Mac users

[Ian McDonald]

> On 1 May 2017, at 14:53, Pablo Byrne <byrnepablo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Given the recent upheaval and the notes that came with get player
> automator release GiA 1.8.8-pre.5 for Mac, are there Mac alternatives
> or is this close to the end of the road for the mac app?
> 
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I followed the alternative given by squarepenguin of installing Homebrew.  It gave me access to GiP via the Terminal command box.  I have managed to download some programmes which I used to get with the PVR function in GiA, but I have had some odd effects which I can’t understand - but that may have been because I have been using GiA since 2010, and haven’t had to think much about the complexities of GiP.

I would like to express my appreciation for the work done by the author of GiA, Dinky Pumpkin, and the others who gave us this programme which has made life easier for us.

What is bothering me is that I seem to be drawing blanks even when I can watch programmes on the BBC iPlayer.  For example, the first two episodes of Ceol Aig A Chaisteal both play in iPlayer, but my attempts earlier today were as follows:-


Ians-iMac:~ ianmcdonald$ get_iplayer "Ceol Aig A Chaisteal"
WARNING: Ignoring invalid option(s) in /Users/ianmcdonald/.get_iplayer/options:
WARNING: flvstreamer = flvstreamer_macosx_intel_32bit_latest
WARNING: Please remove invalid options from /Users/ianmcdonald/.get_iplayer/options
INFO: Use --dump-options to display all valid options
WARNING: Ignoring invalid option(s) in ./.get_iplayer/options:
WARNING: flvstreamer = flvstreamer_macosx_intel_32bit_latest
WARNING: Please remove invalid options from ./.get_iplayer/options
INFO: Use --dump-options to display all valid options
get_iplayer 3.00-homebrew.0, 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.

  NOTE: A UK TV licence is required to legally access BBC iPlayer TV content


INFO: 0 Matching Programmes
Ians-iMac:~ ianmcdonald$ get_iplayer --pid=b00yb5z5
WARNING: Ignoring invalid option(s) in /Users/ianmcdonald/.get_iplayer/options:
WARNING: flvstreamer = flvstreamer_macosx_intel_32bit_latest
WARNING: Please remove invalid options from /Users/ianmcdonald/.get_iplayer/options
INFO: Use --dump-options to display all valid options
WARNING: Ignoring invalid option(s) in ./.get_iplayer/options:
WARNING: flvstreamer = flvstreamer_macosx_intel_32bit_latest
WARNING: Please remove invalid options from ./.get_iplayer/options
INFO: Use --dump-options to display all valid options
get_iplayer 3.00-homebrew.0, 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.

  NOTE: A UK TV licence is required to legally access BBC iPlayer TV content

INFO: Trying pid: b00yb5z5 using type: tv
INFO: Trying to download PID using type tv
INFO: pid not found in tv cache
Matches:

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of original version
INFO: hvfxsd1,hvfxsd2,hvfxsd3,hvfxsd4,hvfxsd5,hvfxsd6,dvfxsd1,dvfxsd2,hlsvhigh1,hvfxhigh1,hvfxhigh2,hvfxhigh3,dvfxhigh1,dvfxhigh2,hvflow1,hvflow2,hvflow3,dvflow1,dvflow2 modes will be tried for version original
INFO: Trying hvfxsd1 mode to record tv: Ceol Aig A Chaisteal - 1. Episode 1
INFO: File name prefix = Ceol_Aig_A_Chaisteal_-_1._Episode_1_b00yb5z5_original                 
INFO: Begin recording file: /Users/ianmcdonald/Ceol_Aig_A_Chaisteal_-_1._Episode_1_b00yb5z5_original.video.ts
INFO: Begin recording at: 0.00 MiB (00:00:00) [1]
INFO: Recorded: 280.16 MiB (00:22:18) [175] in 00:15:50 at 2.36 Mibit/s         
INFO: Saved HLS video file: /Users/ianmcdonald/Ceol_Aig_A_Chaisteal_-_1._Episode_1_b00yb5z5_original.hls.ts
INFO: Begin converting video file: /Users/ianmcdonald/Ceol_Aig_A_Chaisteal_-_1._Episode_1_b00yb5z5_original.hls.ts
frame= 4774 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 size=   39796kB time=00:03:10.93 bitrate=1707.5kbits/frame= 9019 fps=9019 q=-1.0 size=   75102kB time=00:06:00.72 bitrate=1705.6kbitsframe=11741 fps=7827 q=-1.0 size=   97779kB time=00:07:49.60 bitrate=1705.7kbitsframe=15398 fps=7583 q=-1.0 size=  128009kB time=00:10:15.89 bitrate=1702.6kbitsframe=19730 fps=7787 q=-1.0 size=  163851kB time=00:13:09.20 bitrate=1700.8kbitsframe=23625 fps=7787 q=-1.0 size=  196106kB time=00:15:44.96 bitrate=1700.1kbitsframe=27514 fps=7786 q=-1.0 size=  228660kB time=00:18:20.52 bitrate=1702.1kbitsframe=31729 fps=7866 q=-1.0 size=  263439kB time=00:21:09.12 bitrate=1700.5kbitsframe=33474 fps=7594 q=-1.0 Lsize=  276567kB time=00:22:18.92 bitrate=1692.1kbits/s speed= 304x    
INFO: Converted to file: /Users/ianmcdonald/Ceol_Aig_A_Chaisteal_-_1._Episode_1_b00yb5z5_original.partial.mp4
INFO: Recorded file: /Users/ianmcdonald/Ceol_Aig_A_Chaisteal_-_1._Episode_1_b00yb5z5_original.mp4

INFO: Begin tagging file: /Users/ianmcdonald/Ceol_Aig_A_Chaisteal_-_1._Episode_1_b00yb5z5_original.mp4

 Started writing to temp file.
 Progress: =====================================================> 96% --|
 Finished writing to temp file.
INFO: Tagged file: /Users/ianmcdonald/Ceol_Aig_A_Chaisteal_-_1._Episode_1_b00yb5z5_original.mp4

Ians-iMac:~ ianmcdonald$ get_iplayer --pid=b00yj2hb
WARNING: Ignoring invalid option(s) in /Users/ianmcdonald/.get_iplayer/options:
WARNING: flvstreamer = flvstreamer_macosx_intel_32bit_latest
WARNING: Please remove invalid options from /Users/ianmcdonald/.get_iplayer/options
INFO: Use --dump-options to display all valid options
WARNING: Ignoring invalid option(s) in ./.get_iplayer/options:
WARNING: flvstreamer = flvstreamer_macosx_intel_32bit_latest
WARNING: Please remove invalid options from ./.get_iplayer/options
INFO: Use --dump-options to display all valid options
get_iplayer 3.00-homebrew.0, 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.

  NOTE: A UK TV licence is required to legally access BBC iPlayer TV content

Ians-iMac:~ ianmcdonald$ 

even though the pid was copied from the player screen whilst it was running.

Ian McDonald