[ANN] get_iplayer v3.01 released

2017-05-06 Thread dinkypumpkin
Release notes: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release301 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.99 released

2017-02-11 Thread dinkypumpkin
Release notes: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release299 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.98 released

2017-02-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
Release notes: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release298 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.97 released

2016-09-25 Thread dinkypumpkin
Release notes: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release297 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.96 released

2016-08-19 Thread dinkypumpkin
Release notes: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release296 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

[ANN] get_iplayer Windows installer 2.95.2 released

2016-07-31 Thread dinkypumpkin
See: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer_win32/releases/latest This is an update only to the bundled Perl distribution. get_iplayer itself has not been updated. If you don't use Windows, ignore this announcement. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get

[ANN] get_iplayer Windows installer 2.95.1 released

2016-07-07 Thread dinkypumpkin
See: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer_win32/releases/latest This is an update only to the Windows packaging. get_iplayer itself has not been updated. If you don't use Windows, ignore this announcement. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplay

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.95 released

2016-07-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
Release notes: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release295 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.94 released

2015-06-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
get_iplayer 2.94 was released shortly after 2.93 to fix a bug in live streaming of some stations. Release notes are in the same location as 2.93: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release293 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@list

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.93 released

2015-06-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 3 Jun 2015, at 13:40, John Warburton wrote: > Unfortunately, an attempt to stream BBC News (80002) gives: > > INFO: 1 Matching Programmes > ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site Note to packagers: Unfortunately, I will have to make another release tonight (3 Jun) UK t

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.93 released

2015-06-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
Release notes here: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release293 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.92 released

2015-03-13 Thread dinkypumpkin
Release notes here: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release292 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Downloading Review 2014 episodes

2014-12-29 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 29/12/2014 11:31, Barry Caruth wrote: Thanks. That worked for a direct PID download both on command line and by adding to my prefs but it doesn't seem to apply in PVR mode even if I manually edit the PVR search file to add "future 1". Is this option just not supported in PVR mode? Correct

Re: Downloading Review 2014 episodes

2014-12-28 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 28/12/2014 19:23, JB Caruth wrote: INFO: Ignoring Future Prog: '2526: Review: 2014 - The Year In Books - 2015-01-01T20:30:00Z' Does that last line indicate that the programme can't yet be downloaded even though it's playable on the source URL? No. If you're going to use --refresh-future wh

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.91 released

2014-12-23 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 23/12/2014 20:09, Peter S Kirk wrote: I can confirm all except BBC News result in a 404 Error here too. Perhaps it's ISP and/or region issue - Virgin Media cable, Scotchland Very possibly, though that would suck for testing. I checked, and some more HD streams are available for me via Limel

Re: one radio program in a series causes ffmpeg to throw an error - is this unusual?

2014-12-23 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 23/12/2014 12:56, Nick wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:15:55 + Mable Syrup wrote: $ get_iplayer --type=radio --pid b04symns --force [...] ffmpeg version git-N-30582-gef28c7b, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the I just got_iplayer'd that programme OK here, perhaps your version of FFMPEG is a bi

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.91 released

2014-12-23 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 23/12/2014 02:17, Alex Poylisher wrote: BBC Four: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/playlists/hds/pc/ak/bbc_four_hd.f4m BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/playlists/hds/pc/ak/bbc_news_channel_hd.f4m None of those links ever worked for me except for BBC News, but it wasn't reli

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.91 released

2014-12-22 Thread dinkypumpkin
INFO: File name prefix = "The Ideas That Make Us Series 3 - 5. Virtue" Remove the quotes from the fileprefix setting in your options file. This is a change in 2.91 - see release notes. If enough people can't grapple with this and start reaching for pitchforks, I might add another round of qu

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.91 released

2014-12-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
Release notes here: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release291 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: (some) accented letters screwed by 'Exclude Programmes' field

2014-12-19 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 19/12/2014 14:05, M Clark wrote: This may well be a Perl problem, or my machine, but (some) accented characters, when entered into 'Exclude Programmes' field in WebPVR are coming backed well and truly screwed after a Search. Should be fixed now. 32767 = 2 to power 15 -1, hmmm. The bad

