Hello Everyone,
I am a new member to this forum.

My first question is not about the get_iplayer app as such, but about some information that I found in other threads about the retrieval of older media that is officially not available, but still plays on Iplayer.
Here : https://www.mail-archive.com/get_iplayer...05927.html

I would like to understand how you can get to the media stream based on the json file.

I have a json file,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pbqv5/playlist.json

which contains: "vpid":"b00pbqsd","kind":"radioProgramme","duration":900

Where do I go from here? I would like to learn to manually retrieve the stream parameters from this data.

Thanks,
S.T.

Quote:<div class="d4p-bbp-quote-title">Quote:</div>Hello Everyone,
I am a new member to this forum.

My first question is not about the get_iplayer app as such, but about some information that I found in other threads about the retrieval of older media that is officially not available, but still plays on Iplayer.
Here : https://www.mail-archive.com/get_iplayer...05927.html

I would like to understand how you can get to the media stream based on the json file.

I have a json file,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pbqv5/playlist.json

which contains: “vpid”:”b00pbqsd”,”kind”:”radioProgramme”,”duration”:900

Where do I go from here? I would like to learn to manually retrieve the stream parameters from this data.

Thanks,
S.T.

I have only done this with the almost extinct wma overseas streams:

see here (page may take 20secs to load) for details:

http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?5,5...#msg-59709

I suspect you didn't get the news that get_iplayer has been updated. Click the Support link above and look for the highlighted post announcing the latest release. Release notes can be found in wiki.

Now to your post: First, that programme is still available, or else you wouldn't be able to play it on the iPlayer Radio site. Second, that programme was last broadcast just today, so it can still be found with a get_iplayer search - it's within the 7-day window for searchable programmes. You don't even need the updated version of get_iplayer to download it. Third, if it were older than 7 days, you could use the updated get_iplayer to download it directly using the option up until its 30-day expiry.

You don't need to know what the vPIDs are or what to do with them. If you still want to know for some masochistic reason, you should have seen this in the mailing list thread you referenced:

https://www.mail-archive.com/get_iplayer...05922.html

which describes the process of getting the Flash AAC version of a programme. It's similar to the info at the link posted by forget.it, but that beebotron thread doesn't tell you how to actually download a programme to disk.