Re: BBC Radio Scotland, Highlands and Islands schedule variation discontinued...

2018-08-07 Thread george
I got a warning about it when I refreshed the cache yesterday using the latest version of gip, but given that I don't download anything from Radio Scotland I just ignored it On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 12:28 AM +0100, "Vangelis forthnet" wrote: Recent versions of GiP have become very silent

Re: Off-line conversion- M4A toMP3

2019-05-13 Thread george
I used to do this, but then discovered that my player would happily play the unconverted file (even though it was not on the list of supported formats). I would give that a try before doing anything else, you may find that the conversion step is completely unnecessary anyway On Mon, May 1

RE: v3.28 has been released

2021-12-09 Thread george
Nope, Dinky is still maintaining it but just not responding in any forums or email lists. If you find a bug you need to log it in Github (which works, I logged one and it has been fixed in the latest release). However he (or she?) is only fixing bugs and not developing it. > -Original Messa

RE: v3.28 has been released

2021-12-09 Thread george
That's good news, it includes a fix I requested 😊 > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of > Mark Carroll > Sent: 08 December 2021 23:47 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: v3.28 has been released > > v3.28 of get_iplayer looks to be out and, at least for me, ha

RE: v3.28 has been released

2021-12-09 Thread george
Indeed, but there was a time when people would request new features and they would often be considered and implemented. I am happy with what it does at the moment so this doesn't bother me! > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of > Owen Smith > Sent: 09 December 2021 13:18

RE: Off-topic - Paddington

2022-06-07 Thread george
It worked fine for me! > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of > Chris Brady > Sent: 07 June 2022 21:18 > To: Jonathan H > Cc: get_iplayer > Subject: Re: Off-topic - Paddington > > This doesn't work ... > > get_iplayer --pid p0bk5pd7 --start 00:30:05 --stop 00:32:20 --tv

RE: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically

2024-02-14 Thread george
end to edit the pvr list and pick nay individual programmes I want to download if they are not in the PVR list. The web PVR on its own only looks at the cache, it doesn't update it nor does it automatically download items in the PVR list. Cheers G

RE: tv cache doesn't contain newer programs

2024-09-06 Thread george
That error message does not relate to your missing programme(s), it is a BBC 1 schedule page which is redundant, as the developer says "FYI for users: Ignore the error for now. It will be removed in the next release. BBC One programme schedules will still be indexed from the local variants. For tha

RE: Re: New Website

2013-07-16 Thread George Branchflower
First time contribution here, but could I respectfully suggest that the points made below, whilst theoretically arguable, would almost certainly be ruinously expensive even to deploy in any sort of legal context. (Declaration of interest: I am a lawyer, although not practising in IP) Consequently,

RE: get_iplayer Digest, Vol 39, Issue 48

2013-07-22 Thread George Branchflower
Hello Neill I for one would be very interested in getting get_iplayer to run on my Synology. How did you get it to work? -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Neill Mitchell Sent: 17 July 2013 20:41 To: get_iplayer@lists.infrad

Re: MP4 to MP3 (Video+Audio -> Audio)

2013-08-26 Thread George DiceGeorge
Colin wrote: For most the expected behaviour when one gets an email from a list is that Reply would go back to the list. I agree, and also I'd like a prefix like [get_iplayer] in all the subject lines to make it easier to sort through my emails. [g

Fw: Confirming Membership of List

2014-07-01 Thread George DiceGeorge
its a serious problem if it emails your password and youve used the same password elsewhere for emails, banking etc. [g] -Original Message- From: Jim Jackson Sent: Tuesday, 01 July, 2014 14:19 To: Chris J Brady Cc: get_iplayer Subject: Re: Confirming Membership of List Yes, I've ha

Re: Confirming Membership of List

2014-07-01 Thread George DiceGeorge
Steve wrote: [ Can I unashamedly take this opportunity to promote LastPass to you? ] yes but i'm not an expert but something about storing passwords somewhere online makes me pause, i'm looking at keepass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePass or burying half of a list in the garden! [g] _

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread George Eycott
> 5 Mbps, 11 Mbps, 60 Mbps - these are numbers I just don't recognise -:( > Here in rural Pembrokeshire, West Wales, I consider myself lucky if I get > the nominal 2Mbps that BT rate the line (upload about 250Kbps!!). > Fortunately Get_iPlayer trundles along quite happily and next morning I > usual