Re: Programme name missing sometimes on latest Git verison

2014-12-18 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 18/12/2014 09:40, M Clark wrote: Using this Git version, 17/12/14 18:01, the programme name is not always in the downloaded file. Should be fixed now. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailma

Re: --hls-liveradio-opts

2014-12-15 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 15/12/2014 04:54, Vangelis forthnet wrote: ffmpeg -headers "X-Forwarded-For: 31.3.xxx.xxx" After a bit of searching, I found I had to use this GiP option: --hls-liveradio-optsAdd custom options to ffmpeg HLS download for liveradio I'm fairly sure that any "-headers" argument will be

Re: --hls-liveradio-opts

2014-12-15 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 15/12/2014 17:51, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: I noticed this a while ago and thought it was odd seeing eg '-x' turning into '"-x"'. It seems to me that perl only needs to enclose any parameter in double quotes if it has embedded spaces in it. It's just printed that way so you woul

Re: GitHub repo moved

2014-12-15 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 15/12/2014 16:58, batguano999 wrote: (Perhaps there is a slick way to download only the latest script and put it into /usr/bin without cloning the whole git, but my method works OK.) It doesn't look like you are actually cloning the repo in the Git sense, but rather downloading a snapshot

GitHub repo moved

2014-12-15 Thread dinkypumpkin
GitHub repo has been moved to: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer I've given the repo a more permanent home under a GitHub organisation with any eye towards some future changes. Docs have been updated, but please report any omissions. This move has no impact on get_iplayer usage. It

Re: Support for live radio Shoutcast streams

2014-12-14 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 13/12/2014 05:06, Vangelis forthnet wrote: I was browsing the code of your latest get_iplayer commit git-d1caff0: "Added support for live radio Shoutcast streams" I've removed the Shoutcast code. Too many ways the BBC could blow it up when they begin bringing more Shoutcast streams online

Re: Some missing radio episodes

2014-12-13 Thread dinkypumpkin
o be released? See this for how to get the latest "latest" version: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/githeadwin I'm going to sort out the version number mess after next release. ___ get_iplayer mailing list g

Re: New version type?

2014-12-11 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 11/12/2014 08:16, M Clark wrote: which failed to download but noticed "available versions: editorial", so added editorial to the version list and, viola (as Nellie Pledge may have said), it worked. Should be fixed at GitHub. Some archive programmes throw up one of several alternate versio

Re: An & Exclude Programmes (Web PVR) truncates data

2014-12-04 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 04/12/2014 19:28, Peter S Kirk wrote: Does using &,work? No. "&'" contains an ampersand. It was an encoding issue. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: An & Exclude Programmes (Web PVR) truncates data

2014-12-04 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 04/12/2014 03:56, M Clark wrote: If one types a string containing and & in the Exclude Programmes field that and all subsequent characters are dropped. eg. Dennis & Gnasher becomes Dennis Already fixed for next release ___ get_iplayer mailing l

Re: GitHead questions from the uninitiated

2014-12-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
users, but might help. Also look at the issue tracker, where a similar problem may have been reported: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/issues Issues fixed by a particular commit will usually be noted as such. Also look at the forums: https://squarepenguin.co.uk/all-forums/

Re: --force loads repeats for radio programmes

2014-12-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 03/12/2014 00:30, Alan Milewczyk wrote: Don't think anyone has raised this previously. Occasionally a programme download gets screwed up or I need to re-download a prog that's already been downloaded. I've set my prefs to append the filename with information on when the programme was last br

Re: GitHead questions from the uninitiated

2014-12-02 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 02/12/2014 23:47, Shevek wrote: On 2 December 2014 at 22:32, Alan Milewczyk wrote: how do we know when this has been updated? It not like some file list where we can see the date stamp of the files. Oh yes there is. Go to the home page of the repo: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin

Re: A curious feature of GitHead Win version 01/12

2014-12-02 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 02/12/2014 01:54, dinkypumpkin wrote: Should be fixed now. There should be line breaks in the --info output I decided to revert to previous behaviour and strip line breaks from the long description in --info output. No reason to use all that screen real estate for --info

