Re: YouTube with OBS

2020-10-26 Thread Kapitano
I'll ask again, what does this gave to do with GIP ? This Chrome extension works on most YT vids: https://addoncrop.com/youtube-video-downloader/ ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/l

Re: bbc changed from mp3 to .m4a

2015-02-23 Thread Kapitano
On 21/02/2015 12:35, CJB wrote: I download without aactomp3 and then do a batch conversion run with an audio conversion app. C I use Pazera Free Audio Extractor. Basically a front-end for ffmpeg, I think. It can extract the .aac file from the m4a wrapper, but also convert to mp3 - and yes,

Re: PATCH get_iplayer.cgi

2014-11-05 Thread Kapitano
On 05/11/2014 16:54, Sharon Kimble wrote: @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ my $default_modes = 'default'; $opt_cmdline->{listen} = '0.0.0.0' if ! $opt_cmdline->{listen}; # Search for get_iplayer if ( ! $opt_cmdline->{getiplayer} ) { - for ( './get_iplayer', './get_iplayer.cmd', './get_iplayer.pl',

Re: player.xml broken

2014-05-12 Thread Kapitano
both, and then only what's on Radio 4 and *not* on Radio 4 Extra. Assuming that download history keeping is enabled. - Kapitano - ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-19 Thread Kapitano
On 18/02/2014 22:35, Chris Dunne wrote: I'm interested in this email chain. I have two (budget) TVs that both have USB ports and will play Xvid files (Divx5) when contained in AVI files fine but will not play mp4s directly. Presently the only way I can watch recordings from get_iplayer is to e

Re: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-18 Thread Kapitano
On 18/02/2014 18:32, Mark Evans wrote: Is it possible to record tv files as div x rather than mp4? Correct me if I'm wrong, people but...isn't the DivX format a subset of the MPEG4 standard? ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infra

Re: 4GB filesize limit

2014-02-13 Thread Kapitano
On 13/02/2014 18:59, batguano999 wrote: I think the 4GB limit might be caused by RTMPDump. Could someone put together a patch to enable multi-segment recording? When the 4GB limit is reached, start recording another file with the same name plus a numbered extension. _

Re: Command-line job not working as PVR job

2014-01-31 Thread Kapitano
On 31/01/2014 12:54, dinkypumpkin wrote: search .* Change search back to search0 in the pvr job file. Is there a limit to the number of searches that PVR can handle? Could I have "search0...search1000"? Does it have to start with search zero? And can is it okay to have gaps? Eg. search11

Re: Web PVR Fails to Download Radio Series if Title Contains Question Mark

2013-09-12 Thread Kapitano
On 12/09/2013 17:05, dinkypumpkin wrote: You can download programmes with such 'forbidden' characters - they're stripped by default. Ah. IIRC, the problem was when GiP tried to create *folders* named after metadata containing forbidden characters - eg. "Are You Being Perved?". At least, in Wi

Re: Web PVR Fails to Download Radio Series if Title Contains Question Mark

2013-09-12 Thread Kapitano
On 12/09/2013 07:09, Jeremy Bartle wrote: I am currently downloading two radio series, "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?" and "Are You From the Bugle?". For both of them, the Web PVR adds the series to the PVR List but then fails to download them. They do download if individually queued, s

Re: Loads of Programmes Missing from PVM

2013-09-03 Thread Kapitano
On 9/3/2013 17:27 PM, Vangelis forthnet wrote: I'd hazzard a guess that the clock on your machine needs re-adjusting... Ah, sorry. I have a dead CMOS battery, and thus a BIOS with erratic ideas about time and date. Sometimes I forget to correct the clock. The blue police box in the corner mi

Re: Loads of Programmes Missing from PVM

2013-09-03 Thread Kapitano
On 9/3/2013 15:11 PM, andy.and.d...@ntlworld.com wrote: Last week I tried to get "Just a Minute" but the search engine could not locate it. A wise man once said, "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence". Or bad communication, or overwork. If the BBC reall

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

2013-08-26 Thread Kapitano
We get autogenerated monthly reminders that we're subscribed. Could the they also include reminders of local nettiquete? Don't top post, reply to the list not the sender, this list is not for discussion of other software etc. ...erm, and on whether or not to change thread titles when the thre

