"Five Minutes With..." issue!

Vangelis forthnet northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr
Tue Dec 25 23:06:22 EST 2012


First, Happy Holidays to you all!

Now, both the following episodes of "Five Minutes With..." (a BBC News talk 
show) DO NOT appear inside the tv cache:

1. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pqdc1/Five_Minutes_With..._Christmas_Special_2012/
(First broadcast BBC News Channel, 4:30AM Sat, 22 Dec 2012; available until 
7:59AM Tue, 1 Jan 2013)

2. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pqdzv/Five_Minutes_With..._Best_Ever_part_1/
(First broadcast BBC News Channel, 1:30AM Mon, 24 Dec 2012; available until 
1:59AM Mon, 31 Dec 2012),

despite running:
get_iplayer -f --force

They can, however, still be recorded via the "pid" method, e.g.

get_iplayer -i --pid=b01pqdc1 --modes=flashvhigh --force

C:\Program 
Files\get_iplayer>get_iplayer -i --pid=b01pqdc1 --modes=flashvhigh --
force
get_iplayer v2.82, 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.

INFO: Trying pid: b01pqdc1 using type: tv
INFO Trying to stream pid using type tv
INFO: pid not found in tv cache
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: flashvhigh1,flashvhigh2 modes will be tried for version default
INFO: Trying flashvhigh1 mode to record tv: Five Minutes With... - Christmas 
Spe
cial 2012
INFO: File name prefix = 
Five_Minutes_With..._-_Christmas_Special_2012_b01pqdc1_
default
RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2012-02-24 (Compiled by KSV)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration              1579.90
INFO:   moovPosition          32.00
INFO:   width                 832.00
INFO:   height                468.00
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                39495000.00
INFO:   timescale             25000.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            avc1
INFO:   length                37917696.00
INFO:   timescale             24000.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            mp4a
1985.829 kB / 10.72 sec (0.6%)

I am using get_iplayer.pl version 2.82-git-fa7d46f-20121114192455
with perl 5.10 on Win32.
 My gut feeling is this has something to do with
the 3 dots (...) on the programmes' title, but I am awaiting further
confirmation from the real experts...
So, not a real problem in essence, but I thought I had better report it, in 
case
it is not just me (and in an effort to make get_iplayer even better!).

Happy New Year!
(Vangelis) 




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