Help needed with BBC Collections Archive programmes

[M Clark]

> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 4:34 PM
> From: "Vangelis forthnet" <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr>
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Help needed with BBC Collections Archive programmes
>
> On Sat Jan 31 15:25:08 GMT 2015, sergeant.bilko e-mail wrote:
> 
> > First post here, so apologies for any inadvertent errors.
> 
> Welcome :-)
> 
> > I'm trying to download a series of 3 programmes, they are BBC
> > Collections Archive concerts from "The Sound and the Fury" series
> > (2012).
> 
> When I run:
> 
> get_iplayer -i "The Sound and the Fury in Concert"
> 
> these come up:
> 
> pid:            p014sm7h
> verpids:      default: p02hj93w
> 
> pid:            p015319h
> verpids:      default: p02hj77c
> 
> pid:            p01531w2
> verpids:      default: p02hj7r0
> 
> > Am I doing something wrong,
> > or is it a result of the programme format
> > (snip)
> > get_iplayer v2.91
> 
> In v2.91, GiP tries by default to extract the vPID parameter
> by loading the following template URL:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/[pid].rdf
> vPID is found inside the <po:version rdf:resource= entry.
> Unfortunately, all three of your target programmes produce
> two such entries, so 2.91 gets confused; only tries the first one,
> which DOES NOT RETURN any streams
> (only the secondvalue does...).
> I am pretty confident this issue has been dealt with in the
> "develop" branch of GiP 2.92:
> 
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/tree/develop
> 
> but for tag 2.91 you can retry your download commands
> employing the --playlist-metadata switch:
> 
> get_iplayer --pid=p01531w2 --playlist-metadata --modes=flashvhigh --force --subtitles
> 
> C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>perl 
> get_iplayer-gd1caff0.pl --pid=p01531w2 --playl
> ist-metadata --modes=flashvhigh --force --subtitles
> get_iplayer v2.91, 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 to stream pid using type tv
> INFO: pid found in cache
> Matches:
> 1688:   The Sound and the Fury in Concert - Cage, Feldman, Reich, Monk, Part 
> and
>  Benjamin, BBC, Arts,Arts Culture & the Media,Classical,Experimental & 
> New,Factu
> al,Music, default
> 
> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
> INFO: Checking existence of default version
> INFO: flashvhigh1,flashvhigh2 modes will be tried for version default
> INFO: Trying flashvhigh1 mode to record tv: The Sound and the Fury in 
> Concert -
> Cage, Feldman, Reich, Monk, Part and Benjamin
> INFO: File name prefix = 
> The_Sound_and_the_Fury_in_Concert_-_Cage_Feldman_Reich_
> Monk_Part_and_Benjamin_p01531w2_default
> 
> INFO: Subtitles not available
> RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2015-01-15 (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                2335.96
> INFO:   moovPosition            36.00
> INFO:   width                   832.00
> INFO:   height                  468.00
> INFO:   videocodecid            avc1
> INFO:   audiocodecid            mp4a
> INFO:   avcprofile              77.00
> INFO:   avclevel                31.00
> INFO:   aacaot                  2.00
> INFO:   videoframerate          25.00
> INFO:   audiosamplerate         48000.00
> INFO:   audiochannels           2.00
> INFO: trackinfo:
> INFO:   length                  58399000.00
> INFO:   timescale               25000.00
> INFO:   language                und
> INFO: sampledescription:
> INFO:   sampletype              avc1
> INFO:   length                  112125952.00
> INFO:   timescale               48000.00
> INFO:   language                und
> INFO: sampledescription:
> INFO:   sampletype              mp4a
> 516.383 kB / 2.76 sec (0.1%)
> 
> Regards,
> Vangelis. 
> 
> 
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Ah, thanks Vangelis.

I had similar problem with --pid p02gthsr a Witness radio programme and meant to ask here having noticed 2 ver-pids.  Possibly explains why some radio programmes never downloaded.

Regards.