Thanks for the responses, both on and off list.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vangelis forthnet" <northmed...@the.forthnet.gr>
To: <get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2016 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: Web PVR
On Fri Apr 8 21:05:27 BST 2016, Don Grunbaum wrote:
Does anybody know where the default settings
for the web PVR manager are held?
Are they in a cookie, or somewhere else?
Hi Don - it depends on what you mean by "default";
have a quick read of:
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/webpvr#settings
By "default" I mean those that are saved by the "Save as Default"
button.
This covers those, so thank you.
Changes to the WebPVR "defaults" made through the GUI
are stored as browser cookies, from "localhost" (or "127.0.0.1",
in older versions of the WeBPVR) hostname - if you have
browser addons or browser settings that clear cookies after
browser is exited, those "settings" will be lost. You then have
to exclude "localhost" from its cookies being wiped out,
if you want those settings to persist between browser sessions.
The WebPVR picks other GiP settings from GiP's options files,
system options:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\get_iplayer\options
User options:
%USERPROFILE%\.get_iplayer\options
Please do read
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/webpvr#relationship-to-cli
carefully, to understand how the "CLI" settings
(stored in options files) and in what hierarchy
are being used by the GUI along the ones
stored in browser cookies.
I am aware of that file, which applies to any way that GiP commands
are launched.
I'm trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox
The "Web PVR Manager" windows shortcut
always opens the system default browser - as
Alan has suggested, if you want to use Firefox
for the WebPVR, then you should make Firefox
the default browser.
If you are currently only experimenting, then, once
Web PVR Manager launches Google Chrome,
you can exit Chrome, launch Firefox and open
a "http://localhost:1935/"; firefox tab to access
the local WebPVR server.
Yes, been doing that, no problem.
(What I have done personally is keep IE
as the system default, but modified
"pvr_manager.cmd" file to use Firefox in a new tab:
- .\pvr_manager.url
+ "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P default -new-tab
"http://localhost:1935/";
use at your own risk...)
There be serpents! :-)
... and one OT comment:
While you are trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox,
the Mozilla devs are doing all their best to ape/clone
Chrome!
But the Mozilla Devs haven't dropped support for Windows XP (yet!). My
only reason for switching is that Chrome keeps popping up a message
that support for XP has ceased, and I can't turn it off. I am
gradually migrating to a new Windows 10 PC (pause for Linux users to
snigger), but it's a long process in my particular case.
I will have to copy and paste between Chrome and Firefox to transfer
the settings, I guess.
Incidentally (as a nod to a different thread) my original post and
this are sent via Outlook Express on Windows XP, in plain text, and
they get through. A few people's posts arrive with the content as
attachments, but that doesn't matter (to me).
Regards,
Vangelis.
Thanks again, Vangelis, for your ever comprehensive reply. You could
have simply said RTFM!
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