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

2013-08-25 Thread Kapitano
On 8/25/2013 16:48 PM, Shevek wrote: After download, you can use ffmpeg to extract the audio ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -vn -acodec copy file.aac Can ffmpeg identify which audio and video codecs are used in a given file? Is there a way to 'ask' it whether an MP4 has sound encoded in aac. mp3, speex

Re: (not) converting to mp3

2013-07-10 Thread Kapitano
On 7/10/2013 16:41 PM, Derek Moss wrote: Thanks, I'll take a look at those, although it might be easiest to let get_iplayer handle the audio/radio programme conversion/extraction and manually specify --raw for TV programmes. Don't the flvs made from radio programmes just contain mp3, aac or wma

Re: (not) converting to mp3

2013-07-10 Thread Kapitano
As a workaround, there's a program called X-WinFF, which is a front end for FFMPEG, allowing for batch encoding. There's also FLV Extract, which can batch extract the audio (or video) from FLV files. I use it to get the .aac (or occasionally .mp3) files out of radio shows downloaded as "raw" F

Re: Uninstallation (duplicate options files)

2013-06-27 Thread Kapitano
On my W7 installation, there are *two* duplicate options files. One at Program Pata/.get_iplayer, and one at users/all users/.get_iplayer. I tried running GiP without one, then without the other. Both times I just got an error message and GiP couldn't search or download. Is this a quirk of W7

Listformat

2013-06-23 Thread Kapitano
I want to set the listformat to . But the line in the options file "listformat " produces a list of programmes all called " ". The line "listformat hello world" causes GiP to list all programmes as the string "hello world". "listformat pid,name" gives"pid,name". The same happens u

PVR Search Exclude

2013-06-12 Thread Kapitano
This is a PVR script for crime serials: category crime excludecategory film output e:\Crime\ subdir 1 subdirformat type tv search0 .* However, I want to exclude 'Crimewatch' from the search. Is there a way to do this within the script? Adding 'exclude0 crimewatch' doesn't work, and I can't f

Re: raw option

2013-03-06 Thread Kapitano
On 3/6/2013 14:44 PM, Derek Moss wrote: Just wanted to check what format the raw command needs to be in the options file. I know on the commandline it's --raw but I'm not if I can just put that in the options or if it needs to be something like raw=1. "raw 1" should work. I've never tried usin

Re: Forbidden Filenames

2013-03-04 Thread Kapitano
On 3/4/2013 14:35 PM, dinkypumpkin wrote: Not so. The subdirectory name is also sanitised with --fatfilename, as you can see from the example Vangelis posted. Without seeing your command or the full output, it's impossible to know where you went wrong. Okay, I think I've figured part of it

Re: Forbidden Filenames

2013-03-04 Thread Kapitano
Following up on my own question Using the --fatfilename switch removes reserved characters from filenames, but seemingly not from folder names. (I'd assumed --fatfilename would reduce filename lengths to 8 characters, as under the old FAT16 system, which is why I didn't try it.) So I ca

Forbidden Filenames

2013-03-04 Thread Kapitano
A few programme titles include characters which are forbidden in Windows file and folder names. Is it possible to install a switch (enabled by default?) which converts them to whitespace or underscores? Or is there a patch which could be inserted into the Perl file? When GiP tries to downloa

Re: Skipdeleted

2013-02-22 Thread Kapitano
On 2/22/2013 14:39 PM, Kapitano wrote: I tried using the --skipdeleted switch Sorry, more testing shows the same behavior without --skipdeleted - in PVR, global options and individual command line searches. So whatever the problem is, it's somewhere else, and seeing as the only other c

Skipdeleted

2013-02-22 Thread Kapitano
I tried using the --skipdeleted switch, which is supposed to skip downloading of metadata, thumbnails and subtitles for radio and TV shows which are not available. What I got was some radio shows, some TV shows *and* some subtitle files...but of zero size and without file extensions. Presumabl

Re: Naming Suggestions

2013-02-20 Thread Kapitano
On 2/20/2013 16:01 PM, get_ipla...@i.lucanops.net wrote: On Windows I find an essential modification is to create a new shortcut in the Send To folder that points to notepad.exe (or your editor of choice), because then on any file on the machine you can right-click in Explorer, go Send To -> No