Re: A curious feature of GitHead Win version 01/12

2014-12-01 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 02/12/2014 00:39, Anthony Whitehouse wrote: Having just implemented the 01/12/2014 version of get_iplayer.pl for Windows from Git Head, I notice that rogue carriage returns are appearing in the description field within 'the cmd run window', the 'associated generic .xml file' and in the 'downlo

Re: Trouble getting get_iplayer.cgi to run under Cygwin

2014-11-22 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 22/11/2014 20:36, Margate Sands wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:52 PM, dinkypumpkin wrote: instead of ignoring it. I've posted a patch to work around this issue: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/installation#githead Thank you. Everything works now as expected. Go

Re: Trouble getting get_iplayer.cgi to run under Cygwin

2014-11-20 Thread dinkypumpkin
one of the Perl core modules behaves differently in Cygwin that it does in other unix-like systems. Cwd::abs_path dies when it is fed a non-existent file instead of ignoring it. I've posted a patch to work around this issue: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/installation#gi

Re: peculiar to BBC Radio Wales?

2014-11-17 Thread dinkypumpkin
n Git: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/installation#githead There have a been several similar problems reported lately (all with nations radio programmes so far), enough to be more than coincidental. I'm assuming that the mediaselector/4 API is on the way to being killed, or l

Re: Starting November 11, 2014 output filenames missing underline/underscore

2014-11-17 Thread dinkypumpkin
, which replaced the blank space in the file name." Should be fixed in Git. https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/installation#githead ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/lis

Re: Having problems downloading Tommies (again)

2014-11-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 09/11/2014 23:34, James Scholes wrote: get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=b03thc5k get_iplayer v2.90, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis ... INFO Trying to stream pid using type radio INFO: pid found in cache Matches: 13161: Tommies - 4 November 1914, BBC Radio 4, INFO: 1 Matching Programmes W

Re: Your message to get_iplayer awaits moderator approval

2014-11-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 09/11/2014 18:05, C E Macfarlane wrote: been quite sufficient, but you required me to submit sort of patch just so From your response, it now seems clear you weren't submitting your code for inclusion in get_iplayer. My apologies for considering it as such and holding it to that standard.

Re: Your message to get_iplayer awaits moderator approval

2014-11-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 09/11/2014 15:52, C E Macfarlane wrote: The part of the program finding external programs has had to be rewritten to use nice. Even without nice, I think this aspect of it would be worth incorporating into get_iplayer, because, at the moment, the various tests for external progra

Re: Your message to get_iplayer awaits moderator approval

2014-11-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 08/11/2014 21:08, C E Macfarlane wrote: 1) This patches get_iplayer v2.90 to use nice with the parameter -n 19, Others have beaten me to the punch here: nice does not belong in get_iplayer. Use a wrapper script or shell alias to apply nice to get_iplayer itself. Leaving that aside, I

Re: Difficulties downloading a couple of programmes - help please!

2014-11-09 Thread dinkypumpkin
/2014 (b04pg8sy)' This was fixed recently. To install: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/installation#githead For your examples, which are recent enough to be in the cache, this hack might work with 2.90: get_iplayer --pid b04plqm3 --versions default2 Note the "2" appe

Live TV pining for the fjords

2014-11-08 Thread dinkypumpkin
It looks the BBC have removed the RTMP streams for live TV. At least, they're no longer where get_iplayer looks for them. If anyone knows that they are still running, and how to locate them, let me know. Since the live streams were switched to Adobe HDS a little while back, it's no surprise

Re: 'fileprefix' filename templates are having characters elided

2014-11-08 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 08/11/2014 13:58, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 08/11/2014 13:52, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 08/11/2014 12:40, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: --fatfilename --whitespace --file-prefix "$GRAB-SN130-002369 R= - --whitespace changed with 2.87. See the 2.87 release notes. Sorry - seem

Re: 'fileprefix' filename templates are having characters elided

2014-11-08 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 08/11/2014 13:52, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 08/11/2014 12:40, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: --fatfilename --whitespace --file-prefix "$GRAB-SN130-002369 R= - --whitespace changed with 2.87. See the 2.87 release notes. Sorry - seems you already knew that. Will look

