RE: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

[Steve Rochford]

You shouldn't need to make any changes to the path. The batch file 
get_iplayer.cmd works out the folder it's being run from, and then temporarily 
changes PATH to include perl\bin and utils\bin underneath that folder. Can you 
check that your batch file looks like this:

@echo off
setlocal
set GIP_INST=%~dp0
if #%GIP_INST:~-1%# == #\# set GIP_INST=%GIP_INST:~0,-1%
if "%GIP_PATH%" == "" set 
GIP_PATH=%GIP_INST%\perl\bin;%GIP_INST%\utils\bin;%PATH%
if not "%GIP_PATH%" == "" set PATH=%GIP_PATH%
perl.exe "%GIP_INST%\get_iplayer.pl" %*

to check that it's working, add:

echo %path%
pause

immediately before the perl.exe line and run it - it should show you the value 
of PATH, wait for you to press a key and then run. One possible problem is that 
your existing PATH is too long, but I doubt that's the issue - by adding the 
GIP folders to the start of the existing path you might break other apps (but 
only while GIP is running).

Your version of ffmpeg is way out of date - I can understand that you might get 
the errors while it's running saying the version is too old, but I don't think 
that it would give the "no such file" error that you're seeing. There's a 
current version of ffmpeg for Windows here - 
https://www.videohelp.com/software/ffmpeg You need to download 
https://www.videohelp.com/download/ffmpeg-5.0.1-full_build.7z, unpack it with 
7-Zip and copy the ffmpeg.exe file from the bin folder to the utils\bin folder 
under get_iplayer.

Good luck!

Steve


-Original Message-
From: get_iplayer  On Behalf Of 
Jonathan Bryden
Sent: 06 June 2022 12:29
To: m...@john-eason.co.uk
Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

Update - I tried uninstalling, restarting and re-installing (the 64 bit version 
this time) and I am still getting the same error message (though with the path 
changed from Program Files (x86) to Program Files) so now I am completely at a 
loss.

INFO: Converting to M4A
open3: IO::Pipe: Can't spawn-NOWAIT: No such file or directory at C:\Program 
Files\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl line 2120.

Help anyone???

-Original Message-
From: get_iplayer  On Behalf Of J 
K.Eason
Sent: 06 June 2022 11:44
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

> *From:* Chris Walker 
> *To:* get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
> *Date:* Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:17:40 +0100
> 
> On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 10:00 +, Jonathan Bryden wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Thanks so much for all your ideas - unfortunately no success so far.
> > 
> > The same message appear for both TV and radio and both download a 
> > .TS file before stopping.
> [snip]
> 
> > This is a mystery to me - any further ideas would be most welcome...
> 
> How about adding the location of ffmpeg to your options file?
> 
> Take a look here -
> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgith
> ub.com%2Fget-iplayer%2Fget_iplayer%2Fwiki%2Foptions%23external-pro
> ;data=05%7C01%7C%7Cf0dbf5ac4e1a43ed627b08da47afdb55%7C84df9e7fe9f640af
> b435%7C1%7C0%7C637901117858154489%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8
> eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3
> 000%7C%7C%7Csdata=4XwTA8OV%2F5fP7Iw9Uj5ppK53fj6Uxx6SvBGnPpPLyFg%3
> Dreserved=0
> gram-options for how to add it.
> 
> I don't use Windows for GiP so I can't offer any suggestions about how 
> you would keep ffmpeg updated but doubtless there are others on here 
> who can advise on that.

It should be updated automatically every time you install a new version of GIP.

--
Regards
   John

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Re: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a

[Steve Rochford]

That line in the Perl script is part of the run_cmd function which calls all 
the external programs. I think that it will be calling ffmpeg to carry out the 
audio conversion and if that's missing then the conversion will fail.

I don't understand most of the Perl script (there's a reason it's sometimes 
called a "write-only" language) but I think that one of the first thing that 
happens in get_iplayer is a check for ffmpeg so I'm not sure how this is 
succeeding if ffmpeg is missing.

On my install, there's a folder C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\utils\bin which 
contains ffmpeg.exe - do you have a similar folder?

Steve


From: get_iplayer  on behalf of 
Jonathan Bryden 
Sent: 05 June 2022 16:03
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org 
Subject: Get_iplayer no longer converts to m4a 
 
Hi everyone,

Much to my surprise this morning I had the following error message after 
downloading a radio show using get_iplayer:

INFO: Converting to M4A
open3: IO::Pipe: Can't spawn-NOWAIT: No such file or directory at C:\Program 
Files (x86)\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl line 2120.

This is not a message I have seen before. Having tried restarting without 
success I upgraded to the latest version (3.30) but I still get the same 
problem.

A little internet research has suggested the issue may be related to the PATH 
in the system environment variables though I am not aware of any changes made 
since yesterday.

I have compared the machine to another and there seems to be no difference in 
the portion of the PATH that points to get_iplayer (i.e. ...C:\Program Files 
(x86)\get_iplayer)

The PC is running 64bit Windows 7.

I would appreciate any suggestions and am happy to supply any other information 
if required.

Many thanks

Jonathan

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Re: Failing to download msg

[Steve Dodd]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 22:59, James Scholes  wrote:

> All that being said, there appears to be something blocking GiP from 
> accessing Bidi.  Maybe it needs authentication now, maybe it's just broken.  
> Who knows.  Either way, blocking Bidi requests should never lessen the 
> effectiveness of GiP, because it has two other suppliers to choose from.  
> Bidi is a relatively new effort from the BBC, and before it came along, GiP 
> only had access to two and there was never a problem.

It might be worth keeping an eye on changes to the iPlayer Kodi
plugin, which seems to still be being maintained:

https://github.com/vonH/plugin.video.iplayerwww/

(To answer OP - yes, I am seeing more and more "blocked" messages recently.)

S.


On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 22:59, James Scholes  wrote:
>
> Also, just to add: the BBC hosts content across three content delivery 
> networks (CDNs).  One in-house (Bidi) and two third party (Akamai and 
> Limelight).  This creates redundancy and a geographical spread.  Even though 
> Bidi is the BBC's own offering, and used exclusively for UK-based users, they 
> wouldn't want to rely on it alone.  So the other two, Akamai and Limelight, 
> also host content for UK viewers.
>
> The ability to exclude (or only include) certain suppliers within GiP 
> downloads was, I believe, introduced to permit the fastest possible 
> downloads.  If users find that they're downloads from, say, Limelight are far 
> slower than those from akamai or Bidi, they can block them.  By default, GiP 
> will do something to determine one to use from all three, although I'm not 
> sure what.  It could be random, it could be based on the order returned by 
> the BBC's media selector service, or there may be a specific priority list.
>
> All that being said, there appears to be something blocking GiP from 
> accessing Bidi.  Maybe it needs authentication now, maybe it's just broken.  
> Who knows.  Either way, blocking Bidi requests should never lessen the 
> effectiveness of GiP, because it has two other suppliers to choose from.  
> Bidi is a relatively new effort from the BBC, and before it came along, GiP 
> only had access to two and there was never a problem.
>
> Note: this is all supposition; I don't work and have never worked for the 
> BBC, nor have I ever actively contributed to GiP's code.
>
> Regards,
>
> James Scholes
>
> On 26/04/2021 at 3:58 pm, George Muter wrote:
> > I've just tried this out on a couple of Fawlty Towers episodes currently
> > available. The first with the exclude-supplier bidi command and the second
> > without it. What surprised me was that the first, which did exclude the 403
> > errors, downloaded at 170mb/s whilst the second without the bidi command
> > downloaded at 25 mb/s for the same quality video. I'm just a simple user but
> > am I right in assuming that bidi refers to bi-directional? In which case is
> > something being lost in the download - reliability??
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > George Muter
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: get_iplayer  On Behalf Of
> > James Scholes
> > Sent: 26 April 2021 20:12
> > To: get_iplayer-request 
> > Subject: Re: Failing to download msg
> >
> > The message explicitly says to ignore it if the program is downloaded
> > successfully.  If for some reason you are closely monitoring the output of
> > GiP and it's getting in the way, you can exclude the CDN that is generating
> > the errors:
> >
> > get_iplayer --exclude-supplier bidi ...
> >
> > ... which doesn't prompt the error in my very basic testing.  You can also
> > add that to your preferences or presets, although the syntax for doing that
> > easily escapes me at the moment.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > James Scholes
> >
> > On 26/04/2021 at 1:15 pm, Chris Brady wrote:
> >> Yes - I get these all of the time. CJB
> >>
> >> On 26/04/2021, fred.d  wrote:
> >>> I've noticed an increase over the past few months in getting the
> >>> failed to download messages see sample after this message, which is
> >>> the last error then success.
> >>>
> >>> Initially before Christmas it was every so often. Jan and Feb it
> >>> moved to repeat once or twice on most of the downloads with a few not
> >>> an issue but all download OK. In the last couple of months it's been
> >>> every file fail message twice then downloads OK. Today I had a couple
> >>> with 5 fails then downloads OK.
> >>>
> >>> I appreciate that the program says ignore the message if it downloads
> >>> and my downloads are successful...
> >>>
> >>> However I was wondering if anyone else is getting the same level of
> >>> response as I am and if so, does anyone actually know why the
> >>> frequency might be increasing.
> >>>
> >>> Asking partly because I just like to know these sorts of things but
> >>> also partly because if it's something to do with my setup I'd like to
> >>> get it back to "normal".
> >>>
> >>> I haven't changed the config options for about 2 years so I'm
> >>> presuming it's more likely changes at the remote 

Re: Why no Formula E?

[Steve Wilson]

I suspect I caused a bit of confusion, perhaps I should have altered the 
subject to reflect the trangression from the original question.


Don's response mentioned using the series pid and recursive option to 
follow a series, as I've a simple search for "click" it could be prone 
to picking up anything with click in the title so was interested in 
switching my pvr configs over.
I also had "the repair shop" in my pvr and discovered the fixing britain 
series due to it matching, this was probably a good thing as they were 
also interesting to watch even if a lot of the content was the same it 
added some general history but that's going off topic ;)


Steve

On 26/04/2021 17:50, George Eycott wrote:

Ah fair enough, I was just a bit thrown as to why you would need/want to
exclude a load of channels when you have specified a PID, but it sounds like
they are probably the defaults for your web PVR and get_iplayer has copied
them to the pvr file.


