No programmes are available for this pid

[Alan Milewczyk]

On 05/11/2014 11:12, Budgie wrote:
> On 04/11/14 11:39, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
>> I'm puzzled by this message:
>> "No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default"
>> which I get when trying to download two programmes (PIDs p0299nz3 and
>> p0299ml1).
>>
>> Yet the programmes (Autumnwatch Extra) play on the BBC iPlayer site
>> without problem. The other 6 programmes in the Extra sub series all
>> download fine and all 8 have an expiry about 20+ days hence.
>>
>> Alan
>>
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> Alan,
> Did you ever solve this problem with Autumnwatch Extra.  I tried just 
> to understand what the problem was and I too couldn't get the 
> programme with that PID even though it appeared to exist.  It looked 
> like a live stream though so perhaps it was no longer available.  
> Please let us know if you cracked it and what was the solution.
> Budgie
Sorry, I've not had a chance to view the forum today until now.

Yes, I solved the problem. There were a number of issues at play here, 
all tied up with the "seven day limit".

Firstly Autumnwatch screened over four days from Tuesday through to 
Friday - I would have thought that the individual programmes would have 
been made available for 30 days from the date of each screening. But if 
you go to the Autumnwatch Extra page (the Red Button live feeds) you 
will see that they all expire at the same time - yesterday that was 22 
days hence, today it is in 21 days time. So the programmes went over the 
"seven day limit" yesterday.

I don't know if you recall but a while back when DP released version 
2.87, he stated that you could not download programmes older than 7 days 
unless you had version 2.87 or later. I normally use my Windows 7 PCs 
for get_iPlayer and have been upgrading as we have gone along. Since 
Sunday night, I've been on v2.90, so that PC was showing the files as 
existing.

Unfortunately, large files such as these barf in Windows - the last time 
I had this problem (in Summer when Wimbledon was on) I found that I 
could complete the downloads on a PC running Linux Mint. But I've not 
used Mint since then and had forgotten that get_iPlayer was still at 
version 2.83! Once I upgraded that to the current v2.90 it found the 
programmes in question and downloaded them without problem!

Hope that helps.

Best wishes


Alan