Re: Repair Shop S05E23

2020-09-10 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 21:36, Chris Brady wrote: > > Hi - did anyone get S05E23 on Wednesday. Its airing on BBC 1 London > was cancelled. But it might have gone out on HD or BBC 1 Wales. Its > not on iPlayer. Thanks - Chris B. I believe it was cancelled everywhere (Boris took precedence, even in

Re: Excessive Bounces

2019-07-29 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 at 12:10, Peter Corlett wrote: > ... > I'm sure the list admin(s) will be delighted to receive your remittance to > cover the cost of the reconfiguration, testing, extra server load, and ongoing > maintenance required to improve (but not guarantee!) deliverability to GMail. > U

Re: Excessive Bounces

2019-07-28 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 at 13:03, Roger Bell_West wrote: > > In order to participate reliably in Internet email, you'll need a > standards-compliant platform - which gmail isn't. It's fine if you > only ever exchange mail with other walled-garden users, but talking to > the wider world is a bit more d

Re: BritBox: BBC and ITV set out plans for new streaming service

2019-07-19 Thread Colin Law
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 11:27, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:22:24AM +0100, Colin Law wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 11:17, David Cantrell wrote: > > > The current caches, which IIRC are for a month's worth of programmes, > > > are 2

Re: BritBox: BBC and ITV set out plans for new streaming service

2019-07-19 Thread Colin Law
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 11:17, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 09:57:12AM +0100, CJB wrote: > > > Huh - a cache a year old might be a tad large!! > > The current caches, which IIRC are for a month's worth of programmes, > are 2.3MB for TV and 5.2MB for radio. So around 90MB for a

Re: Checking my emails are received - grateful if one person would respond

2019-05-27 Thread Colin Law
You can check whether they were received ok by looking in the archive http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/ Colin On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 17:54, Clive wrote: > > Over the last few weeks I have sent two emails to this group and I am > not sure if either have been received. I see my own

Re: Europe

2018-12-21 Thread Colin Law
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 14:28, Paul Thornett wrote: > > VPNs are often very slow. Much faster, and a solution that works well > for me, is something called Smart DNS, which is essentially a > different set of DNS > addresses. Both VPNs and DNS redirection will cost you a small amount > of money -

Re: Slightly OT Video conversion

2018-12-09 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 at 08:55, Dave Widgery wrote: > > Hi > > I am trying to convert some .ts files to mp4 ffmpeg should be able to do that, see this for example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17907762/how-to-convert-re-wrap-transport-stream-to-mpeg-4-container-in-ios-app Colin _

Re: OT VM or Dual boot and get_iplayer

2018-11-01 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 10:44, RS wrote: > > On 31/10/2018 13:09, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 05:34:26AM +, Geoff Smith wrote: > > > >> I am at a loss to understand why anyone uses dual-booting, it's an > >> archaic method. I gave it up a decade ago to enjoy the advantages

Re: Loss of BBC HD channels on satellite

2018-10-18 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 21:52, wrote: > ... > Why should I have to move > because one user perverts the list's function for his own ends? In what way did the original user benefit? He was merely informing us of information in which at least some of us are interested. Colin _

Re: OT Help with picture size please.

2018-08-29 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 15:05, Budge wrote: > > On 27/08/18 10:38, Colin Law wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 10:35, Budge wrote: > >> > >> Forgive my ignorance but I am stuck with a picture size problem with old > >> editions of Inspector Morse videos. Th

Re: OT Help with picture size please.

2018-08-27 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 10:35, Budge wrote: > > Forgive my ignorance but I am stuck with a picture size problem with old > editions of Inspector Morse videos. These have been saved as .mp4 > videos and are generally 4x3 format. > > Given that my screen is a wide format screen I can accept that the

Re: --url, -recursive, multiple --pids

2018-08-26 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 16:15, Clive wrote: > > -recursive: I had relied on the help page displayed when a command goes > wrong and I guess that is the short help, and it does not cover > -recursive. As you say, it is in the long help. It is a case of "it has > always worked" so there was surprise