-Original Message-
From: get_iplayer  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 in the cache, no
problem. The original question (from Steve Wilson) is about picking up
programmes that are not in the cache, but available on iPlayer, such as

"box

sets" and those broadcast through the "red button" or the iPlayer itself,

like

the Formula E races.

Admittedly in my example only two or three of the lines are essential -

pid,

pidrecursive, and output (if you don't want all downloads going to the

same

folder).

The others are put there by the "web interface" as they are my default
options.

I hope that's clear.

Don

- Original Message -
From: George Eycott 
To: 
Sent: 26/04/2021 09:10:21
Subject: RE: Why no Formula E?
__
__

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 for "The Repair Shop":



==

==
excludecategory children,primary
excludechannel
alba,cymru,news,s4c,cbbc,cbeebies,parliament,bbcthree,northern
ireland,wales pid b08l581p modes best output V:\BBC iPlayer
Recordings\The Repair Shop subtitles 1 thumb 0 type tv versionlist
default pidrecursive 1


==

==

Obviously some of your settings will differ. I also use a .txt suffix
on

all my pvr

files as it makes them easier to edit.

ATB

Don

- Original Message -
From: Steve Wilson 
To: 
Sent: 25/04/2021 22:20:06
Subject: Re: Why no Formula E?


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On 25/04/2021 13:47, Don Grunbaum wrote:

I believe that only programmes that are broadcast through the

"regular"

channels appear in the GiP cache.

To pick up others such as these and "box sets" you should use the
series

pid and the recursive option.

HTH

Don

...

Would this be more reliable for other series too? For example having
"search0 Click" for pvr can match other things too so I've other
options

and

excludes.

Do you have an example or link I can use to configure pvr to do this?

Steve.


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Re: Why no Formula E?

[Steve Wilson]

On 25/04/2021 13:47, Don Grunbaum wrote:

I believe that only programmes that are broadcast through the "regular" 
channels appear in the GiP cache.

To pick up others such as these and "box sets" you should use the series pid 
and the recursive option.

HTH

Don


...

Would this be more reliable for other series too? For example having 
"search0 Click" for pvr can match other things too so I've other options 
and excludes.


Do you have an example or link I can use to configure pvr to do this?

Steve.


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RE: Failing to download iPlayer file

[Steve Rochford]

I think that you've missed out the "--" in front of pid (it looks like you've 
got a single -)

get-iplayer --pid=p099f5jp --modes=hvfxsd1 tvmode good --type=tv

What's weird is that you don't get an error but you get the info on 2 
completely unrelated programmes!

-Original Message-
From: get_iplayer  On Behalf Of 
Michael Eacott
Sent: 20 April 2021 18:32
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Failing to download iPlayer file

My apologies for not using my registered read only email address of 
xmich...@eacott.org.uk that I cannot send from and also not changing my email 
client Thunderbird default from html format to plain text.

I wanted to download this video
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p099f5jp/greta-thunberg-a-year-to-change-the-world-series-1-episode-2
I used this command get-iplayer -pid=p099f5jp --modes=hvfxsd1 tvmode good 
--type=tv

Here's the Terminal window

get-iplayer -pid=p099f5jp --modes=hvfxsd1 tvmode good --type=tv get_iplayer 
v3.27, 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.

Matches:
6696:    Spooks: The Greater Good - -, BBC One, b06dngb6
7282:    The Good Dinosaur - -, BBC One, b07h1m7d
INFO: 2 matching programmes

So what may I be doing wrong please?


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Re: get_iplayer Remux: Programme "already in history" error

[Steve Wilson]

On 03/01/2021 22:26, Xander Squier wrote:

Hello 1,
We are trying to remux a raw recording using the Windows command:-

/get_iplayer --pid=b08bzzns --command-tv="ffmpeg -i \"""\"
-c:v copy -c:a copy -y \""\".mkv\""/
This returns a programme "already in history" error necessitating the
--force option. The trouble is that using this results in a redownload
of the recording which is what we are trying to avoid.
Please help up see what we are missing - thanks.


If you've still got the original file you probably just want to run just 
the ffmpeg command to convert it. If you don't then the --force may well 
be the only option.


You may need to use get_iplayer --info ... to establish what the , 
 and  are in your case.


Steve.


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Re: Repair Shop S05E23

[Steve Wilson]

If you're not already aware, this episode aired tonight and the one that 
was dropped last week (ep38) should air tomorrow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000h3nb/the-repair-shop-series-5-episode-23

Steve.

On 16/09/2020 20:22, Chris Brady wrote:

Well - a response from the Beeb!!! It seems that the episode really
did not get aired. However it might also pop-up on Netflix. There's a
load of eps on MVGroup.org and Torrenting.com. There's quite a
discussion on the various Facebook groups about no. 23!! Thanks for
your info. CJB

On 16/09/2020, Chris Walker  wrote:

On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 11:28 +0100, Chris Brady wrote:

I complained to the Beeb but received no response. No-one has the
episode. I even emailed Ricochet - but again no response. Chris B. .

On 15/09/2020, Jimmy Aitken  wrote:

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 9:44 PM Colin Law  wrote:

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 21:36, Chris Brady 
wrote:

Hi - did anyone get S05E23 on Wednesday. Its airing on BBC 1
London was cancelled. But it might have gone out on HD or BBC

I *did* receive a reply. It said (parts quoted, not the whole thing)
"Thanks very much for taking the time to contact us regarding a recent
episode of The Repair Shop which sadly ended up not being aired due to
an impromptu Coronva Virus update from the Government. [snip] I have
had a look into his but sadly at this moment in time the decision has
yet to be made as to when exactly episode 23 will be shown. This is
not to say it has been dropped and I assure you our scheduling team
are working hard to try and fit it into our schedules, but these
things can be tricky a times,"

They suggest that you keep checking but if you have a pvr script for
Repair Shop, wouldn't that grab any unseen episodes? Or set one for
that specific episode which the Beeb helpfully quote as :-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h3nb

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Re: Get_iplayer with Podcasts

[Steve]

And whats the parent PID?
The first episode? or the main page?
I tried both to no avail..
Stev
e
On 03/12/2019 18:52, James Scholes wrote:

Use the parent PID with --pid-recursive:

get_iplayer --pid-recursive --pid=p06spb8w --type=radio

Regards,

James Scholes

On 03/12/2019 at 12:36 pm, Steve wrote:

Hi guys,

Just got 3.23 and all's back to normal, Im trying to automate the new 
h p lovecraft drama on radio 4 - whisperer in darkness, I can 
download by pid, but searching for lovecraft or whisperer brings up 
nothing, after researching it seems the mode=podcast has been 
removed. Is there any way I can automate this?

Cheers
Steve

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Get_iplayer with Podcasts

[Steve]

Hi guys,

Just got 3.23 and all's back to normal, Im trying to automate the new h 
p lovecraft drama on radio 4 - whisperer in darkness, I can download by 
pid, but searching for lovecraft or whisperer brings up nothing, after 
researching it seems the mode=podcast has been removed. Is there any way 
I can automate this?

Cheers
Steve

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Re: "Canal Boat Diaries" problem?

[Steve Dodd]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 21:22, Steve Dodd  wrote:

> Anyone else see weird problems with "Canal Boat Diaries",
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000bks0/canal-boat-diaries ?
>
> Episodes 1-4 have only downloaded in SD, and I'm seeing all sorts of
> errors like: [..]

Don't think this post ever made it to the list, but have just upgraded
to 3.23 which has got rid of the errors, and it seems there are
"default" and "editorial" versions of this programme, with only the
latter having HD versions available for some reason ..

S.

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Iplayer login

[Steve]

Hi guys,

I'm a bit concerned as I'm getting a request to log in to the bbc 
iPlayer radio pages to play audio, will this ever impact on get-iplayer 
and require a login to download?


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Re: get_iplayer 3.15 released

[Steve]

It displays V3.16 when running?

Steve

On 05/07/18 06:58, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
Release notes: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplay...release315 
<https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release310to319#release315>


macOS: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplay...tag/3.15.0 
<https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer_win32/releases/tag/3.15.0>


Windows: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplay...tag/3.15.0 
<https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer_macos/releases/tag/3.15.0>


Source: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplay.../tag/v3.15 
<https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/releases/tag/v3.15>


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Re: no more hslv format ?

[Steve Dodd]

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 12:24 AM, RS  wrote:

> I think it was Nick Payne who said he had experimented with re-encoding in 
> HEVC (H.265) and found that the file size was the same for 25fps as it was 
> for 50fps, which led him to conclude that frames were being duplicated to 
> achieve 50fps.

Is it possible it depends on the source material? From the BBC quote
earlier it sounds like their "source" material is still mostly HD
interlaced, but perhaps some of their sources are all also
progressive, and those ones get doubled identical frames (which might
be a logical result of feeding 25p material into something that's
designed to interpolate interlaced fields into frames)?

S.

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Re: Using ffmpeg to halve frame rate

[Steve Dodd]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 9:59 PM, Nick Payne  wrote:

> I experimented a while ago with running some GiP downloads through
> Handbrake to convert the video to the x265 codec. That reduced the file
> size to about 1/3 of the original download, with no subjective
> difference in video quality that I could see when viewing on our TV.

Figures - most of the comparison work done on H.265 v. H.264 says you
should get same subjective quality for half the bitrate.

> A one hour 1280x720 25fps program that downloads as a 1Gb file was reduced
> in size to ~350Mb. On my PC, the re-encode runs at about 50fps for
> 1280x720, so ~2x real time for 25fps and ~real time for 50fps. For
> smaller video dimension such as 960x540, the re-encode speed was around
> 85-90FPS.

Do you know what x265 quality setting you used? I'm also experimenting
now it seems HLSHD is being turned off (series 2 of Salamander has HVF
only so far).. RF17 seems to be spitting about half the bitrate of the
BBC h.264 output, and running at ~40fps which I can live with (Core
i5-6500). Noticeable quality difference still when looking at stills,
but have tried watching it moving yet..

Incidentally, has anyone else noticed HE-AAC coming through in the
downloads recently?

S.

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Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

[Steve Dodd]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:50 PM, RS  wrote:

> My initial reaction was that it was too early to worry about this.  When we
> had problems with Segment not found errors in HLS, that was at a holiday
> time and many programmes were corrected within a week of broadcast.
> Worryingly the number of programmes with no HLS modes is increasing.  Even
> more ominous is that Flash modes also seem to be being withdrawn.

And now Come Home episode 3 seems to have no HLS version :(

I am looking at transcoding to HEVC here to save the lost disk space.
Will have to wait and see if quality is acceptable..

S.

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Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

[Steve Dodd]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:39 PM, CJB  wrote:

> Not sure about loudness of narrators, what I find extremely irritating
> - to the point of switching to another channel - is the overly-LOUD
> dramatic music. This is so loud that the narrator cannot be heard, and
> I then have to switch to using subtitles.

God yes, I have only very mild hearing loss, but I do have
hyperacusis, and (a) cannot tolerate the volume of the music, and (b)
cannot make out the speech.

They tell me that "object-based media" may one day solve this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/object-based-media

Don't ask me why it couldn't have been built in to the DVB specs 20
years ago, at a coarse level all that would be required is to send
speech separately from other sound, and have the receiver mix it.

> And even Attenborough's
> narration is not faultless - often his diction fades almost to silence
> but then perks up later. This variability in sound levels is not due
> to his unprofessionalism per se but sloppy sound engineering and
> editing. CJB

To be fair, he's 91, and his voice is weaker than it was a decade or
two ago. Still would rather listen to him than mumbling
twenty-something actors (never thought I'd start moaning about that
before I hit 40!)

S.

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Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

[Steve Dodd]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 6:34 PM, MacFH - C E Macfarlane
 wrote:

> Yes, I can see that that might be so, but I don't think it alters the thrust
> of my argument, does it?  Wouldn't 1080p25 still be better to watch than
> 720p50?

Brains are weird things, could easily depend on viewing device (as I
think earlier linked article mentioned.) For some reason motion blur
seems to be _more_ noticeable with higher res content (there's a
technical name for the effect which escapes me), so it may well not be
clear cut.

S.

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RE: A few ffmpeg queries

[Rochford, Steve]

>> Lifelong learning! Great fun!

 > Yes... I don't know whether your mailer/browser supports Ancient Greek 
 > characters, but

> γηράσκω δ' αἰεὶ πολλά διδασκόμενος =>

Less elegant than the Greek, but I have always felt that a day in which I  
learn something new is a day which hasn’t  been wasted!

Steve
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Re: BBC Licensing Expose

[Steve B]

On 27/02/2017 12:34, David Woodhouse wrote:

On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 12:08 +, Tony Quinn wrote:

has content which should be discussed.


It is off-topic for this list, and even if it wasn't, it's not
appropriate to post links to that site.

Find it in credible news media or don't link to it at all.



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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/27/bbc-orders-urgent-investigation-behaviour-tv-licence-fee-collectors/ 




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Re: Preparing for latest update - modes questions.

[Steve]

On 06/02/17 18:52, CJB wrote:

All of these changes in terminology are confusing the hell out of me
and I am a computer professional.  Been into computers from the start
and certainly before the Internet.

Yeah, me too, 25 years in IT, bring back OS2!

Steve

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RE: [OT] Crystal Palace transmitter problems?

[Rochford, Steve]

The checker here https://www.radioandtvhelp.co.uk/ says that Crystal Palace is 
OK but I'm not sure where it gets its information.

Steve

-Original Message-
From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of 
David Cantrell
Sent: 03 January 2017 14:48
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [OT] Crystal Palace transmitter problems?

Does anyone know if there are problems with the Crystal Palace transmitter at 
the moment? I can't receive any of BBC 1/2/4, and haven't been able to for a 
coupla days now. The ITV channels seem to be OK (apart from the content, of 
course, which is all terrible :-) so if there is a problem it looks like it's 
just the BBC's multiplex that's affected.

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Re: Failed recordings

[Steve]

Try remming out your radio mode in the options file, its working for me now.


On 20/12/16 19:38, Shakib Otaqui wrote:
All attempts to record radio or TV using the most recent versions of 
get_iplayer.pl have failed.  Reverting to the version released on 15 
December solves the problem.  I'm running the CGI version in Firefox 
Portable x64 50.1, under Win7 Pro x64.  A sample error message, 
wrapped by my mailer:


INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of original version
INFO: 
dashmed1,dashmed2,dashmed3,dashmed4,hafmed1,hafmed2,dashlow1,dashlow2,dashlow3,dashlow4,haflow1,haflow2,hlsaaclow1 
modes will be tried for version original
INFO: Trying dashmed1 mode to record radio: I'm Sorry I Haven't A 
Clue: Series 66 - 6. Episode 6
INFO: File name prefix = 
Im_Sorry_I_Havent_A_Clue_Series_66_-_6._Episode_6_b08578tr_original
Unterminated \g... pattern in regex; marked by <-- HERE in 
m/C:\Program Files (x86)\g <-- HERE et_iplayer\iPlayer 
Recordings\Im_Sorry_I_Havent_A_Clue_Series_66_-_6._Episode_6_b08578tr_original_dashmed_0_0.resume.txt/ 
at C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl line 8238.



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RE: TV Cache missing some days

[Rochford, Steve]

> It's many years since I did any programming, I'm more at home in an 
> engineering environment so wading through lines and lines of code doesn't 
> come easily.  But having said that, I recently came across an issue where GIP 
> was asking me if I wanted to delete some programmes as 
> they'd been downloaded 28 (or is it 30) days ago - I was delighted to find 
> the subroutine that covered this and to "rem" it out! ;-)

I think I can help here - you don't need to comment out the code, you can just 
add a line to your options file (in Linux it's ~/.get_iplayer/options)

nopurge 1

that way when you next upgrade it won't change the behaviour.

Steve

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Re: Another BBC News Clip

[Steve]

you cant, looks like they're Flowplayer, I couldnt Flashgot them in 
Firefox either.


Steve

On 05/02/16 15:02, CJB wrote:

OK - guys. Please how can I download these clips:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35492517

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35427447

Thanks - Chris B.

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Re: now for something completely different

[Steve]

Concerning radio programs on SD cards.
The last time I was in the Hospital my adult children would bring me
the radio dramas that I had been listening to on an
SD card so that I may listen to them at my leisure. The average life
of the PNY 4GB SD card was less than 2 weeks.

Went Read only.

a PNY 8GB USB Drive lasted 6 weeks.
it just went dark. a mini brick.

SD card belong in cameras or cellular telephones.


I am not trying to say that using an SD card would be appropriate for
all users, but it depends on the use pattern.  Perhaps it also depends
on the quality of the cards or the quality of the kit it is being used
in.

I've had a few PNY sd's in my Openelec, and they all died within weeks, 
switched to Sandisk, no problems whatever, faster too!


Steve


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Re: What is the source of files downloaded by GiP?

[Steve Anderson]

On 4 January 2016 at 14:42, David Cantrell  wrote:

> My understanding is that they don't normally capture "off air", but from
> the broadcast stream so it's the same as off air but without drop-outs
> caused by birds nesting on the aerial etc. And only some stuff is
> captured that way.

My friends in the Beeb have mentioned the "internal iPlayer" to me in
the past - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Redux

This is generally the source of clips that are used on HIGNFY, Mock
the Week, etc. and is "as live".

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Downloading Italian language video La mappa misteriosa

[Steve Goodall]

Can anybody tell me if it is possible to use get_iplayer to retrieve
the video from this (and similar) pages:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/lamappa/episode/1

Trying to watch the video through the web page is just about
impossible - you get a few seconds at a time and then it pauses for a
minute or several.  I realise the page is archived, which probably
explains the poor response.

I would normally download using the GiP command line, using PID, but
can't find a PID or any clues to it.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

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Re: Random stalling

[Steve]

It's possible some of the randomness is due to the server that is
'chosen' when an the download attempt is made - using
--exclude-supplier=limelight or --exclude-supplier=akamai might shed
some light on that.

On 24 June 2015 at 09:53, Jim Lesurf w...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote:
 I don't think the following is due to a flaw in gip. But it keeps happening
 so I'd like to describe it and invite any comments regarding its cause or
 what might be done.

 In general I run a small program to do a set of gip fetches each morning,
 timed to complete before the 9am 'deadline' when BT start clocking data
 against out 'cap' value. The program simply issues a sequence of command
 line fetches using gip. This lets me write a text file which lists the pids
 that my program reads and then uses these to issue the fetch commands via
 system() one by one.

 Most mornings this works fine. But sometimes it doesn't.

 The most common symptom is that a command line fetch begins, but then halts
 with the progress at  0.0%.  More rarely, it halts after the Commencing...

 A ctrl-C generally simply causes the command to shut down the process it
 had started and go on to the next fetch. This may or may not work.

 A point to make here is that the behaviour seems 'random' in the sense that
 often issuing the same command in the same with the same PID shortly
 afterward duly works fine.

 Occasionally when I ctrl-C the fetch it generates an 'error'. But again
 these seem to vary 'randomly'. i.e. the same program fetch show  this on
 one try but not on another, or may clean up with no error, or a different
 one. In the bulk of cases, a failure simply cleans up without any reported
 error.

 I'm raising this now because I initially spent about 10 mins this morning
 re-trying the same set of 5 PIDs and they kept failing. Then some worked.
 Then some which had still refused worked. Only one persisted in stalling at
 0.0%. By then 9am approached and I was doing other things anyway, so I
 stopped for the day. My guess is that if I try to fetch that program later
 today it will fetch OK.

 My *guess* is that this is some analogue of 'leaves on the line' or 'the
 wrong kind of snow' affecting my connections. I also sometimes get the
 'busy' page from the iplayer using firefox at times. Again, I suspect the
 problem is that somewhere along the pipework between me and the BBC
 servers enough other traffic is involved to disrupt things. Thus leaving
 gip waiting for a packet whist the server is waiting for a request because
 something got lost.

 If so, no idea if this is because I live north of Edinburgh, so in a
 different world to the LBH machines, or if it is a local problem, or my
 ISP.

