2009-07-28, 07:31 AM
I gave the new version a go last night and got it to work without too much bother. Well done on producing such a great plug-in.
I think the instructions could be a little clearer, but here's a quick rundown of the steps I went through. Please note that I have currently no interest in radio downloads or in transcoding the files as I've found in the past that they've always played fine as is. (That's not to say I don't think these features should be included - of course they should - but if you're in the same boat as me then the steps you need to go through are a little simpler as there's less to download/configure/go wrong).
- I started by grabbing Strawberry Perl, taking just the zip version and extracting it to the hard drive and then changing my environment variables so that %PATH% would point to its /perl/bin directory.
- Wiztools and CommonGBPVRUtillities I already had from running the previous iPlayer plug-in.
- For get_iplayer itself I took just the raw perl script (http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/get_iplayer.pl) and flvstreamer (http://download.savannah.gnu.org/release...latest.exe). Both of these I saved to the gbpvr root directory.
- I then extracted the plug-in zip file, ran its install script (which all worked fine), and checked that the background service was running. Next was to run gbpvr config and configure the plug-in's settings, to enable HQ downloads, state no transcoding, and point it at the perl script and flvstreamer locations.
After that it all seemed to work fine, bar a couple of hiccups.
Firstly, it didn't show download percentages as it ran. I wasn't sure if it was meant to or not as the text seemed quite stretched on screen as if it wasn't fitting anyway. Not a big deal.
Secondly, although I'm not (yet) interested in transcoding, I did have one download that wouldn't play (which I *think* was an HD one, it's hard to be sure). It did play in mpc outside of gbpvr though, so I doubt the problem is anything to do with the iPlayer plug-in.
Finally, and most pedantically :-), there were quite a few typos and spelling mistakes in the interface, such as calling it "_An_ BBC iPlayer Downloader..." and referring to favorites rather than favourites.
On the whole though, a great piece of work, beta or otherwise!
I think the instructions could be a little clearer, but here's a quick rundown of the steps I went through. Please note that I have currently no interest in radio downloads or in transcoding the files as I've found in the past that they've always played fine as is. (That's not to say I don't think these features should be included - of course they should - but if you're in the same boat as me then the steps you need to go through are a little simpler as there's less to download/configure/go wrong).
- I started by grabbing Strawberry Perl, taking just the zip version and extracting it to the hard drive and then changing my environment variables so that %PATH% would point to its /perl/bin directory.
- Wiztools and CommonGBPVRUtillities I already had from running the previous iPlayer plug-in.
- For get_iplayer itself I took just the raw perl script (http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/get_iplayer.pl) and flvstreamer (http://download.savannah.gnu.org/release...latest.exe). Both of these I saved to the gbpvr root directory.
- I then extracted the plug-in zip file, ran its install script (which all worked fine), and checked that the background service was running. Next was to run gbpvr config and configure the plug-in's settings, to enable HQ downloads, state no transcoding, and point it at the perl script and flvstreamer locations.
After that it all seemed to work fine, bar a couple of hiccups.
Firstly, it didn't show download percentages as it ran. I wasn't sure if it was meant to or not as the text seemed quite stretched on screen as if it wasn't fitting anyway. Not a big deal.
Secondly, although I'm not (yet) interested in transcoding, I did have one download that wouldn't play (which I *think* was an HD one, it's hard to be sure). It did play in mpc outside of gbpvr though, so I doubt the problem is anything to do with the iPlayer plug-in.
Finally, and most pedantically :-), there were quite a few typos and spelling mistakes in the interface, such as calling it "_An_ BBC iPlayer Downloader..." and referring to favorites rather than favourites.
On the whole though, a great piece of work, beta or otherwise!