I've just done some re-twiddling at my end, and I'm running GIP now as I send this, and the "<firstbcast>" field is present now. I think, now, that the cause of the problem may very well have been some minor edits I did to the shell script that I was using to call GIP. Or it might have been what you suggested. I don't know.
On 02/06/14 22:10, dinkypumpkin wrote: > On 02/06/2014 19:19, Robert Snelling wrote: >> <span class="release"> First shown: 4.15pm 1 Jun 2014 </span> >> >> Searching for "first", in all 3 cases, results in only 1 match, namely >> the above line. Could this be the cause? I'm on a business ADSL line > > The first/last broadcast dates do not come from the iPlayer web pages. > >> >> <filename>/BIG/new/iplayer/receive/main/tv/X----.-b01s35ck-.-tv-.-default-.-Doctor_Who-.-0007-.-0004-.-Hide---.mp4</filename> >> >> >> <filepart>/BIG/new/iplayer/receive/main/tv/X----.-b01s35ck-.-tv-.-default-.-Doctor_Who-.-0007-.-0004-.-Hide---.partial.mp4</filepart> >> >> >> <fileprefix>X----.-b01s35ck-.-tv-.-default-.-Doctor_Who-.-0007-.-0004-.-Hide---</fileprefix> >> >> <guidance></guidance> >> <index>329</index> >> <longname>Doctor Who: Series 7 Part 2</longname> > > Works fine here. Since both first and last broadcast dates are missing, > I suspect that the download failed for the metadata file containing > those bits of data. It's also possible the data was incomplete. It > happens, albeit rarely. Give it another try. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

