user-1429
10-10-2016, 04:20 PM
Hi,
I'm an occasional user of get_iplayer, but while setting up a new laptop I discovered the Web PVR for the first time. Great piece of work, but having a small glitch.
I exclusively use for downloading BBC Radio programs, and normally look up a programme on iPlayer Radio and then use the PID from the URL in a get_player command. I wanted to download PID b018g3n8 (1st episode of Afternoon Drama : Charles Dickens from R4Extra). I tried searching with ticks in the correct boxes for pid, BBC Radio and filtered on channel Radio 4 Extra but got no results.
When I tried same search on the command line as < get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=b018g3n8 >, I got the following output:
... and then it proceeded to download the programme.
Q1 Any reason why the PID search worked at command line but not in Web PVR?
Q2) What is get_iplayer doing when it says "checking existence of original version" after it says "pid not found in radio cache"
As an aside, I use the <look up pid on iPlayer> method because many programmes I can find there don't show up on get_iplayer list - e.g. there are 18 available episodes on "Afternoon Drama" from BBC Radio on iPlayer but only 5 episodes show up on get_iplayer.
Q3) Any idea why the discrepancy?
Simon
Win 10, get_iplayer 2.97.0 + web PVR
I'm an occasional user of get_iplayer, but while setting up a new laptop I discovered the Web PVR for the first time. Great piece of work, but having a small glitch.
I exclusively use for downloading BBC Radio programs, and normally look up a programme on iPlayer Radio and then use the PID from the URL in a get_player command. I wanted to download PID b018g3n8 (1st episode of Afternoon Drama : Charles Dickens from R4Extra). I tried searching with ticks in the correct boxes for pid, BBC Radio and filtered on channel Radio 4 Extra but got no results.
When I tried same search on the command line as < get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=b018g3n8 >, I got the following output:
Code:
INFO: Episode-only pid detected
INFO: Trying pid: b018g3n8 using type: radio
INFO: Trying to stream pid using type radio
INFO: pid not found in radio cache
Matches:
INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of original version
INFO: dashhigh1,dashhigh2,hafhigh1,hafhigh2,dashstd1,dashstd2,hafstd1,hafstd2,hlsaacstd1,dashmed1,dashmed2,hafmed1,hafmed2,dashlow1,dashlow2,haflow1,haflow2,hlsaaclow1 modes will be tried for version original
INFO: Trying dashhigh1 mode to record radio: Afternoon Drama: Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities - 1. Recalled to Life
INFO: File name prefix = Afternoon_Drama_Charles_Dickens_-_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities_-_1._Recalled_to_Life_b018g3n8_originalQ1 Any reason why the PID search worked at command line but not in Web PVR?
Q2) What is get_iplayer doing when it says "checking existence of original version" after it says "pid not found in radio cache"
As an aside, I use the <look up pid on iPlayer> method because many programmes I can find there don't show up on get_iplayer list - e.g. there are 18 available episodes on "Afternoon Drama" from BBC Radio on iPlayer but only 5 episodes show up on get_iplayer.
Q3) Any idea why the discrepancy?
Simon
Win 10, get_iplayer 2.97.0 + web PVR