Difficulty saving a video

Sam Kuper sam.kuper at uclmail.net
Sun Jul 17 18:11:38 EDT 2011


On 17 July 2011 22:30, Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 22:11, Sam Kuper <sam.kuper at uclmail.net> wrote:
>> Ah, I've just found the --verbose option. Please see the corresponding
>> output, which is at the end of this email. It looks like the
>> unspecified error being reported previously was an "Access denied"
>> error, which seems a bit odd given that I can watch the video in a
>> browser on the same Mac (i.e. I clearly have "access" to it).
>
> That error almost certainly refers to the output directory. Have you
> checked that the user you're running get_iplayer as can write to the
> real path underneath
> "/Volumes/Data/{username}/Development/get_iplayer/bbc_clip.partial.avi.flv"?

It can create new files in
/Volumes/Data/{username}/Development/get_iplayer/ and can rename them,
delete them, chmod them...

Is that what you mean?

Thanks,

Sam



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