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread George Eycott
> Who is your ISP? BT :-) They have admitted the exchange is in congestion. And the good news is that a new housing estate is being built in the village so that is going to help Not. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.o

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread George Eycott
> Do you have a strong signal from any of the mobile networks? Plenty of > 3G/4G unlimited packages available, some from the newtworks and some > from > MVNOs 2g only at the moment, but I am working on it, I work for one of the mobile networks in the planning team :-) I can get a marginal 4g sign

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread George Eycott
> You may be too pessimistic. If I were in your situation I would be > speaking to the developer now. Good broadband connection speed is a > very significant criterion for house buyers; in the same order as good > local schooling. If the development is significant the developer will > move BT wh

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread George Eycott
> Wander off to google and find the website of your county council/BT/BDUK > setup. You may find that FTTC will be arriving in the not too distant > future. Our exchange serves 1150 odd residential and 99 business's > (according to SamKnows), FTTC is being installed under the BDUK funding > and > I

RE: history of britain in numbers

2015-03-02 Thread George Eycott
the release notes (presumably these programmes are using a new mode which 2.9 doesn't support, hence the message saying to try a different mode but not specifying what the mode you should try is). Cheers George -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer

RE: Changes at BBC Resulting in PVR Duplicates

2015-06-30 Thread George Eycott
The BBC changed their podcast system a few weeks ago which resulted in my podcast download system re-fetching years worth of programmes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/faqs/podcast_changes_2015 and more details here http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_radio_progs/podcast_chang es RSS pages

RE: Paywall for iPlayer?

2015-07-06 Thread George Eycott
> equally I would be against any move to make any of the BBC channels to carry commercials. I agree, we visited Canada recently and I am amazed anyone watches TV live there. Basically the channels primarily carry adverts with odd bits of programmes shown occasionally. It made trying to watch anyt

RE: Changes at BBC Resulting in PVR Duplicates

2015-08-12 Thread George Eycott
-Original Message----- From: George Eycott [mailto:geo...@eycott.co.uk] Sent: 30 June 2015 11:48 To: 'get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org' Subject: RE: Changes at BBC Resulting in PVR Duplicates The BBC changed their podcast system a few weeks ago which resulted in my podcast download

RE: Changes at BBC Resulting in PVR Duplicates

2015-08-12 Thread George Eycott
Sorry, that was supposed to be cut and pasted into a reply to Peter's query but somehow got sent before I sorted it out -Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of George Eycott Sent: 12 August 2015 22:02 To: get_ip

Extending beyond 7 days

2015-09-06 Thread George Eycott
? My coding skills are very basic and dated but I do know enough to break it! I am running under Windows (sorry :-) Cheers George ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

RE: Extending beyond 7 days

2015-09-06 Thread George Eycott
That wasn't really what I was after, that method still involves going through the Iplayer site to go and find the programmes first. I want to get the cache refresh to extend to a couple of weeks instead of 7 days. I understand the drawback of this is to make the refresh take longer, but I only want

RE: Extending beyond 7 days

2015-09-06 Thread George Eycott
Ah, hadn't read the release notes far enough back. I did find some odd references to a command line option which extended the time up to 30 days but then that was contradicted by the later information that the code would only go back 7 days even if the programme was on the Iplayer site for 30 days.

RE: BBC iPlayer cracks down and blocks VPN users

2015-10-09 Thread George Eycott
Although get_iplayer is not intended to bypass geographical restrictions, the news does explain why some people are getting the error messages that they have been seeing (bear in mind some people may be using a VPN from within the UK). They may have thought it was a get_iplayer issue whereas in fac

RE: BBC iPlayer cracks down and blocks VPN users

2015-10-09 Thread George Eycott
e purpose of get_iplayer and is therefore also off topic. 3. The fact that VPN use has been blocked is potentially of interest to users of get_iplayer (and Iplayer come to that) who are UK based and pay their license fee, so why would that be off topic? That was all I

RE: BBC iPlayer cracks down and blocks VPN users

2015-10-09 Thread George Eycott
> So as a UK resident who can’t receive TV so I don’t pay for a TV licence you > think I should be regarded as a thief ? nice… Perhaps you should check the > current legal situation of the licence fee before accusing folk of stealing. You know when you wish you hadn't bothered. OK, so yes ther

RE: get_iplayer currently broken...

