Thanks to the BBC’s stance on open-source/3rd party apps interfacing with iPlayer…

Thank goodness that ipdl still does…

I’ve written a couple of Batch files to do what I have been talking about – see
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9hCz1HWHSeHZTg2OTA1N2ItMzZhNi00OGE0LWI1MmYtMzI5MThlZTU3OTBi&hl=en

Its a zip file, which contains two batch files called BatchConvertMP4.bat and BatchConvertMOV.bat. It needs to be extracted into the same directory as MP4BOX and the JS32.dll, and SED-3.59.exe (from downloads section of http://sed.sourceforge.net/). I’d put it all together in one package but not sure of licensing implications…

So replace dir /b >wip.txt with

dir /b > wip1.txt
sed-3.59 “s/.mov/|mov” wip1.txt >wip.txt

replace the “delims=.” with “delims=|” and away we go (of course this only works if the file is in mov format… could put a test in for this anyway… Or do

dir *.mov /b >wipmov.txt
dir *.mp4 /b >wipmp4.txt
sed-3.59 “s/.mov/|mov” wipmov.txt >wip.txt
sed-3.59 “s/.mp4/|mp4″ wipmp4.txt >>wip.txt

to create the work file…

Except – get_iplayer puts names as they are on iplayer, so if you use the “.” as a delimiter (as above) it doesn’t work, as it breaks at the first “.”.

If you could guarantee that every program would have ONE “.” in it as well as the “.” for the extension you could stitch it back together again. I guess you could use the “FOR” loop with the “tokens” created with the first “FOR /F %%a” until it found “mov” as a token, then tell it to ignore the token, but, atm, its a little beyond me….

Instead I create the wip.txt manually then use find and replace in wordpad to replace “.mov” with “|mov” and use “|” as the delimiter instead… I guess I could use sed or similar (if I can find Dos/windows scripatble variant) to do the replace automatically – actually that’s an idea, will look at and post back…

I had been using get_iplayer for some time but found conversion a chore.

I like the idea of running the pvr as I think they have a full web interface there? Looks like the sort of thing that would live nicely on a linux box too. You are going to have to encode that for android though, no fiddling with the container like we have both done in our scripts with mp4box.

I’m going to take a look at mplayer for linux (although I am sure there are win32 builds) and see if some sort of pipeline can be set up. IE, I drop a file in a folder and it gets picked up in a scheduled job and stored ready for transfer to either my G1 or the PS3.