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Today's Topics:

1. get_iplayer malfunction? (john ffitch)
2. Re: get_iplayer malfunction? (Dave Stewart)
3. Re: get_iplayer malfunction? (Paul)
4. Re: get_iplayer malfunction? (Katie Dumont)
5. Re: get_iplayer malfunction? (Peter Hemmings)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 13:57:10 +0000
From: john ffitch <jpff@codemist.co.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [bristol] get_iplayer malfunction?
Message-ID: <1329-Sun02Nov2014135710+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk>

For the las week or so the get_iplayer program has not been finding
programs that exist. Have they changed something or is it my system?

Examples includes Films (eg Dances with wolves) and dramas (eg
Sherlock)

==John ffitch



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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 14:05:51 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dave Stewart <bblug@iridium.org.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] get_iplayer malfunction?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1411021400340.13075@copper.oucs.ox.ac.uk>
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2014, john ffitch wrote:

> For the las week or so the get_iplayer program has not been finding
> programs that exist. Have they changed something or is it my system?

The BBC have changed it. There's a new API get to programme data called
"nitro" and over the past moth or so, the existing published playlists
have been wound down (get_iplayer used to look up the programme's playlist
for the real name of the video to request from akamai. While the
playlists are still there, they are increasingly empty (where the
<item>...</item> shuld be in the XML is a <noItems
reason="postAvailability" />))

Nitro appears to require a developer, although I have not read the
documentation fully enough to be sure of the precise details. Anyway, it
looks like even more Aunty DRM, helping to keep tall users tall. It's for
our own good, you know!


--
Dave Stewart



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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:08:31 +0000
From: Paul <clodnurg+blug@gmail.com>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] get_iplayer malfunction?
Message-ID: <1414937311.422.1.camel@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 13:57 +0000, john ffitch wrote:
> For the las week or so the get_iplayer program has not been finding
> programs that exist. Have they changed something or is it my system?
>
> Examples includes Films (eg Dances with wolves) and dramas (eg
> Sherlock)
>
> ==John ffitch
>
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Click to watch the program in your browser and copy the id in the URL
then try fetching by pid e.g.

get_iplayer --pid b00gbjh8

--
Paul




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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 17:31:36 +0000
From: Katie Dumont <hifromkatie@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] get_iplayer malfunction?
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If what you want to view is over 7 days old then you have to update to the
lasted version (2.87), then you can use the pid or address of the program
you want to watch to find the program. The newest version hasn't yet
updated on Ubuntu, so I had to remove the current version then install the
new manually.

Unfortunately I only started looking last night, and found it could fine a
recognised program however it returns fail to record. Need to look in to it
further, but I haven't had time yet today.


I found a useful web page yesterday that explained it properly, but can't
seem to find it now.
This explains quite a bit:
https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/faq

On 2 November 2014 14:08, Paul <clodnurg+blug@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 13:57 +0000, john ffitch wrote:
> > For the las week or so the get_iplayer program has not been finding
> > programs that exist. Have they changed something or is it my system?
> >
> > Examples includes Films (eg Dances with wolves) and dramas (eg
> > Sherlock)
> >
> > ==John ffitch
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bristol mailing list
> > Bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bristol
>
> Click to watch the program in your browser and copy the id in the URL
> then try fetching by pid e.g.
>
> get_iplayer --pid b00gbjh8
>
> --
> Paul
>
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:29:03 +0000
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] get_iplayer malfunction?
Message-ID: <545766FF.6060501@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
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On 02/11/14 17:31, Katie Dumont wrote:
> If what you want to view is over 7 days old then you have to update to
> the lasted version (2.87), then you can use the pid or address of the
> program you want to watch to find the program. The newest version hasn't
> yet updated on Ubuntu, so I had to remove the current version then
> install the new manually.
>

FWIW I had get-iplayer on my old fc18 and was getting problems, a few
months ago I upgraded to fc20 64bit and this thread triggered me into
installing it again just for when I forget to record something directly
on my freeview box!

I assumed my repository did not have the latest 2.87 and did a manual
install:

https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/manual#manual-perl-packaged


All seemed to go well and I just recorded and played a programme using
"--pid".

I cannot open a webpage atm as it reports "Firefox can't establish a
connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:1935" and I will investigate
further when I have the time.

Thanks for the previous info which enabled to have an alternative to my
Freeview box again!

PS the output of typing "get_iplayer" only listed one feed so I assume
its now finished!


Regards

--
Peter H



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