Re: v3.13 released

2018-03-27 Thread Colin Law
On 27 March 2018 at 22:01, Clive wrote: > On 27/03/18 21:54, Graeme Thorn wrote: >> >> get_iplayer >> --cache-rebuild --type="radio" > > That worked. Wow, never seen so many lines of dots on the terminal screen. > Thank you, I now have three episodes of hitchhiker showing. Must do that for > TV al

Re: v3.13 released

2018-03-27 Thread Colin Law
On 27 March 2018 at 21:42, Roger Bell_West wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 09:36:55PM +0100, Clive wrote: >>get_iplayer 3.13-ppa31d, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis > > OK, that's not a "pure" 3.13, and maybe that's your problem. I'm > running directly off the github download. Anyone else usin

Re: Format of options file

2018-03-05 Thread Colin Law
On 5 March 2018 at 12:02, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Colin, > >> > > ') - using defaultalue for --ffmpeg-loglevel ('info >> > >> > That line above seems to be overprinting the «')» at the start of >> > the line suggesting there's an ASCII CR, carriage return, after the >> > `info' as if a Unix sys

Re: Format of options file

2018-03-05 Thread Colin Law
On 3 March 2018 at 11:09, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > > ') - using defaultalue for --ffmpeg-loglevel ('info > > > > If I enter the options again with --prefs-add they work correctly, so > > it is no big deal. Any ideas what is happening? > > That line above seems to be overprinting

Re: get_iplayer 3.10 released

2018-01-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 January 2018 at 17:29, RS wrote: > From: Colin Law > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 5:11 PM > >> If you go to the ppa page >> https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer >> and click up in the top right hand corner where it says 5 packa

Re: get_iplayer 3.10 released

2018-01-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 January 2018 at 17:00, RS wrote: > > I have tried to update it in Ubuntu 16.04.3 using the PPA. > > The Ubuntu PPA page > https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer > includes > get-iplayer 3.10-ppa31b~xenial > but when I run > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-hedg

Re: Downloading Podcast?

2018-01-03 Thread Colin Law
On 2 January 2018 at 23:11, Budge wrote: > ... > A discussion on Firefox could take us OT but I have been greatly annoyed by > the recent significant changes to Firefox (FF) which have broken almost all > the add-ons I use. More significantly one of my sons-in-law is in IT and > his firm use FF o

Re: Sometimes get file rename error at end of download

2017-11-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 November 2017 at 10:57, Nick Payne wrote: > Running get_iplayer 3.06 on Win10 x64. Sometimes the rename of the mp4 > file at the end of a download fails. ffmpeg creates the partial.mp4 file > without any problem, but get_iplayer.pl then fails to rename > .partial.mp4 to mp4. It's not a permi

Re: parser error

2017-10-24 Thread Colin Law
If you download the xml file the error refers to and look at it, it can be seen that there are lots of null characters (hence the error Char 0x0 out of range). The file is corrupt. Colin On 24 October 2017 at 20:35, RS wrote: > Does anyone have any idea what causes a parser error? I thought at

Re: OT: A few ffmpeg queries

2017-09-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 September 2017 at 11:23, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > Continuing OT for a minute.. > > On 08/09/2017 09:57, Jim web wrote: >> >> >> Its a great shame that there isn't a decent and clear *tutorial* on how to >> use ffmpeg for such things so that people can make sense of the vast >> forest >> of mys

Re: Is BBC blocking a permanent thing?

2017-06-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 June 2017 at 10:18, Stephen Lord wrote: > I’m using the Mac version, 1.8.7. You need to upgrade to 3.01 Colin > > Thanks. > >> On 9 Jun 2017, at 10:02, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 9 June 2017 at 09:50, Stephen Lord wrote: >>> I’ve been having pr

Re: Is BBC blocking a permanent thing?

