Re: BBC iPlayer Desktop

Len Lawrence wrote:
> Peter Watson wrote:
>> The command get_iplayer gives me a list of programmes with numbers in 
>> the first column.
>>
>> Then the command get_iplayer --get 123 will download the programme 
>> with number 123. However sometimes I receive a message that there is 
>> no iphone version, in this case I use the comand 
>> get_iplayer --type=tv --get 123 --modes=iphone,flashhigh,flashnormal --
>> flvstreamer=flvstreamer  (this command all on one line)
>>
>> This works but does require the seperate programme flvstreamer, I 
>> downloaded the fedora version of this from the get_iplayer site and 
>> it seems to work fine.
>>
>> I notice in the documentation that there is also an option to 
>> download a high quality flash version but I have not tried this.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>>
> In view of all the problems I decided simply to download the latest 
> get_iplayer and run it from my own bin directory.  The first problem 
> was no links on the BBC iPlayer site to a download.  Everything ended 
> up at iPlayer Desktop so I had to google for the script.  Found it at 
> LinuxCentre http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/download.  So has the 
> BBC withdrawn support for get_iplayer by itself?
>
> The good news is that the get_iplayer --get nnn command now works.
>
However, although flvstreamer from Fedora is in /usr/bin the 
modes=flashvhigh option fails to convert the .flv file to mp4 when the 
download completes, leaving a .mp4.flv file which as far as I can see is 
unplayable.  Can't remember the error report.

Len



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