On Thursday 19 May 2011 04:56:42 Stroller wrote: > On 19/5/2011, at 2:41am, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday 19 May 2011 02:28:21 Stroller wrote: > >> On 18/5/2011, at 5:57pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> ... (I only use Flash for the BBC I-Player service.) > >> > >> Why do you bother at all, then? > >> > >> Use get_iplayer: > >> http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git > > > > I'd never heard of it, that's why. Many thanks for the pointer. > > 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. > > 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. > > I tend to use things like `get_iplayer --longhelp | grep search` when I do > want to do something different. > > Make sure you use `--prefs-add` to ensure prioritisation of highest quality > formats, output directory &c. E.G.: `get_iplayer --nopurge --prefs-add && > get_iplayer --prefs-show`
I see they have a cgi now ... how is that supposed to work? -- Regards, Mick
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