Re: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

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`

Stroller.