Can watch iPLayer but not use get_iplayer?

[Ranec]

On 20 April 2011 03:26, Vangelis forthnet <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> On Tue Apr 19 08:10:17 BST 2011, Ranec said:

>> ..............
>> 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).

I've got that installed.

> 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:

I had missed this. :$

>> 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?

Can't find one.

> 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...

You're certainly giving me things to try, keep them coming. ;-)

So any thoughts as to why rtmpdump is trying to save the downloaded
.swfinfo file in V:\ ?!?
I've looked all over the place and can't find one locally.

-R