2016-01-15 Thread George Eycott
Yep, the current directory is always in the path in Windows. I remember it being one of the sources of confusion when I first started using Unix (having been bought up on Dos...) > Not true on Linux systems. Does Windows still allow that (it is a > significant security issue to allow it)? To run

RE: Can't Download: The Infinite Monkey Cage: Series 13 - Invisible Universe (b06z2851)

2016-02-05 Thread George Eycott
I was having trouble with that one, I retried every few hours and eventually it worked. > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On > Behalf Of C E Macfarlane > Sent: 05 February 2016 17:09 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Ca

RE: Download Problems

2016-02-15 Thread George Eycott
until they turn them off completely :-( Oh and suggestions from some that GIP users should switch operating systems will not make any difference to this problem! Cheers George > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On >

RE: Request for BBC Contact - OT

2016-04-06 Thread George Eycott
I think it is not purely lack of vision by the BBC, whenever this has come up with them before they claim that there are a lack of rights for them to show/play many of their programmes overseas, paid or otherwise. I seem to recall Radio 7 having similar issues when they started up in getting righ

RE: Audio/Video Out of Sync

2016-08-18 Thread George Eycott
(or at least we now know it is an issue that is being looked at) than we did then so indeed, my hypothesis was incorrect, doesn't mean it wasn't worth testing at the time though. Cheers George ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists

RE: Replacement for "aactomp3" option?

2016-09-01 Thread George Eycott
I think what the original poster (and myself and a few others who have posted here) are looking for is a way of configuring get_iplayer so it does it automatically in the same way as it does now, not adding an additional step. Even if that means running get_iplayer via a batch file to kick off some

RE: Replacement for "aactomp3" option?

2016-09-01 Thread George Eycott
That would seem to be the answer to everyone's question - thanks for pointing it out! > https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#custom- > comma > nds shows you how to create a GIP preset to convert a file to MP3 after > downloading and then how to use it on GIP's command line

RE: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.98 released

2017-02-07 Thread George Eycott
many readers will see this and go "well, that's obvious" but it wasn't to me and it may not be to other people! Cheers George > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On > Behalf Of dinkypumpkin > Sent: 03

RE: incorrect "Time Added" in (Radio) cache

2017-05-09 Thread George Eycott
Ah, I wondered what was going on, I am seeing exactly the same behaviour. (Win7 64bit). > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On > Behalf Of d.l...@surrey.ac.uk > Sent: 09 May 2017 07:50 > To: mcl...@gmx.co.uk; get_iplayer@lists.infra

RE: Playing BBC R3 FLAC files recorded by nightly VLC

2017-08-08 Thread George Eycott
Hmm, so it reported exactly half the number of buffers played relative to blocks downloaded and 32 bits per sample rather than the 16 in the blocks. Seems too much of a co-incidence to me. Could it be that the blocks each contain 16 bits of data and two blocks are joined to make a 32 bit "buffer"?

RE: GUI front end

2017-10-25 Thread George Eycott
Yep, it is the Web PVR Manager, comes packaged with GIP (well, does on the Windows version, not sure about the others). Cheers George > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On > Behalf Of Charles Johnson > Sent: 25 Octobe

RE: BBC Clifton API JSON data (attn: Martin Powell)

2017-12-01 Thread George Eycott
Hmm, I do get the impression that DP has adopted a "my way or the highway" approach, but to be fair, he does this without getting paid and while trying to keep under the radar from Aunty. There is no way I could maintain the code and no-one else seems to be offering an alternative since the demise

RE: INFO: 0 matching programmes?

2018-01-01 Thread George Eycott
Using the PID method you can download programmes that are not in your cache. I suspect the series PID's are not in the cache, so the software is (correctly) saying it cannot find the PID in the cache, but as it is a PID it can then go and search on the BBC system at which point it finds what you ar

RE: Radio 4 screwed?

2018-10-29 Thread George Eycott
front end won't cause changes to the back end at some point that will break get_iplayer, but that was/is always the case irrespective of the BBC's recent changes. So, in answer to the question in the subject, nope, Radio 4 is not screwed. Cheers George __

RE: OT: I have received a series of duplicate emails.

2018-11-22 Thread George Eycott
r mailing lists, I had a similar problem for some lists I run using Mailman: https://wiki.list.org/DEV/DMARC Cheers George ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Poodcast that isn't a podcast

2019-01-16 Thread George Eycott
the PID, but is there any way to add the programme to the PVR list in the same way as a normal radio programme? It doesn't seem to be in the cache so I am at a loss as to how to proceed. Manually getting the PID from the Sounds site each week would be a right royal PITA.

