Problems with a radio programme download...

Jim Jackson jj at franjam.org.uk
Thu Oct 14 17:20:19 EDT 2010


I'm trying to get the series of programmes on elementary particles Radio 
4. But it won't work. I'm fairly new to get_iplayer, but it is working for 
other stuff, it just seems to be these programs. 
Can anyone offer any commentary and/or advice?

Jim

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10426:  Big Bang Day - Five Particles: 2. The Quark, BBC Radio 4, 
Factual,Radio,Science & Nature, 1 days 0 hours ago - Quarks comprise 
virtually all visible material, but why do we know so little about them?
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pid:            b00d8ywd
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$ get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=b00d8ywd --get
get_iplayer v2.78, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
...
INFO Trying to stream pid using type radio
INFO: pid found in cache
Matches:
10426:  Big Bang Day - Five Particles: 2. The Quark, BBC Radio 4, 
Factual,Radio,Science & Nature

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: iphone1,rtspaudio1,wma1 modes will be tried for version default
INFO: Trying iphone1 mode to record radio: Big Bang Day - Five Particles: 2. The Quark
INFO: File name prefix = Big_Bang_Day_-_Five_Particles_2._The_Quark_b00d8ywd_default                 
WARNING: iphone version not available
WARNING: Retry recording for 'Big Bang Day - Five Particles: 2. The Quark (b00d8ywd)'
INFO: File name prefix = Big_Bang_Day_-_Five_Particles_2._The_Quark_b00d8ywd_default                 
WARNING: iphone version not available
WARNING: Retry recording for 'Big Bang Day - Five Particles: 2. The Quark (b00d8ywd)'
INFO: File name prefix = Big_Bang_Day_-_Five_Particles_2._The_Quark_b00d8ywd_default                 
WARNING: iphone version not available
INFO: Trying rtspaudio1 mode to record radio: Big Bang Day - Five Particles: 2. The Quark
INFO: File name prefix = Big_Bang_Day_-_Five_Particles_2._The_Quark_b00d8ywd_default                 
INFO: Transcoding /hg/data/Sounds/Podcasts/Big_Bang_Day_-_Five_Particles_2._The_Quark_b00d8ywd_default.partial.mp3
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: VIA Esther processor 1000MHz (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 9)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing 
rtsp://3gp-acl.bbc.net.uk:554/radio4/secure_auth/RBN2_fiveparticles_ep2_b00d8y05_2009_11_12_11_04_51.mp3.
Resolving 3gp-acl.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 3gp-acl.bbc.net.uk
Resolving 3gp-acl.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server 3gp-acl.bbc.net.uk[212.58.251.100]: 554...
librtsp: server responds: 'RTSP/1.0 404 Not Found'
rtsp_session: session can not be established.
STREAM_LIVE555, URL: rtsp://3gp-acl.bbc.net.uk:554/radio4/secure_auth/RBN2_fiveparticles_ep2_b00d8y05_2009_11_12_11_04_51.mp3
This stream is non-cacheable
Stream not seekable!
 file format detected.
Failed to get a SDP description from URL "rtsp://3gp-acl.bbc.net.uk:554/radio4/secure_auth/RBN2_fiveparticles_ep2_b00d8y05_2009_11_12_11_04_51.mp3": 
cannot handle DESCRIBE response: RTSP/1.0 404 Not Found


Exiting... (End of file)





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