UK Free to Air Downloader

[tenxob]

Thanks @A_n_g_e_l_a that works perfectly - except I am still having a problem with BBC!
Everything else works fine! I have looked at it several times and once it even worked and downloaded an episode - then no more.
Any pointers anyone - get iPlayer works fine on it's own, but thought it would be nice to use the FTA downloader for everything.
I have tried many different versions from 14 to latest. Just getting error below.


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[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Thanks @A_n_g_e_l_a that works perfectly - except I am still having a problem with BBC!
Everything else works fine! I have looked at it several times and once it even worked and downloaded an episode - then no more.
Any pointers anyone - get iPlayer works fine on it's own, but thought it would be nice to use the FTA downloader for everything.
I have tried many different versions from 14 to latest. Just getting error below.


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It would seem from reading your error's message that there is already a download of a subtitle file that get_iplayer plans to download again. Since it hasn't been told (in the script) to overwrite, it quite correctly bails out.

Find the subtitle file ( probably inside UK-FTA), and delete it and any other file-fragments that have been downloaded while you've been playing about. Then run the bbc loader again and it will be fine.

[tenxob]

Nope! Deleted sub file and still the problem is there!
Tried an untried episode too.
Latest error snip:

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Nope! Deleted sub file and still the problem is there!
Tried an untried episode too.
Latest error snip:

Which UK-FTA do you have?

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Can confirm that episode of Shaun the Sheep downloads fine. In this case, from my phone.

[tenxob]

Latest ( I think ) 14_5

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Latest ( I think ) 14_5

Then it works.

14.3 had an iplayer issue. In fact the error appeared exactly the same as your second Shaun download gave.

I suggest you delete the whole UK-FTA and unzip UK-FTA_14_5.zip afresh.

Since I cannot reproduce the error, help is limited.

[lowest]

When I download from Channel 4, I get an unusable file.

VLC says:

Codec not supported:
VLC could not decode the format " " (No description for this codec)

[tenxob]

Fair enough! I will try and see. Many thanks for your work and input so far @A_n_g_e_l_a

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

When I download from Channel 4, I get an unusable file.

I've replicated the issue in a new install of Windows 11. I think the issue is the latest version of shaka-packager having a bug because other tests on Win11 with older packages are OK.

SO.... to correct the issue comment out '--use-shaka-packager', on line 387 of C4.py in UK-FTA/ukfta/c4_dl/

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That means make it look like this
#'--use-shaka-packager', it is important to keep the indentation the same as lines above and below.

I'll wrap this into the next UK-FTA release. But as shaka-packager is used in Talking Pictures TV and Channel5 it might be best to downgrade your shaka-packager version to 3.1.0 (2024-05-03)

It seems the latest version of shaka-packager, version 3.2.0 (2024-05-11) is flawed. So for everyone else, best not to update beyond version 3.1.0 (2024-05-03) for the time. being.

[lowest]

Thank you for this, I replaced shaka-packager with 3.1 and it works fine. In hindsight, I may have even downloaded the incorrect binary in the first place.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Thank you for this, I replaced shaka-packager with 3.1 and it works fine. In hindsight, I may have even downloaded the incorrect binary in the first place.

Well that may be but there is a fault on Windows 11 with 3.2.0 I reproduced your error. But on Linux 3.2.0 works fine.

I'm glad its working for you now.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

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[PSXman_uk]

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Looks good is that the latest version

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

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Menu stays open while scripts are called.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Looks good is that the latest version

Yet to check if it works on Windoze..

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

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simultaneous downloads

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[PSXman_uk]

looks good would be a great interface if it works on your phone

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

It cannot work on termux without a graphics interface. And whenever I have set one up I found it to be quite useless as so much back end stuff is running the phone slows to a crawl. This is a quite recent experience with a Google Pixel 8 Pro. So for the foreseeable not possible methinks.

Works on Windows though

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[Danker1990]

is this the closest to a gui we are going to get. looks good i must say.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

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Latest iteration opens tabs for each site so as to save on screen clutter.
pip install PyQt5==5.15.10 is needed first. That should install PyQt5_sip==12.13.0 at the same time. If not run it separately

https://files.videohelp.com/u/301890/gui.py

Just run 'python gui.py' in the root of UK-FTA instead of running menu.py

I find it useful to set the gui-menu to be alway- on-top. On my system: click in the title and select from a drop-down - yours may be different.

I'll wrap this into full release in time.

[grzech67]

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The launch looks interesting, Thank you

[Akirainblack]

Hi @A_n_g_e_l_a
I just tried the gui on my Ubuntu 24.04 box:

py gui.py 
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)

For anyone else with this issue:

sudo apt install libxcb-xinerama0

Fixed it for me.

I also just wanted to add. Thank you for including a Dark Theme!

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Hi @A_n_g_e_l_a
I just tried the gui on my Ubuntu 24.04 box:

py gui.py 
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)

For anyone else with this issue:

sudo apt install libxcb-xinerama0

Fixed it for me.

I also just wanted to add. Thank you for including a Dark Theme!

Thanks for that. I see Ubuntu has a more global way of installing pyQt5 - maybe this would help too.

sudo apt install python3-pyqt5

[Akirainblack]

One small thing. It doesn't seem to remember dark mode between sessions. Is that something you might consider implementing?
Both Win11 and Ubuntu always start in light mode for me.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

One small thing. It doesn't seem to remember dark mode between sessions. Is that something you might consider implementing?
Both Win11 and Ubuntu always start in light mode for me.

As it was written. It had to be either light or dark; there was always going to be someone it doesn't suit.
It is no hassle for me to tick the checkbox, and far less hassle than for me to arrange to save another parameter to the configuration file.

But with a little bit of hassle on your part you could change line 145 to read ' self.apply_dark_theme()' if it really bugs you.

[Akirainblack]

Thank you,
I also edited:
Line
139 from 'Dark Theme' to 'Light Theme'
157 from self.apply_dark_theme() to self.apply_light_theme()
159 from self.apply_light_theme() to self.apply_dark_theme()
So it all marries up correctly, thank you again!

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

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The addition of a Generic Single downloader L3.py takes mpd and cURL of license. It gets keys and optionally downloads.

Known to work:
ITV
All4
my5
UKTVPlay
Discovery+ UK - Subscription
Paramount+ USA
Fubo TV USA Subscription
Shudder.com - worldwide subscription horror service
MAX USA (subscription, formally HBOMax)
RTE
tg4.ie


Known to get keys if token removed from mpd
Dazn GB ( downloads too if token added back to mpd in N_m3u8DL-RE command)

Suspected to work with
ITV Prime
AMZN Prime
and many more..

but not
Netflix

Be careful. It might blow the bloody doors off!

https://files.videohelp.com/u/301890/uk-fta_14_6.zip

[Av4K100]

Amazing work

[PSXman_uk]

Which format of curl does it want from the browser please as tried both and errors out