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.
