Sadly streaming only. Welcome to the forum.

Possibly by a roundabout route (never tried this). Record to PC using Get_Iplayer. Use AV2HDR to build the support files. Copy the files to a USB drive and either replay from there or upload to the HDD. Using the custom firmware you can also transfer the 3 files directly to the Foxsat.

Yep, you can download iPlayer content, even HD if you add FLVStreamer. I’ve used it to archive stuff I like, but don’t want to re-encode with Handbrake which would take a while. Season 19 of Top Gear in 720p, for example.

jb9 – 1 hour ago  » 

zeke – 1 week ago  » 

Yep, you can download iPlayer content, even HD if you add FLVStreamer. I’ve used it to archive stuff I like, but don’t want to re-encode with Handbrake which would take a while. Season 19 of Top Gear in 720p, for example.

I’ve used get_iplayer under Ubuntu with default settings and get .mp4 files that I can play from a USB stick on my small Samsung TV. However, having flashed my Foxsat HDR box with raydon’s Media & File Server Bundle, I can transfer the .mp4 files, but it doesn’t see them.

Any suggestions please?

The foxsat will only play back video if the video file is accompanied by two sidecar files (.hmt .nts). You need a copy of Raydons AV2HDR for the Foxsat, this will create the 3 files you need and also upload them to the Foxsat using ftp

Welcome to the forum

jb9 – 1 hour ago  » 

Thanks Graham. I installed the mono environment on my Lubuntu box and AV2HDR appears to run, but it doesn’t like the mp4 files from get_iplayer. I guess that I have to download some other format; it says that it wants TS/MTS/M2TS/MPG/VOB.

I’ll have to research get_iplayer to see what it can do

Try changing the file extention from .mp4 to .mpg or .ts. If not it should be easy to change the container for the 720p25 content losslessly. Not very familiar with Linux. Very easy in Windows.

Get iplayer simply saves the stream to a file, afaik it can’t change the delivered file format.

No luck with just changing the file suffix.

I finally cracked it using Avidemux (in Ubuntu).

Open the .mp4 file from get_iplayer

Then set:

Video to MPEG-2 (mpeg2video)

Audio to AC3 (lav)

Format to MPEG-TS (A+V)

Didn’t change any of the “Configure” settings.

Saved file to the_same.ts

However, when I then gave the result to AV2HDR, it created the set of three files OK, but didn’t copy them to the PVR. When I did this manually via SFTP or FTP to /media/Video the PVR didn’t see them. I could see them via the web interface and checking via SSH terminal: owner (root.root) and permissions (644) were the same as a recording that the PVR could see. I deduce that there is some refresh process in the PVR that only gets invoked normally when it records something. I found another posting that said to rename the files using the web interface and this would invoke a refresh. It did.

However, this is all a bit laborious. I can probably add the Avidemux part to my get_iplayer script, but there is an awful lot of manual stuff remaining. I’ll next try to see why AV2HDR isn’t FTPing.

jb9 – 37 minutes ago  » 

Checked the download page again and noticed that the Linux version was 1.4 – no FTP. I’ll try the Windows verion. I do hope that Raydon makes some money out of the 4shared server he uses, he deserves it, but it is certainly a laborious process for the likes of me to get anything downloaded.

Raydon doesn’t make any money out of this. He contributes his considerable expertise for free. Your issue is down to the .hmt file having an incorrect link to the real file locations. Invoking rename (no need to actually change the name) and save, corrects the file path in the file.