Unable to get any programmes

2012-01-20 Thread Foster, Stephen
Ok - Its definitely my setup - well we knew that anyway, but its very strange I hardcoded the path to rtmpdump.exe and added some debug to get_iplayer.pl This is what I added around line 7985   my $rtmpver = `$bin-{flvstreamer} --help 21`;     main::logger INFO:***

Re: Unable to get any programmes

2012-01-20 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 20/01/2012 11:10, Foster, Stephen wrote: Ok - Its definitely my setup - well we knew that anyway, but its very strange I hardcoded the path to rtmpdump.exe and added some debug to get_iplayer.pl This is what I added around line 7985 my $rtmpver = `$bin-{flvstreamer} --help 21`;

Unable to get any programmes

2012-01-20 Thread Steve Foster
Getting closer ☺ Thanks for your help. The output from perl -V was as expected, with the libraries pointing to get_iplayer\lib However printing $? Displayed -1 - running rtmpdump using backticks failed. This did use to work and I have no idea what I have changed on my system to break it.

Re: Unable to get any programmes

2012-01-20 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 20/01/2012 18:54, Steve Foster wrote: And this also fails with -1 printed. So it seems I can't run any backtick commands! No luck yet on understanding why after a brief google. Your test results suggest that Perl can't fire up the shell (cmd.exe) to handle external commands, though it's