"Chris Marriott" <ch...@chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Apologies - this is slightly OT for the list, but perhaps someone knows the
>answer. > > I was under the impression that iPlayer had been updated to allow the > playing of programmes more than a week old, now, but when I go to the > iPlayer web site, and select a TV channel, the list of dates along the top > of the page still only allows me to view programmes less than a week old. > Is there a way to go back further, or has the extension to 30 days not yet > happened? My impression is that the change to get_iplayer is to support explicit fetches by pid, where the programme referred to in the fetch command happens to be more tha 7 days old. The way I discover pids of old programmes is via the 'episodes' pages on what the bbc call the 'programme website'. So for example, for "Rip Off Britain", I start at http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/programmes/a-z/by/r then select the programme's site (really a 'microsite' as it;s just one tiny part of the overall bbc website) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wck32 then click the 'Episodes' tab to go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wck32/episodes/guide and navigate to the entry describing the programme I'm interested in, to get that programme's pid. For example when a specific programme has a URL like http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n6k1x the pid is the final part, namely "b04n6k1x". -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer