--whitespace causes decoding to fail under Windows

Andy Bircumshaw andy at networkned.co.uk
Mon Jan 10 11:47:44 EST 2011


On 10/1/2011, at 11:41am, J K.Eason wrote:

> I always used to use the '--whitespace' or '-w' command line flag to
> download radio programs under Windows so that I didn't need to remove the
> underscores from the filenames. Something changed a couple of months ago
> (possibly when the BBC dropped the iPhone file format?) because
> get_iplayer now always fails after the download completes, both with
> radio and TV. This happens whether I use RTMPDump or flvstreamer.
> 
> Here's a failed attempt:
> ====================================================
> C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>get_iplayer -g 11120 -w
> ...

Can you post the output again, adding the --debug flag, please?

This will give a *LOT* of output, so please save the output as a .txt file (copy and paste it into Notepad) and send it as an attachment.

aB.




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