BBC Iplayer Downloader Plugin - Beta + Support

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I still haven't had a chance to progress further, but I note that in your wiki install description where you suggest either the getiplayer install package or the individual applications - I picked the former as it should only be one step but have just found that it doesn't include flvsteamer - so that is the first step for me in the morning.

You can use RTMPDump instead if you need to, however flvstreamer is suggested by the getiplayer.ps developer. I will update the wiki.

[imilne]

Just out of interest (and to save me looking at perl code that I probably wouldn't understand anyway), does the script still use screen-scraping to work out what content is available or have the BBC made an API or xml feed available for use?

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Just out of interest (and to save me looking at perl code that I probably wouldn't understand anyway), does the script still use screen-scraping to work out what content is available or have the BBC made an API or xml feed available for use?

Slightly compliocated answer, the getiplayer script has a lot of funtionality that I am not using. Specifically related to the downloading of Show information using XML. This show info is however limited in terms of data that is returned, so I have written a screen scraping object that searches and downloads images giving a better UI feel.

[Darce]

Possible a little off topic, and if it is I apologise is advance.....

I'm in Australia, so I cant get the BBC iPlayer site. Over here, our national broadcaster is the ABC, and their streaming site is at http://www.abc.net.au/iview

I believe it is modeled on bbc iplayer, and if so, would there be much work in porting it across ??

Cheers,

Tim

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Possible a little off topic, and if it is I apologise is advance.....

I'm in Australia, so I cant get the BBC iPlayer site. Over here, our national broadcaster is the ABC, and their streaming site is at http://www.abc.net.au/iview

I believe it is modeled on bbc iplayer, and if so, would there be much work in porting it across ??

Cheers,

Tim

To be honest, it would be quite a bit of work, it would require that a scraper was setup for the ABC website and then the getiplayer downloader script would have to be able to work.

I think the major hurdle would be the getiplayer script that has not been setup for that abc website streaming service. it might be worth checking out http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/ and posting the question again on whether it would be possible because, I have no control over the compatibility of the script with ABC Aus.

[martint123]

Could I ask you to cast an eye over my logs again please.
I've installed it on my test machine so the family don't get in the way of testing, but I get the same negative results as on the main PVR server.

goto getiplayer+ on main menu, quick flash of the screen and back to the main menu, but can't navigate it. Can close it with X in top right though.

Server was running this time (closed it down to zip up the logs after test though).

One question from the config screen:- on the downloader settings tab, the "get_iplayer perl script location" says:-

Code:

The get_iplayer.pl  is a perl script that allows to download of data from multiple websites in various formats.
Please select the location of this exe below.

Here I'm putting in the .pl script file - guessing the above reference to .exe is wrong??

cheers,
Martin

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Could I ask you to cast an eye over my logs again please.
I've installed it on my test machine so the family don't get in the way of testing, but I get the same negative results as on the main PVR server.

goto getiplayer+ on main menu, quick flash of the screen and back to the main menu, but can't navigate it. Can close it with X in top right though.

Server was running this time (closed it down to zip up the logs after test though).

One question from the config screen:- on the downloader settings tab, the "get_iplayer perl script location" says:-

Code:

The get_iplayer.pl  is a perl script that allows to download of data from multiple websites in various formats.
Please select the location of this exe below.

Here I'm putting in the .pl script file - guessing the above reference to .exe is wrong??

cheers,
Martin

The Perl file you have defined is correct and i will update the text in the next version.

From the logs it seems that you config.xml file seems to be missing or not found by the plugin running in the PVRx2 context. This is interesting bercause it implies that gbpvrinfo as part of commongbpvrutils.dll is not working correctly. :confused:

It might be worth making sure you have the correct version that is referenced from the wiki, make sure that the dll is present in the plugins/commond directory and also in the GBPVR dir. If it is still an issue I will upload a new version of the plugin with more debug capability.

[martint123]

dll's were the correct versions (wiz was the current one which seems to be a later version).

With you saying it maybe couldn't find config.xml I fired up the winternals "filemon" tool to see if it was looking for it or in the wrong place and whilst browsing, I noticed that it couldn't find perl.exe. The installs suggested int the wiki don't seem to copy it to windows or windows\system32 and once I did that it started working.
I haven't fully experimented yet, but it looks like things may well be fine now.

From the installs, perl.exe was in c:\strawberry\perl\bin and e:\devnz\get_iplayer

thanks for your help,
Martin

[bluewizard]

dll's were the correct versions (wiz was the current one which seems to be a later version).

With you saying it maybe couldn't find config.xml I fired up the winternals "filemon" tool to see if it was looking for it or in the wrong place and whilst browsing, I noticed that it couldn't find perl.exe. The installs suggested int the wiki don't seem to copy it to windows or windows\system32 and once I did that it started working.
I haven't fully experimented yet, but it looks like things may well be fine now.

From the installs, perl.exe was in c:\strawberry\perl\bin and e:\devnz\get_iplayer

thanks for your help,
Martin

Martin123 did you try restarting your PC after install? Looking at your logs and what happening, I'm pretty sure I had the same problem. After 2hrs of messing about with it ( and very nearly posting) I restarted the PC and it now runs fine

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dll's were the correct versions (wiz was the current one which seems to be a later version).

With you saying it maybe couldn't find config.xml I fired up the winternals "filemon" tool to see if it was looking for it or in the wrong place and whilst browsing, I noticed that it couldn't find perl.exe. The installs suggested int the wiki don't seem to copy it to windows or windows\system32 and once I did that it started working.
I haven't fully experimented yet, but it looks like things may well be fine now.

From the installs, perl.exe was in c:\strawberry\perl\bin and e:\devnz\get_iplayer

thanks for your help,
Martin

Ahh, that is possible, The script relies on having the strawberry perl path in the path environment variable. Normally this is setup by the strawberry perl installer, You can add it manually however if it is missing.

Just let me know if you are still having problems.