BBC Have Broken GetIPlayer

Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Andy
Furniss [email protected] wrote:

Oh well, I guess you are new enough for it not to bother, unless
it fails because you don't have wget or curl or something (I don't
know what it uses).

Being both stubborn and curious I did the following this morning.

1) Complete deinstall of the distro version, using synaptic.

2) Did a general package update to ensure the system was up to date
with the xfce mint repositories.

3) used wget to fetch get_iplayer 2.90 and install it. Then did the
--refresh --type=tv,radio recommended.

Results similar to before. This time the final error is

INFO: 1 matching programmes ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata
from iplayer site

Given it used to work for you I would start suspecting that something
has happened to do with your connection like you got a new ip address
that the BBC don't know or maybe your modem/router has a dns cache
that's stale/ISP dns is stale.

I would be tempted at this point to note my ip address and powercycle
modem/router and see if it starts working. If it still fails and the new
ip address is similar to old repeat.

Of course if you want to spend time investigating you could note
--verbose output, maybe run tcpdump while trying, put different
nameserver eg 8.8.8.8 at the top of /etc/resolv.conf.

tried using --url, --pid, and --get. Much the same.

I guess --url working for me was just random - I can't get it to fail
now using --pid.

My impression is that it can now find the pid'd item, but then looks
for some 'metadata' it can't find. Is there a command for telling it
to just fetch the pid'd file?

Looks familiar from my fails - I do cache dns (from roots) maybe it was
old/failing when I started testing.

FWIW I did an install to a directory in my userspace and am using it
from there. It seems to work in as much as I was able to do the
--refresh, etc. But still the same lack of a coconut as with the
distro version.

I also don't install - but you are still using installed perl modules
and rtmpdump/flvstreamer. It's likely not them, but in case it's
rtmpdump here's how to get static, which worked for me.

rm -r ~/.get_iplayer

mkdir gip
cd gip
git clone https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer.git
git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/rtmpdump
cd rtmpdump
make SRC=posix SHARED=
cd ../get_iplayer

../get_iplayer --refresh --type=tv.radio

This outputs (after some perl stuff)

INFO: Current version is 2.90
INFO: Checking for latest version from www.infradead.org
INFO: Found new plugin localfiles.plugin
INFO: Installing localfiles.plugin in /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins
INFO: Downloaded /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins/localfiles.plugin
INFO: Found new plugin podcast.plugin
INFO: Installing podcast.plugin in /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins
INFO: Downloaded /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins/podcast.plugin

I guess I should really have run again - but didn't, next did -

../get_iplayer --rtmpdump='../rtmpdump/rtmpdump' --type=radio --pid
b04ly3xv --output ~/somedir

and it works.

TBH I think you are failing earlier than the rtmpdump stage - so this is
not going to help, but there it is just in case.

Phil wrote:
On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 9:45:40 PM UTC, Java Jive wrote:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail...er/006240.html

quote
The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by get_iplayer, so
search and PVR functions no longer work. There is no programme
information to cache, and it was the cache that supported search and
PVR functions. There is no fix available at this time. You can still
download individual programmes via PID or URL.

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/tv/feeds
/quote
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All becomes clear:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11...ayer_watching/


Not clear to those reading on uk.comp.os.linux or
alt.satellite.tv.europe as you or whatever you use to post dropped them.

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In article ,
Andy Furniss [email protected] wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Andy
Furniss [email protected] wrote:


INFO: 1 matching programmes ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata
from iplayer site

Given it used to work for you I would start suspecting that something
has happened to do with your connection like you got a new ip address
that the BBC don't know or maybe your modem/router has a dns cache
that's stale/ISP dns is stale.

I don't understand that. Which ip address do you think has changed? My
machines all get their local addresses dynamically and the router has a
fixed address. I can still access the iplayer using FireFox without the
problems.


FWIW I did an install to a directory in my userspace and am using it
from there. It seems to work in as much as I was able to do the
--refresh, etc. But still the same lack of a coconut as with the
distro version.

I also don't install - but you are still using installed perl modules
and rtmpdump/flvstreamer. It's likely not them, but in case it's
rtmpdump here's how to get static, which worked for me.

rm -r ~/.get_iplayer

mkdir gip
cd gip
git clone https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer.git
git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/rtmpdump
cd rtmpdump

That's all OK.

make SRC=posix SHARED=

That fails. It can't find openssl/ssl.h to #include. So I left that to one
side.

cd ../get_iplayer

./get_iplayer --refresh --type=tv.radio

All OK.

This outputs (after some perl stuff)

INFO: Current version is 2.90
INFO: Checking for latest version from www.infradead.org
INFO: Found new plugin localfiles.plugin
INFO: Installing localfiles.plugin in /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins
INFO: Downloaded /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins/localfiles.plugin
INFO: Found new plugin podcast.plugin
INFO: Installing podcast.plugin in /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins
INFO: Downloaded /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins/podcast.plugin

Yes, got similar here.

