Re: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Thursday 19 May 2011 23:03:10 Mick wrote:
> 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?

Ah! Found it a second later:

http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/blob/a3ab6296f6952d2528252313fc9730026f42759c:/README-
get_iplayer.cgi.txt
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Regards,
Mick

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