Quick and dirty fix to get get_iplayer 2.80 working on Ubuntu 11.04

[dinkypumpkin]

On 13/10/2011 01:57, Edward Colbourne wrote:
> Like him, I couldn't get the version of get_iplayer in the PPA to work
> at all. This is how I got it working on a clean install of Ubuntu 11.04

I and several colleagues use the PPA version of get_iplayer and its 
dependencies on Natty without a hitch, as do others on this list, I 
expect.  You don't say what your problem was, so are you certain you had 
the same problem as the user you referenced?  He reported:

> ------------
> Connecting ...
> INFO: Command exit code 2 (raw code = 11)
> WARNING: Failed to stream file  via RTMP
> ------------
>
> where should I start looking ?
> ps : as a non-uk user , I always used get_iplayer with --proxy option,

That error comes from RTMPDump, indicating that it couldn't connect to 
the media server.  The first suspect would be some problem related to 
the proxy.  Are you coming from outside the UK via proxy?  Are you 
getting the same error as above?  What are you trying to download?

> 1. Remove any existing get_iplayer packages from the system.
>  etc...

The effect of this installation shuffle is that you have get_iplayer 
2.80 running with the versions of FFmpeg and RTMPDump supplied in the 
Natty repos from Ubuntu.  Nothing wrong with that, but if there is 
really a problem with the PPA build of RTMPDump, we'll never be able to 
track it down without some information to go on.