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From: get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org
[mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of
David Woodhouse
Sent: 04 August 2011 20:22
To: power...@aol.com
Cc: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Get Iplayer for Windows
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 13:29 -0400, power...@aol.com wrote:
Is there any news on the Windows installer version of the Get I
Player program being updated?
Get I Player Version 2.79 doesnt seem to work any more.
Will the rtmpdump file be upgraded from 2.2d to version
2.4? Or is
there any other way of upgrading this file on a Window's
based system?
There is lots of info out there on the board for Linux
Ubuntu but
none for us Windows users.
Thanks in advance for any help
I would love for someone to step forward and maintain the
Windows stuff.
Life is *so* much harder on Windows where we have to do so
much for ourselves, as opposed to the Linux packages where we
just mark it as depending on perl, ffmpeg, rtmpdump etc., and
everything Just Works.
And updates for packages like rtmpdump *also* happen
properly, because there's a system-wide update mechanism that works.
I've occasionally tried to keep it up to date, but
fundamentally I just don't care about Windows. I'm never
going to do a good job of it, and I only even *boot* Windows
to test the installation, so I'm not a good person to do it.
I'd be more than happy to 'hand over', and show someone how I
got it working, and give them access to the FTP site so that
they can keep things up to date (for example by testing newer
versions of the various dependencies and adjusting the links
to them, etc.)
Your work to date has been most appreciated by what I think's probably a
largely quiet Windows user community. Thanks on behalf of all of us for
keeping the win32 fork maintained after everyone thought it was going to
curl up in a corner and die of unnatural causes...!
Would a 'differential' installer be a kludge fix? Any simpler for you to
implement? Everyone would to install a snapshotted base version, then after
that install the latest update to obtain latest stable builds and update
references etc. I've not updated get_iplayer since the last major win32
release - it works, I read about problems with the latest 'current' linux
builds (which are subsequently patched very quickly by guys on here... but
I'm in the Works? DON'T TOUCH IT camp ;-)
Would it be less work to just write a quick script-based installer which
relied upon a preexisting get_iplayer install for updates? (this of course
doesn't count all of the required work to compile functional win32 builds of
course!) Unfortunately I have close to nil experience with compiling
components for win32, frustrating because in this kind of situation I really
wish I could helpfully contribute.
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