On 19 July 2013 06:19, Xtra wrote:
>
> ... scroll through often repeated screeds of historical
> background ...
>
Which is why you should only quote pertinent details and not everything else
>
> Top-posting a reply seems more efficient while providing the history (below
> it) if a newcomer is in
On 19 July 2013 06:59, Xtra wrote:
>
> Thanks TQ - but bottom-posting is rather like your own response, where for
> some reason you list your answers BEFORE your questions
>
Whoosh! I think you entirely missed the point there! :)
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On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 17:19 +1200, Xtra wrote:
> Few people these days have the the time or inclination to scroll
> through often repeated screeds of historical background to finally get
> to the latest contribution
Which is why you're supposed to *trim* your citations. As I have done
here, for e
Which Forum? There is more than one. What is the full URL of the forum
website?
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Following a period of successful radio downloads using the PVR front
end, I now find that about half are succeeding and half failing in a
session.
In the case of the failures, an empty file is created with a partial
filename. The previous episode of the failed programme was successfully
downlo
On 19 July 2013 09:14, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> This is not an acceptable topic of discussion for this list. You are
> expected to trim your citations to the minimum, and you are expected to
> place your reply *below* them. Those rules of basic consideration don't
> just go back to 2003; they go
> I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to diagnose and
> correct this behaviour.
It looks as if you may have been hit by the problem of colons (special
characters) in the filename. I suspect you're using the 'whitespace'
option to replace the underscores with spaces in filenames. Under Wi
On 19/07/2013 09:24, Square Penguin wrote:
Which Forum? There is more than one. What is the full URL of the forum
website?
Sorry - I wasn't paying attention to my "To:" field and took this thread
off-list. Upshot: The OP was trying to access a zombie site.
I think most people here know this
Interesting quirk to watch out for?
Using 2.83 on WinXP I've downloaded an episode of the "A Series of
Psychotic Episodes" radio series with the following included in my
options file:
subdirformat
The output directory that was created has been given the name "A". Using
--info, it appears th
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:37 AM, dinkypumpkin wrote:
> I think most people here know this, but I'll say it anyway: linuxcentre.net
> is dead. It has been dead for 3 years. It is pining for the fjords. It is
> an ex-site. Mountains will have crumbled into the sea by the time its page
> rank is s
> Using 2.83 on WinXP I've downloaded an episode of the "A Series of
> Psychotic Episodes" radio series with the following included in my
> options file:
> subdirformat
>
> The output directory that was created has been given the name "A".
> Using --info, it appears that the word "Series" in t
On 19/07/2013 10:57, J K.Eason wrote:
Using 2.83 on WinXP I've downloaded an episode of the "A Series of
Psychotic Episodes" radio series with the following included in my
options file:
subdirformat
The output directory that was created has been given the name "A".
Using --info, it appears that
On 19/07/2013 11:10, Rob Dixon wrote:
On 19/07/2013 10:57, J K.Eason wrote:
Using 2.83 on WinXP I've downloaded an episode of the "A Series of
Psychotic Episodes" radio series with the following included in my
options file:
subdirformat
The output directory that was created has been given the
> This is either an internal get_iplayer problem or something at BBC's
> end. The `descshort` metadata for the programme is just `A`.
Ah yes. I see what you mean. Doing an --info on 'A String of Pearls'
(10057), the nameshort is also 'A String of Pearls', so it looks as if
the problem is at the BB
On 19 July 2013 09:46, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 19 July 2013 09:14, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>
>> Those rules of basic consideration don't
>> just go back to 2003; they go back to the 1980s or even beyond.
>>
> +1000
+1000 from me too.
Note how clear it is that (a) David made an initial comment, (b
On 19/07/2013 11:10, Rob Dixon wrote:
On 19/07/2013 10:57, J K.Eason wrote:
Using 2.83 on WinXP I've downloaded an episode of the "A Series of
Psychotic Episodes" radio series with the following included in my
options file:
subdirformat
The output directory that was created has been given the
On 19/07/2013 06:19, Xtra wrote:
Having read (and agreed) with many of the items in the
http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer can I suggest
however, that the requirement for "bottom posting" is out-dated?
This "requirement" dates from 2003 and I believe that the world has has
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:30:46AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
>It was Outlook that
>(from memory) decided pretty unilaterally that top posting was the way
>to go
The ancestor of Outlook, an internal messaging system written as a
competitor to Novell's system and bought in by Microsoft, did this
bec
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:14:56 +0100, David Woodhouse
wrote:
Which is why you're supposed to *trim* your citations. As I have done
here, for example
Which makes sense
It's a given that not everyone will know this and naturally we forgive
them.
_
"Xtra" wrote:
>Thanks TQ - but bottom-posting is rather like your own response, where for
>some reason you list your answers BEFORE your questions
It was a classic and deliberate example, often used in discussions like
this, to demonstrate why top posting is confusing.
