Applying patches to get_iplayer

[dinkypumpkin]

On 18/04/2011 10:50, Jon Davies wrote:
> On 18 April 2011 07:52, Hazel Jordan<hazelmjordan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> As a complete beginner to this  - how can I apply the patch to my (windows 7
>> installed) version of get_iplayer?
>
> Make a backup first...
>
> Grab a copy of the latest patched version of the get_iplayer script
> from the git repository here:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/get_iplayer
>
> and drop it in to replace get_iplayer.pl
>
> If you need the latest ffmpeg (which fixes a couple of other small
> problems), then it's a little more complicated and I'll defer
> describing how to do this to someone who actually uses get_iplayer on
> windows...  but there are recent builds of ffmpeg here:
>    http://hawkeye.arrozcru.org/
> pick either the 32 bit of 64 bit static (latest) version depending on
> whether your windows is 32bit or 64bit, and replace your existing
> ffmpeg.exe with the new one.

The ffmpeg application should be here:

C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe

Back up that file and replace it with the new ffmpeg you downloaded from 
the site mentioned above.