Both BBC iPlayer Desktop and get_iplayer fail to download programmes.

[Joban]

I have both get_iplayer and BBC iPlayer installed. Neither will download.

BBC iPlayer says

A problem occurred while downloading this programme

And when

get_iplayer 46 --get --output ~/Videos/BBC\ iPlayer/ --modes flashvhigh1

is run, get_iplayer gives this output

get_iplayer v2.79, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; use --conditions for details.

Matches:
46: BBC News Special - Japan Special, BBC News, Factual,News,Politics,TV, default

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: flashvhigh1 modes will be tried for version default
INFO: Trying flashvhigh1 mode to record tv: BBC News Special - Japan Special
INFO: File name prefix = BBC_News_Special_-_Japan_Special_b00zxn24_default
RTMPDump v2.3
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
ERROR: RTMP_Connect0, failed to connect socket. 110 (Connection timed out)
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: Failed to stream file /media/Data/Videos/BBC iPlayer/BBC_News_Special_-_Japan_Special_b00zxn24_default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashvhigh1 mode
ERROR: Failed to record 'BBC News Special - Japan Special (b00zxn24)'

I'm using openSUSE 11.4 KDE, with restricted formats installed with the one-click thing. Any ideas?

[caf4926]

Try

get_iplayer --get 46 --modes=flashvhigh

change the program number as required

[Joban]

Same again...
Could it to be anything to do with that I'm using the university network?

[DenverD]

On 03/13/2011 11:06 PM, Joban wrote:
>
> Could it to be anything to do with that I'm using the university
> network?

yes...maybe they are blocking??

are you behind a proxy?
talk to your university network administrator..

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[consused]

Or could it be due to the fact that packman have downgraded the get_iplayer packages with their reorg? IIRC a fix/update was required (@caf4926 may remember?) for it to work, and I don't recall any update since then and prior to the reorg. Maybe the fix/update disappeared in the downgrade. BTW I still have the package levels installed before the reorg.

[Will Honea]

consused wrote:

>
> Or could it be due to the fact that packman have downgraded the
> get_iplayer packages with their reorg? IIRC a fix/update was required
> (@caf4926 may remember?) for it to work, and I don't recall any update
> since then and prior to the reorg. Maybe the fix/update disappeared in
> the downgrade. BTW I still have the package levels installed before the
> reorg.

It does look like they are getting there. Last day or so, zypper up picks
up a new load of apps for which packman previously only offered backlevel.
I suspect that the guys doing the coolie labors are going to be at least as
happy as we users when they finally get caught up after the reorg.

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[malcolmlewis]

Or could it be due to the fact that packman have downgraded the
get_iplayer packages with their reorg? IIRC a fix/update was required
(@caf4926 may remember?) for it to work, and I don't recall any update
since then and prior to the reorg. Maybe the fix/update disappeared in
the downgrade. BTW I still have the package levels installed before the
reorg.

Hi
It's the same one I worked on that packman used (see the changelog ),
so it should still be ok...

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[caf4926]

I'm using it
It works

[consused]

consused wrote:

>
> Or could it be due to the fact that packman have downgraded the
> get_iplayer packages with their reorg? IIRC a fix/update was required
> (@caf4926 may remember?) for it to work, and I don't recall any update
> since then and prior to the reorg. Maybe the fix/update disappeared in
> the downgrade. BTW I still have the package levels installed before the
> reorg.

It does look like they are getting there. Last day or so, zypper up picks
up a new load of apps for which packman previously only offered backlevel.
I suspect that the guys doing the coolie labors are going to be at least as
happy as we users when they finally get caught up after the reorg.

Er Yes, I know. It hasn't prevented users from posting problems and changes in package levels should be taken into account. I am also seeing packages to be updated, but there are still many red ones (to be downgraded) e.g. gstreamer's set is a mixture, and several posts where phonon's gstreamer backend is being switched to xine. I'm not seeing these problems, but there are those who are.

[consused]

Hi
It's the same one I worked on that packman used (see the changelog ),
so it should still be ok...

Thanks malcolm. What is your recommendation i.e. take downgrade or carry on with the previous version?