Re: Demise of get_iplayer PPA

2020-07-10 Thread Mark Rogers
Seconded; it's really good to have an alternative PPA and much appreciated that you've made it available. On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 01:35, Peter S Kirk wrote: > > Mark, > > Great work, Thank you for sharing > > On 5 Jul 2020 at 10:49, Mark Grant Mark Grant > wrote:

Re: Look East Monday 15/06

2015-06-22 Thread Mark Rogers
https://www.facebook.com/bbclookeast > and quite a number of posts were made on Jun 15th, some of which come with a > video excerpt, too! Hopefully one such post covers the news item you're > after... That's one avenue I hadn't considered but will explore now, thanks! --

Re: Look East Monday 15/06

2015-06-18 Thread Mark Rogers
hat's where I have to quit. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://l

Look East Monday 15/06

2015-06-18 Thread Mark Rogers
accessible if you had the PID cached from before it left the website or something like that. [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj5w/episodes/player -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

Re: mail-list behavior, was: iplayer audio to lpcm

2014-11-09 Thread Mark Rogers
On 8 Nov 2014 22:41, "Owen Smith" wrote: > > People don't always agree to their postings being published > elsewhere, or their email address being publicised outside of the > lists they have subscribed to. The vast majority (citation needed!) of mailing lists are public and publicly archived. Thi

Re: Hello World...

2014-11-06 Thread Mark Rogers
provides access to the same content in a different (and to many people, more convenient) way. Conversations like this one which suggest that in some way GiP is in remotely the same category as TPB or Tor are misleading and unhelpful. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844

Re: The Register's coverage of the API changes

2014-11-03 Thread Mark Rogers
oll?) but worth investigating? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org h

Re: some insights and thoughts

2014-11-03 Thread Mark Rogers
do like a fair bit of the TV content they churn out (I just don't watch it live because it doesn't suit me to). Pulling the rug out from under GiP which did nothing to threaten the BBC may well change my view on this. [1] But actually Thank they don't! [2] Debatable... but not a debat

Re: More (or less) Tommies

2014-10-17 Thread Mark Rogers
If the program you downloaded is inside an archive then that's probably been set for you, but it's not inconceivable that this won't also cause a problem for you one day. To check permissions, use: ls -l get_iplayer .. and if the "x" bits are missing, set them chmo

Re: podcast listings missing a digit

2014-10-01 Thread Mark Rogers
e sent to everyone (I have...) you'll appreciate that "private by default" is a good idea, not a bad one. Mark -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

Re: Fw: Confirming Membership of List

2014-07-01 Thread Mark Rogers
but that's a pretty weird one even so). Nonsense like that can only serve to damage the list and get_iplayer if given any credence; not everyone will check the validity of an accusation these days before acting on it. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450

Re: iPlayerRadio (finally - and sadly) has changed!

2014-02-17 Thread Mark Rogers
e substantial and it's far too easy to forget that faceless people on mailing lists are real people with real lives and real struggles off-list. I hope that things improve for you and your household (and your country), and in the meantime a huge thanks from me for all your efforts here in the pa

Re: Netiquette - bottom posting - outdated?

2013-07-19 Thread Mark Rogers
me that the reply style isn't more than just "style over substance". Mark (PS: Short, properly separated (ie easily removed) signature follows, another useful piece of netiquette) -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456

Re: Re: New Website

2013-07-17 Thread Mark Rogers
d logo would be no bad thing but the basic idea of providing useful information about a useful tool to a wider audience is the baby that should not get thrown out with the bathwater. Mark -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Regi

Re: Couple of problems since Wheezy stable install

2013-05-07 Thread Mark Rogers
appen). How do I check the value of $MATE_KEYRING_CONTROL? echo $MATE_KEYRING_CONTROL also: set .. returns a list of all variables (it'll be a long list!), so: set | grep KEYRING .. will give you values of any with variable name or value containing "KEYRING". -- Mark Rogers /

Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....

2012-10-05 Thread Mark Rogers
ething new every day! Thanks for the correction. Mark -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.inf

Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Rogers
Internally, get_iplayer uses File::Spec to handle paths portably. Absolutely, I wasn't suggesting that \ shouldn't be supported, Windows users have it hard enough already.... -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21

Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Rogers
7;m thinking of paths like C:\test (where \t could be seen as "tab" not "backslash followed by t". Would switching to forward slashes work (C:/Downloads/BBC) on Windows? I know that many of the underlying Windows/DOS libraries support this. Just curious -- Mark Rogers

Re: Olympic torch relay footage

2012-07-13 Thread Mark Rogers
le to say "--start 1:20:30" (to start 1hr, 20mins and 30sec in) when working with these multi-hour streams. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton

Re: Olympic torch relay footage

2012-07-09 Thread Mark Rogers
llow exactly those steps (amongst many other variations) before mailing the list, but I obviously got something wrong somewhere because it now works fine. I'd like to think there's a technical reason why this didn't work on Saturday morning but I'm sure I'd be kidding mysel

Olympic torch relay footage

2012-07-09 Thread Mark Rogers
Is it possible to use get_iplayer to retrieve Olympic Torch Relay footage? Sample URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchrelay/day46 (It's the afternoon section I want). -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes