Re: HD 1080 or 720
On 01/03/2013 19:02, Shevek wrote: On 1 March 2013 16:36, Rog zulu.romeotangoho...@ntlworld.com wrote: I'm pretty sure I get 1080 from iPlayeer... Ripper Street for example. File sizes are about 1.15 GB per hour. All Ripper Street have been 1280x720 from iPlayer File size is not an indication of pixel dimensions, it is the bit-rate which determines file size Agreed. All HD content available on the main iPlayer service is 1280x720p25. HOWEVER, the HD programme material available if you have a Sky+HD box ... is 1920x1080i25 (I think, you get combing artifacts when you hit pause but this might also be because the Sky+HD boxes max out at 1080i on HDMI). So, either BBC provides a feed exclusively to Sky's on-demand platform just for us lucky Sky customers, or there is another unadvertised version feed only available for specific devices or proxied through specific gateways. When I realised I Wiresharked some traffic as I downloaded a file, it was coming from a CDN. More investigation required. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Thank you
On 18/02/2013 09:25, Colin Law wrote: On 18 February 2013 00:23, Peter S Kirk peter.k...@isauk.biz wrote: Dinkypumpinkin and the rest of the crew who work or have worked on updating and improving get_iplayer and it's plugins (rtmp dump etc) A big thank you for all your hard work, it is much appreciated by me and I'm sure by countless others too. +1 Colin +9000! GiP's one of my must-have apps on any machine I get to use. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: infradead is down
On 11/02/2013 15:22, Kapitano wrote: On 2/11/2013 14:30 PM, Colin Law wrote: Possibly a solution would be to provide a command line parameter to get-iplayer which would specify where to store the cache and settings, That would be a very good feature, which I suppose I'm hereby requesting. We've already got one for the default download folder. The rights and wrongs of which folders should have what access privileges...is a good nerdy subject on which we won't be able to agree. Shevek wrote: Anything that has a portable install, I put it in C:\Applications I've got over 200 programs on my laptop, and they're *all* portable and outside Program Files. Erm, except for Get_iPlayer. :-). +1 (+1 bonus) for portable option. I'd *love* me some portable GiP. Just this weekend, on an old installation I fell afoul of 2.79's inability to write to the default download location problem. And woe betide me, infradead was down to boot! ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: Why M4a and not mp4?
Google would be your friend here. M4A and MP4 have the same container format. The M4A extension is just a naming convention for audio-only files, a convention to which get_iplayer adheres. For whatever reasons, some players won't recognise the M4A extension, so rename. Personally I always use the aactomp3 flag in get_iplayer to transcode the AAC file as MP3 for a radio programme. No problem playing in anything that way. Chris Yikes, enjoy that double-compressed sound? ;-) It's so ... squishy. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
Some interesting comments all, thanks. The reason I put --pid at the end of my string is partially to stop me from forgetting to change it ;-) And I only ever use get_iplayer to grab stuff for which I've already found the PID for, I always found its PVR features a little cumbersome for what I wanted. My explicit SWFVfy declaration was after the default player URL was removed by the BBC so rtmpdump was having problems with dropped frames and corrupt downloads, particularly on the HD content. I was under the impression get_iplayer still transcoded to MP3? I'm using 2.79 on Windows; I remember a lot of discussion a while back about the quality of the downloads and people asking how to stop it from transcoding. I left it as-is because I remember a few things being broken in updates pushed out - but if newer versions have those bugs squished and have a newer build of ffmpeg rolled in, I'll certainly give that a try. I'm a sucker for metadata. Undoubtedly YAMB is a bit long in the tooth now, I've only just got used to some of its UI quirks ;-) On 26/09/2012 19:26, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 26/09/2012 18:19, Christopher Woods (CM) wrote: Some clarification for new users - get_iplayer --raw --output G:\iplayer\raw\ --modes flashaachigh,flashaac,flashaacstd,flashaudio,flashaaclow --rtmptvopts --swfVfy http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/revisions/18269_21576_10player.swf; --rtmpradioopts --swfVfy http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/revisions/18269_21576_10player.swf; --force --get --type=liveradio --pid=pidhere The --swfvfy value is built into get_iplayer. There is no need to use it on a command line unless you know of a case where the built-in value no longer works. Also, you don't need --get if you specify --pid. Think of --pid as shortcut to download a specific programme when you already know its unique identifier. a liveradio category result for the pid you enter. My golden rule is to always have --pid or --url at the very end of the string. Specifying the 10player URL stopped frame drops in videos when rtmpdump couldn't swfvfy properly. There is no need to put --url or --pid at the end of your command line. get_iplayer's argument parsing is not sensitive to entry order. Using --raw obviates the transcoding (yeurgh). use FLVExtract to rip out AAC from the FLVs and then use YAMB (or MP4Box if you're not lazy like me) to remux as an M4A and get it seekable. For videos, I just leave as FLV as MPC can parse and decode them fine natively; when I remuxed as MP4 I had frame drift for whatever reason... and at that point I was happy enough anyway with the H.264 FLVs. :-) To echo Señor Guano: get_iplayer does not transcode. You only need to re-mux files yourself if you wish to use a different tool or different parameters. If you prefer to use --raw and stick with FLV files, that's fine. But if you prefer to re-mux files to MP4 format and get metadata tags, etc., the combination of get_iplayer and ffmpeg works pretty well. If you're using YAMB and consistently seeing drift in re-muxed video, get an up-to-date version of ffmpeg and let get_iplayer re-mux a few programmes and then compare the results. No guarantee it will be better, but ffmpeg (as well as MP4Box) has come along a bit since YAMB was released a few years ago. ___ 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: Yahoo! Groups: Welcome to WebSurfing. Visit today!
