BBC R1 Big Weekend - not showing in the inventory

[Kevin Lynch]

Vangelis

Thanks for clarifying what's going on there. I suspect the BBC Three
programmes not in the TV cache is part of the BBC Three shutdown
process. I do really appreciate the use of the --pid-recursive option
for this sort of situration

regards

Kevin

On 25 May 2015 at 01:53, Vangelis forthnet <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> On Sun May 24 23:24:19 BST 2015, Kevin Lynch wrote:
>
>> BBC R1 Big Weekend - not showing in the inventory
>>
>> the old recursive download by PID has been my friend.
>>
>> so I'm downloading everything via
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b007m0y2
>
>
> Hi...
> If by "inventory" you mean the tv cache, then:
>
> On http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b007m0y2 , some of the listings
> that are 60min or longer in duration where actually broadcast on BBC Three -
> the others are extended highlights from full performances broadcast
> previously on the Red Button & the online live video feeds that were
> available during Sat & Sun in the main R1 Big Weekend site:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewh8q9
>
> As for the BBC Three shows, for reasons better known to the BBC, they are
> not included in the iplayer feeds info. If it's anything to go by, the same
> thing happened last year and was reported by me:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2014-May/005822.html
>
> (and back then that was with the XML feeds, that they later abolished in
> October 2014...).
>
> The other video excerpts (highlights) are treated as "clips" by BBC iPlayer,
> so they are not included in the catch-up feeds and hence do not populate the
> tv cache...
>
>> Do we need get_iplayer to take into account the fact that "Radio 1" is now
>> a TV channel too?
>
>
> As far as I know, BBC Radio 1's video channel is an "iPlayer only" one:
> http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/radio-1-launch-tv-channel-2346117
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/radio1
>
> only lists Video-On-Demand in the form of clips or even TV shows from other
> ("real") TV channels, such as CBBC
> (.BTW, more R1BW stuff is over at:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p02r4rrh)
> I don't think there's a separate "R1 TV channel" feed; if anyone knows
> otherwise, do tell...
>
> Regards, Vangelis.
>
>
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