Can watch iPLayer but not use get_iplayer?

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Tue Apr 19 08:10:17 BST 2011, Ranec said:

>>Path to rtmpdump may be specified in get_iplayer options - you need to 
>>update your options file with the new path...

>And of course on my Windows 7 machine it was listed in:
>C:\Users\All Users\get_iplayer\options
>That took a while to find :-|

Hi, on Windows Vista SP2, the options file is located at
C:\ProgramData\get_iplayer\options
(for anyone needing that info...)
I would have expected a similar path for Windows 7 (?). get_iplayer was 
installed via Windows installer in mid-January,
it fetched rtmpdump-2.2d and in the options file the default path was
flvstreamer .\rtmpdump-2.2d\rtmpdump.exe
What I did was delete the entire rtmpdump-2.2d folder from the installation 
directory
(C:\Program Files\get_iplayer, this is on a 32bit OS),
then replaced it with the downloaded manually (unzipped) folder 
rtmpdump-2.3;
lastly, I changed the line in the options file to
flvstreamer .\rtmpdump-2.3\rtmpdump.exe
[others may have done otherwise...A 'messy' way if you don't want to touch 
the options file is to copy the
rtmpdump-2.3 executable (named just rtmpdump.exe) from within the downloaded 
folder rtmpdump-2.3
and have it overwrite the old rtmpdump-2.2d executable (also named 
rtmpdump.exe) inside the initial
rtmpdump-2.2d folder (in the installation directory)].

>However, it's still not working for me.
>log:
>..............
>RTMPDump v2.3
>(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
>ERROR: RTMP_HashSWF: couldn't open V:\\.swfinfo for writing, errno 2
>(No such file or directory)

 If you haven't already, download dinkypumpkin's most recent patched script 
from
https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/raw/swfvfy/get_iplayer
(open in a browser and save page as get_iplayer.pl), then put it inside the 
installation folder (you may choose to back up your current
script as get_iplayer.pl.bak or have it overwritten).

Now, pay attention to what I said on my Apr 16th e-mail, 'cos it looks as 
though your rtmpdump can't find the .swfinfo file on your system:

>If I remove my .swfinfo file [located@ C:\Users\(My User Name)] and try to 
>download something afterwards,
>rtmpdump does not fetch a new copy of the file when using the unpatched 
>get_iplayer.pl
>Restoring the "swf URL patched" get_iplayer.pl, all errors vanish, a new 
>.swfinfo file is generated
>with (when opened in notepad) the new swf URL:

>.swfinfo (228 bytes)

>url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/revisions/18269_21576_10player.swf
>ctim: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:26:29 GMT
>date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:59:26 GMT
>size: 000f9c9b
>hash: 756ef5b1b33f59e88680ba06bcbc967e34468c82119df9e3789965513e7e57f5

Do you currently have a .swfinfo file in your system? If you do (path may be 
different in 7 to Vista, I doubt it though), then delete it
and try afterwards to download something using the patched script, as 
described previously; a fresh .swfinfo file will be downloaded,
which, hopefully, will cure your problems...

Hope I've helped...