BBC Iplayer Downloader Plugin - Beta + Support

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It seems that peak-hours shaping is becoming more widespread and much more limiting so it'd be really, really good if there were a Config option to delay all download/conversion activity until a user-specified time.

If the queue could be kicked-off in the early hours then it would make a number of us even happier with this invaluable plug-in and may reduce the incidence of certain problems cropping up here.

If this "scheduled download" option were activated then perhaps some users might suggest an option in the plug-in's GUI to download either now or else per the schedule - but if they weren't experiencing problems with peak-time downloads then they probably wouldn't have activated the Config option anyway. I guess there may be a few who don't have traffic-shaping problems but have a peak-only quota so downloading off-peak would be their norm but the odd "do it now" would be desired. They are probably few in number (and possibly becoming fewer as traffic-shaping becomes more prevalent) so I'm not sure that a GUI option is worth the effort on your part or even that it's really necessary at all.

There'd be no need to update the GUI with progress of downloading or transcoding of scheduled items - but that wouldn't be any change from what now happens if an MVP is turned off after an item has been selected for download.

I recognise that splitting-out this part of the processing for batch-treatment could be problematic but I reckon it would make a really big difference. Could it be that part of the work has already been done when you split the downloading/transcoding away from reliance on the MVP running PVRX2?

Thanks.

I'll certainly add it to the wish list there certainly is some support already, it will be a matter of ensuring that the schdule works as expected for all cases. I'll certainly have a think about it.