downloading video clips from the bbc news website

[Andy Bircumshaw]

On 21 Oct 2010, at 20:07, fs ck wrote:

> I just tried the following command on the latest get_iplayer and it
> downloaded the video perfectly:
>
> get_iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11518501

Doesn't work for me. I thought this was due to lack of the XML::Simple  
perl module (which has given me problems in the past) but I installed  
that and it still doesn't work.

Could you possibly give full output so I can try to emulate your  
results, please?

I get:

$ get_iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11518501
get_iplayer v2.78, 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: Trying pid: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11518501 using type: tv
INFO Trying to stream pid using type tv
INFO: pid not found in tv cache
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: No specified modes (flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh) available for  
this programme with version 'default' (try using --modes=)
ERROR: Failed to record ' -  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11518501)'
$ get_iplayer --url  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11518501 -- 
modes 
= 
phone 
,flashhd 
,flashvhigh 
,flashhigh 
,flashstd 
,flashnormal 
,flashlow 
,n95_wifi 
,flashaac,flashaachigh,flashaacstd,flashaaclow,flashaudio,realaudio,wma
get_iplayer v2.78, 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: Trying pid: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11518501 using type: tv
INFO Trying to stream pid using type tv
INFO: pid not found in tv cache
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: No specified modes (flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh) available for  
this programme with version 'default' (try using --modes=)
ERROR: Failed to record ' -  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11518501)'
$


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