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Lex<p>Sunday breakfast <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a> tip.</p><p>I've been using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/getiplayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>getiplayer</span></a> to rip <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> Sounds for my mobile, keeping a forever archive of programmes on a home network drive. If you have a TV license, it's legal! Especially useful for programmes that expire and you want to dip into a year later. 🤓 </p><p>However, getiplayer couldn't extract "year" from audio tags for the filename. After a lot of app trials, and tempted to write a script in Python to do it, I worked out <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Thunar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thunar</span></a> has a plugin that does it beautifully!</p>
claude<p>anyone have recommendations/howto for <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/streaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>streaming</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/LiveTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiveTV</span></a> from <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> broadcasters online (on Debian Linux)? I use <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/YTDLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YTDLP</span></a> now for downloading but it doesn't do live streaming, back in the day I used <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/GetIPlayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GetIPlayer</span></a> for BBC and that project dropped live streaming support some time since too.</p><p>not so interested in download/watch-on-demand things, want to access live channels in digital format to maintain/repair my <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/FractalChannelHopping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FractalChannelHopping</span></a> art project: <a href="https://mathr.co.uk/blog/2015-12-22_fractal_channel_hopping.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mathr.co.uk/blog/2015-12-22_fr</span><span class="invisible">actal_channel_hopping.html</span></a></p><p>SD resolution or even smaller would be perfectly fine. I have a <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> account (and could make <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/ITV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ITV</span></a> / <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/Channel4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Channel4</span></a> / etc accounts if necessary) and my home (in the UK) has a <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/television" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>television</span></a> license and fast internet.</p><p>Is a USB hub with a bunch of DVB-T tuner dongles something I should consider instead? Is DVB-T an international standard? (e.g. if I wanted to try it in Europe or beyond?)</p>