Just noticed the download title includes [legal]
Just noticed this after pid when getting Men of Rock... No idea what it means or why it is there. Is it because I have signed up for iPlayer and my address is known or something more sinister? Budge ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available
On 17/07/2019 at 6:11 pm, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: checking back I find that everything I've downloaded in almost-HD since 1/1/2019 is at 128kbps audio or less Which is exactly what I was working from. The program I spotted with 320K audio was from Sunday the 14th of July, and I made an assumption. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available
Please see below ...
On 17/07/2019 16:26, James Scholes wrote:
Scratch what I said previously, the format of the URLs has changed and
the 320K streams are still available. Just posted the info here:
https://forums.squarepenguin.co.uk/thread-2062.html
And dinky had replied: "That is not a new URL format. You've just
happened on a TV programme with 320k audio still available." I'm not
going to attempt to arbitrate between you !-)
Let's instead look at the script. First we have to know what difference
if any the script version makes. I'm still using 3.17, and checking
back I find that everything I've downloaded in almost-HD since 1/1/2019
is at 128kbps audio or less, whereas others say that the problem started
for them around the beginning of July, so what versions are others
using, and does the new v3.21 apparently announced today resolve the
problem? If not ...
In v3.17 of the script, I get the impression that the selection of
streams is done in lines 5474 onwards:
my $best_audio;
# etc.
Line 5511 appears to be the one that matches both the audio stream
designation that you discussed in the forum:
my ($ab, $vb) = ($1, $2) if $stream->{'URL'} =~
/audio.*?=(\d+)-video.*?=(\d+)/;
Although I've created a major Perl program which works very well, Perl
Regular Expressions (REs), which are what are doing the matching and
capturing in this line, are something that I use so infrequently that I
have to look them up whenever I do. As far as I can tell the above
should match the new audio designation with its added suffix of '_eng',
but I'd feel more confident if other Perl programmers here would verify
this. As far as I can tell any problem lies somewhere else in the
program logic surrounding the above line.
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Subtitles
My gip options are as follows: Options from Files radiomode = best subsmono = 1 subtitles = 1 tvmode = dvfsd,dvfxsd Options Used encodingconsolein = cp850 encodingconsoleout = cp850 encodinglocale = cp1252 encodinglocalefs = cp1252 As of around 2 weeks or so, I no longer get any subtitles. Today I selected a recently braodcast programme and downloaded it: Chasing the Moon: Series 1 - A Place Beyond the Sky (Part Two), BBC Four, m0006vrv During the download, two 0-length files appeared in my target folder: Chasing_the_Moon_Series_1_-_02._A_Place_Beyond_the_Sky_Part_Two_m0006vrv_original.audio.m4a Chasing_the_Moon_Series_1_-_02._A_Place_Beyond_the_Sky_Part_Two_m0006vrv_original.audio After the audio component download: the .m4a file was 44.3MB the .audio file disappeared 2 new files of zero length appeared: Chasing_the_Moon_Series_1_-_02._A_Place_Beyond_the_Sky_Part_Two_m0006vrv_original.video.m4v Chasing_the_Moon_Series_1_-_02._A_Place_Beyond_the_Sky_Part_Two_m0006vrv_original.video.txt After the video component download: All files previously named have disappeared Chasing_the_Moon_Series_1_-_02._A_Place_Beyond_the_Sky_Part_Two_m0006vrv_original.mp4 now exists (970MB), comprising video and audio In my GIP terminal window the following lines appear: INFO: Downloading tv: INFO: Downloaded: 46.49MB [audio] INFO: Downloaded: 969.23MB ... [video] INFO: Converting to MPEG-TS INFO: Converting to MP4 INFO: Tagging MP4 INFO: Downloading subtitles [original] Terminating on signal SIGINT(2) It looks to me as if the attempt to download subtitles has failed. Any ideas please? Regards, Paul Thornett ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available
Scratch what I said previously, the format of the URLs has changed and the 320K streams are still available. Just posted the info here: https://forums.squarepenguin.co.uk/thread-2062.html Regards, James Scholes On 17/07/2019 at 4:11 pm, James Scholes wrote: On 17/07/2019 at 3:18 pm, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Unless anyone has anything more definite, such as a statement from the BBC, that suggests to me "cock-up" rather than "change of policy". Not necessarily. If anything, I think the availability of 320K TV streams in the first place was probably the cock-up, because to my knowledge they were never directly used by any iPlayer product. It may have been on the to-do list for some time to stop duplicate 320K streams being sent to the CDN, taking up additional disk space for no benefit, and someone has only just gotten round to it. I say this because get_iplayer was only able to access them by changing part of a playlist URL, i.e. the BBC mediaselector APIs didn't advertise the availability of such streams. Regards, James Scholes ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available
On 17/07/2019 at 3:18 pm, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: Unless anyone has anything more definite, such as a statement from the BBC, that suggests to me "cock-up" rather than "change of policy". Not necessarily. If anything, I think the availability of 320K TV streams in the first place was probably the cock-up, because to my knowledge they were never directly used by any iPlayer product. It may have been on the to-do list for some time to stop duplicate 320K streams being sent to the CDN, taking up additional disk space for no benefit, and someone has only just gotten round to it. I say this because get_iplayer was only able to access them by changing part of a playlist URL, i.e. the BBC mediaselector APIs didn't advertise the availability of such streams. Regards, James Scholes ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available
