Peter Grimes

[Howard Orgel]

On Mon, 25 May 2015 08:07:05 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:

> I've been trying to get the "Peter Grimes" opera broadcast on BBC4 last
> night. But all I can get in response is
> 
> get_iplayer v2.92, 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.
> 
> Matches:
> 1089:	Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach - -, BBC Four, Classical,Music,Opera,
> default
> 
> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
> WARNING: The 'default' programme version could not be determined
> INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (available versions:
> open)
> 
> I normally fetch by pid number but I get the same behaviour by name. How do
> I specify the "open" version? It should be available as high quality.

This requires the "--playlist-metadata" switch in the command line.  I've
just tried it here (GiP v2.92, Win64) without, gets same response as you
got; and with, starts downloading without any problems:-

C:\Program Files (X86)\get_iplayer>get_iplayer 1097 -g
get_iplayer v2.92, 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.

Matches:
1097:   Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach - -, BBC Four,
Classical,Music,Opera, default

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
WARNING: The 'default' programme version could not be determined
INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (available versions:
open)

C:\Program Files (X86)\get_iplayer>get_iplayer 1097 -g --playlist-metadata
get_iplayer v2.92, 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.

Matches:
1097:   Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach - -, BBC Four,
Classical,Music,Opera, default

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: flashhigh1,flashhigh2 modes will be tried for version default
INFO: Trying flashhigh1 mode to record tv: Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach
- -
INFO: File name prefix =
Peter_Grimes_on_Aldeburgh_Beach_-__b05x2wfg_default
RTMPDump v2.4
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration              8423.04
INFO:   moovPosition          36.00
INFO:   width                 640.00
INFO:   height                360.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   avcprofile            77.00
INFO:   avclevel              30.00
INFO:   aacaot                2.00
INFO:   videoframerate        25.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate       48000.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length                210576000.00
INFO:   timescale             25000.00
INFO:   language              und
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            avc1
INFO:   length                404305920.00
INFO:   timescale             48000.00
INFO:   language              und
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            mp4a
5588.333 kB / 56.76 sec (0.6%)
INFO: Cleaning up (signal = INT), killing PID=912:...
Terminate batch job (Y/N)? y

C:\Program Files (X86)\get_iplayer>

I terminated the download at that point.
HTH

-- 
Regards, Howard.

Howard.Orgel at orgels.demon.co.uk
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