BBC iplayer (VPN not working for me): Battle of the Sexes tennis match

[olli66]

anyone can capture this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002p1d6

[iamghost]

it not release air or already been on air yet
gmt 3.45pm
you have to wait after it finish

[olli66]

I patiently (a)wait (a cap)...

[olli66]

not worth re-watching, worst sports event in recent history...nevermind

[vidsrme]

yt-dlp can download from BBC even with a vpn active (I think max is 720p though)

[stew]

1080p: https://pixeldrain.com/u/FBwgjc6C

[xangetsue]

1080p: https://pixeldrain.com/u/FBwgjc6C

amazing stew, I tried using N_m3u8DL-RE with this mpd

https://pub-c3-b5-thdow-bbc.live.bidi.net.uk/vod-dash-uk/usp/auth/vod/piff_abr_full_hd/ce2475-m002p1d5/vf_m002p1d5_606b52b7-9550-4b4f-b718-046477187759.ism/pc_hd_abr_v2_dash_master.mpd?at=AOhO420Zbbd9f2203d26a35da8d8a70ff375d02bb2d375c0647182d983180

but the max res I got was 1280x720, just wonder how did you get the 1080p, if you can share that info I would be grateful because I wanna get the Mo Salah video and max I got was 720p.. any help would be great and thanks stew for helping others

[stew]

the easiest is probably using get_iplayer: get_iplayer --quality fhd "URL"

personally, i use a modified version of yt-dlp.

[xangetsue]

the easiest is probably using get_iplayer: get_iplayer --quality fhd "URL"

personally, i use a modified version of yt-dlp.

Thanks man, get_iplayer did the job perfectly.
wonder if this modified version of yt-dlp is publicly available or its ur own

its really a wonder to see other devs tweaks and workarounds and try to understand the logic behind their thinking
will keep learning and improving.. thanks stew for the great help

[stew]

it's just a small "hack", modification of yt-dlp's bbc extractor that i found in the old youtube-dl's discussions on github. it basically hardcodes some things, which means it'll fail if 1080p is not available. some older videos are only available in 540p and some web-only streams are in 720p. when you add this to yt-dlp and compile a new version, you can't update it as normal, so you have to keep two versions and only use this for bbc (until there's new features in core yt-dlp you want to use, or some bbc extractor updates)

since get_iplayer works, and fetches more metadata than yt-dlp, it's the better choice in most situations.

[xangetsue]

it's just a small "hack", modification of yt-dlp's bbc extractor that i found in the old youtube-dl's discussions on github. it basically hardcodes some things, which means it'll fail if 1080p is not available. some older videos are only available in 540p and some web-only streams are in 720p. when you add this to yt-dlp and compile a new version, you can't update it as normal, so you have to keep two versions and only use this for bbc (until there's new features in core yt-dlp you want to use, or some bbc extractor updates)

since get_iplayer works, and fetches more metadata than yt-dlp, it's the better choice in most situations.

yes get_iplayer suffices for now.. thanks for the information stew appreciate your time and effort, have a great day/night