RE: Poodcast that isn't a podcast

2019-01-16 Thread George Eycott
tt > Sent: 16 January 2019 17:08 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: Poodcast that isn't a podcast > > On 16/01/2019 16.53, George Eycott wrote: > > "Fortunately" was until recently a podcast, but now is only available > > through BBC Sounds

RE: Poodcast that isn't a podcast

2019-01-16 Thread George Eycott
let it get on with it and delete them afterwards than it will be to work out a way around it ☺ I have no idea why they have decided to drop it as a podcast, seems an odd decision. Cheers George > -Original Message- > From: Don Grunbaum [mailto:don.grunb...@gmail.com] >

RE: Poodcast that isn't a podcast

2019-01-21 Thread George Eycott
9 00:24 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: Poodcast that isn't a podcast > > On Wed Jan 16 18:56:20 GMT 2019, George Eycott wrote: > > > and being audio it will be quicker to let it get on with it > > and delete them afterwards than it will be >

RE: Poodcast that isn't a podcast

2019-01-21 Thread George Eycott
Of David Cantrell > Sent: 17 January 2019 15:41 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: Poodcast that isn't a podcast > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 05:51:00PM -, George Eycott wrote: > > > Sadly not as simple as that. The last podcast was a short piec

RE: Porridge

2019-07-07 Thread George Eycott
Being available as a boxset via Iplayer is not the same as it being broadcast. If it has not been broadcast (i.e. transmitted in a scheduled slot rather than just being available to watch on Iplayer) then it will not be in the schedule data and hence will not be in the cache which is populated from

RE: Excessive Bounces

2019-07-28 Thread George Eycott
s. You can ask him to change the settings, but don't complain if/when he says no. We have to be grateful for what we have! Cheers George ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

RE: problems with converting to mp3

2019-12-06 Thread George Eycott
specs) so the extra conversion was not necessary. May be worth trying.. Cheers George > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of > Roger Jones > Sent: 06 December 2019 07:48 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: problems with converting to m

RE: OT BBC Iplayer on firestick problems

2020-02-28 Thread George Eycott
If it helps, we use Iplayer on a Firestick all the time with no issues, though we are in the UK and don't use proxies etc. > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of > Peter Corlett > Sent: 28 February 2020 09:46 > To: get_iplayer > Subject: Re: OT BBC Iplayer on firestick pro

RE: lists.infradead.org mailing list memberships reminder

2020-07-01 Thread George Eycott
. Mailman is now quite old (though still by far the best mailing list software about) and comes from a more trusted time Cheers George > Just got the below email. It included my password in plain text (redacted > below). > > CJB > > On 01/07/2020, mailman-ow...@lists

Version 3.27.1 released

2021-03-17 Thread George Eycott
releases of Mojolicious will continue to work with get_iplayer 3.27 or higher. https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release327 Hope that is helpful to someone 😊 Cheers George ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer

RE: "ERROR: Failed to download URL "

2021-03-17 Thread George Eycott
the issues log (https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/issues?q=is%3Aissue) or release a new version that mentions it. 2. Nope, already been done twice, once a week ago and once today 3. Nothing to work around, in effect that is what the software is already doing on your behalf Hope that helps Ge

RE: Version 3.27.1 released

2021-04-12 Thread George Eycott
live tv! Cheers George ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

RE: Version 3.27.1 released

2021-04-12 Thread George Eycott
> Things have moved on since the days of the Tivo method of pausing live tv! > > Cheers > > George ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

RE: Why no Formula E?

2021-04-26 Thread George Eycott
Wow, that seems complex, mine is just: search0 The Repair Shop Works fine for me! > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer On Behalf Of > Don Grunbaum > Sent: 26 April 2021 08:41 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: Why no Formula E? > > As an example, this is my file f

RE: Why no Formula E?

2021-04-26 Thread George Eycott
player On Behalf Of > Don Grunbaum > Sent: 26 April 2021 17:00 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: Why no Formula E? > > I'm not sure that you've followed the thread fully, George. > > Your search will pick up "The Repair Shop" programmes

RE: Failing to download msg

2021-04-26 Thread George Eycott
I think it is the same for everyone, there were comments on here about it a month or so ago and I notice that several bugs have been raised on the github issues tracker relating to it. The developer has left them as closed/invalid (he/she has set the system to automatically close all issues logged