 Again, most mornings I get no problems at all. Sometimes I get one problem
 try. This morning was a struggle. There's no pattern I've noticed.

 Comments?

 Jim

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Re: cache refresh/index feed

[Steve]

That fixed it for me - thanks!

On 2 June 2015 at 14:42, Nigel J Taylor ni...@openbsd.org wrote:
 On 06/02/15 14:14, Steve wrote:
 I'm also getting the 'Not a SCALAR reference' problem when I try:
 get_iplayer --pid=b05xgvh0
 (I've tried the various fixes for this, but nothing seems to be working )
 May be another co-incidence..

 Running --verbose with this gives me:

 INFO: pid found in cache
 Matches:
 3420:   This World - Outbreak: The Truth About Ebola, BBC Two England, , 
 default

 INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
 INFO: Programme not in history
 INFO: Programme metadata URL = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xgvh0.xml
 INFO: Getting page http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xgvh0.xml
 INFO: Getting page
 http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/pc/vpid/b05xgtjr/proto/rtmp?cb=77221
 INFO: Getting page
 http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/apple-ipad-hls/vpid/b05xgtjr/proto/rtmp?cb=21483
 INFO: Getting page
 http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/apple-ipad-hls/vpid/b05xgtjr/proto/http?cb=17294
 INFO: Getting page
 http://cp143012-i.akamaihd.net/i/iplayerstream/secure_auth/,400kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156093300,480kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156091969,800kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156093918,1500kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156092632,.mp4.csmil/master.m3u8?hdnea=st=1433250748~exp=1433272348~acl=/*400kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156093300,480kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156091969,800kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156093918,1500kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156092632*~hmac=0943deb562711ac9b6eb85abf3929ff95d9263ecdf9af589b4ea530245c23e6a
 INFO: Getting page
 http://vod-hls-uk-live.edgesuite.net/usp/auth/vod/piff_abr_full_hd/b05xgtjr/vf_b05xgtjr_8575ecae-0417-449d-89c1-6477b05b3dae.ism/mobile_wifi_main_sd_abr_v1_hls_master.m3u8?__gda__=1433272348_1174a7a45f5df0aa3bfc5780ba012ce3
 Not a SCALAR reference at /usr/bin/get_iplayer line 7099.

 On 2 June 2015 at 14:02, Ian Andrews ian.andrews1...@gmail.com wrote:
 Aside from that, I'm seeing a lot of timeouts and retries when trying to
 download *RADIO* programmes via the PVR function, which usually gives very
 few problems.

 Co-incidence, or something else has changed with a negative impact on
 get_iplayer?

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 Sthen,

 I hit same problem on OpenBSD version,


 $ get_iplayer --info The\sGame
 get_iplayer v2.92, 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.

 Matches:
 3243:   The Game - Episode 5, BBC Two England, , default
 Not a SCALAR reference at /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer line 7100.

 quick fix up...seems to work.

 $ diff -uNP /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer ~/get_iplayer
 --- /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer  Tue May 26 11:34:38 2015
 +++ /home/ntayl01/get_iplayer   Tue Jun  2 14:26:17 2015
 @@ -7097,7 +7097,7 @@
 push @streams, $last_stream;
 } elsif ($line !~ /^#EXT/) {
 if ( ! defined $last_stream ) {
 -   main::logger WARNING: Missing 
 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF for URL: $line ($$conn-{href})\n ;
 +   main::logger WARNING: Missing 
 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF for URL: $line ($conn-{href})\n ;
 return
 }
 $last_stream-{'URL'} = $line;



 $ ~/get_iplayer --info The\sGame
 get_iplayer v2.92, 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.

 Matches:
 3243:   The Game - Episode 5, BBC Two England, , default
 WARNING: Missing #EXT-X-STREAM-INF for URL: ## Created with Unified Streaming 
 Platform(version=1.7.9) 
 (http://vod-hls-uk-live.edgesuite.net/usp/auth/vod/piff_abr_full_hd/b05xctyr/vf_b05xctyr_d0317f3d-d431-4aed-aee7-64d0c8b85618.ism/mobile_wifi_main_sd_abr_v1_hls_master.m3u8?__gda__=1433273364_6a32b79c66a3b2a190aa76538ae9ea02)
 WARNING: Invalid HLS playlist, no header 
 (http://vod-hls-uk

Re: cache refresh/index feed

[Steve]

I'm also getting the 'Not a SCALAR reference' problem when I try:
get_iplayer --pid=b05xgvh0
(I've tried the various fixes for this, but nothing seems to be working )
May be another co-incidence..

Running --verbose with this gives me:

INFO: pid found in cache
Matches:
3420:   This World - Outbreak: The Truth About Ebola, BBC Two England, , default

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Programme not in history
INFO: Programme metadata URL = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xgvh0.xml
INFO: Getting page http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xgvh0.xml
INFO: Getting page
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/pc/vpid/b05xgtjr/proto/rtmp?cb=77221
INFO: Getting page
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/apple-ipad-hls/vpid/b05xgtjr/proto/rtmp?cb=21483
INFO: Getting page
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/apple-ipad-hls/vpid/b05xgtjr/proto/http?cb=17294
INFO: Getting page
http://cp143012-i.akamaihd.net/i/iplayerstream/secure_auth/,400kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156093300,480kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156091969,800kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156093918,1500kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156092632,.mp4.csmil/master.m3u8?hdnea=st=1433250748~exp=1433272348~acl=/*400kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156093300,480kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156091969,800kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156093918,1500kbps/modav/bUnknown-da69838b-85d6-4ece-8be9-d3b16048af5b_b05xgtjr_1433156092632*~hmac=0943deb562711ac9b6eb85abf3929ff95d9263ecdf9af589b4ea530245c23e6a
INFO: Getting page
http://vod-hls-uk-live.edgesuite.net/usp/auth/vod/piff_abr_full_hd/b05xgtjr/vf_b05xgtjr_8575ecae-0417-449d-89c1-6477b05b3dae.ism/mobile_wifi_main_sd_abr_v1_hls_master.m3u8?__gda__=1433272348_1174a7a45f5df0aa3bfc5780ba012ce3
Not a SCALAR reference at /usr/bin/get_iplayer line 7099.

On 2 June 2015 at 14:02, Ian Andrews ian.andrews1...@gmail.com wrote:
 Aside from that, I'm seeing a lot of timeouts and retries when trying to
 download *RADIO* programmes via the PVR function, which usually gives very
 few problems.

 Co-incidence, or something else has changed with a negative impact on
 get_iplayer?

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cache refresh/index feed

[Steve]

I'm getting lots of warning messages trying to refresh the cache - is
anyone else experiencing this, is it my connection, or has something
been changed at the BBC end?

~$ get_iplayer --refresh

get_iplayer 2.92-ppa22, 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: Getting tv Index Feeds (this may take a few minutes)

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba -

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba -

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba -

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba - /category/signed

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba - /category/signed

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba - /category/signed

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba - /category/dubbedaudio
described

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba - /category/dubbedaudio
described

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba - /category/dubbedaudio
described

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Four -

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Four -

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Four -

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Four - /category/signed

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Four - /category/signed

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Four - /category/signed

WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Four - /category/dubbedaudio
described

etc, etc etc

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Problems downloading programs which are shown multiple times

[Rochford, Steve]

Is there a problem with the way the XML files of programmes available are 
parsed? (I'm using version 2.92 on Ubuntu 14.10). Apologies for a long post on 
my first email but I hope it's clear.

For example, I want to download the programme Tatau on BBC3. I tried 
downloading using the PVR function but it didn't get downloaded.

I tried doing:

get-iplayer | grep Tatau

and that showed me that the programme was available. I next tried to manually 
download using:

get-iplayer --get  (using the number shown in the command above) and it 
failed. It also failed when I tried to do get-iplayer --pid b05rkp8g but 
nothing happened.

I turned on verbose messages and got a bit more information - get-iplayer says 
that the programme is in the future.

get-iplayer fetches the file 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/schedules/this_week.xml and parses it 
(I'm afraid my Perl is not good enough to know exactly what it's doing!)

If I just open the file in a text editor I can see that there are several 
occurrences of the programme - it's repeated multiple times in the week. It 
looks as if get-iplayer is getting the details for the last showing of the 
programme which is in the future but it has already been shown and is available 
for download.

If I look at the tv.cache file I can see that it's listing the programme as 

If I delete the tv.cache file and download using the PID then it works fine so 
I know there's nothing wrong with the download functionality; it's just a 
problem with working out if it's actually not yet been shown or if it's been 
shown and will be shown again.

Is there an option to say try and fetch even if it looks as if it's not yet 
been shown or any other way to make it fetch programmes like this which are 
shown multiple times in a week?

Looking at the data, there's a field first_broadcast_date and another 
available_until so I'd guess if now is in between those dates then the 
programme is available to download.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Steve

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Radio categories

[Steve]

if I search for radio programmes with a category of drama:

get_iplayer  --test --type=radio --category=Drama

I get returned:
get_iplayer 2.91-ppa21, 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: 0 Matching Programmes

( get_iplayer *. --test --type=radio --category=Drama also returns 0
matching )

if I go to list available categories for radio:

get_iplayer --list=categories --type=radio

no categories are returned, while if i do the same for --type=tv I get
the usual suspects.

Have the recent spate of changes caused this to stop working, or am I
doing something stupid?

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pid recursive use?

[steve p]

Using the pid method, GIP responded for me to use the --pid-recursive command.
Tried a few options but no good so resorted to the manual but found no further 
advice.
Anyone enlighten me please?? Thanks

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Me too!

[Steve]

Thanks DP! where would we be without you!

What happens when Nitro kicks in then? another re-write of Get_Iplayer?
Steve

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Updated version of Get_Iplayer

[Steve]

Ok,
I got the new version Get_Iplayer.pl and all seems well again, I only 
use it for Radio 4 but all my PVR's jumped back into action and started 
downloading again - Great Work DinkyPumpkin!

Is this a permanant fix, or will there be any more problems in the future?
Steve

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No More Get_Iplayer

[Steve]

Well I guess its back to recording onto a Minidisc with a power timer!

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Atomic Parsley Update

[steve p]

Windows installer for version 2.87 OK EXCEPT after a number of attempts over 
the last 4-5 hrs, Atomic Parsley (AP) zip file still won't load from the 
defined link

I've launched and tried 2.87 without the defined AP version and seems to work 
ok still so far. Anyone check and advise please

Thanks


Steve


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Re: Detectorist Episode 1

[steve phillips]

an FAQ...wahoo!!

Did the job, thanks; understand why now and also my fault with the syntax using 
pid method which I haven't used for a while

Steve



- Original Message -
From: dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com
To: get_iplayer get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2014, 12:43
Subject: Re: Detectorist Episode 1

On 21/10/2014 11:47, steve phillips wrote:
 I've hit my first snag with trying to get Episode 1 of the Detectorist as it 
 appeared  to be a 'victim' of the BBC iPlayer availability changes for 
 get_iplayer. Episodes 2 and 3 available and downloaded with 2.86 the other 
 day with no

 problems so waited for windows 2.87 to become available, but not only does 
 2.87 not find Episode 1 still, it doesn't find Episode 2 either Any ideas?

You need to re-read the release notes.  Or, we now even have an FAQ 
(singular):


https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/faq





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Re: Fw: Confirming Membership of List

[Steve James]

On Tuesday 01 Jul 2014 16:48:08 TQ wrote:
  On 01 July 2014 at 16:22 SquarePenguin
  getipla...@squarepenguin.co.uk wrote:
  
  George DiceGeorge wrote:
   its a serious problem if it emails your password
   and youve used the same password elsewhere
   for emails, banking etc.
   
   [g]
  
  That would be unfortunate, but it would also be utterly
  incomprehensibly
  stupid to use the same passwords for this list and for your banking.
 
 And unbelievably stupid. I'm sure though, were it to be checked, that at
 least one person (and probably more) on this mailing list is guilty.

Hello. Are you one of the -- no doubt many -- shame-faced password over-users?
I can adopt a smug grin at this point because I have a unique password for 
every  single site I use, each is long and has special characters and numbers. 
Better still: I don't know what any of them are! Can I unashamedly take this 
opportunity to promote LastPass to you? [1] You won't know how you survived 
without it...

 [1] - https://lastpass.com/f?88606 
  - This link should get us both 1 month premium membership for free :-)

Steve.

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W1A download issue

[steve phillips]

Have tried to download episode 2 of W1A a few times over the last 5 days but 
not successful. Keep getting message application provided invalid, non 
monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 1.etc Is there anything I 
can do or is it an issue in the bbc source file? 


Have used the --force --get commands to clear the partial flv file but still no 
joy
Thanks

PS running 2.82 on windows 7
PPS Not experiencing any other download problems with get_iplayer


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Re: W1A download issue

[steve phillips]

Thanks for the reply. Deleted the partial flv file as suggested and retried and 
lo and beholdsuccess

 That's a rather old version, which probably also means you have a rather
old version of ffmpeg.  The handling of non-monotonic timestamps has
changed in later versions of ffmpeg so that it doesn't automatically die
in every case


Noted your comment about version 2.82 Tend to shy away from updates which 
sometimes appear to have direct relevance in fixing a bug which doesn't affect 
my 'simple' use via Windows; never attempted pvr use etc. However whilst I 
don't fully understand implications of the 'non-montonic timestamps' maybe it's 
time to do an upgrade and explore more of the inner workings of this fabulous 
little program

Thanks again



- Original Message -
From: dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2014, 21:15
Subject: Re: W1A download issue

On 02/04/2014 20:58, steve phillips wrote:
 Have tried to download episode 2 of W1A a few times over the last 5 days but 
 not successful. Keep getting message application provided invalid, non 
 monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 1.etc Is there anything 
 I can do or is it an issue in the bbc source file?

Not a source issue.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who downloaded it 
perfectly fine. The error message comes from ffmpeg, which means either 
that rtmpdump thinks the file downloaded OK when it didn't, or else 
there were some rtmpdump errors you didn't tell us about.  You probably 
got a duff download that you didn't delete, so you're feeding the same 
bad file repeatedly to ffmpeg.  Delete the .flv file and start over.

 Have used the --force --get commands to clear the partial flv file but still 
 no joy

That won't remove a partial download.  You have to delete the .flv file 
from disk.

 PS running 2.82 on windows 7

That's a rather old version, which probably also means you have a rather 
old version of ffmpeg.  The handling of non-monotonic timestamps has 
changed in later versions of ffmpeg so that it doesn't automatically die 
in every case.




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

[Steve]

On 25/08/13 15:48, Shevek wrote:

On 25 August 2013 13:11, Kris Szajdzicki k...@ndmeter.co.uk wrote:

Is there any way of using get_iplayer to just save the audio part of a TV 
broadcast as MP3 (or anything convertible).  I have tried several converters to 
extract the audion, but all seem to fail.


After download, you can use ffmpeg to extract the audio

ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -vn -acodec copy file.aac

or to convert audio to mp3:

ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -vn  -q:a 2 file.mp3

More info on the MP3 conversion settings here:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encoding%20VBR%20(Variable%20Bit%20Rate)%20mp3%20audio

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Or get Mobile Media Converter and save as MP3

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Problem with output directory

[Steve Champion]

My WebPVRManager set-up seems to have a problem. It used to work okay, but 
now it seems to be building a dodgy string for the output file path and I 
can't see why.


When it finds a program to record, I am getting the error:

mkdir C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\T:\: Invalid argument; The filename, 
directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect at get_iplayer.pl line 
4021.


even though my options files no longer contain an over-ride on the output 
file path (it used to). The string it has built is a weird concatenation of 
two paths that I have used at one time. I have changed the over-ride 
directory in the web interface (now it is blank)


C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\get_iplayer\options contains:

mmsnothread 1nopurge 1mplayer .\MPlayer\mplayer-svn-36348\mplayer.exelame 
.\LAME\lame.exeffmpeg .\FFmpeg\ffmpeg-1.2-win32-static\bin\ffmpeg.exevlc 
.\VLC\vlc-2.0.6\vlc.exeflvstreamer .\RTMPDump\rtmpdump.exeatomicparsley 
.\AtomicParsley\AtomicParsley\AtomicParsley.exe


i.e. there is no output line, and c:\Documents and 
Settings\Steve\.get_iplayer\options is empty


Please can someone point me in the right direction to solve this problem?

I tried re-installing, but somewhere there is a file which is not replaced 
by a re-install, apparently.


Thanks in anticipation... Steve 



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Re: Bad News: Radio Downloader and BBC Radio

[Steve]

Can we expect a similar email from the Beeb about Get_Iplayer?

On 27/06/13 21:30, Chris J Brady wrote:

Radio Downloader and BBC Radio

Latest news

Following a request from the BBC, I have removed the Radio Downloader source 
and installers.  They will return shortly minus the BBC Radio Provider plugin 
(e.g. the ability to download BBC Radio programmes).

My apologies for the disappointment that this will cause but I hope that you 
will understand.  I believe that the BBC is planning to offer downloads of 
radio programmes from 2014.

On a personal note, I would like to thank everyone for their words of 
encouragement and support over the years and for putting up with my sporadic 
updates.  I had hoped to do more to Radio Downloader over the last six months 
but unfortunately I have not been well and life seems to have been rather 
hectic...

Matt Robinson
bugzi...@nerdoftheherd.com
26 June 2013




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Re: How do I use pid recursive?

[Steve]

Is anyone using get_Iplayer on a raspberry Pi?

This is my current setup:

(downconv.sh)
/usr/bin/perl /mnt/usb/Iplayer/get_iplayer --pvr 21 | tee 
/mnt/usb/Iplayer/Logs/Gip-Log1.txt

/mnt/usb/Iplayer/avconv.sh
mv /mnt/usb/Iplayer/*.m4a -f /mnt/usb/Iplayer/m4a


(avconv.sh)
for f in *.m4a; do avconv -i $f -acodec libmp3lame -ab 256k 
${f%.m4a}.mp3; done


This is the only way I can get playable mp3's on the pi, it wont seem to 
convert to mp3 internally.
I've been using GIP for years on my main machine and it is the same 
setup. Am I doing something basic and stupid to get this problem? I dont 
mind running the two scripts as it mainly runs when I'm asleep anyway, 
but I'd like to do it a bit more elegantly if possible ie all within 
get_iplayer.

Cheers
Steve

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RE: Windows installation method

[Steve Dimond]

-Original Message-
From: Vangelis forthnet [mailto:northmed...@the.forthnet.gr] 
Sent: 09 February 2013 23:52
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Windows installation method

On Sat Feb 9 19:07:15 GMT 2013, Steve Dimond wrote:

Hi,

I should like to install get_iplayer on my brand new Windows laptop. 
When I installed get_iplayer before I used a program called something 
like get_iplayer_setup_latest which was linked to from 
http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html.
However, this
website is down now and I don't have the link to the program. Would 
someone please be so kind as to post the link, or if the program is no 
longer available, point me to an alternative installation method for
Windows PCs?

Many thanks,
Steve

On Sat Feb 9 22:23:35 GMT 2013, David Woodhouse wrote:

Sorry, it's another power outage in the data centre  ...
Should be back on Monday.

Hello Steve :-)
 If you're in a hurry, the webarchive has a snapshot of the official site,
dated Mar 11th 2012; this is after the time the windows installer was last
updated, now being at version 4.5 (uploaded on infradead.org on
02-Nov-2011).
Go to this URL:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120311122304/http://www.infradead.org/get_iplay
er_win/

and download get_iplayer_setup_latest.exe , which is the same as
get_iplayer_setup_4.5.exe ; this will get you the installer you're
after...
 However, this installer downloads stuff (the dependencies) from the
internet, and for this it needs the info inside the file
get_iplayer_config_latest.ini .
This is the part I'm not sure of: if that .ini resides inside the installer,
then I presume the downloading should proceed normally - however, if the
installer cheks the contents of the .ini online from infradead.org
(currently down), then no downloading will occur. In that case, you may open
the .ini in your browser from this URL:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120311053336/http://www.infradead.org/get_iplay
er_win/get_iplayer_config_latest.ini
and download the dependencies manually, using the given URLs.
You'll have to manually un-zip/un-7z the packages using 7zip (free).
However, if you are not in a hurry and don't feel particularly adventurous,
you should wait, as advised by David, till the site is properly up...

