No programmes are available for this pid

[Budgie]

On 05/11/14 13:01, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
> 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
>
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Hi Alan and thanks for the reply.  I recall and try understand the 
earlier discussion but I am using GIT Head version on 64 bit linux 
machine (no windoze here,) and they still didn't work.  Will try again.
Budgie