> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > David Woodhouse > Sent: 04 August 2011 20:22 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Get Iplayer for Windows > > On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 13:29 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > Is there any news on the Windows installer version of the Get I > > Player program being updated? > > > > Get I Player Version 2.79 doesnt seem to work any more. > > > > Will the rtmpdump file be upgraded from 2.2d to version > 2.4? Or is > > there any other way of upgrading this file on a Window's > based system? > > > > There is lots of info out there on the board for Linux & > Ubuntu but > > none for us Windows users. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help > > I would love for someone to step forward and maintain the > Windows stuff. > Life is *so* much harder on Windows where we have to do so > much for ourselves, as opposed to the Linux packages where we > just mark it as depending on perl, ffmpeg, rtmpdump etc., and > everything "Just Works". > And updates for packages like rtmpdump *also* happen > properly, because there's a system-wide update mechanism that works. > > I've occasionally tried to keep it up to date, but > fundamentally I just don't care about Windows. I'm never > going to do a good job of it, and I only even *boot* Windows > to test the installation, so I'm not a good person to do it. > > I'd be more than happy to 'hand over', and show someone how I > got it working, and give them access to the FTP site so that > they can keep things up to date (for example by testing newer > versions of the various dependencies and adjusting the links > to them, etc.)
Your work to date has been most appreciated by what I think's probably a largely quiet Windows user community. Thanks on behalf of all of us for keeping the win32 fork maintained after everyone thought it was going to curl up in a corner and die of unnatural causes...! Would a 'differential' installer be a kludge fix? Any simpler for you to implement? Everyone would to install a snapshotted base version, then after that install the latest update to obtain latest stable builds and update references etc. I've not updated get_iplayer since the last major win32 release - it works, I read about problems with the latest 'current' linux builds (which are subsequently patched very quickly by guys on here... but I'm in the "Works? DON'T TOUCH IT" camp ;-) Would it be less work to just write a quick script-based installer which relied upon a preexisting get_iplayer install for updates? (this of course doesn't count all of the required work to compile functional win32 builds of course!) Unfortunately I have close to nil experience with compiling components for win32, frustrating because in this kind of situation I really wish I could helpfully contribute. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