Re: 'fileprefix' filename templates are having characters elided

2014-11-08 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 08/11/2014 12:40, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: --fatfilename --whitespace --file-prefix "$GRAB-SN130-002369 R= - --whitespace changed with 2.87. See the 2.87 release notes. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org h

Re: XBMC iPlayer plugin

2014-11-07 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 07/11/2014 23:23, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 07/11/2014 20:54, Jonathan Larmour wrote: Like XBMC, dinkypumpkin changed GiP to use the ion feeds. Here's a direct For anyone using this latest version (2.6.3+) of the XBMC plugin: I would be curious to know if you can get programme listing

Re: Episode Numbering not working

2014-11-07 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 07/11/2014 23:06, Dave Liquorice wrote: Episode numbering isn't working (for me) with a programme *in* the cache: That should be fixed as well in next release. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.o

Re: XBMC iPlayer plugin

2014-11-07 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 07/11/2014 20:54, Jonathan Larmour wrote: Like XBMC, dinkypumpkin changed GiP to use the ion feeds. Here's a direct For anyone using this latest version (2.6.3+) of the XBMC plugin: I would be curious to know if you can get programme listings for Radio 3, Radio 4 and World Servic

Re: Looks like Nitro isn't the way forward for open data - developer keys being revoked in one week :(

2014-11-06 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 06/11/2014 19:25, dinkypumpkin wrote: One of those 3 lonely posts pointed to some Nitro-based code developed for http://atlas.metabroadcast.com (https://github.com/mbst/glycerin). Looking through their source, it looks like Nitro might support the kinds of queries that would be useful in a

Re: Looks like Nitro isn't the way forward for open data - developer keys being revoked in one week :(

2014-11-06 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 06/11/2014 14:35, Jonathan H wrote: I got a key, but the whole system seemed extremely flaky and undocumented. There was supposed to be a forum, but it had 3 old posts and no new postings ever got allowed through. One of those 3 lonely posts pointed to some Nitro-based code developed for ht

Re: PATCH addition of /usr/local/bin/ in 'get_iplayer.cgi'

2014-11-06 Thread dinkypumpkin
commit 497ad9c648b4133e53bff84257850b628fe68279 Author: Sharon Kimble Date: Wed Nov 5 16:25:54 2014 + Merged - thanks. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Episode Numbering not working

2014-11-06 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 06/11/2014 11:24, Barry Caruth wrote: I noticed an error message about screen scraping not working if HTML::Parser was out of date - so I updated my Perl modules and it seems to be working better now. That's part of it, but there are some more changes necessary to pick up episode numbers

Re: PATCH addition of /usr/local/bin/ in 'get_iplayer.cgi'

2014-11-05 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 06/11/2014 00:14, dinkypumpkin wrote: Sorry, but your patch doesn't apply. A few things, for anyone who wants to submit a patch to the list: Before any pedants pop up: Yes, those instructions only apply if you're using Git (as I hope you are). If you can create a patch with &q

Re: PATCH addition of /usr/local/bin/ in 'get_iplayer.cgi'

2014-11-05 Thread dinkypumpkin
Sorry, but your patch doesn't apply. A few things, for anyone who wants to submit a patch to the list: 1. Don't expand the leading tabs to spaces. That's a no-no for get_iplayer, and will cause the patch to fail as in this case. In general, you should follow the indentation convention for wha

Re: PVR "unwanted features"

2014-11-05 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 05/11/2014 19:47, Don Grunbaum wrote: Having rebuilt my cache files from scratch, with the same command I get 0 matches Your original post referred to the recent fix for sports programmes, so I assumed you had the updated version of get_iplayer, but you obviously don't. Go to the Git HEAD

Re: PATCH get_iplayer.cgi

2014-11-05 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 05/11/2014 17:42, Stuart Jarvis wrote: Aside: unusual for this to appear on the list - patches normally via github pull request, I guess? Much preferred, but not required. get_iplayer receives so few contributions that it doesn't make much difference. But - for pete's sake include a desc

Re: PATCH get_iplayer.cgi

2014-11-05 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 05/11/2014 16:54, Sharon Kimble wrote: - for ( './get_iplayer', './get_iplayer.cmd', './get_iplayer.pl', '/usr/bin/get_iplayer' ) { + for ( './get_iplayer', './get_iplayer.cmd', './get_iplayer.pl', '/usr/bin/get_iplayer' '/usr/local/bin/get_iplayer' ) { Your patch has a bug. P