2017-06-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 June 2017 at 09:50, Stephen Lord wrote: > I’ve been having problems downloading with Get_iPlayer for months. I always > get the message Unknown: PID not found, and I get it on both my iMac and my > MacBook, both running the latest Mac OS with updates. I can’t search for > programmes either

Re: Off topic security updates and XP

2017-05-15 Thread Colin Law
On 14 May 2017 at 22:09, Dave Widgery wrote: > Hi > Firstly I agree, I would never advocate using XP in a commercial > environment, I only use it because it is convenient to use an old > machine for get_iplayer, You might like to consider putting Lubuntu on that, Lubuntu is low on resource requir

Re: Help text query

2017-05-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 May 2017 at 16:03, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 01:56:03PM +0100, Martin Powell wrote: > ... >> If your distribution handles PPAs, there is little point, but if it does >> not, it could be very handy. > > Not really. I have no idea what a PPA is so I presume that my OSes do

Re: GIP 2.99 on openSUSE 42.2

2017-03-18 Thread Colin Law
On 17 March 2017 at 14:23, michael norman wrote: > Running as per the title > > Converting video file fails as per this example > > Matches: > 5569: imagine...: Summer 2010 - Growing Old Disgracefully, BBC Two, > b00sz455 > > INFO: 1 Matching Programmes > INFO: Checking existence of original ver

Re: BBC Licensing Expose

2017-02-27 Thread Colin Law
Oops, stupid boy. My excuse is that I never read anything in the Daily Mail, and obviously didn't read this. Colin On 27 February 2017 at 09:39, SquarePenguin wrote: > On 27/02/17 09:04, Colin Law wrote: >> A bonus of £15000 for catching 28 evaders at £145.50 (total £4074) >>

Re: BBC Licensing Expose

2017-02-27 Thread Colin Law
A bonus of £15000 for catching 28 evaders at £145.50 (total £4074) doesn't sound very likely. I don't see there are any implications for anyone obeying the law. Colin On 27 February 2017 at 08:57, Chris J Brady wrote: > If you thought that the BBC employed th*gs to collect licence fees then you

Re: dash radio fails

2017-02-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 February 2017 at 10:44, Tony Quinn wrote: > > > On 11/02/2017 10:01, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 11 February 2017 at 09:55, Charles Johnson >> wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> WARNING: Failed to stream file >>> >>> /tmp/Th

Re: dash radio fails

2017-02-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 February 2017 at 09:55, Charles Johnson wrote: > ... > WARNING: Failed to stream file > /tmp/The_Briefing_Room_-_Trumps_Economy_Trade_b08cqqrh_original.partial.m4a.m4a > DEBUG: Record using dashlow1 mode return code: 'next' > INFO: skipping dashlow1 mode Probably get_iplayer making sensible

Re: Failed Downloads

2017-02-04 Thread Colin Law
On 3 February 2017 at 22:12, Dave Widgery wrote: > ... > I intend to contact my internet provider but it is difficult to report > as if I do a speed test it appears fine and get typical results for > download and upload speeds compared to usual (only 1900k download and > 500k upload), but it is ob

Re: License question

2016-09-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 September 2016 at 12:28, michael norman wrote: > On 03/09/16 10:11, Jonathan H wrote: >> >> I don't think you'll see a better summary of the situation than this. >> And yes, I realise the irony of copying and pasting an entire >> advertising-funded page, but when the advert covers the entire

Re: OT: why were BBC archives deleted or destroyed?

2016-08-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 August 2016 at 14:06, artisticforge . wrote: > Hello > > This is off-topic but it is of importance to the people who listen to the BBC. > > Why were BBC archives deleted or destroyed? Incompetence and cock-up mostly I imagine. Colin > The original Paul Temple serials, before Peter Cooke >

Re: Disabling television mode

2016-07-13 Thread Colin Law
On 13 July 2016 at 00:13, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: > On 2016-07-12 21:49, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 12 July 2016 at 21:36, wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:38:02 +0100 >>> Colin Law wrote: >>>> >>>> A further interest

Re: Disabling television mode

2016-07-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 July 2016 at 21:36, wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:38:02 +0100 > Colin Law wrote: >> A further interesting point, suppose I am running iplayer on my tablet >> on a bus (I have a license so that is ok). Is it illegal for someone >> in the next seat to watch it on

Re: Disabling television mode

2016-07-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 July 2016 at 17:56, Roger Bell_West wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 05:28:30PM +0100, Colin Law wrote: >>It's OK, I should have read further. Your normal residence has to be >>covered, then one is ok wherever you are. > > "provided the device you’re using

