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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 where you'll discover updates. The BBC periodically change their SWF 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 run `--pvr-queue` and daily email delivery of new programmes it becomes 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 want to do something different. |
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Make sure you use `--prefs-add` to ensure prioritisation of highest quality formats, output directory &c. |
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E.G.: `get_iplayer --nopurge --prefs-add && get_iplayer --prefs-show` |
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Stroller. |
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