HD content still unavailable

Dan Ashby dan at slickpepper.co.uk
Tue Nov 2 12:53:59 EDT 2010


Hi Andy,

Thank you so much for your comprehensive reply.

Cheers,

Dan

--On 01 November 2010 17:59 +0000 Andy Bircumshaw <andy at networkned.co.uk> 
wrote:

>
> On 1/11/2010, at 9:18am, Dan Ashby wrote:
>>> That's why my PVR
>>> options / present don't download a show until it's been available at
>>> least 24 hours.
>>
>> Would you mind telling me how you set that option?
>
> Sure.
>
> get_iplayer is called with "--before 24" by the cronjob that initiates
> the pvr downloads.
>
> Instead of running `get_iplayer --pvr` one runs `get_iplayer --pvr
> --before 24` instead
>
> So crontab says:
>
> 0 2 * * *	/usr/local/bin/get_iplayer --pvr --before 24
>
>
> Windows:
>
> If you're using the scheduler as described at [1], then you need to
> change the line which says `get_iplayer.pl --pvr` to `get_iplayer.pl
> --pvr --before 24`. In XP, that's in the Run box itself, in Vista (7?)
> that's done by editing the .bat file in Notepad.
>
> If you're using an entry in the Start menu, put there by the installer,
> to "Run PVR Scheduler Now", then you're going to have to give me  little
> more information if you can't figure it out yourself. I'm guessing that's
> just a .bat file and you can edit it with Notepad - do something like
> right-click on the Start Menu shortcut and click "properties", then "find
> target"; then right-click on the target file - is there an "edit" option?
> if you chose properties when you click on it, what file type is listed?
>
> aB.
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.beebotron.org/helper_get_iplayer_help.php
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