kris2099
Find it in Episode Guide http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ndt5j/episodes/player and read bean's post dd 23rd Apr on previous page.

ERROR: Unknown error, not managed for ID: b00pdhd2

thanks!

Apparantly the BBC have changed the way one file is formatted during the 24th of mars, I'll try to have a look tomorrow.
It seems that the data is still there, just at a different place.

It is noot just this one, bbut almost all since this date (late in the afternoon).

I've made the fix, I'll push it tonight (once back home), around 22 h CET.
It should be alright, except if the BBC changed something "down" the road from the part I fixed (which was the 3rd step).

It's working again!. Well done and thanks bean.

Hi, sorry to bother... but do you know if there's anything that can be done to get the latest Doctor Who's sub? They are still unavailable even when shows released later are...

ERROR: Sorry no captions are available for episode ID: b00rs6t7
ERROR: No captions available for Doctor.Who-Series.5-The.Eleventh.Hour
INFO: If the episode was just recently added to BBC iPlayer, captions might be available later on for episode ID: b00rs6t7

Thank you in advance for your attention.

pnixte,

Here how it works (that's the comment in the source file, that's what's explained at beehack):

# Four major steps are involved.
# Short description:
# 1 - get playlist xml file
# 2 - get stream xml file (requires an UK proxy)
# 3 - get subtitle xml file
# 4 - process file and provide zip with srt subs

# Full description:
# Example input is b008h368 (for the episodeID) and 127.0.0.1 (for the clientIP)
# Sucessfully retrieved files are cached locally to be able to recreate the
# subtitles even though the episode is not available for viewing anymore.
#
# 1 - get playlist xml file
# URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/b008h368.xml
# The file is only available when the episode is available for viewing, but the
# ID is always available from the program URL.
# We cache the file locally, to be able to reuse it to get the episodeName and
# the streamID needed to continue the processing so this way.
#
# 2 - get stream xml file (requires an UK proxy)
# URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/b008h32w.xml
# It requires an UK proxy to get the file, otherwise access is refused.
# It's the files containing all the streams availabled for the episode, the
# stream we want is the "captions" one, it contains the URL of the xml file
# with the subtitles.
# The file is only available when the episode is available for viewing, valid
# files are cached as well.
#
# 3 - get subtitle xml file
# URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/subtitles/ng/b008/h32w/b008h32w_prepared.xml
# This step is pretty straightforward, a simple download of the URL found
# previously. The file seems to be available all the time, ie. the test file
# for Outnumbered 2x06, aired 20/12/2008, is still available now (19/03/2009).
#
# 4 - process file and provide zip with srt subs
# For the moment, I create 3 srt files, 2 (Simple and Complicated) are created
# using basic regex processing, while the 3rd one (Unified) is using xml
# processing and should work whichever "format" the input file is.
# The 3 srt files are provided inside a zip file.

@minnie: it's "fixed", ie. this error is no more (it's basically that've got a bad file for the second step (this time a 404 error file), hence file can't be parsed correctly and it exits. It won't recover as the file is cached and it will always read this file. But as the subtitles is still not available from the BBC, it doesn't help much.

As it almost never happens, I haven't change the program to manage this error.

I've just added a few more info on the error messages to know when to contact, or not.

I'd say don't expect anything before tuesday now, as monday is a Bank holiday in the UK.

Bad file removed again. It appears subs are available now.

If ip 218.249.10.47 wants access back, it should stop asking for 5 subs at the same time (and lots of them), as it blocks the server, and other services running on it. => so contact me.
Yep, it shouldn't but it is becoming quite successfull, and it wasn't designed at all for so many subs (since it started), and it wasn't especially designed for concurrent access.

AFAIK, they're still no still on ITV player.