I guess I should really have run again - but didn't, next did -

./get_iplayer --rtmpdump='../rtmpdump/rtmpdump' --type=radio --pid
b04ly3xv --output ~/somedir

and it works.

Blast! Not here. :-/ Still get

INFO: 1 matching programmes
ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site

I keep having the impression it's looking for the feed metadata despite
having found the required stream content file by its pid. Or that it can't
find the file with 'default' it expects in the name. But why OK for you and
others, but not here? Still baffled.

No doubt I'm doing something so simple and daft that I'm not seeing it and
others take it for granted. :-/

Jim

TBH I think you are failing earlier than the rtmpdump stage - so this is
not going to help, but there it is just in case.

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On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:24:35 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article ,
Andy Furniss [email protected] wrote:

rm -r ~/.get_iplayer

Could be a problem. The entire download_history has been lost, so gip
may want to re-download lots of stuff. However, since Jim has not
been a user very long, this may not be much of a problem.

mkdir gip
cd gip
git clone https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer.git
git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/rtmpdump
cd rtmpdump

That's all OK.

make SRC=posix SHARED=

That fails. It can't find openssl/ssl.h to #include. So I left that to one
side.

That's definitely a problem.

cd ../get_iplayer

./get_iplayer --refresh --type=tv.radio

All OK.

This outputs (after some perl stuff)

INFO: Current version is 2.90
INFO: Checking for latest version from www.infradead.org
INFO: Found new plugin localfiles.plugin
INFO: Installing localfiles.plugin in /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins
INFO: Downloaded /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins/localfiles.plugin
INFO: Found new plugin podcast.plugin
INFO: Installing podcast.plugin in /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins
INFO: Downloaded /home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins/podcast.plugin

Yes, got similar here.

I guess I should really have run again - but didn't, next did -

./get_iplayer --rtmpdump='../rtmpdump/rtmpdump' --type=radio --pid
b04ly3xv --output ~/somedir

and it works.

Blast! Not here. :-/ Still get

INFO: 1 matching programmes
ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site

I suspect that this is because of the openssl failure. ISTR that
rtmpdump needs it to access the iPlayer site, and that the .swfinfo
folder in your home directory holds, for want of a better technical
expression, a sort of secure cookie.

Therefore, I think that you will have to build rtmpdump to include
openssl if you want this to work.
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Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Andy
Furniss [email protected] wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article ,
Andy Furniss [email protected] wrote:


INFO: 1 matching programmes ERROR: Failed to get version pid
metadata from iplayer site

Given it used to work for you I would start suspecting that
something has happened to do with your connection like you got a
new ip address that the BBC don't know or maybe your modem/router
has a dns cache that's stale/ISP dns is stale.

I don't understand that. Which ip address do you think has changed?
My machines all get their local addresses dynamically and the router
has a fixed address. I can still access the iplayer using FireFox
without the problems.

OK, I was thinking your public address may have changed, but if you have
a static address from your ISP then it doesn't matter.

If FF works, then I it can't be IP anyway - also thinking about it I
don't think radio is restricted anyway.

FWIW I just did a couple of gip downloads and one browser and all three
got the data from different servers (well ip addresses were different as
a result of different answer to the same dns lookup.


make SRC=posix SHARED=

That fails. It can't find openssl/ssl.h to #include. So I left that
to one side.

I expect you just need to get your distro to install the dev/devel or
something package for ssl.


cd ../get_iplayer

./get_iplayer --refresh --type=tv.radio

All OK.

This outputs (after some perl stuff)

INFO: Current version is 2.90 INFO: Checking for latest version
from www.infradead.org INFO: Found new plugin localfiles.plugin
INFO: Installing localfiles.plugin in
/home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins INFO: Downloaded
/home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins/localfiles.plugin INFO: Found new
plugin podcast.plugin INFO: Installing podcast.plugin in
/home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins INFO: Downloaded
/home/andy/.get_iplayer/plugins/podcast.plugin

Yes, got similar here.

I guess I should really have run again - but didn't, next did -

./get_iplayer --rtmpdump='../rtmpdump/rtmpdump' --type=radio --pid
b04ly3xv --output ~/somedir

and it works.

Blast! Not here. :-/ Still get

INFO: 1 matching programmes ERROR: Failed to get version pid
metadata from iplayer site

--verbose output may shed more light.

You could also try changing dns to 8.8.8.8

I don't use DHCP I guess (but may be wrong) it just fills in
/etc/resolv.conf so temporarily put

nameserver 8.8.8.8

before other nameserver lines.

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