Comments on: get_iplayer now Searches and Records All Standard UK TV Channels

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:01:55 +0000

Hi Zinger, I know this is a very long time ago, i have spent a considerable amount of time playing with the flvstreamer and get_iplayer for the QNAP nas and also now the PopCorn Hour. I have successfully got get_iplayer working on the MIPes processor, i still have a little way to go, but it’s pretty much there. I have 1 last issue with regards FFmpeg and then i will try and put some documentation together if you are interested.

Tim.

By: AudioBear

AudioBear — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:10:02 +0000

Lee, for five at least rtmpdump is your friend

By: Leo Gee

Leo Gee — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:48:09 +0000

OK, I read the update link at the top and understand. Hopefully these options will come back sometime.

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:33:38 +0000

ch4, hulu and five are no longer supported.

By: Leo Gee

Leo Gee — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:20:04 +0000

I get the following error message when trying to search or download from ch4 or five. Using –type=ch4 or –type=five :
“Invalid file type five specified. Valid file types are: livetv, itv, tv, liveradio, podcast, radio.

I have the latest version of iplayer 2.11 and have updated plugins.

What am I doing wrong?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:42:38 +0000

Hi AudioBear,

Yes, I’m on get_iplayer v1.82 and rtmpdump v1.5a. Interestingly, the episode has vanished from the Channel 4 On Demand system now, so perhaps it was left on by mistake?

Thanks for looking into it, though!

Cheers,

Andy.

By: AudioBear

AudioBear — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:11:25 +0000

Actually Andy, I just looked at the video I downloaded and it is ‘Countdown’ again. Looks like a problem either with get_iplayer or CH4.

Phil, all the meta data is correct but the video is ‘Countdown’…
/get_iplayer –pid=ch4:2872120

By: AudioBear

AudioBear — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:08:37 +0000

Hi Andy, this programme does not seem to be available on the CH4 4OD website? I just tied it with the pid and am getting the default ‘Countdown’ – so no pid or bad pid?

Also that pid looks a little short, for a latter episodes of The IT Crowd programmes they are:
Calendar Geeks: 2873354
Friendface: 2872680
Tramps Like Us: 2872120

I can download at least one of these (2872120)
/get_iplayer –pid=ch4:2872120

Also are you using the latest version of get_iplayer (1.82 and also the latest rtmpdump 1.5a)?

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:59:15 +0000

Has anyone had any luck with the IT Crowd episode ‘Are We Not Men?’, with the PID 40439? All I get is ffmpeg spitting it back at me with:

[flv @ 0x1002400]negative cts, previous timestamps might be wrong
[NULL @ 0x1003400]error, non monotone timestamps 40 >= 40
av_interleaved_write_frame(): Error while opening file
WARNING: flv conversion failed – retaining flv file

All of the others work fine… any clues? :o)

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:48:08 +0000

Used a better way now. Now its nice and uniform Thanks.
$uas = $user_agent_list[rand @user_agent_list];