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[chrome307]

@ 666philb

That would be great if you could add those options into the app

The command line option I used for 'facebook' can also use the number entries that are provided eg

[666philb]

ok, here's a test patch for get_iplayer, it installs over the get_iplayer.pet on the first page.

I can't test it at the moment, so if you could test the new options....

1. tv HD output
2. mkv output for tv & tv HD
3. subtitle downloading
4. can you test the timer recording, first to see if it stops after the predefined time (you could do a small 20second recording) and could you also try setting two timers that over lap each other. The problem was that if one was recording and another started before it had finished. when the first one stopped recording, it killed the second one as well.

Things to do next are..... update the gui, have a prefences option that allows you to set your download folder, maybe have a simple view, and expert view sort of thing. Try and get an option to list only HD content.

666philb

[chrome307]

Thanks again, I will give it a test spin and let you know the results

[chrome307]

Hi there

For testing purposes I am using Lucid 5.28 (003 iso - Nov 29 - clean installation), with the 'Super Multimedia Upgrade 3HD, the current build of Get_Iplayer and the test patch 01.

This is installed on a flash usb drive - get_iplayer is symlinked to the space outside of my personal save file.

For recording tv to MKV format that works perfectly - (tv mkv output)
For downloading subtitles that works perfectly - (subtitles)
For recording HD tv content this would work but you do need to search for the 'HD' content in the tv cache otherwise it will not eg

[666philb]

hi chrome307

thanks for testing

the HD search i can't sort out untill i get online in puppy

the timer record instructions should be in the getiplayer folder in root... it's a text file called recording, that gets displayed when you click on 'how to use timer'
i just tried and it displayed fine on a vanilla lupu

anyway here's what should display

[chrome307]

Hiya

Thanks for letting me know

I found the 'recording' file in Get_Iplayer's directory and viewed the contents using Geany, surprised why it doesn't seem to open up for me.

I have a screenshot of the contents of the directory.

Also I encountered some problems when using the 'Multimedia' upgrade for Lucid. It does upgrade FFMpeg to a more recent build ie 2011 (default is 2010) but for some reason it gave me partial mp4/mkv video output and it complained that libmp3lame was not enabled.

I am going to test again with the 003 iso with only the default applications and let you know if I still encounter the error ...... could be a server or my pc playing up.

[chrome307]

Hi there

Just an update

The HD and MKV options work perfectly

the option of directly converting radio aac files to mp3 doesn't work particularly well I tried various options to adjust the bitrate but the end result is that when played back the files do not show the correct duration and you cannot fwd as it returns to the beginning.

Secondly, I still seem to be experiencing problems with the 'timer recordings', I have attached a screenshot of the instructions you have included but it fails to run at the given time and I does not seem to work when told to 'execute now'.

Here's a sample file created by pschedule:

[666philb]

hi chrome307

[666philb]

new .pet posted on first page.....

now with ability to download to highest quality available of a program, including HD
subtitle downloading & downloading as mkv format thanks to chrome307
and the timer seems to work well

cheers 666philb

[666philb]

[nooby]

Hope I am not repeating myself.

BBC and ABC Australia ? is the iplayer and the ABC iplayer same or
related? We have a thread about the ABC iplayer too recently.

Edit after reading comment from 666philb below this post.

OOPS yes I should have indicated that. I just thought them
bought the same software becuase the name of it so similar.

[666philb]

[chrome307]

Hi 666philb

[EDIT - Problem resolved in the latest build v5 )

Sorry about getting back to you regarding testing this application, I have had a lot of planning/shopping etc to get done for Xmas and been a bit overwhelmed by it all.

Anyway thanks for the update, just seen it today!!

In response to this:

[chrome307]

Still can't get the hang of the timer recording, have followed the instructions

[lumi]

basic streaming works for me in puppy 5.2.8

not tried anything more

thank you