Has anyone got the iPlayer desktop working in 11.1? iPlayer works if I watch the file by streaming live online but if I choose to download the file nothing happens.
If I try start iPlayer desktop nothing happens except a small box or something flashes up on the screen very quickly before disappearing and I get a BBC process in the process list.
I have Adobe Air 1.5 installed, flash player 10.0.31.18 insatlled and the latest BBC iPlayer desktop (cannot remember version).
Try using get_iplayer from Packman
Instructions here:
Documentation | Linuxcentre
I get HD program of say 1.2GB in 15 mins
You use a terminal, here is an example. After doing the: get_iplayer
All the feeds will show in a A-Z list
Here is a of screen of it
The list with an example command highlighted - it matches the last in the list
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Thanks caf.
I’ve installed get_iplayer and am playing around with it but have a question. The documentation lists some external programs that may be required by get_iplayer most of which I already have. One program I don’t have is flvstreamer. Is this generally required? I can’t find it any of the main SuSe repos or on the suse software web page.
I don’t have this in suse, but do in F10. So no, not needed.
You may need to set the terminal scrolling to 2000
OK thanks. One other thing. Have you updated get_iplayer to the latest 2.41 version or still using the pacman 1.71 version? Will running the command
get_iplayer --update
break my install?
I just stick with Packman in SUSE!
If you look at the get_iplayer site, it doesn’t provide packages for SUSE.
It can be trick to set up.
I’ll reply in more detail later. I have to work.
OK, I’ll leave it as it is. Thanks.
As I said, I use it as I demonstrated in the pictures
EG:
get_iplayer --get 50 --vmode=flashhigh
or
get_iplayer --get 50 --vmode=flashvhigh
or
get_iplayer --get 50 --vmode=flashhd
Thing is I can’t recall exactly what I did to set up above and beyond the install from Packman. Because I have flvstreamer. But I’m not sure if I’m using IT or rtmpdump. I have a feeling the latter.
I know I am using flvstreamer in Fedora and behaves differently.
I think you have to su in a terminal
and do:
chmod 755 /usr/bin/rtmpdump
I think then:
get_iplayer --prefs-add --rtmpdump /usr/bin/rtmpdump
In Fedora I just put flvstreamer in place of rtmpdump
I think I have the flvstreamer because I put it there.
You can ask questions at the get_iplayer site too. I find the documentation difficult to wade thru.
Thanks. I managed to download a couple of programs using the default settings i.e. get_iplayer --get 123. I’ll experiment with the modes, and the other switches when I have a little more time.
I agree about the documentation.
Good.
Just give me a nudge if you need any more advice.
Yes, I managed to get the BBC iplayer working on opensuse 11.2
The problem I had was that the BBC iplayer window does not appear, there are no messages on the command line to indicate what the problem is. Basically iplayer is attempting to access kwallet but can’t. Follow these instructions on the Adobe website to get bit working. I found it necessary to run kwallet then clicking right on the wallet icon in the task panel (bottom right of screen in KDE) then select configure wallet, untick close when last application stops using it. (saves you having to keep retyping the wallet password every time bbc iplayer is exited then restarted. Try installing tweetdeck (another adobe air application) to confirm air is running properly. The attached link also contains instructions for gnome users.
Troubleshooting AIR’s Encrypted Local Storage (ELS) on Linux
Yes, I managed to get the BBC iplayer working on opensuse 11.2
The problem I had was that the BBC iplayer window does not appear, there are no messages on the command line to indicate what the problem is. Basically iplayer is attempting to access kwallet but can’t. Follow these instructions on the Adobe website to get bit working. I found it necessary to run kwallet then clicking right on the wallet icon in the task panel (bottom right of screen in KDE) then select configure wallet, untick close when last application stops using it. (saves you having to keep retyping the wallet password every time bbc iplayer is exited then restarted. Try installing tweetdeck (another adobe air application) to confirm air is running properly. The attached link also contains instructions for gnome users.
Troubleshooting AIR’s Encrypted Local Storage (ELS) on Linux