re Subject: Solution for windows users

[Andy Bircumshaw]

On 8/1/2011, at 5:36pm, spam.mc wrote:
> On 08/01/2011 16:26, fs ck wrote:
>> I'd guess that the change of the swf a few months ago was the culprit.
>> If you recall it was making downloads fail randomly depending on the
>> direction of the wind and the CDN used. You will also need to delete
>> the .swfinfo file if you patch get_iplayer for a proper fix.
>> 
> Ah!  Deleting the .swfinfo seems to have fixed things.   Thanks very much to everyone.   I assume that file didn't exist on my fresh Ubuntu installation so it worked straight away.  Sorry for causing all the noise on the list for a problem that had already been fixed months ago.

Is there any reason why get_iplayer should not periodically delete the .swfinfo file?

This would seem easier than dealing with these support problems; not all Windows users find it easy to find the .swfinfo file.

aB.