Some questions on PVR

[Kevin Lynch]

Type podcast is now deprecated.

The only types are "TV" and "Radio"

You can use the programme id to pull specific bbc sounds content

C:\Users\kevin>get_iplayer --pid m000dpqn

INFO: 'm000dpqn' is a series or brand PID for 'Conversations from a
Long Marriage' - add the --pid-recursive option to retrieve available
episodes
INFO: 0 total programmes

C:\Users\kevin>get_iplayer --pid-recursive --pid m000dpqn

Episodes:
Conversations from a Long Marriage - Conversations from a Long
Marriage, BBC Radio 4, b09k1f9h
Conversations from a Long Marriage - Conversations from a Long
Marriage at Christmas, BBC Radio 4, m0001qhh
Conversations from a Long Marriage: Series 1 - Why Didn't You Ask Me
to Dance?, BBC Radio 4, m000dgy5
[Lines deleted]
Conversations from a Long Marriage: Series 4 - 5. We Are Family, BBC
Radio 4, m001k0xh
Conversations from a Long Marriage: Series 4 - 6. This Old Heart Of
Mine, BBC Radio 4, m001k7nb
INFO: 25 total programmes

INFO: Downloading radio: 'Conversations from a Long Marriage -
Conversations from a Long Marriage (b09k1f9h) [original]'
  6.5% of ~71.10 MB @  35.1 Mb/s ETA: 00:00:15 (hlshigh1/bi) [audio]
INFO: Cleaning up C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl (got signal INT)


Kevin

On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 09:14, Budge <ajebay at errichel.co.uk> wrote:
>
> As I start anew with GiP I have now been able to resurrect my old history and pvr list which had been dormant on a backup for years and append my recent downloads.  So far so good although the pvr list needs editing!
>
> I have a couple of questions:-
> In running my old pvr list the system stopped at an entry in which I had specified "type podcast."  Since I have not seen any reference to podcasts so far in the longhelp page does this mean that podcasts no longer work or is it that I have to use a different technique now?
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> When the pvr threw up this:-
>
> INFO: PVR Run: 'In_Our_Time_With_Melvyn_Bragg'
>
> ERROR: Invalid type 'podcast' specified. Valid types are: tv,radio
>
> and then stopped.  Is it possible for the system to skip and move on rather than exiting on Error?
>
> Still working on this so forgive me if questions are naive.
>
> Alastair.
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