I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....

[Christopher Woods (CM)]

--pid doesn't require an equals sign though it's probably perfectly 
happy either way. These are my strings I've used since the time of the 
dinosaurs and they continue to work marvellously:

get_iplayer --raw --output G:\iplayer\raw\ --modes 
flashaachigh,flashaac,flashaacstd,flashaudio,flashaaclow --rtmptvopts 
"--swfVfy http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/revisions/18269_21576_10player.swf" 
--rtmpradioopts "--swfVfy 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/revisions/18269_21576_10player.swf" --force 
--get --type=liveradio --pid=pidhere

For page-embedded media:

get_iplayer --raw --output F:\iplayer-j\get_iplayer\raw\ --modes 
flashaachigh,flashaac,flashaacstd,flashaudio,flashaaclow --rtmptvopts 
"--swfVfy http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/10player.swf" --rtmpradioopts 
"--swfVfy http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/10player.swf" --force --get 
--type=radio 
--url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/archive_pioneers/6506.shtml"

SPECIFY --url=" "  ! If you have no luck downloading embedded multimedia 
in the page or it only downloads the first embedded media in a page with 
several entries, go for a dip in the page's source code and find the 
.xml playlist reference in the player code then specify that as the URL.

Other pointers:
--type=radio
or --type=liveradio

Live:
--type=livetv

on-demand:
--type=tv


I've found that I can leave some category specifiers in the string (e.g. 
--type=liveradio) and get_iplayer will work around it should it not find 
a liveradio category result for the pid you enter. My golden rule is to 
always have --pid or --url at the very end of the string. Specifying the 
10player URL stopped frame drops in videos when rtmpdump couldn't swfvfy 
properly.

Using --raw obviates the transcoding (yeurgh). use FLVExtract to rip out 
AAC from the FLVs and then use YAMB (or MP4Box if you're not lazy like 
me) to remux as an M4A and get it seekable. For videos, I just leave as 
FLV as MPC can parse and decode them fine natively; when I remuxed as 
MP4 I had frame drift for whatever reason... and at that point I was 
happy enough anyway with the H.264 FLVs. :-)


On 26/09/2012 16:31, Chris Marriott wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Dave F.
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:25 PM
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....
>
>
>> Try this one:
>> "C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.cmd" -o 
>> "C:\Downloads\BBC\" --refresh --force -f --modes=best --pid b01mxvr5 
>> --i -v
>
> Surely it's "pid=xxxx" not, "pid xxxx", is it not? That's what I 
> always use and it works fine.
>
> Eg,
>
> get_iplayer --mode=flashhigh --pid=b01n1tbz
>
> should download episode 2 of the BBC4 series "Love and Marriage".
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
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