Re: Syntax for grabbing all episodes of the new season of Celebrity Master Chef

2020-07-05 Thread Paul Thornett
the 30-day limitation. - Regards, Paul Thornett On Mon, 6 Jul. 2020, 11:09 VeniVidiVideo, wrote: > > Boy, the hypocrisy here is stunning. The BBC allows time-limited downloads, > but does NOT allow downloads without an expiration date. Every single > licens

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-20 Thread Paul Thornett
To those of you who suggested the --exclude-supplier bidi, much kudos. Using this option now produces a 500% speed increase, which satisfies me. Thank you very much. Regards, Paul Thornett On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 00:14, Paul Thornett wrote: > > It seems to me that downloads have becom

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-18 Thread Paul Thornett
it's far lower. Right now I'm getting 1.1 Mb/s, and am poised to cancel the download as soon as I get an "Unexpected size" error. Which has just occurred, not 2 minutes after I wrote the previous sentence. Regards, Paul Thornett On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 00:14, Paul Thornett wrote: > >

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-17 Thread Paul Thornett
And the way I have got to 87.6% is by stopping the transfer every 10% and doing a robocopy to a separate folder. Regards, Paul Thornett On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 16:49, Paul Thornett wrote: > > The specifics of my repeated failures is: > I'm trying to download the 2nd series of The Spli

Re: Slow speed

2020-02-17 Thread Paul Thornett
Today (at around 2am) I have got to 87.6% of Episode 4 (0.99GB) before failing again. If relevant, only Episode 1 is in the cache, hence my use of PIDs. Regards, Paul Thornett On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 00:14, Paul Thornett wrote: > > It seems to me that downloads have become very slow,

Slow speed

2020-02-15 Thread Paul Thornett
It seems to me that downloads have become very slow, often not completing. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? Regards, Paul Thornett ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Excessive Bounces

2019-07-27 Thread Paul Thornett
Me too - also a very infrequent contributor. - Regards, Paul Thornett On Sat., 27 Jul. 2019, 21:19 Roger Tricker, wrote: > > Yep, me too, although I rarely contribute. > Roger > > On 27/07/2019 12:14, Steven Carr wrote: > > Anyone else getting kicked fro

Re: Subtitles

2019-07-19 Thread Paul Thornett
a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.) Regards, Paul Thornett On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 15:32, Paul Thornett wrote: > > Many thanks for your response. I am using the latest version (3.21). > > I wonder why I'm having proble

Re: Subtitles

2019-07-18 Thread Paul Thornett
Many thanks for your response. I am using the latest version (3.21). I wonder why I'm having problems. I'll try an uninstall followed by a reinstall. Regards, Paul Thornett On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 15:21, artisticforge Niemand wrote: > > Hello > > You did not mention which ve

Subtitles

2019-07-18 Thread Paul Thornett
I posted a description of a problem I'm experiencing with all subtitles using GIP at the moment. I'd appreciate it if someone could download a recent programme using all the options I listed, thern let me know if you got the subtitle correctly. Many thanks. Regards, Paul Thornett

Subtitles

2019-07-17 Thread Paul Thornett
: Converting to MPEG-TS INFO: Converting to MP4 INFO: Tagging MP4 INFO: Downloading subtitles [original] Terminating on signal SIGINT(2) It looks to me as if the attempt to download subtitles has failed. Any ideas please? Regards, Paul Thornett

Re: Europe

2018-12-21 Thread Paul Thornett
and often not to be trusted. Regards, Paul Thornett Regards, Paul Thornett On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 00:33, Chris Marriott wrote: > > That's the way it's always been. TV programmes are geo-restricted, but radio > programmes are not. You need to use a VPN which makes you appear to be in

Re: Cannot play downloads from get_iplayer!

2018-04-18 Thread Paul Thornett
That's interesting and odd. With the --info option I don't see the hlsxx options nor the hvf... one, but I can certainly download the hlsxx one! Regards, Paul Thornett On 18 April 2018 at 20:41, RS <richard...@zoho.com> wrote: > On 18/04/18 11:05, Paul Thornett wrote: >>

Re: Cannot play downloads from get_iplayer!

2018-04-18 Thread Paul Thornett
As a matter of interest, how do I check if hls is available for a particular file? I thought --info would show this, but using this option on "Ordeal by Innocence Episode 1" does not reveal the availability of the hlshd stream, even though it is there. Regards, Paul Thornett On 18

Re: Cannot play downloads from get_iplayer!

2018-04-18 Thread Paul Thornett
OK, but, previously, the tvmode=best has produced an .mp4 file that my PVR is quite happy with. This is no longer the case. Does that not suggest something has changed? And you're right - I'm not in UK. But how did you deduce that from my postings? Regards, Paul Thornett On 18 April 2018 at 15

Re: Cannot play downloads from get_iplayer!

2018-04-17 Thread Paul Thornett
. Then, of course, I was getting .mp4 files, all of which played perfectly. So it seems to me that something in the BBC's formatting has changed recently; but that change has apparently been picked up only by my PVR (which seems rather unlikely). Regards, Paul Thornett On 18 April 2018 at 07:12, iz

Cannot play downloads from get_iplayer!

2018-04-17 Thread Paul Thornett
. But why am I having this problem? Is there anything else I could try (I really don't want to reduce the bitrate any more if I can help it)? Regards, Paul Thornett ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org

Re: Unable to play with VLC

2018-04-02 Thread Paul Thornett
Problem solved! VLC can't cope with subtitle files containing colour directives. I've only recently started requesting subtitles (in fact, when v3.13 came out). Regards, Paul Thornett On 3 April 2018 at 11:44, Paul Thornett <pthorn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Running on Windows

Unable to play with VLC

2018-04-02 Thread Paul Thornett
in the progress bar at the bottom of the screen flashing yellow while sweeping back and forth across the entire progress bar, with CPU usage ranging from 1% to 25%. Regards, Paul Thornett ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http

Re: Playing BBC R3 FLAC files recorded by nightly VLC

2017-08-06 Thread Paul Thornett
> If Paul Thornett right clicks on the Radio iPlayer, or whatever it is called > now, it will tell him the bit rate. It will be 320kbit/s unless he has a > slow connection or is suffering from geo-blocking. You are, of course, absolutely right. Except that right-clicking produces 9

Re: Playing BBC R3 FLAC files recorded by nightly VLC

2017-08-06 Thread Paul Thornett
, playing and recording a live stream is impractical given the time difference). MediaInfo shows a constant bit rate of 1411 kb/s, a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and a bit depth of 16. If you then do the same for a live Prom, you get exactly the same results from MediaInfo, That convinces me. Regards, Paul

Re: Playing BBC R3 FLAC files recorded by nightly VLC

2017-08-05 Thread Paul Thornett
in iPlayer for 30 days. Regards, Paul Thornett On 6 August 2017 at 02:30, RS <richard...@zoho.com> wrote: > A few days ago Vangelis kindly told us how to record the BBC R3 FLAC streams > using a recent nightly build of VLC. Has anyone been able to play the > recordings oth

Re: So what does this really mean

2016-09-16 Thread Paul Thornett
t decision as to which country to live in. I find the assertion contained in Michael Norman's statement above totally offensive. Mind you, a country filled with people of his ilk is not one I would wish to live in. Regards, Paul Thornett On 17 September 2016 at 01:21, michael norman <michaeltnor