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On Thursday 19 May 2011 23:03:10 Mick wrote: |
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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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> > >> |
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> > >> Why do you bother at all, then? |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Use get_iplayer: |
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> > >> http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git |
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> > > |
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> > > I'd never heard of it, that's why. Many thanks for the pointer. |
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> > |
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> > It's definitely worth joining the mailing list. It's low-volume, but |
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> > that's where you'll discover updates. The BBC periodically change their |
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> > SWF validation URL and stuff like this. |
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> > |
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> > get_iplayer is a bit obscenely complicated, but once you set a cron job |
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> > to run `--pvr-queue` and daily email delivery of new programmes it |
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> > becomes really simple just to queue a new show for download. |
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> > |
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> > I tend to use things like `get_iplayer --longhelp | grep search` when I |
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> > do want to do something different. |
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> > |
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> > Make sure you use `--prefs-add` to ensure prioritisation of highest |
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> > quality formats, output directory &c. E.G.: `get_iplayer --nopurge |
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> > --prefs-add && 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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Ah! Found it a second later: |
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http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/blob/a3ab6296f6952d2528252313fc9730026f42759c:/README- |
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get_iplayer.cgi.txt |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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