Re: PVR "unwanted features"

2014-11-04 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 04/11/2014 21:01, Don Grunbaum wrote: Repeating my thanks to DP et al for their very swift resolution to the First, DP's fix for the past weekend's two Formula 1 programmes doesn't seem to have worked for me (Windows XP and 7). The Radio 5 live programmes show in the cache, but not the TV. T

Re: Episode Numbering not working

2014-11-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 03/11/2014 20:29, Charles Holding wrote: I've just let my pvr jobs download and the episode numbers appear to be missing in filename (getting s01e00, s02e00 etc.) and .nfo metadata? Probably fixed in Git for next release. If you want it now: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_ip

Re: Thank You

2014-11-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 03/11/2014 19:43, Don Grunbaum wrote: Having installed 2.90 the PVR works, but for some reason this weekend's F1 programmes are missing. I have downloaded the using the PID and CLI, Fixed in Git for next release. If you want it now: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.89 released

2014-11-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 03/11/2014 07:56, Nick Payne wrote: I've noticed that the last two Windows installers I have run, for 2.87 and 2.90, have both for some reason thought I had VLC 2.06 installed and wanted to upgrade it to 2.15, whereas on both occasions I already had 2.15 installed... get_iplayer installs a s

Re: Windows installer antivirus warnings

2014-11-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 03/11/2014 15:49, dinkypumpkin wrote: Avast and Kaspersky are known to reject get_iplayer installers, going The other obvious thing I forgot to mention is that the latest installer has only been in the wild for 2 weeks, so as the various antivirus vendors update their definitions, false

Windows installer antivirus warnings

2014-11-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
always install it manually: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/winmanual Someone with with better tools or more knowledge on this subject should weigh in. If the installer is in fact infected, I'll withdraw it. ___ get_iplayer mailing l

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.89 released

2014-11-03 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 03/11/2014 01:55, Owen Smith wrote: I'm intrigued about the lack of episode thumbnails for radio. Looking in my iPlayer plugin for Logitech Media Server (aka Squeezebox Server) I wish I had known this yesterday. They're using series series thumbnails, but that would still be a bit nicer t

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.90 released

2014-11-02 Thread dinkypumpkin
Forgot to fix the damned Web PVR Manager for damned ancient Perls. Upgrade from 2.89 isn't an immediate concern for you unless you use the Web PVR manager with perl 5.10.0 or below. Release notes are the same: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/relea

Windows Installer: AtomicParsley download location changed due to download failure

2014-11-02 Thread dinkypumpkin
BitBucket borked the AtomicParsley download used by the Windows installer. It looks like they've blocked it unless you download from their site, but I'm not sure what is going on. It could just be some temporary problem. They've broken the download before, so I've relocated AtomicParsley and

[ANN] get_iplayer 2.89 released

2014-11-02 Thread dinkypumpkin
get_iplayer 2.88 was withdrawn due to a bug found after it was released for Homebrew. v2.89 is the successor to v2.87. Release notes here: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/release289 ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer

Re: Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

2014-10-31 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 01/11/2014 02:01, Steven Maude wrote: Finally, Rob's suggestion in this thread of using BBC search is a great one. It means you don't need to scrape the whole thing, though you'd have a short, acceptable wait for each search to run; that might be the way to go, unless there are compelling reas

get_iplayer repair update #1

2014-10-31 Thread dinkypumpkin
get_iplayer has been more or less repaired, but there are still some wounds. I'm going to release what I have on Sunday. I'm on the road next week, so I've run out of time to do more for the time being. Consider it a stopgap until progress can be made on other fronts. This is where things are

Re: Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

2014-10-31 Thread dinkypumpkin
odel. I'm going to have another go at some point. However, dinkypumpkin mentioned that centralising a feed wasn't a preferred option. That said, there's nothing to stop having a user-specified option to point get_player to a specific feed URL. If someone hosts a feed, then decides t

