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

[Carl Fletcher]

On 14/10/11 03:26, Edward Colbourne wrote:
> (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.
>
>
>
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Have you tried pid mode
Eg:
get_iplayer --pid=b00jzjyq --vmode=flashvhigh
(this pid is just an example, you need to put the correct pid in there)

or just try

get_iplayer --pid=b00jzjyq