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

[Edward Colbourne]

(previous e-mails snipped)

I upgraded my system to Ubuntu 11.10, installed the ppa version of
get_iplayer (the first thing I did), tried to download this week's QI,
and got the following result:

edward at edward-linux-pc:~$ get_iplayer 548 --g
get_iplayer v2.80+n3-gitc313712-ppa2, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
--warranty.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.

Matches:
548:	QI: Series 9 - 5. Invertebrates, BBC Two, Entertainment,Games &
Quizzes,HD,TV, default,

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: flashhd1,flashhd2,flashvhigh1,flashvhigh2,flashhigh1,flashhigh2
modes will be tried for version default
INFO: Trying flashhd1 mode to record tv: QI: Series 9 - 5. Invertebrates
INFO: File name prefix =
QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default                 
RTMPDump v2.4-n23-gitc58cfb3-ppa3~oneiric
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license:
GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: Failed to stream
file /home/edward/QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashhd1 mode
INFO: Trying flashhd2 mode to record tv: QI: Series 9 - 5. Invertebrates
INFO: File name prefix =
QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default                 
RTMPDump v2.4-n23-gitc58cfb3-ppa3~oneiric
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license:
GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: Failed to stream
file /home/edward/QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashhd2 mode
INFO: Trying flashvhigh1 mode to record tv: QI: Series 9 - 5.
Invertebrates
INFO: File name prefix =
QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default                 
RTMPDump v2.4-n23-gitc58cfb3-ppa3~oneiric
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license:
GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: Failed to stream
file /home/edward/QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashvhigh1 mode
INFO: Trying flashvhigh2 mode to record tv: QI: Series 9 - 5.
Invertebrates
INFO: File name prefix =
QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default                 
RTMPDump v2.4-n23-gitc58cfb3-ppa3~oneiric
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license:
GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: Failed to stream
file /home/edward/QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashvhigh2 mode
INFO: Trying flashhigh1 mode to record tv: QI: Series 9 - 5.
Invertebrates
INFO: File name prefix =
QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default                 
RTMPDump v2.4-n23-gitc58cfb3-ppa3~oneiric
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license:
GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: Failed to stream
file /home/edward/QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashhigh1 mode
INFO: Trying flashhigh2 mode to record tv: QI: Series 9 - 5.
Invertebrates
INFO: File name prefix =
QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default                 
RTMPDump v2.4-n23-gitc58cfb3-ppa3~oneiric
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license:
GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: Failed to stream
file /home/edward/QI_Series_9_-_5._Invertebrates_b015qqbc_default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashhigh2 mode
ERROR: Failed to record 'QI: Series 9 - 5. Invertebrates (b015qqbc)'

Unfortunately, the packages required for my previous bodge no longer
exist, so I'm a bit stuck.

Edward.