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Running get_iplayer on SRCF
Well, if you are here, congratulations - you are one of the elite of elites.
Get get_iplayer running
Right now, SRCF comes with ffmpeg, but not AtomicParsley. The Perl environment is also incomplete for running get_iplayer. Here is what I have to do to get my get_iplayer installation running:
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# go to home directory, in case you are not there. cd ${HOME} mkdir -p ${HOME}/bin cd bin wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/master/get_iplayer chmod +x get_iplayer # cpanminus and Perl local::lib, for running get_iplayer wget -O- "http://cpanmin.us" | perl - -l ~/perl5 App::cpanminus local::lib eval `perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib` echo 'eval `perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib`' >> ~/.profile # AtomicParsley, for tagging the MP4 file. hg clone https://bitbucket.org/wez/atomicparsley cd atomicparsley ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix ${HOME} make make install cd ${HOME}
Edit your get_iplayer option file
cd ${HOME} mkdir -p .get_iplayer mkdir -p mnt # Open up the editor nano .get_iplayer/options
This is my get_iplayer option file:
modes tvbest,radiobest subsembed 1 subtitles 1 nopurge 1 output mnt
You can just copy and paste the content to the editor, then press Ctrl + O then Ctrl + X to exit. Note that I output my files to a folder called mnt.
Update your get_iplayer
cd ${HOME}/bin
cd bin
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/master/get_iplayer -O get_iplayer
How to deal with large video files.
As of 27/Aug/2018, an 1 hour video from iPlayer at the best quality costs about 2.4GB. With SRCF, you get only 1GB 1) of storage quota - I am not sure if you want to email the sysadmin to increase the quota. I prefer to to save my file elsewhere on the Internet. I do this my using sshfs.