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-10-31 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 31/10/2014 23:55, David Lake (dlake) wrote: Check the banner at the top of the page. "Beta The BBC Developer site is currently open for registration to BBC Employees. Account requests from other users are not currently being activated. Please check back soon for more info." Then check

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-30 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 30/10/2014 04:16, User Name wrote: I found that by co-opting (and modifying slightly the behaviour of) the --refreshfuture cmdline option, I was able to re-populate the cache with a fair amount of stuff. I have modified the 2.86 git version of the get_iplayer.pl script I have on Windows (pr

How to download via PID

2014-10-29 Thread dinkypumpkin
For people asking how to download via PID, you could do worse than to read the documentation: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#recording If you still don't get it, go to: https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/topic/get_iplayer-search-and-pvr-functions-no-longer

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 29/10/2014 21:40, David Lake (dlake) wrote: "Alternatively, maybe some kind of proxy for the metadata can be used." You mean, like this ? http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/#home I looked at this before. Their T&Cs appear to preclude any sort of caching proxy arrangement. They also appear t

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 29/10/2014 20:08, Conrad Wood wrote: Wouldn't it be sufficient for each user to request access? Time could prove me wrong, but I can't conceive that would ever happen. I don't imagine the BBC want to get into retailing a developer API. Alternatively, maybe some kind of proxy for the met

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 29/10/2014 19:13, dinkypumpkin wrote: On 29/10/2014 13:20, dinkypumpkin wrote: The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by get_iplayer, so Some follow-up: And some more: You may find some screwy metadata in your downloads as well. If fields formerly found in the now-dead

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 29/10/2014 13:20, dinkypumpkin wrote: The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by get_iplayer, so Some follow-up: There are other sources of programme data, so I think it's possible to restore get_iplayer search capability to some degree. I haven't yet had a chance

[ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread dinkypumpkin
The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by get_iplayer, so search and PVR functions no longer work. There is no programme information to cache, and it was the cache that supported search and PVR functions. There is no fix available at this time. You can still download individual prog

Re: Accessing programmes more than a week old?

2014-10-27 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 27/10/2014 11:06, Nicholas Youell wrote: It says I am already at that level. Which probably is not the case or is the case... Trying to figure it out. Read the Fedora installation instructions in the GitHub wiki. There are directions on what to do right at the top of the page.

Re: [livetv] empty mode list?

2014-10-26 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 26/10/2014 05:16, Vangelis forthnet wrote: 2.88 is still months away Will be out within the next week. Live TV fix is in Git now. ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplay

Re: [livetv] empty mode list?

2014-10-25 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 25/10/2014 15:09, Alex Poylisher wrote: Is this expected? Things work fine with non-live TV content. The BBC hs removed the resources get_iplayer used for live TV metadata, so it's kaput for the moment. There is no workaround AFAIK. I should be able to fix for next release.

Re: Help with --command syntax

2014-10-24 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 23/10/2014 17:38, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Thu Oct 23 00:29:15 BST 2014, dinkypumpkin wrote: --command "cmd /c cd /d F:\Downloads\FLVtoMP4remux ^&^& remux.bat" Many thanks for this, that works up to a point due to limitations of remux.bat described above; works PERFECT

Re: "default" is not defined in %Encode::EXPORT_TAGS

2014-10-23 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 23/10/2014 16:03, dinkypumpkin wrote: perl, v5.10.0 built for arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi BTW, what system are you running with this old version of Perl? Is this from a NAS device? ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer

Re: "default" is not defined in %Encode::EXPORT_TAGS

2014-10-23 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 23/10/2014 16:12, Colin Law wrote: On 23 October 2014 16:03, dinkypumpkin wrote: It looks like the Encode module picked up an explicit "default" export tag with v5.10.1. Looking at the module code, it doesn't appear to serve any purpose after all, so score that as an own

Re: "default" is not defined in %Encode::EXPORT_TAGS

2014-10-23 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 23/10/2014 15:29, Colin Law wrote: "default" is not defined in %Encode::EXPORT_TAGS at ./get_iplayer line 77 main::BEGIN() called at /usr/lib/perl/5.10/Encode.pm line 77 eval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl/5.10/Encode.pm line 77 Can't continue after import errors at ./get_iplayer line

