Another BBC News Clip

[tellyaddict]

Thanks Vangelis. I knew it was in the archives somewhere but had no idea where to look. Is there an easy way to search the archives?

Hopefully if it breaks again after the fix in 2.95, we will still be able to manually find and feed the playlist url to GiP.

> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 at 9:21 PM
> From: "Vangelis forthnet" <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr>
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Another BBC News Clip
>
> On Fri Feb 5 15:02:48 GMT 2016, CJB wrote:
> 
> > how can I download these clips:
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35492517
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35427447
> 
> Hello Chris and company... :-)
> 
>  I was out all day and only now came
> to read this thread. It turns out the Latin
> phrase "scripta manent" is not actually true,
> at least when this list is concerned!
> 
> Chris, it appears you do have short retention;
> and you should have performed a list archive
> search prior to posting:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/
> 
> The BBC News issue was discussed in
> this list fairly recently, in fact last October:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2015-October/008346.html
> My post describes in what was characterised as "gory" details
> the issue itself and possible solutions.
>  Furthermore, as an answer to another
> of your own queries, Chris, I did refer you
> to above post of mine in the following thread:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2015-November/008428.html
> specifically post:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2015-November/008438.html
> which updates the bug and lists your choices...
> PLEASE DO READ MY POSTS AGAIN!
> 
> 1. Due to changes brought on by the beeb,
> GiP 2.94 is broken for News/Sports clips.
> 2. The coder (dinkypumpkin) has indicated that
> he's no longer inclined to continue support for
> News clips in GiP; having said that,
> he did patch GiP one final time:
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/commit/8e8a5fff1f508133ae22d9f89577559339cc806f
> That patch, of course, is to be found on the
> 2.95dev branch and the next 2.95 release
> (hoping they don't break it yet again before
> it is finally released).
> This is why Nigel Taylor can fetch those clips,
> since he's on get_iplayer 2.95-dev-b4bc3d68e.
> 
> CJB wrote:
> 
> > Thanks - I'll have a try at using 2.95 (dev)
> 
> ... and by browsing the list archive you can find
> related posts on how to do that on Windows
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2016-January/008550.html
> 
> > Thank you I'l look at OpenBSD too.
> 
> Nothing against OpenBSD or other OS,
> but there's no need to install a second OS
> on your machine (natively or via VM)
> to use GiP 2.95dev just for BBC News Clips
> (if that's the reason you'll "look" at OpenBSD;
> if not, feel free to try whatever OS you fancy :-) ).
> 
> tellyaddict wrote:
> 
> > Where do you get the VPID from
> > to open the playlist to make the command?
> 
> The answer to that specific question can, again,
> be found inside my original post of Oct 2015,
> so do read on...
> 
> But as far as batguano's rtmpdump commands
> are concerned, I think that on his Linux box he's
> using the "iptables redirection method"
> to construct them...
> http://stream-recorder.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22571&postcount=1
> 
> A somewhat similar method can be used
> on Windows via RTMPdumphelper:
> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/rtmp_dump_helper.html
> but this awesome tool ceased to function
> on my system (Vista 32bit) when using
> Mozilla Firefox and versions of the NPAPI
> adobe flash plugin newer than 17.0.0.169!
> 
> The commands posted by bg will be soon
> worthless, as the authentication token strings
> have a very short lifespan (2hr, IIANM).
> 
> Greetings to all,
> Vangelis. 
> 
> 
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