Help needed with BBC Collections Archive programmes

Thu Feb 5 09:29:53 PST 2015

I pass this on purely as information and not as a criticism.

Unfortunately, whilst solving the multiple ver-pids problem, --playlist-metadata does not output title or episode information.

I am unsure whether the information is being overwritten or isn't being retrieved.

(It baffled me (my case pid p02gthsr) because all the required metadata is in the rdf & xml files, it is just when it stumbles over the multiple ver-pid problem and doesn't find the stream that it goes awry.)

Whilst pid b048s4tn doesn't need this switch, using it gives a file "Plants_-__b048s4tn_default.m4a" whilst not using it returns "Plants_From_Roots_to_Riches_-_1._A_Rose_by_Any_Other_Name_b048s4tn_default.m4a".

The version of get_iplayer used is the commit of 3rd Jan. (https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/commit/0f4188d878a313f5b9c3f29f1e2117c0402a84ee).

Further examples of where the switch is required to download the file are in the copy below.

Regards.

> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 at 3:41 AM
> From: "M Clark" <mclark at gmx.co.uk>
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Help needed with BBC Collections Archive programmes
>
> > 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.
> 
> 
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