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?

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Regards,
Mick