get_iplayer Digest, Vol 2, Issue 7

[Andy Bircumshaw]

Suggest you enable delivery of individual mails - it's normally  
undesirable to quote the whole digest.

By "downloading the usual way" I don't refer to "streaming" nor to  
live TV, but rather to something like `get_iplayer --pid b00ss38f` -  
that's working fine here. I would consider this the "normal use" of  
get_iplayer, although I would be delighted to be educated if this is  
not the case.

aB.





On 16 Jun 2010, at 09:33, Richard Mace wrote:

> And what would be "the normal way" to stream live tv?
>
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 12:00 -0400,
> get_iplayer-request at lists.infradead.org wrote:
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:59:09 +0100
>> From: Richard Mace <richard.mace at btinternet.com>
>> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
>> Subject: Trouble streaming BBC One?
>> Message-ID: <1276538349.3992.26.camel at gelug-linux>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>>
>> Can anyone confirm problems?
>> It was ok yesterday.
>>
>> :-
>>
>> get_iplayer 80002 --stream --preset=livetv --rtmp-livetv-opts=debug
>> --verbose
>> INFO: Using user options preset 'livetv'
>> INFO: User prefs dir: /home/richard/.get_iplayer
>> INFO: System options dir: /etc/get_iplayer/options
>> Current options:
>> 	exclude-category = Child
>> 	exclude-channel = CB
>> 	excludecategory = Child
>> 	excludechannel = CB
>> 	flvstreamer = /usr/local/sbin/rtmpdump
>> 	html = /home/richard/Documents/iPlayer/listings.htm
>> 	livetvmode = flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashlow,flashstd,flashnormal
>> 	nocopyright = 1
>> 	nopurge = 1
>> 	outputlivetv = /home/richard/television/bbc
>> 	outputpodcast = /home/richard/podcasts
>> 	outputradio = /home/richard/radio
>> 	outputtv = /home/richard/television/bbc
>> 	player = mplayer -ontop -ao alsa,pulse,sdl -
>> 	radiomode = flashaac,flashaudio,realaudio,wma
>> 	raw = 1
>> 	rtmplivetvopts = debug
>> 	stdout = 1
>> 	stream = 1
>> 	tvmode = flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashlow,flashstd,flashnormal
>> 	verbose = 1
>>
>> INFO: Search args: '80002'
>> INFO: Additionally getting cached programme data for livetv
>> INFO: Got 8 file cache entries for livetv
>> Matches:
>> 80002:	livetv, BBC One - live
>>
>> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
>> INFO: iPlayer metadata URL =
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/bbc_one
>> INFO: Getting page http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/bbc_one
>> MPlayer SVN-r31109-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
>>
>> Playing -.
>> Reading from stdin...
>> INFO: Using Live TV:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/bbc_one_london.xml
>> INFO: Version: default, VersionPid:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/bbc_one_london.xml, Duration:
>> INFO: Will search for versions: default
>> INFO: Mode list: flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashlow,flashstd,flashnormal
>> INFO: Checking existence of default version
>> INFO: Version = default
>> INFO: Getting page http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/bbc_one_london.xml
>> INFO: No specified modes
>> (flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashlow,flashstd,flashnormal) available for  
>> this
>> programme with version 'default' (try using --modes=)
>> ERROR: Failed to record 'BBC One - live (bbc_one)'
>> richard at gelug-linux:~$
>>
>> Exiting... (End of file)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:25:21 +0100
>> From: Andy Bircumshaw <andy at networkned.co.uk>
>> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
>> Subject: Re: Trouble streaming BBC One?
>> Message-ID: <1340D710-53AD-4DB6-9D05-7C4FE6B8ABBD at networkned.co.uk>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>>
>> I get the exact same here, using this command. No problems  
>> downloading
>> the usual way, though.
>>
>> aB.