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

[Michael Pavling]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 10:19, CJB  wrote:
>
> Massive storage required for this 
>
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6566501/BBC-wants-shows-available-iPlayer-12-months-bid-compete-rivals.html

Whereas for me, the storage requirements would probably go away. I'm
downloading less and less these days - used to PVR loads of CBBC, and
put it on Kodi for my daughter to watch at convenience. But now she
mostly streams from iPlayer Kids. If she wasn't limited to 30 days, I
could see the majority of my get-iplayer downloads disappearing.

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Re: [ANN] get_iplayer v3.00 released

[Michael Pavling]

On 30 April 2017 at 20:06, SquarePenguin  wrote:
> Release notes:
>
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release300
>

Another huge thanks from me for keeping this app alive. Awesome work.

And a heads-up - if you run your pvr downloads from a script with a
profile directory specified, specify the same option when you run the
cache-init (that one foxed me for a while ;-)

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Re: Offtopic noise: Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a...

[Michael Pavling]

On many occasions, C E Macfarlane  wrote:
> Please see below ...
>
> www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html



A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?


Please don't feed the trolls.

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Re: Clangers missing

[Michael Pavling]

On 11 August 2015 at 08:43, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 10 August 2015 at 22:19, Ivor Williams ivorjwilli...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
 I run Linux and use a graphical interface for GiP called giPlayer and I can
 see all 26 episodes of the Clangers. It's a doddle to use too.

 I wonder what gip command it uses to fetch all the episodes.  I have
 not found it yet.

I had a rummage on the CBBC page for the clangers, and copied all the
PIDs for the programmes that weren't available for download
(yesterday), and just popped them all into a PID download.

`get_iplayer --pid
b05zh5dp,b05zh7qb,b062smll,b05zh8rc,b062w8pr,b060kvj1,b060kszr,b060kxr5,b062wbq5,b060kyy4,b062wcr7,b05zhbq2,b06163tw,b0616h31,b0616k06,b061v2k9,b05zhc7b,b0616yp7,b0616y8m`

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Re: Is this the Beginning of The End for get_iplayer?

[Michael Pavling]

On 2 June 2015 at 19:21, artisticforge . artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello

 This would appear to be a show stopper.

The show is running perfectly here - yesterday with the workarounds to
the options (and tweak to the $conn), today with 2.93


 Is this the Beginning of The End for get_iplayer?

The Beginning of the end for get_iplayer was when it was first
released. It's always played to the letter of the law, rather than the
BBC's intention for the spirit. This is just one more hurdle. Not
necessarily any more likely to be The End any sooner.

Thanks to Dinky Pumpkin, et al.

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Strictly causing grief again

[Michael Pavling]

Hi,

I noticed a missing episode of Strictly from last week's PVR runs, so
before I entail any wrath of the TV-watching household, I just tried
to download it manually.

I first got this error by running via PID:

```
➜  ~  get_iplayer --pid b04t73z8 --get
get_iplayer v2.90, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.

INFO: Episode-only pid detected
INFO: Trying pid: b04t73z8 using type: tv
INFO: Trying to stream pid using type tv
INFO: pid not found in tv cache
Matches:

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: No specified modes
(flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal,flashlow) available
for this programme with version 'default' (try using
--modes=flashaacstd,rtspaacstd)
ERROR: Failed to record ' -  (b04t73z8)'
```

So I tried the workaround from a couple of weeks ago and set
`--versions default2` - but that told me that the only version
available is default.

Lastly, I tried the recommendation in the error, and set the mode, but
that fails differently.


```
➜  ~  get_iplayer --pid b04t73z8 --get --versions default
--modes=flashaacstd,flashaaclow
get_iplayer v2.90, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.

INFO: Episode-only pid detected
INFO: Trying pid: b04t73z8 using type: tv
INFO: Trying to stream pid using type tv
INFO: pid not found in tv cache
Matches:

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: flashaacstd1 modes will be tried for version default
INFO: Trying flashaacstd1 mode to record tv:  -
INFO: File name prefix =
Strictly_Come_Dancing_Series_12_-_Week_9_b04t73z8_default
RTMPDump v2.4
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration  9.76
INFO:   moovPosition  36.00
INFO:   audiocodecid  mp4a
INFO:   aacaot2.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate   48000.00
INFO:   audiochannels 2.00
INFO: tags:
INFO:   ©too Lavf55.33.100
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length468359.00
INFO:   timescale 48000.00
INFO:   language  und
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletypemp4a
160.632 kB / 9.75 sec (99.9%)
Download complete
WARNING: Failed to stream file
/home/michael/Strictly_Come_Dancing_Series_12_-_Week_9_b04t73z8_default.partial.m4a.flv
via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashaacstd1 mode
ERROR: Failed to record 'Strictly Come Dancing: Series 12 - Week 9 (b04t73z8)'
```

Any thoughts? I just reinstalled rtmp and ffmpeg (on Ubuntu 14.10) but
no difference. Any alternative options I might try, or elsewhere I
might get this episode?

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Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Michael Pavling]

On 31 October 2014 21:21, Rob Dixon rob.di...@gmx.com wrote:

 Scrape the BBC web site directly for the information that used to come
 from the RSS feeds. Apart from being a very clumsy approach, this is
 almost certainly against the terms of service for the web site.



Nevertheless, as a stop-gap (so my daughter doesn't freak out at missing
episodes of '64 Zoo Lane') I've written a (very rough) Ruby script which
runs through my PVR files, pulls out the search term, and scrapes the
iplayer site for matching episodes' PIDs.

These get pumped into a system call to download the episode by PID.

A hideous process... I'm doing hundreds of calls to the iplayer website,
and the filtering functionality is much reduced from what GiP gives/gave (I
can't specify by channel - yet -  for instance).

Also, it's only working for TV, since the Radio channels' interface for
iplayer is totally different (and more obfuscated) - so I'll nibble away at
that tonight.

I'll stick it on github later - but it *might* only work on *nix - I'll
leave a Windows user to see if they can get it working for them.


PS Sorry, to Rob Dixon for multiple copies of this email - it seems I can't
work a mailing list :-/

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