Comments on: New Features in get_iplayer v0.42

By: RA

RA — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:35:04 +0000

Hi,

Nice work on iPlayer hackery, just wondering if youve seen the java based rtmp ripper at

http://rtmprip.jtvlan.org/ and http://ptrthomas.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/how-to-record-rtmp-flash-video-streams-using-red5/

ive got it working with some content but nothing from the beeb yet, it seems to succesfully grab the first packet but then die.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:15:59 +0000

Oh, I understand! Thanks.

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:53:07 +0000

@richard,
–channel only narrows the search – you still need a match term – try adding ‘.’ as a search term
Maybe your assumption would be better behaviour though. I’ll have a go at that some time

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:45:01 +0000

Thanks Phil, works ok now, however, have noticed that podcast download broken.
Just retrieves the index:-

richard@kagyu-linux:~$ get_iplayer -g –type=podcast –channel=\\\’world service\\\’ -o /home/richard/podcasts/radio3
INFO: Getting Podcast Index
Index subset for example only—-

20261: World Book Club – WBC: Patricia Cornwell, \\\’Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:10:00 +0000\\\’, \\\’BBC World Service\\\’, Arts
20262: World Book Club – WBC: Jane Smiley, \\\’Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:59:00 +0100\\\’, \\\’BBC World Service\\\’, Arts
20263: World Book Club – WBC: Sebastian Faulks, \\\’Fri, 02 May 2008 10:50:00 +0100\\\’, \\\’BBC World Service\\\’, Arts
20264: World Book Club – WBC: Khaled Hosseini, \\\’Tue, 27 May 2008 15:54:00 +0100\\\’, \\\’BBC World Service\\\’, Arts
20265: World Book Club – WBC: John Irving, \\\’Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:01:00 +0100\\\’, \\\’BBC World Service\\\’, Arts
20266: World Football – WF: Zimbabwe Football 12 Jul 08, \\\’Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:25:00 +0100\\\’, \\\’BBC World Service\\\’, Sports & Recreation
20267: World Football – WF: World football podcast, 12th July 2008, \\\’Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:02:00 +0100\\\’, \\\’BBC World Service\\\’, Sports & Recreation
20268: World Have Your Say – WHYS: 11 Jul 08: Tanzania Special: When is a child old enough to work?, \\\’Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:00:00 +0100\\\’, \\\’BBC World Service\\\’, News & Politics
20269: World Have Your Say – WHYS: 15 Jul 08: Zimbabweans in South Africa, \\\’Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:04:00 +0100\\\’, \\\’BBC World Service\\\’, News & Politics
20270: World Have Your Say – WHYS: 16 Jul 08: Cultural imperialism?, \\\’Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:18:00 +0100\\\’, \\\’BBC World Service\\\’, News & Politics
20271: World Have Your Say – WHYS: Human Hostages, \\\’Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:53:00 +0100\\\’, \\\’BBC World Service\\\’, News & Politics

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:15:31 +0000

@Richard,
Try updating to 0.54. Should be fixed now. Thanks!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:42:03 +0000

OOPS! Am running 0.53.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:20:15 +0000

A great bit of software. One slight problem, when downloading a ‘list’ of radio programs, get_iplayer ends after retrieving the first one. Is ok on TV & Podcasts. Running v0.43 on Ubuntu.

See Below:-
–type=radio –channel=’radio 3′ jazz -o /home/richard/radio/radio3 -g –wav
INFO: Getting Index Feeds
…………..
Matches:
INFO: 4 Matching Programmes
10453: Jazz Library – 11/07/2008, ‘BBC Radio 3′, Music
10454: Jazz Line-Up – 12/07/2008, ‘BBC Radio 3′, Music
10455: Jazz Record Requests – 12/07/2008, ‘BBC Radio 3′, Music
10456: Jazz on 3 – The Bad Plus, ‘BBC Radio 3′, Music

INFO: Attempting to Download: Jazz Library – 11/07/2008
Getting iplayer programme page INFO: Checking existence of programme
INFO: File name prefix = Jazz_Library_-_11_07_2008_b00cdcqq
INFO: Writing wav format
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2130 @ 1.86GHz (Family: 6, Model: 14, Stepping: 12)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/jazzlib.ra?BBC-UID=74a87789447c983bea158816105070c3e6b012ecd0d0718434cfd9d7b4d30d75&SSO2-UID=.
Resolving rmv8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET6…
Couldn’t resolve name for AF_INET6: rmv8.bbc.net.uk
Resolving rmv8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET…
Connecting to server rmv8.bbc.net.uk[212.58.251.75]: 554…
Cache size set to 128 KBytes
Cache fill: 18.75% (24576 bytes)
REAL file format detected.
Stream description: audio/x-pn-multirate-realaudio logical stream
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
[real] Audio stream found, -aid 0
Clip info:
name: Jazz Library
author: BBC Radio 3
copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation 2008
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: mad
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.1 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8010->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffcook] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg COOK audio decoder)
==========================================================================
[AO PCM] File: /home/richard/radio/radio3/Jazz_Library_-_11_07_2008_b00cdcqq.partial.wav (WAVE)
PCM: Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le
[AO PCM] Info: Faster dumping is achieved with -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast
[AO PCM] Info: To write WAVE files use -ao pcm:waveheader (default).
AO: [pcm] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback…
realrtsp: Stream EOF detected.0 ( 1:16:02.0) 13.2% 3%
A:4560.4 ( 1:16:00.3) of 4562.0 ( 1:16:02.0) 13.2% 0%

Exiting… (End of file)
richard@kagyu-linux:~$

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:23:44 +0000

@Ed
The only accessible mp3 streams I believe are the podcasts (correct me if I’m wrong here – a feed anyone?). These are quite limited compared with the rtmp/flash and realaudio streams. However, I was thinking of adding them to the index also if I can find a consistent way of scanning them.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:37:21 +0000

Hello again,

Just wanted to say thanks so much for the update, spot on.

Peter

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:18:38 +0000

Good job – can’t you use the MP3 streams and write them to files? I think the MP3 streams are better quality…. I know the streaming protocol used by flash is not open though