BBC Iplayer Downloader Plugin - Beta + Support

bgowland · 2009-04-27, 07:04 AM

smiler Wrote:I am certainly interested in the skeleton code if you have it to hand,

I'll send something through later in the week.

Cheers,
Brian

smiler · 2009-04-28, 08:04 PM

Ok, I have fixed the bugs with the website changes that BBC have put in, they have added an interesting search feature to display coming soon shows.
Quite why i'm not sure Rolleyes

Any way the new file installation is on the WIKI.

Any problems please let me know Smile

smiler · 2009-05-02, 08:06 AM

I am going to start looking at version 3 features for the IPlayer plugin. This means there is an opportunity to get you guys invloved in the new features.

So what features would you like to see?

The features that i am likely to add are listed in order of priority:

High Quality Downloads from BBC
Addition of ITV, Channel 4 and Five on demand
Ability to use an external service to proxy downloads meaning that you can allow downloads to continue when you exit pvrx2

ACTCMS · 2009-05-02, 07:15 PM

Re Radio downloads...

smiler Wrote:I think that might be a version 3 feature, I am trying to think of a good way to integrate the resulting mp3 in to GBPVR. Could just put it in the music library, but you will lose the meta data.

Maybe dump the metadata in an xml file - I'm quite happy to do my own ID3 tagging.
Alex

smiler · 2009-05-02, 10:13 PM

ACTCMS Wrote:Re Radio downloads...Maybe dump the metadata in an xml file - I'm quite happy to do my own ID3 tagging.
Alex

I'll add it to the wish list Wink

ACTCMS · 2009-05-02, 10:59 PM

smiler Wrote:I'll add it to the wish list

You're a real toff... Smile

liteswap · 2009-05-05, 06:59 PM

Smiler, many thanks for a great plugin - it's made for domestic harmony (well, sort of!), and has been exactly what we've been looking for.

One thing though - the search bar seems to do odd things with numbers. Typing in from the row of numbers above the main keys results in not numbers but letters. This happens with the attached keyboard (attached via wireless but YKWIM), and if I access via VNC, and it doesn't happen in other apps so it can't be a region setting or the like.

Any thoughts?

liteswap · 2009-05-05, 09:12 PM

..and another odd issue: iPlayer-downloaded files under GBPVR have no audio. But if I play them using any other player (eg VLC) on the same computer, the audio works. Other MPEG files have audio as normal.

Why should this be?

smiler · 2009-05-06, 05:41 PM

liteswap Wrote:Smiler, many thanks for a great plugin - it's made for domestic harmony (well, sort of!), and has been exactly what we've been looking for.

Thanks glad it is useful

Quote:One thing though - the search bar seems to do odd things with numbers. Typing in from the row of numbers above the main keys results in not numbers but letters. This happens with the attached keyboard (attached via wireless but YKWIM), and if I access via VNC, and it doesn't happen in other apps so it can't be a region setting or the like.

Any thoughts?

This is because the control is intended to support remote controls which have aloha numeric keys. This means that to get a number on a keyboard you need to press the same number multiple times.

Quote:..and another odd issue: iPlayer-downloaded files under GBPVR have no audio. But if I play them using any other player (eg VLC) on the same computer, the audio works. Other MPEG files have audio as normal.

This is likely a codec issue on your machine. Standard mpeg files captured from DVB-T, support MPG 2 audio which is likely to have been installed on your machine. VLC uses inbuilt audio and video codecs so does not require them to be installed in windows.

To save space I compress the audio using MP3, this means the mp3 audio codec is not installed on your machine. I suggest you get the Lame codec from http://www.free-codecs.com and install it. This should hopefully fix you issue if not just let me know and i will investigate further.

martint123 · 2009-05-06, 08:42 PM

smiler Wrote:I am going to start looking at version 3 features for the IPlayer plugin. This means there is an opportunity to get you guys invloved in the new features.

So what features would you like to see?

The features that i am likely to add are listed in order of priority:

High Quality Downloads from BBC

Addition of ITV, Channel 4 and Five on demand

Ability to use an external service to proxy downloads meaning that you can allow downloads to continue when you exit pvrx2

I've only recently come to this after manually using the windows version of get_iplayer from http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/
So still being able to grab other than BBC shows with your plugin would be nice Smile

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