Re: Help with --command syntax

2014-10-22 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 22/10/2014 20:50, Vangelis forthnet wrote: Dear dinky, any thoughts? Try this: --command "cmd /c cd /d F:\Downloads\FLVtoMP4remux ^&^& remux.bat" If your path has white space: --command "cmd /c cd /d """F:\Downloads\FLV to MP4remux""" ^&^& remux.bat" Comments on your earlier experiments:

Re: [PATCH] Clean up correctly on more signals

2014-10-22 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 22/10/2014 17:30, Mike Crowe wrote: On Monday 20 October 2014 at 17:30:27 +0100, dinkypumpkin wrote: Looks like it would have worked well enough with SIGTERM. If you mean that adding SIGTERM as I did in my patch then I concur. run_cmd catches SIGTERM so there's probably no reason wh

Re: Problem with downloading AD version for episode of Wolfblood

2014-10-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 21/10/2014 22:48, Timothy wrote: dinkypumpkin wrote: On 21/10/2014 07:07, Timothy Wynn wrote: get_iplayer --subtitles --versions audiodescribed --pid b04jtt0w I get: INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (available versions: default) Works OK here

Re: --refresh --quiet is very noisy

2014-10-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 21/10/2014 20:19, Graham Cobb wrote: I have just upgraded to v2.87 (from a 2.86 version but it may have been a random git version rather than the released version). ./get_iplayer --refresh --quiet now lists all 1486 programmes in the cache, which it didn't used to do (it used to be completel

Re: Atomic Parsley Update

2014-10-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 21/10/2014 15:32, J K.Eason wrote: I also noticed a long pause while 2.87 was trying to download Atomic Parsley. (This was updating from 2.86.) Checking the installation, GIP seems to have Atomic Parsley version 0.9.6-hg109.9183fff907bf (utf16) and the file dates are for 27/06/2014 so I guess

Re: Detectorist Episode 1

2014-10-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
no problems so waited for windows 2.87 to become available, but not only does 2.87 not find Episode 1 still, it doesn't find Episode 2 either Any ideas? You need to re-read the release notes. Or, we now even have an FAQ (singular): https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/

Re: Problem with downloading AD version for episode of Wolfblood

2014-10-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 21/10/2014 07:07, Timothy Wynn wrote: get_iplayer --subtitles --versions audiodescribed --pid b04jtt0w I get: INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (available versions: default) Works OK here ___ get_iplayer

Re: --info and --{metadata,subtitles,thumbnail}-only now work with --pid

2014-10-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 21/10/2014 05:59, Vangelis forthnet wrote: My locally patched copy of the script is well pre-2.87, but when I run, e.g.: get_iplayer --pid=b04m0l3g --force --subtitles-only get_iplayer --pid=b04m0l3g --force --thumbnail-only the switches DO PERFORM their usual functions, i.e. only the subs/t

Re: Video file indexed as radio

2014-10-21 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 21/10/2014 04:29, Vangelis forthnet wrote: get_iplayer --force -g 12620 --modes=best --raw FAILS, because GiP searches for radiomodes, not tvmodes. I have to explicitly ask for --modes=flashhigh for the command to work. When get_iplayer caches programme listings, all it knows is what channe

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.87 released

2014-10-20 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 20/10/2014 19:23, Nick wrote: Now I've had a proper wade in out of my depth the update uses a specific user agent to make the update URL provide the current release of get_iplayer? The odd entries in your httpd logs will be me trying to The user agent is probably just for tracking. get_

Re: [PATCH] Clean up correctly on more signals

2014-10-20 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 20/10/2014 15:05, Mike Crowe wrote: This patch is rather old. I added it during a time that my Internet connection was rather unreliable and I was killing off get_iplayer after a certain period of time so that it didn't consume bandwidth during the day. Perhaps it didn't help as much as I thou

Re: UTF-8 question - 2.87

2014-10-20 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 20/10/2014 14:34, Kevin Lynch wrote: I've not upgraded yet but I've seen the warnings about using UTF-8 characters. I just want to be clear about what will cause trouble and what will be safe. I That was only related to the encoding of get_iplayer's source code. Nothing to do with normal us

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