Re: BBC iPlayer Desktop

On Monday 21 Dec 2009 11:31:43 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 command
> >
> > get_iplayer --type=tv --get 123 --modes=iphone,flashhigh,flashnormal --
> > flvstreamer=flvstreamer  (this command all on one line)
> >
> > This works but does require the separate 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 goggle 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 withdrawn support for get_iplayer by itself?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.
> 
Len
As I understand it get_iplayer was never supported by the BBC but is an 
independent effort to give Linux users a facility dating back to the time 
before the BBC's iplayer supported Linux at all.

You have to run the command get_ iplayer by itself to get the programme 
numbers and populate your cache before you can run the get_iplayer --get nnn 
command.

I have both the get_iplayer perl script and the fedora flvstreamer executable   
in my home directory and run the perl script from there using ./get_iplayer.

I have found that there is sometimes a delay in the BBC putting an iphone 
version up and if you try again in a day or two the get_iplayer --get nnn 
command which previously failed might work. failing that the extended command 
using flvstreamer has usually worked for me.

HTH
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