On 18 July 2011 19:19, dinkypumpkin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/07/2011 21:57, Sam Kuper wrote: >> >> ERROR: Failed to record 'Thermal imagery in the desert - - >> (http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/thermal-imagery-in-the-desert/3204.html)' >> ... >> > Clearly this didn't work, despite my having provided a long set of >> fallback modes. I'm unsure how to proceed, and would welcome >> constructive suggestions! > > FWIW, I was able to download this clip with a very small patch to > get_iplayer. AFAICT, the access token for this clip is ultimately returned > with "auth=" already prepended, which get_iplayer doesn't expect and thus > duplicates, giving a bogus query string for the rtmp URL. This appears to be > peculiar to Akamai CDN connections, but not necessarily all of them.
Excellent news that the work needing to be done to fix this in get_iplayer was, as I expected, minor. Thank you! > As Nigel Taylor pointed out earlier, this isn't related to iPlayer content > per se, You're the third person to mention this (I had one off-list reply too), and I must say: new to get_iplayer though I may be, I think all three of you are flat wrong to mention it. Why? Because the description of get_iplayer's features given at http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer includes the following: "Recording/Streaming of Embedded media in BBC Learning Zone, Archive and News sites." Since the embedded media file to which this thread pertains is in the BBC Learning Zone site, it therefore clearly falls squarely within the purview of get_iplayer, and it is entirely proper that if get_iplayer cannot handle it, it should be patched in order to be able to handle it. If the problem had been due to one of the libraries or utilities upon which get_iplayer depends, then I would have been happy to report the bug to the corresponding mailing list or bug tracker, but since you were able to write a patch for get_iplayer to fix the issue, it does seem that the fault lay with get_iplayer rather than with a different piece of software. > but a workaround seemed benign enough that I could roll it into my > get_iplayer fork. Hope I don't eat those words. Given what I've mentioned above, I see no reason why you should end up having to eat those words. Yay :) Indeed, I hope that your patch will be reviewed and incorporated into the get_iplayer main branch! I'll try out your patched version asap and report back when I get a chance. Thanks again for your help! Sam _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
