Dropping get_iPlayer

Dan Ashby dan at slickpepper.co.uk
Mon Oct 18 04:23:36 EDT 2010


One of the less desirable aspects of this project is the way it's tied in 
with porn sites:

<http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/wiki/WorkingSites>

There's something rather nice about the relative purity of the BBC and its 
associated get_iplayer...

Dan

--On 17 October 2010 10:35 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> 
wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 14:28 +0700, Jeremy Bartle wrote:
>> >  I'd like gfv to get BBC support too, and then the current
>> get_iplayer can be dropped.
>>
>> I would be very disappointed if get_iPlayer were to disappear.  I only
>> use it for BBC Radio, so I assume that a flash video downloader would
>> not be a replacement.
>
> Don't worry; I wouldn't want to drop it until/unless all the things it
> can do are provided by other tools. The 'get-flash-videos' tool already
> has a certain amount of radio support ? don't get too hung up on the
> name.
>
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> dwmw2
>
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