Regards.
---End Original Message---

Hi,

Thanks for the information and help. I think I'll wait until the website is
back.

Regards,
Steve

 

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Windows installation method

[Steve Dimond]

Hi,

I should like to install get_iplayer on my brand new Windows laptop. When I
installed get_iplayer before I used a program called something like
get_iplayer_setup_latest which was linked to from
http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html. However, this
website is down now and I don't have the link to the program. Would someone
please be so kind as to post the link, or if the program is no longer
available, point me to an alternative installation method for Windows PCs?

Many thanks,
Steve

 

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Re: Remuxing get_iplayer downloads to play on my TV

[Steve Champion]

Mmm.  ok. Try this then:
ffmpeg -i programme.mp4 -vtag xvid -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libmp3lame -sameq



That is about 20% smaller, but my rubbish TV can't play it :-( I think I'll 
just have to stick with what I have and be grateful that a conversion is 
possible, without whining about the size!


However, I have to admit that I was a bit surprised that the file size 
baloons by a factor of 2.5 (even after that 20% improvement). I knew that 
each newer version of compression saved ever more space (at the expense of 
processing required) but the magnitude, I had not appreciated.



erm, er ... from I'm really not sure (I'm not a user of the web
interface); with I don't see why not.


I was thinking that it would allow me to convert everything downloaded 
automatically, but I see that will be a bit more of a struggle. Never mind.


Thanks!


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Re: Windows web interface

[Steve Champion]

I have just read somewhere that there is a get_iplayer web interface
for windows. Can anyone point me in the right direction to obtain a
copy of this.


If I remember correctly, all I did was download this package:

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer_win/get_iplayer_setup_latest.exe

Web PVR manager should launch get_iplayer and then point your browser to 
the http:// interface to talk to it.


Steve


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Re: Remuxing get_iplayer downloads to play on my TV

[Steve Champion]

My mistake, Jon. I was not paying attention


try this:
ffmpeg -i programme.mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libmp3lame -sameq
programme.avi


Thanks. Well, that did not yield something that my TV could play.


I was wrong. My TV _can_ play this file, but I had not given the file an avi 
extension (duh!)




Mmm.  ok. Try this then:

ffmpeg -i programme.mp4 -vtag xvid -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libmp3lame -sameq



This also plays fine, providing I give the file an .avi or .mov extension

Looking at the grid again ( 
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4679516/codecs-table.GIF ) , it is somewhat obvious 
that if the program pays any attention to the file extension then the MPEG-4 
variants that it can play are going to be AVI or MOV. Sorry for being a bit 
dense.


Steve


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Remuxing get_iplayer downloads to play on my TV

[Steve Champion]

I'm a bit of a newbie at video formats, so please excuse me if my question 
appears stupid!


I have been enjoying playing programs captured with get_iplayer on my PC, 
but it seems to be necessary to convert them to a different format to play 
them on my TV (from USB stick). I found a format that I can play by a 
combination of trial-and-error and reading the screenshot (see link below) 
table that purports to relate to my TV. Unmodified get_iplayer downloads 
just give me an invalid format message.


I'm using the somewhat clunky Super-C to do the conversion, which takes a 
long time... presumably because I am not merely remuxing, but doing a 
conversion. I'm struggling a bit to understand the subtleties of video/audio 
formats.


So, my question is:

1) Based on this table, is there a format that my TV can play which requires 
only a remux (of what get_iplayer downloads) rather than a conversion?


2) If this is the case, what would be the ffmpeg command line to do the 
required remux? Given that, I could make a batch file to remux at will [that 
much I _could_ handle :-)  ]


This is the table of what my TV is supposed to be able to handle:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4679516/codecs-table.GIF

These are the Super-C settings I have been using so far:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4679516/SuperCforTV.jpg

Any help and suggestions would be much appreciated! 



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Re: Remuxing get_iplayer downloads to play on my TV

[Steve Champion]

BTW: TV is a Technika 23-231-BB-G


...is there a format that my TV can play which requires
only a remux (of what get_iplayer downloads) rather than a conversion?



Unfortunately not.
The .mp4 files contain a video stream in avc format (now part of
mpeg4, but neither simple or advanced simple profile (SP/ASP)), and an
audio stream in aac format.


Well, that will save me a lot of time looking for something that is not 
there! Thanks (but it's a shame :-)



2) If this is the case, what would be the ffmpeg command line to do the
required remux? Given that, I could make a batch file to remux at will 
[that

much I _could_ handle :-) ]



try this:
ffmpeg -i programme.mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libmp3lame -sameq 
programme.avi


Thanks. Well, that did not yield something that my TV could play. However, a 
bit of poking around (ffmpeg -codecs and a lucky guess) allowed me to find 
the following, which does yeld something my TV can play:


ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec libmp3lame -sameq output.mpg

Rather a huge file (why?) but conversion said 120fps (I assume that is the 
rate of processing: a factor of nearly 5x if I understand correctly) and 
anything command line is better than messing about with Super-C. Just 
downloading the latest version without picking up unwanted browser add-ons 
is a real pain. And then there are the unexpected crashes.



you may also find the the command option in get_iplayer useful - it
runs a command (or script) at the end of a download, and you can pass
filename as a parameter which is expanded by get_iplayer as the
name of the media file it's just downloaded.


This I will definitely look into! It would be nice to have anything I 
download converted right away. This can work from the web interface, right?


Thanks for all the help!!!

How I wish there was such a thing as a dual-port disk drive that appears as 
a USB drive to my TV and simultaneously as an Ethernet drive (or USB drive) 
to my PC 



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Scheduling PVR recording of future episodes (WinXP)

[Steve Champion]

Using Web PVR Manager under Windows XP



Nice piece of software, working great for downloading so far. I thought I'd 
have a go a scheduling a future download of something not made available 
yet. I'm a bit of a newbie here. The functionality is not what I expect, am 
I doing something wrong?


In the Web PVR manager I have selected Search Future Schedule [on] (under 
Advanced Search) and also Refresh Future Schedule [on] (under Recording).


I think that maybe refreshing the cache takes longer now (maybe it is just 
my imagination), but I don't see any programmes yet to be made available. If 
I do a search at bbc.co.uk/iplayer I see programmes which have not been made 
available yet (they have a Coming Soon overlay on the thumbnail).


The particular example I'm using (although the details may be out of date by 
the time you read this) is The Tube. At the time of writing, Episodes 1 
and 2 have been transmitted, so they are visible in Web PVR. However, at 
bbc.co.uk/iplayer,  episode 3 is also visible (as Coming Soon - so 
obviously not yet downloadable, but the programme ID is visible in the URL).


Am I misunderstanding how this should work? I was expecting to be able to 
search for future-schedule programmes and schedule them for download in the 
future.





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Re: Scheduling PVR recording of future episodes (WinXP)

[Steve Champion]

On 04/03/2012 10:02, Steve Champion wrote:
The particular example I'm using (although the details may be out of
date by the time you read this) is The Tube. At the time of writing,
Episodes 1 and 2 have been transmitted, so they are visible in Web PVR.
However, at bbc.co.uk/iplayer, episode 3 is also visible (as Coming
Soon - so obviously not yet downloadable, but the programme ID is
visible in the URL).

Am I misunderstanding how this should work? I was expecting to be able
to search for future-schedule programmes and schedule them for download
in the future.



dinkypumpkin wrote:

That feature was broken by changes in the BBC listings format, but has 
since been fixed.  For fix and upgrade instructions:


http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2011-October/002159.html




Thank you!

I have updated the .pl and I now see the yet-to-be-transmitted episode. as I 
expected. Although, now that I look more closely, I wonder if the Add 
Series link would do what I want in the case of a future episode of a 
series (as opposed to a known upcoming one-off). I have some exploring to do 
:-)


Thanks again. 



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Unable to get any programmes

[Steve Foster]

Getting closer ☺ Thanks for your help.

The output from perl -V was as expected, with the libraries pointing to 
get_iplayer\lib

However printing $? Displayed -1 - running rtmpdump using backticks failed. 
This did use to work and I have no idea what I have changed on my system to 
break it.

I've just created a really simple perl program

my $op = `dir`;
print $?;
print $op;

And this also fails with -1 printed. So it seems I can't run any backtick 
commands! No luck yet on understanding why after a brief google.





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Re: Distorted AAC audio on LG TV

[Steve Anderson]

On 13 October 2011 11:53, Dan Ashby d...@slickpepper.co.uk wrote:
 Does anyone else have a problem where the audio (particularly in HD
 downloads) is at such a high level that it clips? This is particularly
 noticable on speech, where it really sounds awful.

Yes - the AAC audio is very loud. I've got an LG TV as well, and
playing downloaded files on my Blu-ray player (a Sony one) through
HDMI results in incredibly loud, distorted output. The same is true of
the iPlayer app on my Blu-ray player. I've ended up getting an AV
receiver off eBay (fortunately a local seller, because it's a heavy
brute) and running a coax digital audio cable from the Blu-ray player
into it. It's still loud but can be turned right down, and you end up
with no clipping because it's a pure digital signal (unlike when I had
speakers powered by the TV). Given iPlayer was one of the reasons for
buying the player (it certainly wasn't for Blu-ray discs!) I was a bit
narked, but the AV receiver was cheap, came with speakers thrown in
and gave me reason to overhaul my kit.

I've also tried converting a couple of downloaded MP4 files to DVD
with a simple converter, and the audio on that was also mangled beyond
hope. I think the Beeb have gone crazy with the gain on AAC streams.

TL;DR: digital audio output to an amp saves your ear drums.

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Re: How go I get get_iplayer working again after restoring my PC?