Re: Disabling television mode

2016-07-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 July 2016 at 17:23, Colin Law wrote: > On 12 July 2016 at 17:08, Roger Bell_West wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 05:02:50PM +0100, Colin Law wrote: >>>On 12 July 2016 at 08:27, Roger Bell_West wrote: >>>> We know that as of 1 September a TV licence will b

Re: Disabling television mode

2016-07-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 July 2016 at 17:08, Roger Bell_West wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 05:02:50PM +0100, Colin Law wrote: >>On 12 July 2016 at 08:27, Roger Bell_West wrote: >>> We know that as of 1 September a TV licence will be required to >>> download TV programmes from the

Re: Disabling television mode

2016-07-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 July 2016 at 08:27, Roger Bell_West wrote: > We know that as of 1 September a TV licence will be required to > download TV programmes from the BBC. I did not know that. Did I miss something? Presumably so. Colin ___ get_iplayer mailing list ge

Re: hlshd download speeds

2016-07-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 July 2016 at 14:25, RS wrote: > The release of v2.95 seems to have had quite an impact on hlshd download > speeds. I cannot see that the release of v2.95 can have any impact if you are not actually using that version. I would assume it is just co-incidence. Colin

Re: GIP 2.95 reports as v2.83 in Linux Mint!!!

2016-07-05 Thread Colin Law
On 4 July 2016 at 23:36, Roger Bell_West wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:31:09PM +0100, Alan Milewczyk wrote: >>On 04/07/16 19:15, Roger Bell_West wrote: >>>You asked the system to uninstall the package, but not to purge its >>>configuration files. >>Oh, so what is the command to do that, plea

Re: GIP 2.95 reports as v2.83 in Linux Mint!!!

2016-07-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 July 2016 at 18:57, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > On 04/07/16 18:45, James Daley wrote: >>> >>> sudo apt-get autoremove get_iplayer >>> Reading package lists... Done >>> Building dependency tree >>> Reading state information... Done >>> E: Unable to locate package get_iplayer >>> >>> Help, plea

Re: GIP 2.95 reports as v2.83 in Linux Mint!!!

2016-07-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 July 2016 at 16:24, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > I'm puzzled.. > > I'm in the process of converting most of my PCs (except two) to Linux Mint > and decided to install GIP2.95 on one of those Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon x64 > systems. > > I downloaded GIP from the get-iplayer PPA, extracted and in

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer 2.95 released

2016-07-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 July 2016 at 20:42, Owen Smith wrote: > It's a matter of how much time I have to spend on things. I have a Pi model B > (512MB) running dnsmasq as a DNS cache. But I go months between logging into > it, and I cross my fingers when I change things that I don't break it. > Installing get_ipl

Re: Bl**dy Beeb Truncations on iPlayer

2016-06-30 Thread Colin Law
On 30 June 2016 at 18:19, CJB wrote: > Thank Don > > I'll check out others over the weekend. But this has been going on for > years.The Beeb says that it adds 2 mins to the start and end of a > prog. but if programme is say 30 mins long then the file should be 34 > mins not 28 or less etc.!! Is

Re: Is this list redundant?

2016-05-16 Thread Colin Law
On 16 May 2016 at 20:14, Jon Davies wrote: > On 16 May 2016 at 19:32, David Woodhouse wrote: >> Is there still a benefit to having this list at all? Would we be better >> off shutting it down entirely? > > while there's some rubbish on this list, there are still valid support > questions being ra

Re: BBC 3 goes off-air tonight.

2016-02-17 Thread Colin Law
On 17 February 2016 at 13:03, Rochford, Steve wrote: >> And I wonder if the BBC 3 yoof market can be ar$ed to watch stuff 'live' >> too. Somehow with modern lives so ephemeral I doubt it. >> Massive FAIL for the Beeb. CJB > > Surely the reason that BBC3 is going on-line only is because younger pe

Re: get_iplayer currently broken...

2016-01-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 January 2016 at 10:37, Vangelis forthnet wrote: > .. > When I (and I suppose everyone else) a) CD in the command prompt to a folder > "in which ffmpeg.exe resides" or b) open directly the command prompt in a > folder "in which ffmpeg.exe resides", then any typed command in the form > of: >

Re: now for something completely different

2016-01-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 January 2016 at 14:54, Steve wrote: > > Concerning radio programs on SD cards. > The last time I was in the Hospital my adult children would bring me > the radio dramas that I had been listening to on an > SD card so that I may listen to them at my leisure. The average life > of the PNY 4GB

Re: now for something completely different

2016-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 January 2016 at 19:02, artisticforge . wrote: > hello > > I am closer to the grave than the cradle and very microsecond counts. > I may sit around all day in a wheelchair but my time is still my time. > If I can do something a little faster, complete a little sooner, so > much the better. > >

Re: now for something completely different

2016-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 January 2016 at 17:23, Dave Liquorice wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:06:55 +0000, Colin Law wrote: > >> Why would the files have to be on a USB drive? Why not the SD card? > > Reliabilty? I've "killed" an 8 GB microSD card and an 8 GB USB stick with

Re: now for something completely different

2016-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 January 2016 at 16:39, artisticforge . wrote: > Hello > > one of my birthday presents late last year, 23 December, is an Arduino Yun. > runs both arduino sketches and OpenWRT, a flavour of Linux. Also > received the Arduino Robot. ;-) > > Still learning the Yun. Just to prove it could be done

Re: Audacity, get_iplayer & Windows 10

2015-11-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 November 2015 at 10:48, CJB wrote: > OK - that's all good to know. But ... do I really need to upgrade to > Win 10 anyway? Its the aggressive forcing of the issue that riles me. > My little Acer notebook hasn't the capacity for a full blown Windows. > I only have Win 7 Starter anyway. And my

Re: Audacity, get_iplayer & Windows 10

2015-11-17 Thread Colin Law
On 17 November 2015 at 18:21, CJB wrote: > Audacity is the music editing app. that I am most familiar with. I > like it. It works. > > I also use it to process downloads from get_iplayer. > > However with Microsoft's increasingly aggressive stance in forcing > upgrades to Windows 10 I am concerned

Re: OT: GetFlashVideos

2015-10-16 Thread Colin Law
On 16 October 2015 at 13:51, C E Macfarlane wrote: > After a hard disk crash, I no longer have a working linux PC, and wish to > watch a film on ITV. If anyone can give a generic commandline for rtmpdump > to accomplish this, I'd be most grateful. You can PM me if you want to keep > your reply o

Re: get_iplayer xxxxxx not oprational

2015-09-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 September 2015 at 14:17, chris chery wrote: > the get_iplayer xx command does not respond anymore > impossible to get number of prog Tell us exactly what command you are entering and copy/paste the command and the result here. Colin ___ ge

Re: Clangers missing

2015-08-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 August 2015 at 11:41, Dave Liquorice wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:31:18 +0100, Colin Law wrote: > >>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/clangers there are 26 available >>>> for download. >>> >>> Are those 26 episodes the 26 of Series

Re: Clangers missing

2015-08-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 August 2015 at 11:00, tellyaddict wrote: >> I wonder what gip command it uses to fetch all the episodes. I have >> not found it yet. > > You can use the series PID from iPlayer. When you search for clangers and > look at the 26 available you get taken to this page > http://www.bbc.co.uk/i

Re: Clangers missing

2015-08-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 August 2015 at 09:18, Dave Liquorice wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:14:09 +0100, Colin Law wrote: > >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/clangers there are 26 available >> for download. > > Are those 26 episodes the 26 of Series 1 and 2 ('69/70 & 

Re: Clangers missing

2015-08-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 August 2015 at 08:58, Michael Pavling wrote: > On 11 August 2015 at 08:43, Colin Law wrote: >> On 10 August 2015 at 22:19, Ivor Williams wrote: >>> I run Linux and use a graphical interface for GiP called giPlayer and I can >>> see all 26 episodes of the Clanger

