Strictly causing grief again

Michael Pavling pavling at gmail.com
Sun Nov 30 03:04:05 PST 2014


Hi,

I noticed a missing episode of Strictly from last week's PVR runs, so
before I entail any wrath of the TV-watching household, I just tried
to download it manually.

I first got this error by running via PID:

```
➜  ~  get_iplayer --pid b04t73z8 --get
get_iplayer v2.90, 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.

INFO: Episode-only pid detected
INFO: Trying pid: b04t73z8 using type: tv
INFO: Trying to stream pid using type tv
INFO: pid not found in tv cache
Matches:

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: No specified modes
(flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal,flashlow) available
for this programme with version 'default' (try using
--modes=flashaacstd,rtspaacstd)
ERROR: Failed to record ' -  (b04t73z8)'
```

So I tried the workaround from a couple of weeks ago and set
`--versions default2` - but that told me that the only version
available is "default".

Lastly, I tried the recommendation in the error, and set the mode, but
that fails differently.


```
➜  ~  get_iplayer --pid b04t73z8 --get --versions default
--modes=flashaacstd,flashaaclow
get_iplayer v2.90, 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.

INFO: Episode-only pid detected
INFO: Trying pid: b04t73z8 using type: tv
INFO: Trying to stream pid using type tv
INFO: pid not found in tv cache
Matches:

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: flashaacstd1 modes will be tried for version default
INFO: Trying flashaacstd1 mode to record tv:  -
INFO: File name prefix =
Strictly_Come_Dancing_Series_12_-_Week_9_b04t73z8_default
RTMPDump v2.4
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration              9.76
INFO:   moovPosition          36.00
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   aacaot                2.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate       48000.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO: tags:
INFO:   ©too                 Lavf55.33.100
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length                468359.00
INFO:   timescale             48000.00
INFO:   language              und
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            mp4a
160.632 kB / 9.75 sec (99.9%)
Download complete
WARNING: Failed to stream file
/home/michael/Strictly_Come_Dancing_Series_12_-_Week_9_b04t73z8_default.partial.m4a.flv
via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashaacstd1 mode
ERROR: Failed to record 'Strictly Come Dancing: Series 12 - Week 9 (b04t73z8)'
```

Any thoughts? I just reinstalled rtmp and ffmpeg (on Ubuntu 14.10) but
no difference. Any alternative options I might try, or elsewhere I
might get this episode?



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