Dramatisations & Documentaries

Topic: Dramatisations & Documentaries (Read 35109 times)

Re: Dramatisations & Documentaries

Reply #100 – 2015-09-12, 17:19:10

I don't mind you being stupid tt92 and you are of course maintaining your smugness but incapable of answering anything. You would have some basis if America WAS a democracy.

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Reply #101 – 2016-04-06, 18:14:08

I have enjoyed the brain recently.

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Reply #102 – 2016-04-09, 15:39:40

This is an appropriate place to add the worst film ever produced.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24xqRhEwvWQ[/video]

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Reply #103 – 2016-04-10, 03:21:35

Haha. Really brilliant for a laugh there jimbro. Makes you wonder even back when made how they could come up with something like it. For a moment I wondered if the creator had links with Edinburgh!

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Reply #104 – 2016-04-11, 04:05:02

But the movie "Ed Wood" gave Martin Landau his only Oscar…! Surely, that was worth the effort?!

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Reply #105 – 2016-04-11, 05:02:36

"Ed Wood" was mostly fiction. It could have been made even if "Plan 9" hadn't.

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Reply #106 – 2016-04-13, 06:12:05

Quote from: ersi on 2016-04-10, 21:02:36

It could have been made even if "Plan 9" hadn't.

That's quite funny: The story could have been told without having a story to tell…

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Reply #107 – 2016-04-13, 09:48:47

Yes, funny how Plan 9 got told even though it had not been told before. Go figure.

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Reply #108 – 2016-04-17, 04:49:05

I take it, you were not a Lugosi fan…

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Reply #109 – 2016-04-19, 16:44:46

I am!
https://beladraculalugosi.wordpress.com/category/clara-bow/
And then there's Boris Karloff!
http://www.oldradioworld.com/media/Boris%20Karloff%201957-12-20%20The%20White%20House.mp3

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Reply #110 – 2016-04-20, 05:03:53

And Karloff (and Peter Lorre) proved to be wonderfully adept at comedy! Such talent.

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Reply #111 – 2016-04-26, 19:34:43

PBS' First Peoples is a pretty neat and updated introduction to early living, in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and the Americas.

https://youtu.be/wlb5O7uKT-g

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Reply #112 – 2016-04-30, 21:19:11

Blah blah blah about Neanderthals. Rousseau's "Good savage" is returning in a society of paramecium like people.

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Reply #113 – 2016-05-02, 09:35:06

I just noticed that you can watch a variety of Arte documentaries online. While their main focus is obviously French and German, there also seem to be an English and Spanish selection.

For instance, they're peddling this playlist with a historical focus, although many of the videos come with a friendly "Cette vidéo n'est pas disponible dans votre pays." Luckily, as is often the case with these kinds of blocks, youtube-dl doesn't care. Find an individual video, for instance the one on Alexander the Great. Then use youtube-dl on it:

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youtube-dl http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/050298-000-A/alexandre-le-grand

And presto, one geo-blocked video is parked on your HDD.

However, it seems youtube-dl defaults to downloading German-language videos. I think it'd be better if it defaulted to the original language or something. To figure out the available languages, use the --list-formats option:

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$ youtube-dl --list-formats http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/050298-000-A/alexandre-le-grand

[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Downloading webpage
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Downloading player page
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Downloading JSON metadata
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HLS_XQ_1 video format URL
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HTTP_MP4_MQ_1 video format URL
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HTTP_MP4_HQ_1 video format URL
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HTTP_MP4_MQ_2 video format URL
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HLS_XQ_2 video format URL
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HLS_SQ_2 video format URL
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HLS_SQ_1 video format URL
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HTTP_MP4_SQ_2 video format URL
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HTTP_MP4_HQ_2 video format URL
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HTTP_MP4_SQ_1 video format URL
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HTTP_MP4_EQ_1 video format URL
[arte.tv:+7] 050298-000-A: Checking HTTP_MP4_EQ_2 video format URL
[info] Available formats for 050298-000-A:
format code    extension  resolution note
HLS_XQ_1       m3u8       1280x720   VF, Français (Doublé) 2200k 
HLS_XQ_2       m3u8       1280x720   VA, Allemand (Doublé) 2200k 
RTMP_HQ_1      flv        720x406    VF, Français (Doublé)  800k 
RTMP_HQ_2      flv        720x406    VA, Allemand (Doublé)  800k 
HTTP_MP4_HQ_1  mp4        720x406    VF, Français (Doublé)  800k 
HTTP_MP4_HQ_2  mp4        720x406    VA, Allemand (Doublé)  800k 
RTMP_MQ_1      flv        384x216    VF, Français (Doublé)  300k 
RTMP_MQ_2      flv        384x216    VA, Allemand (Doublé)  300k 
HTTP_MP4_MQ_1  mp4        384x216    VF, Français (Doublé)  300k 
HTTP_MP4_MQ_2  mp4        384x216    VA, Allemand (Doublé)  300k 
RTMP_EQ_1      flv        720x406    VF, Français (Doublé) 1500k 
RTMP_EQ_2      flv        720x406    VA, Allemand (Doublé) 1500k 
HTTP_MP4_EQ_1  mp4        720x406    VF, Français (Doublé) 1500k 
HTTP_MP4_EQ_2  mp4        720x406    VA, Allemand (Doublé) 1500k 
HLS_SQ_1       m3u8       1280x720   VF, Français (Doublé) 2200k 
HLS_SQ_2       m3u8       1280x720   VA, Allemand (Doublé) 2200k 
RTMP_SQ_1      flv        1280x720   VF, Français (Doublé) 2200k 
RTMP_SQ_2      flv        1280x720   VA, Allemand (Doublé) 2200k 
HTTP_MP4_SQ_1  mp4        1280x720   VF, Français (Doublé) 2200k 
HTTP_MP4_SQ_2  mp4        1280x720   VA, Allemand (Doublé) 2200k  (best)

