Another download failure ...

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Mon Feb 16 17:18:07 GMT 2015, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:

> INFO: iPlayer metadata URL = 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/p02j6j0x
> INFO: iPlayer metadata URL (JSON) 
> =http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02j6j0x/playlist.json
> INFO: Getting page http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02j6j0x.rdf
> INFO: Getting page 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/p02j6j0z?cb=57876

Greetings, Jeremy :-)
>From that partial verbose log that you posted,
I'm seeing that your copy of GiP tries the
"playlist" method to retrieve the show's vPID;
were you using the --playlist-metadata switch
or is it stored in your options?
 Furthermore, after retrieving the vPID string
(=p02j6j0z), it uses the older mediaselector/4
API URL to gain access to available streams;
currently, this provides only stream data for the
phased-out MMS (WMA) streams:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/p02j6j0z
Were you using the --mediaselector =4 switch?

If NO to both of my questions, then you are using
a deprecated version of GiP.
GiP 2.91+ uses by default the "new" metadata
extraction URL:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/[pid].xml
and the mediaselector/5 API URL:
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/pc/vpid/p02j6j0z
which does indeed return flashaac modes
(but not the wma one...).

More at:
http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/commit/2be84bdbdb6a2d643bfdddbe91bb58e01a642530
http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/commit/2a23f8ebe5752844744fd6f90d0c188070e3230a

Cheers,
Vangelis.