[Steve]

Shevek wrote:

On 12 September 2011 00:19,  geoff.getiplayer_l...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote:
  

On 11/09/2011 23:44, Shevek wrote:


There is a new option --tag-fulltitle which should do what you want

More details about the new tagging options are available if you do
--longhelp



Is this new option available in the Linux version?
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Re: Can't download _any_ TV programmes even with patched script

[Steve Anderson]

On 28 July 2011 16:57, Chris Marriott ch...@chrism.demon.co.uk wrote:
 I reported yesterday that installing the swfurl patch had fixed my
 download problems, but I spoke too soon. I've downloaded the latest full
 script from github, but I'm still unable to download anything. At about
 the 250s mark into any programme I get:

 ERROR: RTMP_HashSWF: couldn't contact swfurl
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/10player.swf?revision=18269_21576 (HTTP error 301)

301 is a redirect header. Try visiting that URL given and it
immediately redirects here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/revisions/18269_21576_10player.swf?revision=18269_21576

Try replacing the swfUrl variable with that - it should work. I did
something similar a while ago and it fixed my woes.

Steve


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Re: Chapters

[Steve]

Charles Johnson wrote:

I wonder if 'chapters' are going to be supported?

e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011c0wc contains the likes of

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011c0n8#p00h3vdk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011c0n8#p00h3vff

etc.


Wouldnt have thought so, theyre all separate PIDs

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Converting M4a Files to MP3 with Soundconverter

[Steve]

On 08/05/2011 15:44, Steve wrote:

Nigel Roles wrote:


Is this a bug in the latest git version of get_iplayer, or am I
missing something that it needs?
Also, if anyone can suggest how to convert the other aac files I'd
downloaded into MP3s, it'd be appreciated... 


Yes I  use Soundconverter with this script:


# Get_Iplayer 
###


# Get_Iplayer Weekdays

/usr/bin/perl /home/steve/iplayer/gipaac2mp3 --type radio --modes 
flashaacstd --verbose --pvr 2/tmp/get_iplayer.log


# Move Get_iplayer M4A files to Conversion Folder (M4A)

mv -f /home/steve/iplayer/*.m4a /home/steve/iplayer/M4A

# Convert M4A Files to MP3

/usr/bin/soundconverter -b -m audio/mpeg -s .mp3 
/home/steve/iplayer/M4A/*.m4a


# Move Converted MP3 Files from M4A Folder Back to MP3 Folder  M4A 
Files to Processed

mv -f /home/steve/iplayer/M4A/*.mp3 /home/steve/iplayer
mv -f /home/steve/iplayer/M4A/*.m4a /home/steve/iplayer/M4A/Processed





Steve



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Purging download_history

[Steve]

I noticed my download_history file in .get_iplayer is getting rather 
large, is there a command to purge old history? other than just deleting 
it and having to re-download the last weeks PVR's?

Steve

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Broken FLV's the Next Generation

[Steve]

Ok, now its failing and leaving the source format as AAC!
Heres the error msg log:

28366.228 kB / 1735.92 sec (99.7%)
WARNING: ignoring too small audio packet: size: 0
WARNING: ignoring too small audio packet: size: 0
DEBUG: RTMP_ClientPacket, received: notify 102 bytes
DEBUG: (object begin)
DEBUG: (object begin)
DEBUG: Property: Name:  code, STRING:
NetStream.Play.Complete

DEBUG: Property: Name: level, STRING:status
DEBUG: Property: Name:  duration, NUMBER:122.00
DEBUG: Property: Name: bytes, NUMBER:27992058.00
DEBUG: (object end)
DEBUG: (object end)
DEBUG: HandleCtrl, received ctrl. type: 1, len: 6
DEBUG: HandleCtrl, Stream EOF 1
DEBUG: RTMP_ClientPacket, received: invoke 314 bytes
DEBUG: (object begin)
DEBUG: Property: NULL
DEBUG: (object begin)
DEBUG: Property: Name: level, STRING:status
DEBUG: Property: Name:  code, STRING:
NetStream.Play.Stop
DEBUG: Property: Name:   description, STRING:Stopped 
playing 
radio4/secure_auth/RBN2_radio_4_fm_-_wednesday_2100_b0106rs8_2011_04_13_21_11_21.mp4.
DEBUG: Property: Name:   details, STRING:
radio4/secure_auth/RBN2_radio_4_fm_-_wednesday_2100_b0106rs8_2011_04_13_21_11_21.mp4

DEBUG: Property: Name:  clientid, STRING:KSE4cOdX
DEBUG: Property: Name:reason, STRING:
DEBUG: (object end)
DEBUG: (object end)
DEBUG: HandleInvoke, server invoking onStatus
DEBUG: HandleInvoke, onStatus: NetStream.Play.Stop
DEBUG: Got Play.Complete or Play.Stop from server. Assuming stream is 
complete

DEBUG: WriteStream returned: -3
Download complete
DEBUG: Closing connection.

INFO: Command exit code 0 (raw code = 0)


INFO: Command: ffmpeg -i 
/home/steve/iplayer/Costing_the_Earth_-_Deepwater_Horizon_-_The_Real_Damage_b0106rvq_default.partial.aac.flv 
-vn -acodec copy -y 
/home/steve/iplayer/Costing_the_Earth_-_Deepwater_Horizon_-_The_Real_Damage_b0106rvq_default.partial.aac


FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
 configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler 
--enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg 
--enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared 
--prefix=/usr

 libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
 libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
 libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
 built on Mar 31 2011 19:03:11, gcc: 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)
[flv @ 0xb76f9110]Unsupported audio codec (a)
Input #0, flv, from 
'/home/steve/iplayer/Costing_the_Earth_-_Deepwater_Horizon_-_The_Real_Damage_b0106rvq_default.partial.aac.flv':

 Duration: 00:29:00.0, start: 0.00, bitrate: N/A
 Stream #0.0: Audio: 0x000a, 44100 Hz, stereo
Output #0, adts, to 
'/home/steve/iplayer/Costing_the_Earth_-_Deepwater_Horizon_-_The_Real_Damage_b0106rvq_default.partial.aac':

 Stream #0.0: Audio: 0x000a, 44100 Hz, stereo
Stream mapping:
 Stream #0.0 - #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
size=   24038kB time=1534.3 bitrate= 128.3kbits/s size=   27262kB 
time=1740.0 bitrate= 128.3kbits/s
video:0kB audio:27262kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.00%

INFO: Command exit code 0 (raw code = 0)


INFO: Command: ffmpeg -i 
/home/steve/iplayer/Costing_the_Earth_-_Deepwater_Horizon_-_The_Real_Damage_b0106rvq_default.partial.aac 
-vn -acodec copy -absf aac_adtstoasc -y 
/home/steve/iplayer/Costing_the_Earth_-_Deepwater_Horizon_-_The_Real_Damage_b0106rvq_default.partial.m4a


FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
 configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler 
--enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg 
--enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared 
--prefix=/usr

 libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
 libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
 libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
 built on Mar 31 2011 19:03:11, gcc: 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)
Input #0, aac, from 
'/home/steve/iplayer/Costing_the_Earth_-_Deepwater_Horizon_-_The_Real_Damage_b0106rvq_default.partial.aac':

 Duration: 00:08:32.5, start: 0.00, bitrate: 435 kb/s
 Stream #0.0: Audio: 0x, 32000 Hz, 3 channels, 435 kb/s
Unknown bitstream filter aac_adtstoasc
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: aac conversion failed - retaining aac file
INFO: Recorded 
/home/steve/iplayer/Costing_the_Earth_-_Deepwater_Horizon_-_The_Real_Damage_b0106rvq_default.partial.aac

DEBUG: Record using flashaacstd1 mode return code: '0'

INFO: Loading recordings history
INFO: id3 tagging aac file

Grrr!

Steve

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Still saving in a corrupt AAC format

[Steve]

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 radio: Afternoon Reading - 
Saints and Sinners: 3. My Two Mothers
INFO: File name prefix = 
Afternoon_Reading_-_Saints_and_Sinners_3._My_Two_Mothers_b0106tjt_default

WARNING: Your version of flvstreamer/rtmpdump does not support SWF 
Verification

FLVStreamer v2.1c1
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
Metadata:
 duration  960.05
 moovPosition  36.00
 audiocodecid  mp4a
 aacaot2.00
 audiosamplerate   44100.00
 audiochannels 2.00
tags:
 ©alb Afternoon Reading - Saints and Sinners
 aART  BBC Radio 4 FM
 ©ART BBC Radio 4 FM
 ©cmt A woman's bittersweet memories of the rise and 
fall of her relationship with her mother.
 cprt  British Broadcasting Corporation © 2011, all 
rights reserved.

 ©gen Podcast
 ©nam Afternoon Reading - Saints and Sinners 14 04 2011
 ©day 2011
trackinfo:
 length42338304.00
 timescale 44100.00
 language  und
sampledescription:
 sampletypemp4a
15611.878 kB / 955.36 sec (99.5%)
Download complete
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
 configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler 
--enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg 
--enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared 
--prefix=/usr

 libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
 libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
 libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
 built on Mar 31 2011 19:03:11, gcc: 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)
[flv @ 0xb76f9110]Unsupported audio codec (a)
Input #0, flv, from 
'/home/steve/iplayer/Afternoon_Reading_-_Saints_and_Sinners_3._My_Two_Mothers_b0106tjt_default.partial.aac.flv':

 Duration: 00:16:00.0, start: 0.00, bitrate: N/A
 Stream #0.0: Audio: 0x000a, 44100 Hz, stereo
Output #0, adts, to 
'/home/steve/iplayer/Afternoon_Reading_-_Saints_and_Sinners_3._My_Two_Mothers_b0106tjt_default.partial.aac':

 Stream #0.0: Audio: 0x000a, 44100 Hz, stereo
Stream mapping:
 Stream #0.0 - #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
size=   15041kB time=960.0 bitrate= 128.3kbits/s
video:0kB audio:15041kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.00%

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
 configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler 
--enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg 
--enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared 
--prefix=/usr

 libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
 libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
 libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
 built on Mar 31 2011 19:03:11, gcc: 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)
Input #0, aac, from 
'/home/steve/iplayer/Afternoon_Reading_-_Saints_and_Sinners_3._My_Two_Mothers_b0106tjt_default.partial.aac':

 Duration: 00:12:28.1, start: 0.00, bitrate: 164 kb/s
 Stream #0.0: Audio: 0x, 11025 Hz, mono, 164 kb/s
Unknown bitstream filter aac_adtstoasc
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: aac conversion failed - retaining aac file
INFO: Recorded 
/home/steve/iplayer/Afternoon_Reading_-_Saints_and_Sinners_3._My_Two_Mothers_b0106tjt_default.partial.aac



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Now on the old FFmpeg

[Steve]

Hmm latest update, renamed the later version of FFmpeg to ffmpeg.new 
renamed the older version in /usr/local/bin back to ffmpeg and got this 
result:


FFmpeg version git-8172b3f, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
 configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-shared 
--enable-pthreads --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libtheora

 libavutil 50. 3. 0 / 50. 3. 0
 libavcodec52.32. 0 / 52.32. 0
 libavformat   52.36. 0 / 52.36. 0
 libavdevice   52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
 libswscale 0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
 built on Jul 22 2009 19:08:01, gcc: 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4)

Ran Get_Iplayer again and got a playable AAC which now converts back to 
mp3 ok. Hmm dont know why its suddenly stopped converting to m4a though?