Re: Naming Suggestions

2013-02-20 Thread Kapitano
On 2/20/2013 13:53 PM, Shevek wrote: Notepad++ is highly recommended and adds a right click "Open With Notepad++" option I use portable NotePad++, and it doesn't add right-click open for files without extensions. K ___ get_iplayer mailing list ge

Re: Naming Suggestions

2013-02-20 Thread Kapitano
On 2/20/2013 13:53 PM, Shevek wrote: Notepad++ is highly recommended and adds a right click "Open With Notepad++" option I use portable NotePad++, and it doesn't add right-click open for files without extensions. K ___ get_iplayer mailing list ge

Naming Suggestions

2013-02-20 Thread Kapitano
Three very minor suggestions: 1) Change the and substitution parameters to and , or something similar. "name" is ambiguous. The description in the documentation as "programme short name" is IMO vague. It's just taken me half an hour of trying things out to know that the cofiguration I wan

Re: Ability to specify a temporary directory.

2013-02-19 Thread Kapitano
On 2/19/2013 18:03 PM, John G. Dargie wrote: In the past I found the internal history would let me down regularly when a download had previously stalled, while get_iplayer assumed I had got it fully downloaded ok. For over two years I used scripts too - including labyrinthine vTask scripts

Re: Ability to specify a temporary directory.

2013-02-19 Thread Kapitano
On 2/19/2013 14:53 PM, John G. Dargie wrote: I call get_iplayer from a script that already looks to see if I have the file downloaded. I also run my script from multiple locations (my Mac, or my Pi which is slower but left on overnight). I want to reliably check that I haven't already downlo

Re: Ability to specify a temporary directory.

2013-02-19 Thread Kapitano
On 2/19/2013 13:37 PM, John G. Dargie wrote: I am using get_iplayer with --file-prefix to specify a networked drive as my destination. Obvious question: Why not download each day's programmes to a non-networked drive, do the processing there, and copy the processed files as a block to the ne

Subtitles with AudioDescribed

2013-02-12 Thread Kapitano
I'm trying to download audiodescribed versions, plus the subtitle files. This is the command line entry to create the PVR setting: get_iplayer --pvr-add="demo1" --search="merlin" --version=audiodescribed --subtitles --get When I run the PVR, the subtitles setting is ignored. I get the video,

Re: infradead is down

2013-02-11 Thread Kapitano
On 2/11/2013 14:30 PM, Colin Law wrote: Possibly a solution would be to provide a command line parameter to get-iplayer which would specify where to store the cache and settings, That would be a very good feature, which I suppose I'm hereby requesting. We've already got one for the default dow

Re: infradead is down

2013-02-11 Thread Kapitano
On 2/11/2013 13:39 PM, Chris Marriott wrote: Is there a compelling reason why the settings, cache, pvr file etc. can't be stored in the get_iplayer folder itself? > From Windows 7 onwards, an non-privileged application does not have write access to the "Program Files" folder. That explains wh

Re: infradead is down

2013-02-11 Thread Kapitano
On 2/11/2013 00:01 AM, dinkypumpkin wrote: the installer puts global settings in the file C:\ProgramData\get_iplayer\options, and user settings (including plugins) are stored under C:\Users\{USERNAME}\.get_iplayer Is there a compelling reason why the settings, cache, pvr file etc. can't be st

Re: Audio bit rate settings

2013-02-07 Thread Kapitano
On 2/7/2013 13:05 PM, Heff wrote: However, each download I do has very low bitrate audio. Even on the flashhd quality level, downloads have 96kbps audio, which sounds terrible! It appears that ffmpeg/rtmp or something converts the downloaded flv to mp4, which I'm guessing effects the audio qua

Re: Hanging Workaround - PVR Runner

2013-01-26 Thread Kapitano
think I screwed up something badly, or you really need the default settings changed, you can contact me on kapitan...@gmail.com. However, I'm a busy man, so I can't guarantee to help. Kapitano - ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_ip

Re: Hanging Workaround - PVR Runner

2013-01-26 Thread Kapitano
On 1/26/2013 19:32 PM, Jon Davies wrote: and your rar is password protected. Oh no not again. I'm using a portable version of WinRAR which showed falsely as password protected on *some* systems, *if* I use compression. But I thought I'd fixed it. So, here it is again with *zero* compressi

