Problem since 27th Oct 2011

[Andy Stevens]

Could be intermittent problems at the BBC.
I had a similar experience with a Radio 4 Extra programme a few days ago - 
an error message saying none of the modes I'd specified were available, and 
when I tried a --info the modes line was empty.  Trying to access it on the 
iPlayer web site showed an error message saying the programme was 
unavailable and to try again later.
A couple of hours later I wrote a message in the "contact us" section of the 
site complaining about the missing program; luckily, before hitting "send" I 
tried once more and get_iplayer successfully downloaded it...  The web site 
was working again too.


Andy
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Bircumshaw" <andy at networkned.co.uk>
To: <get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: Problem since 27th Oct 2011


> `get_iplayer --since 12 -i | grep modes:` shows a good number of 
> programmes with missing downloads here.
>
> It's not uncommon for the odd show to show this behaviour, we should 
> perhaps wait a while before panicking.
>
> If there's a particular show that's important to you, it would be worth 
> checking whether it's viewable on the official site, and whether it can be 
> downloaded using the official Windows / Mac iPlayer client (not sure if 
> they do a Linux version?).
>
> aB.
>
>
> On 27 October 2011, at 11:48, Chris Marriott wrote:
>
>> Hi Allan,
>>
>> I'm seeing the same problem - the list of available modes is blank for 
>> new programmes. Somewhat of a worry!
>>
>> Chris