dinkypumpkin: We need to wait a week or so to see what is really happening with the XML playlists. If next week we find that XML playlists contain "noItems" for programmes that are more than 7 days old yet were first broadcast after the 28-day switchover, that will indicate a systemic problem rather than isolated cases of broken XML playlists.
Is there any reason for the wait? In other words, why can't we have the json and vpid ways of fetching RTMP data as alternative just in case the current method fails regardless? If normal method fales, try vpid. if vpid results in no items, try json. If json fails then we'd know there'd be no way of retrieving the program. It's always great to have backups and redundancies regardless whether or not this is a permanent thing. Is there some logical issue that I am aware of that would make this a bad idea even if BBC doesn't switch over to using the vpid and/or json methods in future? Timothy _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
