Get_Iplayer and downloading other program versions
Ian McDonald
3falconer at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Dec 18 07:36:55 EST 2010
On 18 Dec 2010, at 12:13, Aman Singer wrote:
> Hello, all.
> Let me first thank the developers and maintainers of get_iplayer for
> developing an application which is both easy to use and very usable by blind
> users. Both the web PVR manager and the command line application are
> perfectly accessible with a screen reader.
> I find myself in some difficulty, though. I am working with another
> blind user who wants the audiodescribed versions of programs, and I cannot
> seem to get them. I have run the following commands.
>
> get_iplayer 229
> get_iplayer v2.78, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
> conditions; use --conditions for details.
> Matches:
> 229: Dig 1940 - 1. Battle of France and Dunkirk, BBC HD, Audio
> Described,Fact
> ual,History,TV, default,audiodescribed
> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
>
> As you can see, this shows that the audiodescribed version is available.
> However, this is what I get when I try to have the program obtained.
> get_iplayer --get 229 --version audiodescribed
> get_iplayer v2.78, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
> conditions; use --conditions for details.
> Matches:
> 229: Dig 1940 - 1. Battle of France and Dunkirk, BBC HD, Audio
> Described,Fact
> ual,History,TV, default,audiodescribed
> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
> INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (default are available)
>
> I get the same problem
> No versions of this programme were selected (default are available)
> When I try --version-list audiodescribed --version=audiodescribed or
> --version-list=audiodescribed. I can't seem to get the right command to get
> the audiodescribed version. I have tried and found similar issues with the
> signed versions made available for deaf users. The audiodescribed versions
> of programs do seem to be available through the iPlayer interface.
> Can anyone confirm this issue? I hope it is simply user error, but
> am doubtful, as it does seem to be looking for versions, indicating the
> command to look for the audiodescribed version is getting executed, but not
> finding them.
> Thanks in advance.
> Aman
>
>
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This may not be of much help, since I never managed to make get_player work on my iMac. Instead, I followed the advice to load Get iPlayer Automator.
Followin your e-mail I tried to see whether it was able to download an audiodescribed show with the following ( successful) result:-
Get iPlayer Automator Initialized.
AppController: Updating Program Index Feeds...
INFO: Getting tv Index Feeds
.
INFO: Getting radio Index Feeds
AppController: Index Updated.
AppController: Starting Downloads
Downloading Show 1/1:
Download (ID=580): Downloading Octonauts: Series 1 - 35. The Baby Dolphin
INFO: Using Proxy http://83.222.224.20:23
580: Octonauts: Series 1 - 35. The Baby Dolphin, CBeebies, Audio Described,Children's,Entertainment & Comedy,Learning,Pre-School,TV, default,audiodescribed
INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
ERROR: Failed to get iphone URL from iplayer site
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: flashstd1,flashstd2 modes will be tried for version default
INFO: Trying flashstd1 mode to record tv: Octonauts: Series 1 - 35. The Baby Dolphin
INFO: File name prefix = Octonauts - Series 1 - 35. The Baby Dolphin ((flashstd))
RTMPDump v2.3
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO: duration 665.13
INFO: moovPosition 32.00
INFO: width 640.00
INFO: height 360.00
INFO: videocodecid avc1
INFO: audiocodecid mp4a
INFO: avcprofile 77.00
INFO: avclevel 30.00
INFO: aacaot 2.00
INFO: videoframerate 25.00
INFO: audiosamplerate 24000.00
INFO: audiochannels 2.00
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO: length 16626000.00
INFO: timescale 25000.00
INFO: language eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO: sampletype avc1
INFO: length 15963136.00
INFO: timescale 24000.00
INFO: language eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO: sampletype mp4a
Download complete
FFmpeg version SVN-r19400, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --disable-bzlib --enable-pthreads --disable-network --enable-small --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --arch=i386 --disable-decoder=atrac3 --extra-ldflags='-isysroot /Xcode2.5/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -L/Users/patriceb/tmp/WMA/optnew_i386/lib' --extra-cflags='-isysroot /Xcode2.5/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -I/Users/patriceb/tmp/WMA/optnew_i386/include -mdynamic-no-pic'
libavutil 50. 3. 0 / 50. 3. 0
libavcodec 52.32. 0 / 52.32. 0
libavformat 52.36. 0 / 52.36. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
built on Jul 11 2009 16:23:10, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)
Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 50.00 (50/1) -> 25.00 (25/1)
Input #0, flv, from '/Users/ianmcdonald/Documents/Octonauts - Series 1/Octonauts - Series 1 - 35. The Baby Dolphin ((flashstd)).partial.mp4.flv':
Duration: 00:11:05.13, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 640x360 [PAR 90:90 DAR 16:9], 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 24000 Hz, 2 channels, s16
Output #0, mp4, to '/Users/ianmcdonald/Documents/Octonauts - Series 1/Octonauts - Series 1 - 35. The Baby Dolphin ((flashstd)).partial.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Video: 0x0021, yuv420p, 640x360 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 1k tbn, 1k tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 24000 Hz, 2 channels, s16
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
video:30966kB audio:7691kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.193259%
INFO: Downloaded Thumbnail to '/Users/ianmcdonald/Documents/Octonauts - Series 1/Octonauts - Series 1 - 35. The Baby Dolphin ((flashstd)).jpg'
INFO: mp4 tagging mp4 file
Started writing to temp file.
Download (ID=580): Octonauts: Series 1 - 35. The Baby Dolphin Completed Successfully
AppController: Adding Octonauts: Series 1 - 35. The Baby Dolphin to iTunes
AppController: Downloads Finished
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