On 07/03/2014 11:39, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
Barrie Avis <[email protected]> wrote:
I am clearly just a confused Newbie and I just cannot see the
big picture of what I am doing. Although I have used Windows for
many years, I am totally new to the Pi, Linux and Raspbian
I want to run the BBC iPlayer on my new Raspberry Pi.
Is that possible? (I don't know.)
And having read you next answer below, I now realise that what I
want is the *functionality* of the BBC iPlayer.
I have been trying to follow the instructions that are in
http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html
I downloaded get_iplayer onto my laptop (running Windows 7) and installed
it. I then followed the instructions under Command Line Interface (CLI)
and got a CLI that ended up with a prompt C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>
but do not understand what to do next.
The purpose of get_iplayer is not to "get (the) iplayer", but instead to get
sound (radio) and video (tv) files from the BBC website using get_iplayer
instead of the BBC's downloader.
Oh dear. Silly me.
Having gone back to
http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html
I now realise that once you know this, things start to make more
sense.
I would have found it so helpful if there was something like
this paragraph of yours at the beginning, immediately after the
heading "About get_iplayer". (I realise that once you know it,
it is not necessary, and clearly the person who wrote it already
knew it, so didn't see the need - but if you do not know this,
it can be confusing, especially since the name get_iplayer
seemed to me to imply that the tool would actually *get* (the)
iplayer!)
I don't know if the person who wrote it would consider doing
this? (This is not meant as a criticism but just as a,
hopefully, helpful suggestion.)
But you say below that you already have BBC iPlayer installed on your
laptop, which suggests (if you are happy with what it does) that you don't
need get_iplayer as well.
Yes it is beginning to make sense now. (And a first look at the
get_iplayer tool leads me to think it could well be better than
the BBC iPlayer.)
Moving now to my Raspberry Pi:-
it says "Paste these five lines into a terminal window" Thes following
lines start with "sudo bash etc." so seem to be things I should be putting
into raspbian on the Pi. But I am on the Windows laptop so don't
understand how I am to do this. Should there be some way to paste from the
Laptop into the Pi?
No. Either: use a browser from the Pi to find the instructions and c&p them
to a terminal window on the Pi, or move the sample commands there on eg a
USB stick, or just type them carefully yourself.
Yes clearly I need to learn a lot more about the RPi - for
starters how to run and use the RPi browser (I presume there
must be one). And after that how to access a USB stick. (I will,
in any case, want to use my 16GB USB stick as the storage medium
for downloaded programmes anyway.)
Thanks ever so much for you help - it is really appreciated.
Barrie
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