the Schedule which has already happened I just get a table of result
From: Jim web
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 15:19
I haven't checked the example, but that looks correct to me.
The BBC sometimes make a pid visible via a URL attached to a pic or
'subheading' of text, or have it as part of the name-string for a webpage.
Keep an eye on what you browser may disp
From: RS
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 15:52
Thanks Majid and Jim. Putting that in
--url "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/olympics/36654223";
with --tvmode hvf does indeed seem to work. I went down to hvfsd and then
to hvfvhigh which brings the bit rate down to about 2Mbit/s.
I
From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 11:35
my main interest is equestrian events.
... Then you should keep an eye on:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cmh3v
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00cmh3v
Download by pid (3 shows currently) or --pid=b00cmh3v --pid-recu
From: RS
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 13:00
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
It didn't find the third one, yesterday's cross-country, but it may be
that it takes a day or so to be made available.
Forget that last comment. It was finger trouble on my part. The reason it
didn&
From: RS
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 13:39
The reason the pid did not work for the live coverage so I had to use the
url was that I entered the pid as p0424zwc instead of p0424zw4.
I think I can now shed some more light on this. p0424zwc must have been the
code I got from right clicking
From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 11:08
Well, there aren't OTHERS! All the flavours of the hls tvmodes (hldhd,
hlsvhigh, hlshigh, hlsstd, hlslow) are hosted/streamed on the same Akamai
CDN, whose hostname is:
"cp401489-vh.akamaihd.net"
(supplier="akamai_hls_open")
From: Jim web
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 12:13
The first Segment not found error reported here was Forces of Nature
with Brian Cox episode 3 The Moth and the Flame (b07l1zvw) It was
broadcast on Monday 18 July 2016 at 2100.
I think that was my first encounter as well.
Is it possible t
From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 11:35
On Sat Aug 6 10:50:01 BST 2016, RS wrote:
As for downloading from the iPlayer, my experience has been that only the
main channels are put on iPlayer
and that red button streams are only available while the live event is
being shown
From: Jim web
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 14:33
Without giving too much away I can tell you that the 'current' HLS is
served from hosts:
llnwd.net - Limelight
edgesuite.net - Akamai
Manifests served from those hosts will look like:
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:2
## Created with Unified
From: RS Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 12:35
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=551,CODECS="mp4a.40.2,avc1.640020",RESOLUTI
ON=1280x720,FRAME-RATE=50
vf_b07nsx00_2e5666d8-dfa3-45e9-a812-315abab948f7.ism.hlsv2-audio=128000-vid
eo=507.m3u8
The other thing I was going to comment
From: Jim web
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 13:49
the details I was given
may simply be 'examples' to illustrate more general behaviour. So there may
be alternatives that provide other frame rates, etc.
Of course. I was thinking about the forum post about the Olympics and HVF
by dinky whi
From: Vangelis forthnet Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 08:38
Subject: Olympics 2016 RedButton content, offered as catch-up
(Starting a new thread so the title could be more visible in the list
archives...)
It is easier to reply to your message, but I agree with Alan's comments.
On the sa
For testing or if there are problems I prefer to specify the
precise --tvmode I want
HLSHD, HLSvhigh
FlashHD, Flashvhigh
HVFHD, HVFSD, HVFvhigh
best and better are fine for stable conditions, and they have the advantage
that you are specifying the highest resolution you want, with fallback to a
From: Jim web
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2016 15:50
is there a list showing which of these give what actual resolutions and -
where relevant - what limit there is on 'supplier'?
What are the optimum choices here if I want 1280x720? Or is this a matter
of experiment?
HLSHD and FlashHD are both 1
From: David Cantrell Sent: Friday, August 12, 2016 17:21
There's less faffing about if you go to the iplayer main page at
bbc.co.uk/iplayer and put "olympic equestrian" (or whatever) into the
search box.
Thanks for the suggestion. After reading the first of Vangelis's very
helpful explanat
From: Jim web
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 09:37
BTW This morning an mpeg-dash fetch of the 320k version of yesterday's
"More Or Less" (R4) threw up segment error reports and ffmpeg failed to
turn the partial file into a tidied-up version when asked by gip that
Audacious could play. However
From: tellyaddict
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 21:31
HLSHD and FlashHD are both 1280x720 25fps
HVFHD is 1280x720 50fps, but it probably only applies to Red Button and
Olympic channels.
Since tellyaddict has quoted what I said about HVFHD, I ought to point out
that Alan is quite right, I h
From: andrea
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 12:10
Trying to download videos from Rio, for instance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p042nw6b/olympic-gymnastics-trampoline-final-featuring-team-gbs-kat-driscoll-and-bryony-page
Try --tvmode hvfvhigh
That will give you a file a bit smaller
From: tellyaddict
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 21:51
My best guess on why these problems suddenly started about a month ago
would be...
All of the segmenting, playlist creation etc will be done by some software
at Akamai if they are doing the packaging. It's possible that maybe they
have >
From: Jim web
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 16:48
However the 'American in Paris' snippet file I fetched gives no sound at
all from VLC! The video looks fine, but its a silent film! 8-)
An American in Paris (p044lmdc) plays fine here with VLC. I used --tvmode
hvfhd and it downloaded hvfhd1.
From: Jim web
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 14:54
But in the end I assume the correct response is to cease needing the
'deprecated' old arrangements anyway.
If we had a 25fps equivalent of HVFHD we wouldn't need HLSHD or FlashHD.
There are two modes at 960x540. HVFSD is 50fps and HVFvhigh i
From: RS Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 22:53
If we had a 25fps equivalent of HVFHD we wouldn't need HLSHD or FlashHD.
There are two modes at 960x540. HVFSD is 50fps and HVFvhigh is 25fps. A
mode at 1280x720 25fps is the obvious step down from HVFHD, but it isn't
there. It'
From: RS Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 23:31
There is also a link to a blog.
The blog I referred to is well worth a read, although it's a year old.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/e2428e08-7e8b-4617-8d39-244e482b8895
It says,"A key to making this work was a switch
From: tellyaddict
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 17:41
Browsers use HDS so probably aren't affected. They are served by both
Akamai and Limelight so are probably on the "current" system so the BBC are
>probably packaging these streams themselves. I think iPads etc now use the
HVF streams so ag
From: Jim web
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 17:59
This morning I used the 'best' option, but it now occurs to me: Does that
no longer use the 'flash' mode? I just tried a couple of fetches explicitly
specifying 'flash' and they fetched OK, as I was getting until the last few
days.
I think wha
Sorry I sent this to the wrong address.
From: Jim web
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 17:59
This morning I used the 'best' option, but it now occurs to me: Does that
no longer use the 'flash' mode? I just tried a couple of fetches explicitly
specifying 'flash' and they fetched OK, as I was gett
From: George Eycott
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 15:52
Having a thought about this, when you stream something through IPlayer or
on
a device of any sort to watch as it streams, it pulls data at a far lower
rate than when we try and download the whole programme in one hit. I wonder
whether it
From: Jim web
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 10:14
>From: Jim web Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 16:48
>However the 'American in Paris' snippet file I fetched gives no sound
>at all from VLC! The video looks fine, but its a silent film! 8-)
Does this have any relevance to your silent problem?
h
From: David Cantrell Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 23:37
I'd like to rate-limit get_iplayer so that other things on the same machine
that are also talking to the internet don't run like stunned slugs in
treacle.
Second, I'm not using Linux.
You don't say which non-Linux operating system y
From: David Cantrell
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 14:42
>I'd like to rate-limit get_iplayer so that other things on the same
>machine that are also talking to the internet don't run like stunned
>slugs
>>in treacle.
>>Second, I'm not using Linux.
>You don't say which non-Linux operating sys
From: iz
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 20:44
If you are using OS X, this approach worked for me:
https://dreness.com/blog/archives/843
Just change "dummynet out" to "dummynet in" and change the bandwidth limit
to desired value.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I find that incredible.
From: Jim web
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 10:03
Yes, that may be what's happening. I am using a relatively old LTS
version of Mint. I don't want to upgrade distro juts for this, so I'll
see if I can update either VLC or avconv.
Is this from
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki
From: Jim web
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 13:17
I don't know from the pid when b07pmyd6 was broadcast or put on-server. Was
that last night? If so, it looks like the fix hasn't been done yet, or
hasn't worked. I'll ask someone about it... but note that they in turn have
to refer though oth
From: Jim web
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 16:05
I have just tried BBC Business Live broadcast at 0830 to 0900 on BBC
News (b07p4sqp) this morning again hlshd1. It had errors at 9, 10, 12,
13, 21, 22, 35, 39, 44, 48 ...
OK. Thanks. Whatever the reasons, the problems seem to be continuin
From: Jim web
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 09:44
But the actual
application of any fix will be being done by someone else. People at the
BBC can, of course, check the output results. But may not be able to check
the details of what is being actually done by others.
BBC Business Live 0830-0
From: RS Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 10:52
BBC Business Live 0830-0900 BBC News (b07p4swg) took longer to appear today
than yesterday. Its best HLS is only HLSvhigh and still has lots of
errors at 3, 7, 8, 16, 17, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32, 35 ...
hlshd1 is now present but there
From: Jim web
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 17:05
The point that was made to me is that the actual audio is HE but is
*misdescribed* in the headers because the header can't correctly describe
this. So it relies on the renderer/client to spot what the data format
really is.
When I looked int
From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 15:38
hlshd1 is now present but there are errors at
4, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 33, 34, 36, 43 ...
I just tried:
perl get_iplayer-295.pl --pid=b07p4swg --tvmode=hlshd1 --raw
My download had eight (8) missing segments
(for a ca. 25min pr
From: RS Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 17:46
That's interesting. I have tried it again and I get the same missing
segments as before. This time I let it continue to the end and the only
missing segment after 43 was 155. We do agree on some of them, so I don't
know what it mean
From: Vangelis forthnet Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 15:38
If I then remux (repackage) the elementary streams to
the MP4 container:
ffmpeg -loglevel 8 -stats -i EVS.264 -i EAS.aac -c copy -bsf:a
aac_adtstoasc ff-remux.mp4
the end .mp4 file has no loss of sync,
MediaInfo and MPC-HC rep
There seems to have been a new development in the direction of getting
worse. BBC Business Live (b07p4t1f) and News at One (b07myk09) HLShd1 have
both produced --raw .ts files which I can't play with VLC 2.2.4. With the
earlier problem files Tools did not show Media or Codec information and it
From: dinkypumpkin
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 23:50
Release notes:
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release296
The release notes state, "Some users reporting problems with HLS streams
failed to distinguish between "Segment not found" errors (problems with the
BBC or its
From: RS Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 08:58 I don't think I have ever
seen a "Failed to download segment" error.
I spoke too soon. Last night I finally got around to breaking up the
Olympic Eventing Dressage coverage so I could move it to an external FAT32
drive to fre
On 22/08/16 09:36, Jim web wrote:
I have go do something else this morning but this prompts me to ask if
others are:
A) Still having missing segments from hls
B) now also having trouble with ye olde flash.
Fake or Fortune (b07r1yfh) from last night, downloaded today, had 26 Segment
not fou
From: michael norman Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 11:53
I have no idea if this helps but I've just installed gip 2.96 and the
latest FFMPEG on Linux Mint 17.3 (from the PPA's)
Trying both the Dads Army Episode and the Gergieve prom with in the latter
case get-iplayer --get 210 tvmode=hlssst
From: RS Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 13:26
Vangelis has pointed out that hvfhd2 is usually faster, so it may be
better to use --tvmode=hvfhd2,hvfhd1
Sorry I meant to say Vangelis has pointed out hvfvhigh2 is usually faster
than hvfvhigh1
From: Jim web
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 09:36
This morning I could not get either the hls *or* 'flash' fetching to work
correctly (Still with gip 2.95 as yet.). I can't recall the pids but one
example was the Dad's Army from yesterday.
There is no hlshd or flashhd mode for Dads Army The C
On Behalf Of Budge
>Sent: 22 August 2016 23:27
I have installed 2.96 and read up the notes. I have a couple of dumb
questions on the options with the changed GiP having been quite happy
>to date with the following prefs:-
>
>rtmpdump = /usr/bin/rtmpdump
>thumbsize = 1
> outpu
From: Budge Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 13:39
Finally, why is the v2.96 default 960x540 at 50fps? What are benefits?
This is what the v2.96 Release Notes say, "The one lacuna filled by flash
modes is that flashhd mode represents the only alternative to a broken hlshd
mode for 1280x720 25
From: Jim Lesurf
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 09:27
Of the three the old flash mode is best from my POV because of the
1280x720>
and 25fps. But presumably this mode will cease being offered in due time.
Is there a new non-flash way to get 1280x720 25fps? I don't really want
50fps for everyth
From: RS Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 22:39
Unless and until HLS is fixed, FlashHD is the only way to get 1280x720
25fps unless you re-encode HVFHD to 25fps.
When I wrote the suggestion of re-encoding HVFHD to 25fps I was assuming
that I could use ffmpeg -r 25 to drop alternate frames to
Today I downloaded today's HLSHD1 World Business Report (b07ps5pz) and there
were no Segment not found errors. The last time I checked was Wednesday
24th. I don't have a record but if I've remembered correctly there were
then about 6 Segment not found errors. It is only a 15 min programme, so
From: Simon Morgan
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2016 11:58 AM
INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of editorial version
INFO:
hvfhd1,hvfhd2,hlshd1,hvfsd1,hvfsd2,hvfvhigh1,hvfvhigh2,hvfhigh1,hvfhigh2,hls
high1,hvfstd1,hvfstd2,hlsstd1,hvflow1,hvflow2,hlslow1 modes will be tried
for ve
From: RS Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2016 3:04 PM
You could try again in a few hours, but I see you have a very slow
internet connection.
One reasons the problem we had with HLS and the Segment not found errors was
so serious is that there is only one CDN for HLS, Akamai. For HVF there are
From: Jim web
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 17:51
the radio kbps is going to be whatever the video file contains. i
seriously doubt that gip would ever to able to mix and match video
>quality and audio quality.
I doubt 320k is available via TV pids. And the radio and TV versions almost
c
From: Jim web
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 13:10
simulcasts, so it may be that the problem of keeping radio and
television in sync has been considered. Do they use the same clock?
Alas, the problems aren't simply a fixed offset.
I did some relative time comparisons some years ago. You
From: Mark Wildman
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 10:26
I was able to download hvfvhigh without any problems.
Could you expand on “Trying the proposed modes doesn’t help.”? You need an
up to date version of get_iplayer (2.95 or later I believe) to download hvf
>versions.
You beat me to
From: Vangelis forthnet Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 19:37
By examining your verbose log, I find that:
1. The downloaded file size (using mode
dashhigh - native perl downloader is used)
is 420.75MB (partial file before remuxing),
while in my test it was 421.58MB, i.e. slightly larger.
I h
From: Jonathan H
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 07:52
On the iPlayer site it says (my emphasis)
"To watch or record live TV programmes on any channel, *or* to watch
or download BBC programmes on iPlayer when you're in the UK, the
Channel Islands or the Isle of Man".
Have you or anyone
From: RS Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 12:31
What about programme web sites?
Do I now need a television licence to watch www.bbc.co.uk/news?
For example, is today's item on the centenary of the tank a
programme the form and content of which are comparable to the form and
conte
From: Jim web
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 18:03
One hope of remaining in the EU is that the EU has been moving towards a
'no boarders' approach to broadcasting.
Unfortunately the Television without Frontiers Directive does not go far
enough. Even so, as a national broadcaster fun
From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 23:53
Interestingly, all the HAF modes have been removed.
NO, they have not! You are using GiP 2.95, the "haf"
radiomodes were implemented in 2.96+ :
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release296#3-combined-dash-h
From: David Cantrell
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 20:44
Have you seen the quality of TV programming in Italian and German? THAT is
why they want English content, and also why their own content is not worth
protecting.
Yes, although only FTA. I don't agree that it is all bad or even m
From: Mark Goodge Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 09:25
Of course this change may result in a lot of unhappy "Smart" TV
owners whose iPlayer apps don't get updated any more.
I would imagine that the BBC has a separate system for those, possibly
based on the API.
At present the BBC's atti
From: Jim web
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:02
At present the BBC's attitude seems to be that if your Smart TV is more
than 2 years old that's tough; they can't be bothered to support it.
I wish people wouldn't keep trotting out this misrepresentation here. It
has been dealt with in t
From: Vangelis forthnet Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 01:47
Again, I fear this will also apply to Int'l users (in the millions...)
wishing to access iPlayerRadio offered to them (in low bitrates); in their
recently revised pages: https://www.bbc.com/register/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/using
From: David Cantrell
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 14:07
Asking for location makes no sense to me.
Ah, right, so just because it isn't helpful for your particular unusual
case they shouldn't do it.
It makes no sense for the purposes set out on the registration page because
the iPlaye
From: Jim web
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 15:05
FWIW I always have recommended that people buy a TV with an HDMI input
and then feed that from a computer. This frees you from relying on the
firmware, etc, installed by the TV makers. The media players I've seen on
TVs are lousy compar
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