With --verbose I see a mismatch between the version of ffmpeg that get_iplayer is attempting to use compared to the version returned by type. But which is correct?
john@system7 ~ $ get_iplayer --get 3004 --vmode=best --force --verbose get_iplayer 3.06-ppa31a, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; use --conditions for details. INFO: encodinglocale = UTF-8 INFO: encodinglocalefs = UTF-8 INFO: encodingconsoleout = UTF-8 INFO: encodingconsolein = UTF-8 INFO: ${^UNICODE} = 0 INFO: Profile dir: /home/john/.get_iplayer INFO: User options file: /home/john/.get_iplayer/options INFO: System options file: /etc/get_iplayer/options Current options: encodingconsolein = UTF-8 encodingconsoleout = UTF-8 encodinglocale = UTF-8 encodinglocalefs = UTF-8 ffmpeg = /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg force = 1 get = 1 tvmode = best verbose = 1 INFO: Search args: '3004' INFO: Additionally getting cached programme data for tv INFO: Got 5461 file cache entries for tv Matches: 3004: Newsnight - 24/11/2017, BBC News, b09gk7qg INFO: 1 matching programmes -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- INFO: Getting URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gk7qg.json INFO: Getting URL: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/iptv-all/vpid/b09gk7pz/transferformat/dash?cb=47344 Segmentation fault john@system7 ~ $ which ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg john@system7 ~ $ type ffmpeg ffmpeg is /usr/bin/ffmpeg On 26 November 2017 at 08:12, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > Hi John, > >> However, if I sudo, it works > > Don't do that. :-) > > This is Ubuntu? I wonder where the core dump is ending up. You could > `ulimit -c' to see the current limit on core-file size for that shell > and then `ulimit -c unlimited' if it's not that already. > > Run `./get_iplayer --verbose' to see if that gives more of a clue how > far it's getting. If not, change that option to `--debug'. > > If nothing is clearer, run it under strace to help show what process is > suffering. It should still suffer the SEGV. > > strace -fe execve get_iplayer > > -- > Cheers, Ralph. > https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer