On 13-Apr-09 11:29:27, Adam Bower wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:45:05AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
Well, normally this works (as exemplified by "The Reunion"). Doesn't seem to need mplayer (which is not installed anyway).
Yes, but that's because The Reunion is available in mp3 format (at least, it isn't doing the same thing as with the other one), the one you want is only available as a real stream which I'm guessing isn't as common as what you've downloaded up until now.
Or is there a bug in the version (1.03) of get_iplayer I'm using?
1.59 is available ;)
Adam
Thanks, Adam! I'll look into your suggestions. Meanwhile (for reference): Could you confirm what command you used to start the download?
get_iplayer --get 12840
it appears to be turning the real stream into a .wav and then re-encoding to mp3. I'd look at getting a working mplayer setup installed.
Thanks Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li
Well, thanks, Adam! It looks as though I'm getting there.in I installed get_iplayer (latest) from get-iplayer-current.deb on my recent provisional installation of Debian Lenny, and also the binary file rtmpdump (from the get_iplayer download page); ran it from there. It balked again at not having mplayer, so I then installed that. Then I ran get_iplayer as before, and this time things worked!
What I got as well, however, was a series of warnings that "WARNING: iphone version not available". After a few retries, it announced "INFO: Trying flashaudio mode to download radio: Thinking Allowed - 08/04/2009" and then downloaded, converting into wav.
What's interesting is that apparently get_iplayer "pretends to be an Iphone", and that Iphone versions are not always available for some BBC programmes. So that is probably the source of my problems. What get_iplayer seems to have done in this case is find a downloadable realaudio stream (presumably the one you listen to if you click on "Listen" in the BBC web page), and convert it, since it's not in MP3 (which the Iplayer-compatible BBC programmes are).
So far, so good!
Unfortunalely, this won't work on my stock Debian Etch installation since when I try to install the .deb on that, it tells me that it needs the id3v2 libraries, and the Etch repository won't let me have id3v2 (presumably no longer being updated).
Well, that's it so far! I now have the programme I wanted to have, so thanks for all the help!
Ted.
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