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Reded

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From: Manchester, England

Registered: 2012-02-21

Posts: 242

[SOLVED]Get_Iplayer, Live Streaming TV

Hey all, I installed get_iplayer yesterday, mostly out of curiosity.

After installing the GUI (gip2) I've come to like it, but for some reason live-streaming the TV channels doesn't seem to work.

I've tried all of the commands listed here:

http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/documentation#Live Streaming

As well as simply running:

get_iplayer --type=livetv

Followed by

get_iplayer --stream ****** | mplayer -cache 512 -

With the stars replaced with the relevant numbers.

I seem to always return one of two errors -

ERROR: Closing connection: NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)

INFO: Streaming failed with exit code 1
ERROR: aborting get_iplayer

Or:

Cache fill:  0.38% (1971 bytes)   ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)

INFO: Streaming failed with exit code 1
ERROR: aborting get_iplayer

The closest I can get, is simply recording the channel and playing the file as it downloads, which isn't exactly ideal.

EDIT: I should add that I can stream radio just fine.

I'm not sure where else to look (I've googled both these messages repeatedly) So I'm posting here. I'd love to get this fixed, watching TV in a small window on my desktop sounds fun

Thanks for any replies/help as usual, always apprerciated!

Last edited by Reded (2012-05-20 00:14:01)

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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,366

Re: [SOLVED]Get_Iplayer, Live Streaming TV

I forked a python frontend for get_iplayer here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/giplayerext/

My fork added Play fundtionality to the original. Give it a try and see if that works for you. NB: It doesn't work with python3. If you have python3 installed as well as 2.7 you'll need to launch it with

python2.7 /usr/bin/giplayer.py

NB 2. I've modified it slightly so that the "Quality" menu works for watching as well as downloading. Currently the menu is only effective for download. Play quality is set by preferences. I'll upload the revision when I've finished testing it.

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Reded

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From: Manchester, England

Registered: 2012-02-21

Posts: 242

Re: [SOLVED]Get_Iplayer, Live Streaming TV

Hey, thanks for the reply - I already have a GUI for Get_Iplayer, the problem is that the streaming TV channels doesn't seem to work To clarify, I can watch episodes off iPlayer but I can't live stream the actual TV channel, it returns error messages.

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Reded

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From: Manchester, England

Registered: 2012-02-21

Posts: 242

Re: [SOLVED]Get_Iplayer, Live Streaming TV

Problem solved - Installed the -git version instead of the package one, works perfect Thread closed!

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