Re: Clangers missing

2015-08-11 Thread Colin Law
yet. Colin > > > > On Monday, 10 August 2015, 13:44, Colin Law wrote: > > > On 10 August 2015 at 09:14, Colin Law wrote: >> Can someone tell me whether this is a problem with me or with the BBC >> please? Using version 2.94, from >> https://raw.github.com/dinkypum

Re: Clangers missing

2015-08-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 August 2015 at 09:14, Colin Law wrote: > Can someone tell me whether this is a problem with me or with the BBC > please? Using version 2.94, from > https://raw.github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/latest/get_iplayer, > when I run > get_iplayer clangers > it finds 12 episod

Clangers missing

2015-08-10 Thread Colin Law
Can someone tell me whether this is a problem with me or with the BBC please? Using version 2.94, from https://raw.github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/latest/get_iplayer, when I run get_iplayer clangers it finds 12 episodes but when I look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/clangers there are

Re: Requests For Features

2015-07-23 Thread Colin Law
On 23 July 2015 at 09:59, Jim web wrote: > ... > FWIW I tend to use this to 'snip' files > > ffmpeg -ss "hh:mm:ss" -i infile. -acodec copy -vcodec copy -t > "hh:mm:ss" output. You might occasionally find this gives strange effects at the start of the new file. If you switch the options round so

Re: Embedded not downloading

2015-07-05 Thread Colin Law
On 5 July 2015 at 11:27, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > On 05/07/2015 02:23, Vangelis forthnet wrote: >> >> >> Hello Peter :-) >> == >> The solution to your predicament is fairly simple: >> just add "--mediaselector=4" to your GiP command; >> GiP then uses another "formula" and this time

Re: Re: Linux Mint woes

2015-07-01 Thread Colin Law
On 1 July 2015 at 15:22, michael norman wrote: > > > > Forwarded Message > Subject: Re: Linux Mint woes > Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:03:39 +0100 > From: michael norman > To: Colin Law > > > > On 07/01/2015 02:34 PM, Colin Law wrote: >>

Re: Linux Mint woes

2015-07-01 Thread Colin Law
On 1 July 2015 at 14:17, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > I'd love to like Linux but why is it such a struggle > > Running a dual boot Win 7 x64/Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca 64 bit system and > previously installed get_iplayer v2.92 on the Linux partition. It's > Wimbledon, the season of humungous file size

Re: get_iplayer 2.92 on Ubuntu vivid vervet

2015-04-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 April 2015 at 09:21, Tom wrote: > On 22/04/15 08:18, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 22 April 2015 at 08:13, Tom wrote: ... >>> I am of the opinion that the best way to do this thing is with git. >>> A simple git pull and everything is up to date - unless of cou

Re: get_iplayer 2.92 on Ubuntu vivid vervet

2015-04-22 Thread Colin Law
On 21 April 2015 at 17:32, Jon Davies wrote: > I've built packages for get-iplayer and dependencies for the imminent > Ubuntu Vivid Vervet release, but I haven't tested them... > > if anyone has an install of vivid and fancies a go, then follow the > usual instructions at > https://github.com/get-

Re: get_iplayer 2.92 on Ubuntu vivid vervet

2015-04-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 April 2015 at 08:13, Tom wrote: > On 21/04/15 17:32, Jon Davies wrote: >> >> I've built packages for get-iplayer and dependencies for the imminent >> Ubuntu Vivid Vervet release, but I haven't tested them... >> >> if anyone has an install of vivid and fancies a go, then follow the >> usual i

Re: get_iplayer 2.92 on Ubuntu vivid vervet

2015-04-21 Thread Colin Law
On 21 April 2015 at 21:38, Colin Law wrote: > Hi Jon > > On 21 April 2015 at 17:32, Jon Davies wrote: >> I've built packages for get-iplayer and dependencies for the imminent >> Ubuntu Vivid Vervet release, but I haven't tested them... >> >> if anyo

Re: get_iplayer 2.92 on Ubuntu vivid vervet

2015-04-21 Thread Colin Law
Hi Jon On 21 April 2015 at 17:32, Jon Davies wrote: > I've built packages for get-iplayer and dependencies for the imminent > Ubuntu Vivid Vervet release, but I haven't tested them... > > if anyone has an install of vivid and fancies a go, then follow the > usual instructions at > https://github.

