Re: now for something completely different

2016-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 January 2016 at 19:02, artisticforge . wrote: > hello > > I am closer to the grave than the cradle and very microsecond counts. > I may sit around all day in a wheelchair but my time is still my time. > If I can do something a little faster, complete a little sooner, so > much the better. > >

Re: 320kbps radio audio available via MPEG-DASH

2016-01-08 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Fri Jan 8 14:41:43 GMT 2016, Jim web wrote: I think I now need to sort out switching to HLS for radio fetching rather than RTMP! (snip) The 320k via HLS has been available for some months for most of the BBC stations. Hi Jim - what you describe has indeed been true for LIVE RADIO streams; G

Re: 320kbps radio audio available via MPEG-DASH

2016-01-08 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Fri Jan 8 17:25:13 GMT 2016, Simon Nash wrote: The commit note has this comment: Note that MPEG-DASH streams cannot be streamed to stdout. What is the reason for this? You'd have to post in the Support Forum to get a definitive answer from dinkypumpkin... Based on my MPEG-DASH experiments

Re: now for something completely different

2016-01-08 Thread artisticforge .
hello I am closer to the grave than the cradle and very microsecond counts. I may sit around all day in a wheelchair but my time is still my time. If I can do something a little faster, complete a little sooner, so much the better. Concerning radio programs on SD cards. The last time I was in the

Re: now for something completely different

2016-01-08 Thread artisticforge .
hello writing to the SD is painfully slow. it is also painfully slow to read large files from the SD card. External 1TB USB 3.0 WD are dirt cheap. A powered Hub to ensure that the External HDD has required power. I have replaced an x86 box running Debian Linux which was the mail server and DNS

Re: now for something completely different

2016-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 January 2016 at 17:23, Dave Liquorice wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:06:55 +, Colin Law wrote: > >> Why would the files have to be on a USB drive? Why not the SD card? > > Reliabilty? I've "killed" an 8 GB microSD card and an 8 GB USB stick with a > Pi being used as a webcam and producin

Re: 320kbps radio audio available via MPEG-DASH

2016-01-08 Thread James Scholes
Jim web wrote: > I think I now need to sort out switching to HLS for radio fetching rather > than RTMP! :-) > > I've been talking to someone, and my initial AIUI is... > > The 320k via HLS has been available for some months for most of the BBC > stations. The focus has since been on having this a

Re: 320kbps radio audio available via MPEG-DASH

2016-01-08 Thread Simon Nash
Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Wed Jan 6 18:10:28 GMT 2016, James Scholes wrote: Just to note that this, (snip) only seems to support TV programs at present. On the contrary, quite the opposite is true: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/issues/234 https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_ip

Re: now for something completely different

2016-01-08 Thread Dave Liquorice
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:06:55 +, Colin Law wrote: > Why would the files have to be on a USB drive? Why not the SD card? Reliabilty? I've "killed" an 8 GB microSD card and an 8 GB USB stick with a Pi being used as a webcam and producing a time laspe movie. OK one full HD frame every 30 second

Re: now for something completely different

2016-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 January 2016 at 16:39, artisticforge . wrote: > Hello > > one of my birthday presents late last year, 23 December, is an Arduino Yun. > runs both arduino sketches and OpenWRT, a flavour of Linux. Also > received the Arduino Robot. ;-) > > Still learning the Yun. Just to prove it could be done

now for something completely different

2016-01-08 Thread artisticforge .
Hello one of my birthday presents late last year, 23 December, is an Arduino Yun. runs both arduino sketches and OpenWRT, a flavour of Linux. Also received the Arduino Robot. ;-) Still learning the Yun. Just to prove it could be done, one of my tasks is to see if GIP may run on the Yun. Has the p

Re: 6 Music Live Hour @ 320

2016-01-08 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Fri Jan 8 13:13:08 GMT 2016, James Scholes wrote: Is there any particular reason you use dashhigh2 as opposed to dashhigh1 or just dashhigh? I'm a little confused, I must admit, why there are two and what the difference is between them. Do they each download from a different CDN? Hi James

Re: 320kbps radio audio available via MPEG-DASH

2016-01-08 Thread Jim web
I think I now need to sort out switching to HLS for radio fetching rather than RTMP! :-) I've been talking to someone, and my initial AIUI is... The 320k via HLS has been available for some months for most of the BBC stations. The focus has since been on having this also via MPEG-DASH, plus allow

Re: 6 Music Live Hour @ 320

2016-01-08 Thread James Scholes
Vangelis forthnet wrote: > get_iplayer --pid=b06sskk8 --radiomode=dashhigh2 --force Is there any particular reason you use dashhigh2 as opposed to dashhigh1 or just dashhigh? I'm a little confused, I must admit, why there are two and what the difference is between them. Do they each download fro

Re: 320kbps radio audio available via MPEG-DASH

2016-01-08 Thread Roger Rarebit
Just been comparing the quality on some Radio 4 programmes between 128 & 320 kpbs and there is a noticeable improvement in sound quality particularly with sibilance. Check out "Open Country River Tay". This is a very exciting development! Roger ___

Re: 6 Music Live Hour @ 320

2016-01-08 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Fri Jan 8 02:23:39 GMT 2016, CJB wrote: we'd love to download in 320 kbps. Please can someone tell us how to do this from MEDA-DASH? Happy New Year Chris (I guess it's still OK to wish for that, though already on the 8th of Jan :-) ). Haven't you received Jon Davies' e-mail? http://lists.