This keeps on bloody happening. If it's not PayPal spam it's the whole list being signed up to Yahoogroups, what's going on?! List admin, what's the craic? ;-) Chris On 21/07/2012 21:06, Derek J. Balling wrote: This seems to me like a big mistake, no? Like we've just signed up the mailing list to be a member of some spamming list? D On Jul 21, 2012, at 10:48 PM, WebSurfing Moderator wrote: Hello, Welcome to the WebSurfing group at Yahoo! Groups. Please place the name of your group in the subject line. Include the mainpage URL of your group in the body of the e-mail, so that others may easily click on it to get there. (Including the 'subscribe by e-mail info. is also fine, but it is optional.) To learn more about the WebSurfing group, and for the complete explanation of how we do things, please see our mainpage list description: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WebSurfing To start sending messages: websurf...@yahoogroups.com To see and modify all of your groups, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups My college degrees and employment background are in broadcasting and advertising. I love working in this area, so if you need any help with your ads, please let me know. Good luck with your advertising! Cami WebSurfing listowner Complete your Yahoo! Groups account: -- Your email address has been added to the email list of a Yahoo! Group. To gain access to all of your group's web features (previous messages, photos, files, calendar, etc.) and easier control of your message delivery options, we highly recommend that you complete your account by connecting your email address to Yahoo account. It is easy and free. Please visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/convacct?email=get_iplayer%40lists.infradead.orglist=WebSurfing Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ___ 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 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
Re: BBC iPlayer introduces Live Restart capability
This is a very interesting topic, particularly as I've noted that the Beeb's been running a (non-advertised) 720p BBC HD stream using chunked H.264 for a while. Quality's pretty darned decent, I'd watch it if I didn't have a Sky+HD box. I can't imagine they'd rip and replace their entire infrastructure for on-demand, particularly with all the embedded devices they support... If anything this means more complexity - chunked HTTP for PC and Mac with the latest versions of Flash, progressive streaming for everything else. On 20/06/2012 13:51, Shevek wrote: Is this going to kill of get_iplayer? http://connecteddigitalworld.com/2012/06/19/bbc-iplayer-introduces-live-restart-capability/ Or is it only for live TV? Will they switch from RTMP to chunked streaming for non live? As we can keep all the video chunks as we distribute them, we can offer them to be viewed again later, or even store them more permanently. ___ 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: iPad3
I imagine there isn't and won't be for a while. Apple's policies on what apps can do and what they can access is remarkably restrictive. AIUI they only permit Objective-C - no scripting in languages Perl - and not only that, to easily achieve what get_iplayer does would require additional installation of static dependencies which Apple is always against. (Never mind the device probably needing to also be rooted!) On 05/06/2012 19:52, Rog wrote: Is there an app for the ipad3? Rog ___ 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: Editing those m4a files.
Awesome news! About to download it, here's hoping I can edit losslessly... I've been so fed up booting into OSX at work just to use Fission. On 03/06/2012 20:45, bat guano wrote: mp3DirectCut-v2.16 now has aac support. :-) Works with Windows or Linux with WINE. First need to extract the aac. Then edit and save with mp3DirectCut. And mux the aac back into m4a. ___ 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
