Comments on: BBC iPlayer HD 1280×720 now supported by get_iplayer

By: smiffy

smiffy — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:49:52 +0000

hi,

just like to say i’m using the Web PVR Manager frontend for get_iPlayer on Windows – hope this will help someone for getting HD progs down:

To use the –flashhd option they’re talking about above, find “Recording Modes” in the “Recording” tab of the sub-navigation and put “flashhd,” without quotes, and yes with the comma, at the front of the list. Click “force recording” (in case you’ve dld the non-HD ver) and then “Save as default” . (Delete any non-HD things you didn’t want.) Then , close and restart the Web PVR Manager – ie,close the browser tabs AND click the DOS box closed. When you restart Web PVR Mgr, the flashhd preference will have “taken”. Check the output of the recording blurb to verify this next time you try to grab an HD prog – it should have the HD dimensions in there – ie:

INFO: width 1280.00
INFO: height 720.00

hth,
smiffy

By: sharpie

sharpie — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:45:04 +0000

Thanks for the tip, that helps out quite a bit

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:55:56 +0000

I just remembered that you can get all programmes lited under the BBC HD ‘channel’ as follows. I cannot guarantee that this list is all-inclusive but as the name implies, those programmes should be in HD (only the default version though):

get_iplayer –channel=hd

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:59:11 +0000

the –modes (and the old vmode option) will not change any search output.

–modes=flashhd will only ever download HD (–tvmode and –vmode will override this).

You could only theoretically find a definitive list of HD progs available by downloading about 2400+ web pages every time – that is why get_iplayer uses the XML feeds but unfortunately the Beeb don’t tell you which modes are available in those feeds, and therefore –info is required.

By: sharpie

sharpie — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:16:57 +0000

I guess I’m still a bit confused as to how I retrieve a list of content available in vmode=flashhd. It gives me the same results and when I go to record sometimes the the show is available and sometimes it is not. Is there any full proof way of getting only listing that are available in HD? Thanks

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:09:42 +0000

Flashd content is working again on 31/10/2009. However content from 30/10/2009 is still unavailable. maybe just a blip!

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:36:10 +0000

Since 30/10/2009 flashhd content does not download. I can still download content prior to this date. Is this a known issue?

I get the following info for all content made available on 30/10/2009:
INFO: Trying flashhd2 mode to record tv: Are You an Egghead? – Series 2: Episode 15
INFO: File name prefix = Are_You_an_Egghead_-_Series_2_Episode_15_b00nnkkq_default
FLVStreamer v1.8l
(c) 2009 Andrej Stepanchuk, The Flvstreamer Team, license: GPL
Connecting …
Starting download at: 0.000 kB

Download may be incomplete (downloaded about 0.00%), try –resume
INFO: Command exit code 2 (raw code = 512)
WARNING: Failed to stream file e:/BBC-Programmes/Are_You_an_Egghead_-_Series_2_Episode_15_b00nnkkq_default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashhd2 mode
ERROR: Failed to record ‘Are You an Egghead? – Series 2: Episode 15 (b00nnkkq)’

C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer>

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:04:06 +0000

See the FAQ

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:56:39 +0000

Can you be more specific: Command used, platform and versions of programs? Thanks.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:56:31 +0000

Sorry, that is not the error….
This is:
ERROR: FillBuffer, recv returned -1. GetSockError(): 10060
ERROR: ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header.