Re: Recent spam surge...

2015-04-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 April 2015 at 14:50, Steve wrote: > I would agree that responding to these spam messages is > counterproductive, they are the burden we must live with if we want to > have the ease of use of a relatively open mailing list. In a way I'd > much rather have the spam, which can be easily spotted

Re: Profanity ...

2015-04-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 April 2015 at 12:57, CJB wrote: > Sorry - I got this spam with attached virus laden zip file - whilst my > profanity was aimed at the poster and was deserved - I failed to see > it was also sent out to the get_iplayer mailing list. My apologies. > CJB. Unfortunately it is rare that the reply

Re: unable to get specific pid

2015-02-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 February 2015 at 18:32, John Adams wrote: > On 25/02/2015 18:21, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 25 February 2015 at 17:44, John Adams >> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry folks, I've replied to you all, but my postings have stopped >>> appearing >>&

Re: unable to get specific pid

2015-02-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 February 2015 at 17:44, John Adams wrote: > Sorry folks, I've replied to you all, but my postings have stopped appearing > on the list :/ Possibly you were just replying with Reply rather than Reply All or Reply List Colin > > > > ___ > get_ipl

Re: unable to get specific pid

2015-02-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 February 2015 at 16:35, Colin Law wrote: > ... > $ get-iplayer "the great war" > get_iplayer v2.91, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis > This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. > This is free software, and you are welcome

Re: unable to get specific pid

2015-02-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 February 2015 at 16:06, John Adams wrote: > On 25/02/2015 15:56, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 25 February 2015 at 15:52, John Adams >> wrote: >>> >>> On 25/02/2015 15:32, Colin Law wrote: >>>> >>>> On 25 February 2015 at 15:27, Jo

Re: unable to get specific pid

2015-02-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 February 2015 at 15:52, John Adams wrote: > On 25/02/2015 15:32, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 25 February 2015 at 15:27, John Adams >> wrote: >>> >>> p00f79tm >>> >>> This pid is to a programme that the iplayer will play - af

Re: unable to get specific pid

2015-02-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 February 2015 at 15:27, John Adams wrote: > p00f79tm > > This pid is to a programme that the iplayer will play - after you accepting > the "parental lock" dialog, but get_iplayer won't download. I think it would be good to copy/paste the command you are using and the resulting output. Coli

Re: New Linux Installation Question

2015-02-10 Thread Colin Law
On 9 February 2015 at 23:33, Budge wrote: > > On 02/09/2015 09:49 PM, Colin Law wrote: >> On 9 February 2015 at 21:39, Budge wrote: >>> On 02/09/2015 09:04 PM, Colin Law wrote: >>>> On 9 February 2015 at 20:50, Budge wrote: >>>>> Hi and thank

Re: New Linux Installation Question

2015-02-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 February 2015 at 21:39, Budge wrote: > > On 02/09/2015 09:04 PM, Colin Law wrote: >> On 9 February 2015 at 20:50, Budge wrote: >>> Hi and thanks for the advice. I had understood however that >>> >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 meant that user had write perm

Re: New Linux Installation Question

2015-02-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 February 2015 at 20:50, Budge wrote: > Hi and thanks for the advice. I had understood however that > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 meant that user had write permissions. I could of course change > ownership but why have I not had this issue before? That says that the owner has write permission. But who

Re: GitHead questions from the uninitiated

2014-12-02 Thread Colin Law
On 3 December 2014 at 01:58, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > On 03/12/2014 01:23, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: >> >> Alan Milewczyk wrote: >> >>> In the last week or so, I've been patching get_iplayer using GitHeadWin >>> to >>> make sure I'm using the latest version. >> >> That's not necessaril

Re: OT MF interference and ADSL {Was: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic}

2014-11-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 November 2014 21:43, Dave Liquorice wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:46:02 +0000, Colin Law wrote: > >> I know RF interference at night can cause a resync to a slower speed >> but in my experience it will not automatically resync in the morning >> again, but will stay

Re: OT MF interference and ADSL {Was: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic}

