A number of things in get_iplayer have appeared recently which require newer versions of tools than are available on Lucid, the long-term support version of Ubuntu that my media system runs. So I've put together a ppa with more recent versions of get-iplayer ffmpeg atomic parsley x264 rtmpdump
I did this primarily for my own benefit, but there are builds for every version of Ubuntu from Lucid (10.04.2) onwards. Some notes on versions and packaging below. You can find the ppa at https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/get-iplayer to add it, just add ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer to your system's Software Sources. On versions: get-iplayer - this is currently taken from the tip of dinkypumpkin's repository on github (because I use the tagging stuff). It's got a tweaked ubuntu packaging to set up default options to force installation of and make use of the other packages in the ppa. ffmpeg - this is built as ffmpeg-static, and is a statically linked version of ffmpeg and ffprobe called ffmpeg-static and ffprobe-static. I did this so that I could leave the ffmpeg packages untouched so as not to break anything else. this is a recent build from ffmpeg (not from libav). It coexists with ffmpeg and libav*. atomic parsley - this is from the tip of wez's atomicparsley repository on bitbucket, and includes support for some of the extra stuff that's used by dinkupumpkin's tagging updates. x264 - this is in the repository, and is a few commits later than 0.115.1947. This is mainly there because it's an ffmpeg dependency. the x264 libs co-exist with the .85 version that ships with Lucid. rtmpdump - this is r569 from subversion All of this is compiled (and loosely tested) on lucid, maverick and natty, both 32 and 64 bit versions of all three. Let me know if this works for you, or if you have any suggestions to improve this. Cheers Jon _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
