Re: Red Button now on iPlayer

2017-05-15 Thread Nick Payne
On 15/05/2017 8:50 PM, RS wrote: > [snip]... > > There are no HLShd modes, but this appears to be normal for Red Button > coverage. What I noticed with the red button coverage for the recently finished World Snooker Championships was that if I downloaded the coverage as soon as it became available,

Re: Red Button now on iPlayer

2017-05-15 Thread RS
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 16:02 I wrote I need to do some more work on this, and read Vangelis's article properly. --exclude-supplier=limelight,bidi does not work, nor does --exclude-supplier=mf_limelight,mf_bidi In both cases it says it is going to try hvfxsd1, hvfxsd2 and hvfxsd3 when it sh

Re: Red Button now on iPlayer

2017-05-15 Thread RS
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 15:47 I wrote I should have read the release notes for v3.00 more carefully. They mention the Bidi CDN. Also there is a reminder about --exclude-supplier so we could use --exclude-supplier=limelight,bidi although Vangelis says here http://lists.infradead.org/pipe

Re: Red Button now on iPlayer

2017-05-15 Thread RS
From: tellyaddict Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 14:18 I'm not sure if my output is the same as yours because they can vary but my verbose output for --info on b08r3nv4 tells me that hvfxsd2 comes from >Limelight which seems to be quite a slow server and this is from past experience as well. I

Re: Off topic security updates and XP

2017-05-15 Thread Colin Law
On 14 May 2017 at 22:09, Dave Widgery wrote: > Hi > Firstly I agree, I would never advocate using XP in a commercial > environment, I only use it because it is convenient to use an old > machine for get_iplayer, You might like to consider putting Lubuntu on that, Lubuntu is low on resource requir

Re: Red Button now on iPlayer

2017-05-15 Thread tellyaddict
> So those numbers are a red herring. Yes. As James said, those numbers have no relation to speed. Just the order they are tried in. > Even so there are some dramatic differences between the sub-modes. I haven't > tried them all but hlsvhigh1 > and hvfxsd5 both download at about 60Mbit/s, whil

Re: Red Button now on iPlayer

2017-05-15 Thread RS
From: James Scholes Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 12:36 Not at all. These are just internal numbers used to assign a priority to each stream. The BBC iPlayer and apps will try the stream with the lowest priority first, and if performance seems lackluster or there's an error they will try the s

Re: Red Button now on iPlayer

2017-05-15 Thread James Scholes
RS wrote: I wondered whether the 100 for hlsvhigh1 meant it was limited to 100Mbit/s. I am used to getting up to 80Mbit/s for hlshd. Could the 10 for hvfxsd2 mean it was limited to 10Mbit/s? Not at all. These are just internal numbers used to assign a priority to each stream. The BBC iPlaye

Re: Red Button now on iPlayer

2017-05-15 Thread RS
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 11:50 I wrote The highest number I could find for hvfxsd was 30. For hvfxsd1 the string ends (CDN: mf_bidi_uk_hls_http/30) I downloaded the second programme with that mode at about 18Mbit/s. That should read (CDN: mf_bidi_uk_hls_https/30)

Red Button now on iPlayer

2017-05-15 Thread RS
I was very grateful to Vangelis for telling me how to find the PIDs for Red Button coverage of equestrian events in the Olympics. The BBC now seems to have made it slightly easier. The coverage of the Badminton cross-country on 5 May is now in the iPlayer as two 3h programmes. The PIDs are b0

More than 9,999 Indexes in tv.cache Overlaps radio.cache.

2017-05-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I just tried to add TV programme `1' to the PVR. $ ./get_iplayer --nopurge -e 31536000 --future --modes best \ > --subtitles --versions default,audiodescribed 1 get_iplayer v3.01, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;