2014-11-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 November 2014 15:08, Dave Liquorice wrote: > ... > What is a bit odd about your "fault" is the fairly regular timing. Sync > during the day could well be way above what it can do at night hence the > drop at sunset (though that seems a bit early). In the morning the reduced > noise prompts t

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

2014-11-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 November 2014 21:24, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 14:10 +, Jim Lesurf wrote: >> On 08 Nov, Owen Smith wrote: >> > Blasted mailing list, I sent the message below as a personal reply, >> > AGAIN. I simply cannot get my brain to accept how this list works. I'm >> > on half

Re: Looks like Nitro isn't the way forward for open data - developer keys being revoked in one week :(

2014-11-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 November 2014 14:35, Jonathan H wrote: > ... > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: David Beaton > Date: 6 November 2014 12:27 > Subject: BBC Content API access > To: David Beaton > > > Hello > > I'm emailing you because you have an active Apigee developer key > allowing access

Re: PATCH addition of /usr/local/bin/ in 'get_iplayer.cgi'

2014-11-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 November 2014 09:18, Owen Smith wrote: > To give more detail, I meant create a branch, check the file out, test your > change, check change in to your own branch, then send details of the branch > to the master maintainers to see if they want to accept the change (which > seems to be a git

Re: PATCH addition of /usr/local/bin/ in 'get_iplayer.cgi'

2014-11-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 November 2014 01:07, Owen Smith wrote: > Why bother with patches? Why not just check the source file out, change it, > and check it back in again with the change in? Or does git not work like > conventional source control systems? Only a limited number of people have commit rights to the m

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 November 2014 13:49, Ian Tomkinson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> >> I did not say it belongs to me, I said it belongs to the British >> people. Also I did not say we had unfettered rights, I pointed out >> that copyrigh

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Colin Law
say we had unfettered rights, I pointed out that copyright and royalty issues prevent that. Colin > > A > > > On 04/11/2014 11:11, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 4 November 2014 11:01, Alan Milewczyk wrote: >>> >>> LOL, try arguing that in a court of law! ;-)

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 November 2014 11:01, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > LOL, try arguing that in a court of law! ;-) I don't see what is LOL about it, and no court is going to disagree with the statement that the BBC belongs to the State. Colin > > > On 04/11/2014 10:25, Colin Law wrote: >> &

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 November 2014 09:54, Alan Milewczyk wrote: > > ...The BBC > is sitting on a massive treasure trove. What makes anyone think they will > give this up willingly. Ignoring the technical limitations of the BBC > iPlayer, the BBC lets us "enjoy" THEIR content for a limited period. What we > have w

Re: "default" is not defined in %Encode::EXPORT_TAGS

2014-10-23 Thread Colin Law
On 23 October 2014 16:51, dinkypumpkin wrote: > On 23/10/2014 16:03, dinkypumpkin wrote: >> >> perl, v5.10.0 built for arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi > > > BTW, what system are you running with this old version of Perl? Is this > from a NAS device? It is a Sheeva Plug running Ubuntu 9.04. I can

Re: "default" is not defined in %Encode::EXPORT_TAGS

2014-10-23 Thread Colin Law
On 23 October 2014 16:18, dinkypumpkin wrote: > On 23/10/2014 16:12, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 23 October 2014 16:03, dinkypumpkin wrote: >>> >>> It looks like the Encode module picked up an explicit "default" export >>> tag >>> wi

"default" is not defined in %Encode::EXPORT_TAGS

2014-10-23 Thread Colin Law
I have been running get_iplayer v2.86 with no problems, but when I upgrade to 2.87 using curl -kLO https://raw.github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/latest/get_iplayer set the execute permissions then run ./get_iplayer I see "default" is not defined in %Encode::EXPORT_TAGS at ./get_iplayer line 77

Re: More (or less) Tommies

2014-10-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 October 2014 22:06, roadcone wrote: > On 15/10/14 19:53, dinkypumpkin wrote: >> >> >> You can't use the setup executable for this. Refer back to: >> >> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2014-October/006097.html >> >> And on Linux, there is no need to replace the packaged inst

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