Get Iplayer for Windows

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Tue Sep 26 23:54:22 BST 2011,  dinkypumpkin wrote:

>VirtualBox + VM w/ default Ubuntu command-line install +
>all get_iplayer dependencies could take up 1GB on the host system disk.
>  The current Windows install is ~200MB, but that could be cut by a
>third if VLC were dropped.  I'd guess Linux disk overhead would be
>somewhat less since perl is already installed.  I suppose most people
>wouldn't be bothered, but 1GB seems hefty just for get_iplayer.

 My 2006 bought WinVista laptop came with a small (80GB) HDD to begin with, 
then the person who initially set it up for me created a (small) C partition 
of only 25 GBs,
because he was at the time accustomed to WinXP standards...Now, after two 
Service Packs, countless Microsoft updates, .NET Frameworks installed, 
various other programs
installed along the years, anti-virus databases getting ever so bigger, logs 
written etc., I'm suffering from low disk space on the OS partition...
 I installed get_iplayer via the Win installer back in mid-Jan 2011 but I 
chose, as you said, not to install VLC & LAME; I only use the flash 
(aac/audio) streams (I bet this is the case with the majority of the users), 
these require only rtmpdump; and LAME is redundant after the demise of the 
RealAudio streams.
 I went further and trimmed down the installation folder (C:\Program 
Files\get_iplayer) size by:
1. Leaving inside the "rtmpdump/bin" folder only the rtmpdump.exe binary.
2. Leaving inside the "ffmpeg/bin" folder only the ffmpeg.exe binary.
3. Deleting from inside the "mplayer\MPlayer-1.0rc2\" folder the 
mencoder.exe & man_page.html files, as get_iplayer does not use either of 
them...
 As a result, I have a perfectly functioning (in the way I use it) 
installation of get_iplayer with a " Program Files\get_iplayer" folder size 
of approximately 33 MB; add to that another
~ 2 MB of other get_iplayer files residing on the C partition (mainly 
C:\Users\"my user name"\.get_iplayer) and in total get_iplayer occupies only 
~ 35 MB on my space-starved
OS partition! This is equal to the size of my current Firefox 7 installation 
folder (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox, 34.7 MB).
 I have to say (from a user's end) that I'm quite content with the way 
things are AFAS the Windows version of  get_iplayer is concerned, although 
from reading various posts in the list
I do realise the current way is making the dev's life (slightly, I hope) 
more difficult. On my part, I'm treating with reservation any talk of future 
implementations involving yet more new
things to learn (virtual machines, new OSes), especially when increased disk 
space is needed, just to get my favourite BBC radio shows! (FWIW, it was a 
leap for me to move from
Paul Battley's Windows GUI to a CL tool like get_iplayer; yes, I opted for 
the CLI and not the WebPVR because I immediately realised it was far more 
versatile!).

Greetings from debt-ridden Greece!
Vangelis.