On 27/10/2011 13:25, dinkypumpkin wrote:
On 27/10/2011 10:49, Allan Preston wrote:
Any new shows added to the iplayer's index since 27 Oct 2011 have a
blank modes: which means get_iplayer can't download them. For example:
This appears to have been a problem at the BBC end. The stream metadata
for recent programmes had them marked as "not available", so there were
If this happens again, you can do a bit of diagnosis before hitting the
mailing list: Run get_iplayer with --debug and then search the captured
output for the string "notavailable". If you find a line that looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><mediaSelection
xmlns="http://bbc.co.uk/2008/mp/mediaselection";><error
id="notavailable"/></mediaSelection>
then it means what it says - the programme is not yet available from the
iPlayer distribution networks. As other respondents have pointed out,
this happens occasionally, though not usually so widespread.
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