Is AAC any better/worse quality than M4a?

Steve


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More copies found

[Steve]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:00:57PM +0100, Steve wrote:


FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  


Run this:

find / -type f -name ffmpeg

You still have multiple ffmpeg binaries on your system.


Yeah, found another one in OPT/Miksoft/lib   part of Mobile Media Converter 
dont think it should be looking at that one though should it?

Steve


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Nort converting FLV to M4a

[Steve]

I've found in the last few days, get_iplayer has downloaded shows saving 
them as default.partial.m4a.flv and not converting them to M4a, However 
if I delete the entry from the download history, then run get_iplayer 
again, it converts to M4a without redownloading it again. Any idea why? 
This is in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy.

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Confused

[Steve]

I dont,know,about everyone else, but Im getting confused about all these 
different patches. Can we have some kind of version numbering system so 
we know what we're running and what we need to address certain problems? 
Cos my patched Dinky version still says 2.79.


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Re: legality

[Steve Anderson]

On 3 April 2011 14:02, James Cook james.c...@bluewin.ch wrote:

 every since Phil stopped further development of get_iplayer I been
 wondering about the legality of developing code for get_iplayer. I
 wonder if by uploading patches we are exposing ourselves to possible
 legal action..

First of all, IANAL. Take this as personal feeling/perception.

 Does anyone else here wonder about this?

I've pondered it for some time. First of all, get_iplayer doesn't do
anything *illegal* - it may get into woolly areas in TCs but it's not
a downloader and doesn't download anything other than publicly
available feeds and parse publicly available web pages to create data
that's more easily machine readable. You could use this data for
purposes other than downloading programmes, and this is what Phil has
done with iPlayer Search:
http://linuxcentre.net/projects/iplayer-search (basically the Web
front-end to get_iplayer separated from get_iplayer's original
purpose). This data could be created using Yahoo Pipes, by someone
with enough time...

The downloading is generally taken care of by one of two separate
programmes, one of which makes no attempt to circumvent DRM systems
(flvstreamer), one of which does (rtmpdump). flvstreamer is a fork of
rtmpdump for people who felt a bit twitchy about three magic strings
being present in its source code, and is potentially the weak point
(which is why Phil took out the support for it originally). My feeling
is that it would be very, very hard to make a case against people
using rtmpdump and a case should be made against the authors of
rtmpdump first to prove that it shouldn't be available for use in the
UK. Adobe tried to kill the project and SourceForge dropped it, but
that was in the US.

There's several problems for the BBC, the biggest of which is that
they are broadcasting several unencrypted MPEG2 streams freely over
the air, 24 hours a day, at 720x576 (ideal for burning to DVD). My TV
has a USB port that will dump the Freeview transport stream straight
to a USB drive. It's like a VCR without a layer of decoding and
re-encoding. I could realistically get virtually everything on iPlayer
by using four tuners dumping all the streams I'm likely to be
interested in (no need for BBC News or BBC Parliament; CBBC and
CBeebies share with BBC Three and BBC Four), and the EPG would take
care of all the tags. A 1TB USB drive is so cheap now, and USB-toting
STBs are available in Argos - you could create a rig like that for
under £200, I reckon. Now, how is that in any way different to using
get_iplayer? The only difference is that the streams are being made
available on demand from the BBC's servers - this is a TCs issue.

Looking back, I used to record whole series of programmes to VHS, and
later to recordable DVD. They're for personal use - why is that
morally okay, but taking the same audio/video representation from
iPlayer wrong?

My feeling is that the true Achilles heel of get_iplayer is that it
has the word iPlayer in it. It would be so hard to make a case about
anything else without descending into a quagmire of technicalities,
but a straightforward trademark dispute is another matter.

Also, why go for get_iplayer when there's UK Nova? DVDs getting ripped
off? There's much bigger fish to fry than a small open source project.

I remind you, IANAL. This isn't legal advice. This is my own personal
opinion, which justifies my using get_iplayer to myself much better
than well we pay for it.

 Should we consider some kind of anonimity?

I don't think so. It's a bit late now anyway, but as an outsider
looking in I'd immediately read that as shady behaviour rather than
that of a group of technically minded individuals making a publicly
funded service work better for them.

One more time. IANAL.

Steve

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Still using BBC 7 channel name

[Steve]

I did a search for a BBC Radio 4 Extra program - We can Remember it for 
you wholesale, and it didnt work until I changed the channel to BBC 
Radio 7!

I wonder how long theyre going to leave the old channel data on for BBC 7?

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Timing out on download in Ubuntu Hardy

[Steve]

Ubuntu Hardy is really struggling now to download in WMA format, its 
actually timing out and not even downloading the whole file. It runs 
fine at work though on Lucid in AAC format. If it wasnt for the fact 
that Iplayer looks like its finishing in a week, I'd have a go at fixing 
it in Hardy, but dont really see the point until someone manages to 
download from the new UK Radioplayer (If they can!)

Steve

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get_iplayer on a Pogoplug - success!

[Steve Anderson]

Hi folks

Just thought I'd share my success - with a little bit of effort I've
got get_iplayer with rtmpdump working on my Pogoplug. Pogoplugs are
small Linux-based devices for hooking up USB drives to the outside
world - they draw a tiny amount of power but have a fair amount of
processing power (1 GHz ARM chips) and 256M RAM. They're very much
like the Linksys NSLU2, brought up-to-date, and have a fairly nice
web-based UI. They're also pretty cheap - I got change from £60 from
PC World, of all places - and have a good hacking community.

Rather than wipe the stock firmware and go for an all-new distro from
plugapps.com, which would result in losing the access from
my.pogoplug.com (the web frontend), I kept the existing firmware and
added Optware to it (which, funnily enough, has its roots in NSLU2
hacking). This is what OpenPogo used to do, but that project morphed
into PlugApps and discontinued the Optware system. Fortunately, it is
now being maintained by NSLU2-Linux.org, and is still being kept
active by people who seem to be like me and want to keep the stock
functionality.

ANYWAY. I've got rtmpdump and get_iplayer working perfectly on this
now. It requires a bit of tinkering along the way, to take care of the
read-only root and to get used to the other oddities of the
environment, but I managed to do it across a couple of lunchtimes at
work. I've got a page full of notes made along the way, and will write
a full guide to setting it up if anyone's interested. If not, I don't
mind!

Steve

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BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

[Steve]

Hi Guys,
just noticed this in the last few days, and my Sansa mp3 player cant 
play AAC. I use Ubuntu Hardy which is usually quite robust in coping 
with the BBC fiddling around with formats. I did a bit of googling and 
now have a cron script running once a day doing the following:


# Move WMA files to Conversion Folder (WMA)
30 01,07,10,17 * * 1-5 mv -f /home/steve/iplayer/*.wma 
/home/steve/iplayer/WMA 2/tmp/wma-move.log


# Convert WMA Files to MP3
45 17 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/soundconverter -b -m audio/mpeg -s .mp3 
/home/steve/iplayer/WMA/*.wma


# Move Converted MP3 Files from WMA Folder Back to MP3 Folder
30 18 * * 1-5 mv -f /home/steve/iplayer/WMA/*.mp3 /home/steve/iplayer

This now leaves me with nice mp3's again, all you need to install is 
soundconverter.
I'm worried about this Iplayer replacement the BBC is bringing out at 
the end of March - Youview, will this sound the death knell for 
Get_Iplayer on Radio? it sure looks like it will kill the TV downloads, 
anyone heard anything?

Steve



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Re: BBC now sending radio shows in AAC format instead of MP3

[Steve]

bat guano wrote:

Hi Stev
My Ubuntu Karmic Koala Linux downloads the aac radio shows.
Probably you haven't got RTMPDump installed.



Yeah, Im still running Hardy thats probably why, I really dont mind,
quality is fine for spoken word.
Steve


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Re: Transcoding video for Topfield boxes

[Steve Anderson]

On 5 January 2011 10:31, Robin Bowes robin.bo...@yo61.com wrote:

 I guess I just want to make sure that I don't transcode more than once.
 If I grab the flashvhigh stream which is 1500kbps and 832x468, will
 get_iplayer just save it to disk as mp4, or does it do any transcoding?

The limit of get_iplayer's transcoding is changing the container
format, in this case from flv to mp4. No processing of the streams
inside the container takes place at all - that's why it's so quick at
the end of a download.

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Re: [Re: Mp3 from Radio]

[Steve Anderson]

On 4 January 2011 13:53, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote:

 There are plenty of tools out there which will convert files from one
 format to another, transcode them to DVD-compatible MPEG format, let you
 add your own subtitles, or do whatever else you can think of.

 I believe that get_iplayer should do *one* thing, and do it well.

At one point I would have disagreed with you; however since joining my
current employer and seeing some of the awful Swiss Army Knife code
that my predecessors have created to attempt to do everything (and,
like a Swiss Army Knife, every tool is inferior to a proper single-use
tool), I'd now agree wholeheartedly. Having been through the code for
get_iplayer myself to hack in rtmpdump support back when it wasn't
present, I know it's already on the verge of trying to do too much.

Given that there's already ffmpeg et al being used, I'd be more in
favour of a companion script that works with the files downloaded;
maybe scanning the downloads directory when invoked and transcoding
the files that match criteria. I should also mention at this point
that I have absolutely no spare time to develop this - it's just an
idea!

Steve

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