--
Jeremy Nicol
On 19/07/2013 11:58, Rob Dixon wrote:
$prog->{nameshort} =~ s/:?\s*Series\s+.+?(:\s*|$)//i;
It looks a colon problem of a different sort, if you'll forgive the
proctological phraseology. That regex doesn't anticipate a "Series"
that isn't followed by both a series number and colon, unless
On 19/07/2013 11:58, Rob Dixon wrote:
If you want to fix it temporarily for yourselves, then find this line
and change it to
$prog->{nameshort} =~ s/:?\s*Series\s+\d.+?(:\s*|$)//i;
which will only delete "Series" with a number after it. A more elaborate
fix is in order, but the worst this w
On 19/07/2013 11:24, J K.Eason wrote:
Ah yes. I see what you mean. Doing an --info on 'A String of Pearls'
(10057), the nameshort is also 'A String of Pearls', so it looks as if
the problem is at the BBC end in that case.
That's the correct value. just strips out "Series XXX"
strings, otherw
On 19 Jul 2013 at 12:33, dinkypumpkin wrote:
> On 19/07/2013 11:58, Rob Dixon wrote:
> >$prog->{nameshort} =~ s/:?\s*Series\s+.+?(:\s*|$)//i;
>
> It looks a colon problem of a different sort, if you'll forgive the
> proctological phraseology. That regex doesn't anticipate a "Series"
> that
On 19/07/2013 12:33, dinkypumpkin wrote:
On 19/07/2013 11:58, Rob Dixon wrote:
$prog->{nameshort} =~ s/:?\s*Series\s+.+?(:\s*|$)//i;
"A Series of Psychotic Episodes" appears to be the only TV or radio
programmeaffected. If anyone knows of another, reply here.
That is the only current prog
On 19/07/2013 12:42, michael.mpirel...@virgin.net wrote:
I had problems with Would I lie to you? The series link would not download the
programme
but clicking on Record (Windows Web PVR) for each individual instalment worked.
That is a different problem, already fixed. See thread from 3 weeks
On 19/07/2013 12:43, Rob Dixon wrote:
I wonder if this doesn't belong in `main::split_title`?
I don't think so. split_title produces the correct programme name.
It's just the shortening that goes awry.
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Please take the following as well intentioned criticism.
I am very partially sighted and find that (horrible) pink font almost
impossible to read.
This is why the BBC use a black background for this colour...
That is an important fact I had over looked. I downloaded the Colour
Contrast Ana
Rob Dixon wrote:
On 19/07/2013 11:58, Rob Dixon wrote:
If you want to fix it temporarily for yourselves, then find this line
and change it to
$prog->{nameshort} =~ s/:?\s*Series\s+\d.+?(:\s*|$)//i;
Sorry, I omitted to say that that change is to the file
`get_iplayer.pl`.
Rob
As I
> That's the correct value. just strips out "Series XXX"
> strings, otherwise leaves alone.
I'm getting too old to learn yet another language, otherwise I might
have spotted that one! :^)
Regards
John
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On 19/07/2013 13:08, dinkypumpkin wrote:
On 19/07/2013 12:43, Rob Dixon wrote:
I wonder if this doesn't belong in `main::split_title`?
I don't think so. split_title produces the correct programme name. It's
just the shortening that goes awry.
And I'm wondering if it instead split the title
On 19/07/2013 11:58, Rob Dixon wrote:
On 19/07/2013 11:10, Rob Dixon wrote:
On 19/07/2013 10:57, J K.Eason wrote:
Using 2.83 on WinXP I've downloaded an episode of the "A Series of
Psychotic Episodes" radio series with the following included in my
options file:
subdirformat
The output directo
On 19/07/2013 14:17, J K.Eason wrote:
I'm getting too old to learn yet another language, otherwise I might
have spotted that one! :^)
You're never too old take up Perl, my friend, never too old - though it
might age you once you get started :}
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On 19/07/2013 14:16, Rob Dixon wrote:
And I'm wondering if it instead split the title into
there would be nothing to do later on?
That would just make a bit of extra work. There is no field in
the metadata, and there is no need for one. The series number is the
only thing of interest re:
> You're never too old take up Perl, my friend, never too old -
> though it might age you once you get started :}
Not sure I want to take the risk to be honest! :^)
Regards
John
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dinkypumpkin wrote:
I would also
bet a number of people rely on the "Series XXX" string in to sort
their output files. Presumably exists to accommodate those
who don't.
Not exclusively, perhaps. It could also be used by those who sort. I
could be mis-reading the data or looking at in
On 19/07/2013 10:50, Jonathan H wrote:
So it maybe that he doesn't want to remove the iplayer page, but a
quick tweak would take it down the results.
I suppose I should have said the the get_iplayer section of the site is
dead. Other sections may still be in use. The site is owned by the guy
On 19/07/2013 14:37, dinkypumpkin wrote:
On 19/07/2013 14:16, Rob Dixon wrote:
And I'm wondering if it instead split the title into
there would be nothing to do later on?
That would just make a bit of extra work. There is no field in
the metadata, and there is no need for one. The series
thanks kevin
but i still cannot record the video ,at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23310447
with get_iplayer
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