On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 08:41:21 +0000 "fred.d" <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, recently was on holiday and as I am mid change to linux across > the board I took a mint laptop with me. > > Downloaded a few things that we wanted to watch and listen to while > away using get_iplayer but a couple of things occurred. > > 1) Downloaded file names contained a lot of spurious underscores and > hyphens (not plain whitespace) and had the PID embedded at the end of > the filename. > It's years since I set up gip on Windows at home so I've forgotten > most of what I learned but I suspect that I don't see these on the > desktop because I have a fileprefix command in the home options file. > Is the standard o/p to embed the pid and split with underscore? > > 2) I can't for the life of me get the outputtv and outputradio > strings correct in the linux options file. My limited knowledge of > shell substitution I suspect. > > I want files to go in "[HOME] /Downloads/ip/tv" and a radio > directory of the same parentage. Try this with prefs-add 'outputtv = /home/<uid>/Downloads/ip/tv' (minus the quotes and with your userid in place of <uid>). I have 'whitespace = 1' in my options file for your spurious characters. > what am I missing here to pass a relative directory name for home > into get_iplayer from the options file? An equals sign perhaps? As for fileprefix, couldn't you take a look at the Windows options file and see what you have there and translate that into your linux options file? That will be in /home/<uid>/.getiplayer/options My fileprefix looks like this 'fileprefix = <episodeshort> - <sesort>' You also need to specify subdir options. My prefs-show command shows this :- subdir 1 subdirformat = <nameshort>/<series> Hope that helps. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
