Jump to time when streaming.

MS jmstanfield at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 06:58:53 PST 2016


Many thanks Vangelis that's really helpful.

> You need not do the steps above, as the GiP "--start" option
> does exactly that already (from get_iplayer --long-help):

I must have missed that when scanning through the options, oops.

> perl get_iplayer-294.pl --type=radio --pid=b06s6l5d --radiomode=flashaac
> --raw --stream --start 01:30:00 | "F:\Applications\VLC Portable\VLC
> 2.1.x Portable\vlc-2.1.5\vlc.exe" --file-caching=30000 -

What a mouthful, I have a load of GiP aliases set up so all I need is 
the following and VLC pops up at the correct time position. :)

$ BBC_TV_STREAM --start 01:15:00 PID/URL

Happy new year and thanks again.




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