On 17 Jul, w...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: > I hadn't noticed a change as none of it recently has been music, but I > will now also check what I've been fetching recently. Can't pin the date down exactly, but around the start of July the rate dropped from 320 to 128. I'll try asking, but any reply depends on a 'pass the parcel' at the BBC, so no idea when I'll get a response or how helpful it may be! Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available
In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > Unless anyone has anything more definite, such as a statement from the > BBC, that suggests to me "cock-up" rather than "change of policy". > Perhaps someone in a position to do so so may care to contact the BBC to > enquire/complain. An obvious choice for this would be Jim, but I know > that he's not been in the best of health recently, nevertheless if he or > anyone else with contacts is reading this and decides to act, we may be > able to find out. I'll ask 'someone I know'. They are, however, 'radio' people, not TV. But they may be able to get a response. I hadn't noticed a change as none of it recently has been music, but I will now also check what I've been fetching recently. If the report is true I'll soon be wondering how I can tack a time-aligned audio from R3 onto a TV version of a Prom... Wondered about this in the past, but it's clearly a real faff! Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available
Please see below ... On 17/07/2019 10:28, RS wrote: This forum post may be of interest to some here. errfmt: I've noticed that the 320kbps audio streams that used to be default for hvfhd/hvfsd/hvfxsd TV seem to have disappeared and have been replaced with 128kbps streams. Looking at my series downloads the change appears to have happened around 3rd week in June, for instance Episode 4 of the 'The Planets' downloaded on 19th June has 320kbps stream, Episode 5 downloaded on 1st July has 128kbps stream. As far as I can tell all current programmes now only have the 128kbps stream available (I noticed this because Glastonbury downloads were all 128kbps). I suspect this a BBC change and there will be nothing that can be done in get_iplayer to re-enable 320kbps (but I hope I'm wrong!). dinky: Nothing get_iplayer can do about it. If someone knows that 320k audio TV streams still exist somewhere, start a new thread and explain how to find them. Thread closed. https://forums.squarepenguin.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=2055 Fortunately for me, the 320kbps radio show downloads are still available. I've just checked and all my recent downloads up to last night are all the same file size as they always have been. Unless anyone has anything more definite, such as a statement from the BBC, that suggests to me "cock-up" rather than "change of policy". Perhaps someone in a position to do so so may care to contact the BBC to enquire/complain. An obvious choice for this would be Jim, but I know that he's not been in the best of health recently, nevertheless if he or anyone else with contacts is reading this and decides to act, we may be able to find out. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available
Usual reduction in audio quality since the BBC believes everyone uses earbuds anyway for iPlayer. Meanwhile I want stuff broadcast in 5.1 audio (on HD channels) to have 5.1 audio in iPlayer. Fat chance now. -- Owen Smith Cambridge, UK > On 17 Jul 2019, at 10:28, RS wrote: > > This forum post may be of interest to some here. > > errfmt: > I've noticed that the 320kbps audio streams that used to be default for > hvfhd/hvfsd/hvfxsd TV seem to have disappeared and have been replaced with > 128kbps streams. > Looking at my series downloads the change appears to have happened around 3rd > week in June, for instance Episode 4 of the 'The Planets' downloaded on 19th > June has 320kbps stream, Episode 5 downloaded on 1st July has 128kbps stream. > As far as I can tell all current programmes now only have the 128kbps stream > available (I noticed this because Glastonbury downloads were all 128kbps). > > I suspect this a BBC change and there will be nothing that can be done in > get_iplayer to re-enable 320kbps (but I hope I'm wrong!). > > dinky: > Nothing get_iplayer can do about it. If someone knows that 320k audio TV > streams still exist somewhere, start a new thread and explain how to find > them. Thread closed. > > https://forums.squarepenguin.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=2055 > > > ___ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Forum - HVF 320kbps audio streams no longer available
This forum post may be of interest to some here. errfmt: I've noticed that the 320kbps audio streams that used to be default for hvfhd/hvfsd/hvfxsd TV seem to have disappeared and have been replaced with 128kbps streams. Looking at my series downloads the change appears to have happened around 3rd week in June, for instance Episode 4 of the 'The Planets' downloaded on 19th June has 320kbps stream, Episode 5 downloaded on 1st July has 128kbps stream. As far as I can tell all current programmes now only have the 128kbps stream available (I noticed this because Glastonbury downloads were all 128kbps). I suspect this a BBC change and there will be nothing that can be done in get_iplayer to re-enable 320kbps (but I hope I'm wrong!). dinky: Nothing get_iplayer can do about it. If someone knows that 320k audio TV streams still exist somewhere, start a new thread and explain how to find them. Thread closed. https://forums.squarepenguin.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=2055 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
get_iplayer release 3.21
There seems to be a new release 3.21 of get_iplayer. https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release321 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
