Olympic live streams fix

[JCA]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:06 AM, MS <jmstanfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/07/12 17:22, fs ck wrote:
>>
>> I've just committed a change to git that allows the Olympic live
>> streams to work. They use a new /mediaselector/5/ URL so now this is
>> detected.
>>
>> You should be able to use: get_iplayer --url
>> "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/<pid>" --get
>> or: get_iplayer --pid <pid>
>>
>> Many of these links are in:
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video
>>
>> Sometimes you'll find that the <pid> is a channel id such as
>> 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/bbc_one_2012_hd'
>> and in this case you'll need to use:
>>
>> get_iplayer --pid bbc_one_2012_hd
>>
>> Unfortunately for some unknown reason I'm still having trouble getting
>> pid 'bbc_three_2012_hd' working.
>>
>> Have fun.
>
>
> Thanks so much - this is exactly what I was looking for. Having never tried
> streaming a live BBC feed before (I'm a new get_iplayer user), I can now
> stream these Olympic feeds with either mplayer or vlc, with:
>
> ./get_iplayer --stream --url
> "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00w2tks" | mplayer
> -cache 512 -
>
> ./get_iplayer --stream --url
> "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00w2tks" | vlc -
>
> [Specifying the player within the get_iplayer command line using
> --player="vlc -" or mplayer equivalent, instead of entering the pipe
> manually, as above, also works perfectly.]
>
>
> HOWEVER... I tried streaming the live BBC 1 feed and was unable to do so. I
> could not get the command line right.
>
> Can someone give me some command line examples for streaming the live BBC
> channels please?
>
> Also these are the only ones I can find:
>
> 80000:  BBC Alba - live
> 80001:  BBC Four - live
> 80002:  BBC News - live
> 80003:  BBC One - live
> 80004:  BBC Parliament - live
> 80005:  BBC Three - live
> 80006:  BBC Two - live
> 80007:  CBBC - live
> 80008:  CBeebies - live
>
> No mention of the HD channels, or of the 'red button' channel which I think
> is channel 301 on my Freeview TV.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks,
>
> ..matthew

This is what I use myself to watch BBC channels (BBC Two in the
example below) in my MythTV box:

get_iplayer --stream --modes=flashvhigh2,flashhigh2,flashstd2
--nopurge --type=livetv "BBC Two" --player="mplayer -vo xv -cache 128
-fs -stop-xscreensaver -zoom -"