BBC Iplayer Downloader Plugin - Beta + Support

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Just a Quick Update: Its taken a bit longer than I thought to get the plugin updated, However, I am in the final stages of debugging now and hopefull should have something out very soon...

[gEd]

great to hear smiler

another "hand in the air" from someone who absolutely loved this plugin. It would be fantastic to get it working again.

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Ok, after a bit of screwing around with getting all the tools together and improving the BBC Iplayer website searching capability, I think I have a release that you should be able to use.

I have updated the wiki with the latest information and download Zip.

In summary this is what you need to do:

• Get New versions of Getiplayer(alternative version), FFMPEG and FLVStreamer and install them (they are all required)
  
• You need to open config.xml and delete the FFMPEG config settings as these are actually not compliant with the latest version of the ffmpeg binary downloads!
  
• Restart the get iplayer service after you have deleted the config.xml entries
  

I have fixed quite a few bugs in the existing code which might have some side effects, however please give it a try and tell me how you get on. Good Luck

[gEd]

Looking great so far. Downloaded a show perfectly. Quality looks very good (I leave as native flv)

3 very small problems I am happy to live with if necessary:-

1. I searched for "HD" and found nothing even though there is a program called "Electric Proms: Elton John (HD Available)" that when you select it brings up the title Electric Proms: Elton John (HD)". I think I used to be be able to search for "HD" successfully.
2. There is some kind of weird keyboard mapping going on. I can;t enter any of these symbols into the search field !"£$%^&*() and other characters are not mapped right. I am not sure if this was always the case or not.
3. I think the plugin and the service at chatting to each other a little too much. When I run the iplugin, PVRX2 at about 35-40% CPU and the GetiPlayer service at 15-20% CPU. Both drop to virtually 0% when I go back to the menu.

I am really happy to see this plugin back.

remind me again, when does the beta phase come to an end? :-D

cheers

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1. I searched for "HD" and found nothing even though there is a program called "Electric Proms: Elton John (HD Available)" that when you select it brings up the title Electric Proms: Elton John (HD)". I think I used to be be able to search for "HD" successfully.

This is unfortunatly a feature of the BBC search engine which they have also upgraded, if you can find a way of searching on the website for hd let me know!

2. There is some kind of weird keyboard mapping going on. I can;t enter any of these symbols into the search field !"£$%^&*() and other characters are not mapped right. I am not sure if this was always the case or not.

None of the code here has changed, I'm not sure what is gone on here, I use the gbpvrutils dll for these functions :confused:

3. I think the plugin and the service at chatting to each other a little too much. When I run the iplugin, PVRX2 at about 35-40% CPU and the GetiPlayer service at 15-20% CPU. Both drop to virtually 0% when I go back to the menu.

This is an ongoing issue that I am trying to get to the bottom of, the CPU on mine is very little unless I put the window out of focus, where i get a massive jump in CPU. I will try to look in to this if I get a minute.

I am really happy to see this plugin back.

remind me again, when does the beta phase come to an end? :-D

Glad you are using it, I might make it a full release when I eventually move over to N-PVR

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Ok, I have posted a new version 541 to the WIKI. Please try this out gEd and tell me if this fixes the High Cpu Utilisation you have been seeing.

[gEd]

yep, very much improved, thank you.
FYI: PVRX2 is now 10-20% and getiplayer service 5-10% on my 1.8Ghz dual core E2160

[srhutch]

Can you just confirm the bit I need to remove from the config.xml are ony in the iplayer plugin section

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Yes, only in the BBCIplayerPlugin section of the config.xml file

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I have made a new release of the plugin (546) that has fixed a bug I found when downloading multiple HD or non transcode files in a queue. It is available on the wiki if you are having issues with the current version.