VLC Media Player BBC iPlayer Integration using get_iplayer PVR Manager

8 Comments

• On July 25th, 2009, Angela said:
  

  This simply gets better by the day! A couple of observations:-

  VLC plays BBC Four/Cbeebies by default at startup. Could that be changed?

  Cbeebies and CBC occupy the same slots as Three and Four at mutually exclusive times. Double entries could be dispensed with in the playlist.

  VLC repeatedly hangs on my system when News 24 is played via selecting the listing from the playlist. Not sure why or if its just particular to me?

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  • On July 25th, 2009, linuxcentre said:
    

    VLC, by default, will play the first item in a playlist you give it. Maybe see if there is a VLC option to disable this.

    I could dispense with those entries but that really doesn’t fit with the way get_iplayer works and lists all the programmes.

    I cannot really be much help with VLC issues as such – maybe just make sure you have the most recent version.

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• On August 9th, 2009, cunningr said:
  

  Nice. I get the live stream to start but it then stops after several seconds and doesn’t start again.

  Any clues?

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  • On August 11th, 2009, linuxcentre said:
    

    Are you using latest flvstreamer? – i.e. 1.8h or later? If so then maybe it’s just a bandwidth problem between you and the internet, finally it could just be that 10060 error we see sometimes with flvstreamer and win32.

    I only have ever got the live ‘Play’ and playlist stuiff to work under windows by getting firefox to associate m3u files with vlc.exe.

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• On August 21st, 2009, Shane Doveton said:
  

  Has something changed on the I-player.
  Using V1.84 on Ubuntu mostly for downloading
  radio programs.
  Recent downloads have started to default to .wav
  versions – rather a large chunk of my 40 gig/month
  allowance.
  Any suggestions?
  Here is my ‘error’:
  get_iplayer v1.84, Copyright (C) 2009 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.

  Matches:
  10615: Comedy Catch Up: Yes Minister – The Moral Dimension, BBC 7, Comedy,Radio

  INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
  justme11@Shane-desktop:~$ get_iplayer –get 10615
  get_iplayer v1.84, Copyright (C) 2009 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.

  Matches:
  10615: radio, Comedy Catch Up: Yes Minister – The Moral Dimension, BBC 7, Comedy,Radio

  INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
  INFO: Checking existence of default version
  INFO: iphone,realaudio modes will be tried for version default
  INFO: Trying iphone mode to record radio: Comedy Catch Up: Yes Minister – The Moral Dimension
  INFO: File name prefix = Comedy_Catch_Up_Yes_Minister_-_The_Moral_Dimension_b00m5088_default
  WARNING: iphone version not available
  WARNING: Retry recording for ‘Comedy Catch Up: Yes Minister – The Moral Dimension (b00m5088)’
  INFO: File name prefix = Comedy_Catch_Up_Yes_Minister_-_The_Moral_Dimension_b00m5088_default
  WARNING: iphone version not available
  WARNING: Retry recording for ‘Comedy Catch Up: Yes Minister – The Moral Dimension (b00m5088)’
  INFO: File name prefix = Comedy_Catch_Up_Yes_Minister_-_The_Moral_Dimension_b00m5088_default
  WARNING: iphone version not available
  INFO: Trying realaudio mode to record radio: Comedy Catch Up: Yes Minister – The Moral Dimension

  WARNING: Required lame does not exist, will save file in wav format
  INFO: File name prefix = Comedy_Catch_Up_Yes_Minister_-_The_Moral_Dimension_b00m5088_default
  INFO: Writing wav format
  MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
  CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
  CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
  Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

  Playing rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk:554/bbc7coyopa/bbc7_-_sunday_1630.ra?timestamp=1250559768&pid=b00m4zwb&BBC-UID=c48aa8dacc4b068fd4622d5f81854f7854975d0ab070b16424dfc977a4c313e4&SSO2-UID=.
  Resolving rm-acl.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET6…
  Couldn’t resolve name for AF_INET6: rm-acl.bbc.co.uk
  Resolving rm-acl.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET…
  Connecting to server rm-acl.bbc.co.uk[212.58.227.103]: 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: Comedy Catch Up 16 08 2009
  copyright: British Broadcasting Corporation Copyright 2009, all rights reserved.
  ==========================================================================
  Forced audio codec: mad
  Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
  AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 44.1 kbit/3.12% (ratio: 5512->176400)
  Selected audio codec: [ffcook] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg COOK audio decoder)
  ==========================================================================
  [AO PCM] File: ./Comedy_Catch_Up_Yes_Minister_-_The_Moral_Dimension_b00m5088_default.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…

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  • On August 21st, 2009, linuxcentre said:
    

    I highly recommend updating get_iplayer and flvstreamer then install lame. After this I’d recommend setting some useful defaults:

    get_iplayer –add-prefs –radiomode=iphone,flashaudio,realaudio

    This will set all radio downloads to get the native mp3 versions of radio programmes. RealAudio is really quite poor quality in comparison. If you wan you can get AAC if you add flashaac to the beginning of that list of modes.

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• On February 3rd, 2010, parfer said:
  

  This is exactly what I needed. However it works for Radio channels but not for TV channels.

  I get the following error message on Web PVR Manager console. Can somebody help, please?

  ——————————————-

  Matches:
  80000: BBC Four – live

  INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
  INFO: Checking existence of default version
  INFO: flashnormal1 modes will be tried for version default
  INFO: Trying flashnormal1 mode to record livetv: BBC Four – live
  INFO: File name prefix = BBC_Four_live_2010-02-03_162035
  FLVStreamer v2.1a
  (c) 2008-2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
  Connecting …
  ERROR: rtmp server sent error
  ERROR: rtmp server requested close
  INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)

  INFO: Streaming failed with exit code 1
  ERROR: aborting get_iplayer
  INFO: Finished Streaming bbc_four to browser

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  • On February 3rd, 2010, linuxcentre said:
    

    Please search and use the forum for such questions. You need to be in the UK for that to work.

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