Here we see why it picks German; it's considered "best". Quality-wise it's obviously equivalent to the French one, so if you want that one instead you have to copy the relevant quality string:

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youtube-dl --format HTTP_MP4_SQ_1 http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/050298-000-A/alexandre-le-grand

Slightly roundabout, I admit. I'm thinking of writing a quick shell script to download the high res video in one language, the low res in another (assuming the audio quality never changes) and to merge it all together so you can switch at will. That's what I'm used to on Arte via sat, après tout.

Edit: alas, no such luck.

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$ ffmpeg -i Alexandre\ le\ Grand-050298-000-A-french.mp4 
[…]
    Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 125 kb/s (default)

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$ ffmpeg -i Alexandre\ le\ Grand-050298-000-A-low.mp4 
[…]
    Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 61 kb/s (default)

Edit 2:
Also, they don't have separate subtitles. I noticed some videos have subtitles, but they're encoded into the video.

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$ youtube-dl --list-formats http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/058948-000-A/tchernobyl-fukushima-vivre-avec
[…]
HLS_XQ_8       m3u8       1280x720   VOF-STMF, Version française - ST sourds/mal 2200k 
RTMP_HQ_8      flv        720x406    VOF-STMF, Version française - ST sourds/mal  800k 
HTTP_MP4_HQ_8  mp4        720x406    VOF-STMF, Version française - ST sourds/mal  800k 
RTMP_MQ_8      flv        384x216    VOF-STMF, Version française - ST sourds/mal  300k 
HTTP_MP4_MQ_8  mp4        384x216    VOF-STMF, Version française - ST sourds/mal  300k 
RTMP_EQ_8      flv        720x406    VOF-STMF, Version française - ST sourds/mal 1500k 
HTTP_MP4_EQ_8  mp4        720x406    VOF-STMF, Version française - ST sourds/mal 1500k 
HLS_SQ_8       m3u8       1280x720   VOF-STMF, Version française - ST sourds/mal 2200k 
RTMP_SQ_8      flv        1280x720   VOF-STMF, Version française - ST sourds/mal 2200k 
[…]

Re: Dramatisations & Documentaries

Reply #114 – 2016-05-22, 16:42:02

I wish youtube-dl worked with Yle.fi like this. Is there a way to suggest to them to add support to some sites? Most likely yes, when you provide the support patch yourself.

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Reply #115 – 2016-05-23, 08:29:23

It's already been requested: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1574

That, in turn, revealed the existence of a dedicated program: https://github.com/aajanki/yle-dl

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Reply #116 – 2016-05-23, 08:46:07

Quote from: Frenzie on 2016-05-23, 08:29:23

That, in turn, revealed the existence of a dedicated program: https://github.com/aajanki/yle-dl

The next logical step would be to merge them. How hard can that be? (Real question, because I never tried.)

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Reply #117 – 2016-05-23, 09:47:43

It would be a non-trivial effort, even more so because of the PHP dependencies. From a youtube-dl perspective it saves the effort of backwards engineering, but likely little more.

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Reply #118 – 2016-05-23, 10:13:30

yle-dl has some dependencies unique to it...

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Reply #119 – 2016-05-29, 15:12:00

Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2016-04-20, 05:03:53

And Karloff (and Peter Lorre) proved to be wonderfully adept at comedy! Such talent.

Could hardly beat this!

Lugosi is my favorite Hungarian actor.

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Reply #120 – 2016-05-30, 17:25:01

At the same time, Aljazeera has been conveniently merged, but it works intermittently. No news or weather, but you can download some programmes.

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Reply #121 – 2016-05-30, 23:55:01

Never very keen on horror pictures and mostly boring as being in Edinburgh on a wet day.

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Reply #122 – 2016-06-04, 16:21:21

Even for those who don't speak French or German, this could potentially be interesting for the pretty pictures. I'm quite pleased with my earlier discovery that you don't need a satellite dish anymore in order to watch Arte.

http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/044036-001-A/unsere-ozeane
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/044036-002-A/unsere-ozeane
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/044036-003-A/unsere-ozeane (there's some very cool video material of hunting cuttlefish starting around 27:50)
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/044036-004-A/unsere-ozeane

Also, it taught me about the existence of marine iguanas.