Re: Hanging Workaround - PVR Runner

2013-01-26 Thread Kapitano
Oops. There was a bug in the PVR_Auto scripts. All fixed now (fingers crossed). Download the debugged V1.1 here: http://www.mediafire.com/?8ixcm0g8cbfjsik K ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/m

Re: Hanging Workaround - PVR Runner

2013-01-26 Thread Kapitano
On 1/26/2013 12:47 PM, Jon Davies wrote: I was interested in fixing the underlying problem rather than doing anything with the workaround. I'd rather get_iplayer just didn't hang, I agree, but it takes time to fix underlying problems - and workarounds can fill the gap. The TV and radio shows a

Re: Hanging Workaround - PVR Runner

2013-01-26 Thread Kapitano
On 1/25/2013 22:59 PM, Jon Davies wrote: I've come up with a workaround to the problem of GiP hanging when it receives bad data. which problem is this? (this isn't a problem I've seen, nor one I can find in the mailing list, though that doesn't mean it isn't there... ;-) You see? I'm so good

Hanging Workaround - PVR Runner

2013-01-25 Thread Kapitano
will hopefully become not needed in the future. And I'm sorry, but I only know Windows, so there's no versions for other systems. If you want a copy, send me an email (to kapitan...@gmail.com) and I'll send it to you. Kapitano ___ g

Re: Downloading multiple versions

2013-01-25 Thread Kapitano
On 1/25/2013 02:11 AM, dinkypumpkin wrote: The --force option doesn't imply --overwrite, Ah. For complicated reasons I thought it did. But it (again) turns out Get_iPlayer is more intelligently designed than my attempts to use it. ___ get_iplay

Downloading multiple versions

2013-01-24 Thread Kapitano
For certain programmes, I want to get the audiodescribed version, downloaded to one folder, *and* the nondescribed, nonsigned version, downloaded to another. But if I understang GiP correctly, I need to use --force to get a second version, and I don't want to abuse bandwidth redownloading vers

Re: Downloading Subtitles-Only

2013-01-11 Thread Kapitano
>get_iplayer is working as intended. >The programme metadata used for searching >does not include any indicator of whether or >not a particular programme has subtitles. I see, fair enough. I'm actually trying to use BBC subtitles as a text corpus for linguisic analysis, and was hoping to avoid

Downloading Subtitles-Only

2013-01-10 Thread Kapitano
When I run this: get_iplayer --type tv --subtitles-only --terse --search .* --file-prefix=" - - " ...GiP doesn't just list what subtitles are available, it downloads the srt files. And if I run it again, it downloads them again. If I run it on different days, I get identical srt files with

Downloading by Category

2012-09-01 Thread Kapitano
I've got Get_iPlayer installed on two machines, one with v2.80, the other with v2.82. When I type this into v2.80: get_iplayer --category=film --get ...it downloads all the films (that haven't been previously downloaded). When I type it into v2.82, I get the message: "ERROR: Search term(s) r

Re: Saved filename format for recordings

2012-03-27 Thread Kapitano
On 27/03/2012 10:29, MrArtist wrote: Nice tip, I've just had a quick look at TinyTask, haven't a clue how to use it yet, tried a test by hitting record, renaming a file and then 'stop'. Went to replay it and it took the mouse back to the same file, highlighted the .mp4 bit (as what was previo

Re: Saved filename format for recordings

2012-03-27 Thread Kapitano
On 27/03/2012 08:06, J K.Eason wrote: I'd also like to know how to save filenames without the PID and 'default' on the end, Not exactly elegant, but I use 'Everything' - a much better replacement for the Windows search function to find all files containing "_default."... ...and then use a m

Re: Using get_iplayer as a Conversion Tool

2012-03-22 Thread Kapitano
There's a free program here that might help: http://winff.org/html_new/ It uses the same utility for conversion as Get_Iplayer - FFMpeg - but it can also handle batch processing, and it's somewhat easier to use. (There's another program called Super (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html), wh

Radiomodes & WMA

2012-02-05 Thread Kapitano
When downloading radio shows, the usual aac embedded in flv or m4a is unavailable, and get_iplayer downloads in wma - which seems to take longer than it would to stream in real time. When I try later, the flv is usually available. So I want to disable the wma option. Is this how I do it? get