hello i understand that. there is a Mac OSX program, Get iPlayer Automator, which will become unusable unless the developers decide to fork GiP and continue to maintain the flash code. i can see a good solid reason to fork GiP .
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:29 AM, Owen Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that's the point. > > -- > Owen Smith <[email protected]> > Cambridge, UK > >> On 8 Sep 2016, at 03:31, artisticforge . <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> hello Vagelis >> >> that is not going to leave much code left. >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Vangelis forthnet >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed Aug 31 00:28:27 BST 2016, I wrote: >>>> >>>> The flash (RTMP) on-demand modes >>>> (Radio+TV) will be axed in 2.98: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/milestone/8 >>> >>> >>> ... Apparently, the maintainer has had a change of heart; FLASH modes have >>> been rescheduled to be terminated in the next release, 2.97, too, along with >>> the rest of the deprecated options... >>> >>> A real shame, if you ask me, since the flashmodes are the only ones that >>> support resuming (via rtmpdump) in the case of time-outs, due to >>> fickle/flakey connections... >>> We'll be left with DASH/HLS (radio) or HLS (video) segmented modes only, >>> which abort and re-fetch from the start when the connection, for whatever >>> random reason, drops out... >>> >>> OTOH, the RTMP support code, the backbone of GiP up until a few versions >>> back (2.94 and earlier), constitutes a major part of the existing code and >>> I kind of understand the logic behind the coder's intent to do away with it; >>> what I fail to justify is the haste to get rid of it while it's still >>> working very reliably... Dum spiro, spero... >>> >>> Regards, V. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> get_iplayer mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer >> >> >> >> -- >> terry l. ridder ><> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- terry l. ridder ><> _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
