At present I use an ooREXX program to build the get_iplayer.pl command I wish to execute (at least in part to prevent me making stupid mistakes in the command string, and also because I'm sharing the caches & history file between computers via Dropbox, but fetching files to local directories on any particular machine, so I need to override various defaults).
For now I run some cache refreshes from a Windows scheduled task. Some get run manually, as do all fetches. I did experiment with issuing the get_iplayer.pl command (which here is an explicit command to run perl for the get_iplayer.pl script) and redirect all output to another file. But I found it problematic - I can't quite remember whether the output I ended up with was incomplete, or whether it prevented get_iplayer.pl's own redirection of its utilities' output from working... Is there a way to have get_iplayer.pl's output put in a file without interfering with utility output? I've also had one instance of perl crashing (not when using my own redirection)- it was weird because it happened after perl had started the rtmpdump.exe program - when one might not have expected perl to be doing anything at all. Rtmpdump continued, as you'd expect. For now, having only seen this once, I'm not planning to try to detect and cleanup from it in my program, but - especially if I start fetching on a timer, I might have to. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
