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On Thursday 19 May 2011 04:56:42 Stroller wrote: |
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> On 19/5/2011, at 2:41am, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 19 May 2011 02:28:21 Stroller wrote: |
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> >> On 18/5/2011, at 5:57pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> >>> ... (I only use Flash for the BBC I-Player service.) |
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> >> Why do you bother at all, then? |
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> >> Use get_iplayer: |
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> >> http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git |
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> > I'd never heard of it, that's why. Many thanks for the pointer. |
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> It's definitely worth joining the mailing list. It's low-volume, but that's |
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> where you'll discover updates. The BBC periodically change their SWF |
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> validation URL and stuff like this. |
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> get_iplayer is a bit obscenely complicated, but once you set a cron job to |
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> run `--pvr-queue` and daily email delivery of new programmes it becomes |
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> really simple just to queue a new show for download. |
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> I tend to use things like `get_iplayer --longhelp | grep search` when I do |
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> want to do something different. |
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> Make sure you use `--prefs-add` to ensure prioritisation of highest quality |
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> formats, output directory &c. E.G.: `get_iplayer --nopurge --prefs-add && |
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> get_iplayer --prefs-show` |
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I see they have a cgi now ... how is that supposed to work? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |