Unable to get any TV progs

[dinkypumpkin]

On 01/03/2012 04:57, David Woodfall wrote:
> On (10:38 28/02/12), dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com> put forth the
> proposition:
>>> INFO: No specified modes (iphone) available for this programme with
>>> version 'default' (try using
>>> --modes=flashhigh,flashlow,flashstd,flashvhigh,n95_wifi,rtsphigh,rtsplow,rtspstd,rtspvhigh,subtitles)
>>>
>>>
>>> ERROR: Failed to record 'am.pm - 22/02/2012 (b01cmyq6)'
>>>
>>> Any ideas what I can try?
>>
>> The message is telling you what to do: use a different recording mode.
>> The "iphone" mode stopped working a long time ago (locked down by
>> BBC). Unfortunately, it is still referenced in help screen, man page,
>> etc. Those references will disappear in a future release.
>
> Right, I did try some of the other formats but I've just noticed I
> need flvstreamer for flash. Works now. Thanks.

For anyone else who may run into this, there is something of a catch-22 
at work: if you don't specify recording modes for TV programmes and you 
don't have rtmpdump installed, get_iplayer still tries to fall back to 
"iphone" mode, which no longer works.  Unfortunately, the related 
warning message only appears with --verbose turned on.  I suppose it 
should be updated to print a warning and exit instead, but for now, 2 
rules to live by: 1) Always install rtmpdump, even if your distro's 
package doesn't pull it in.  In general, get_iplayer isn't much good 
without it; 2) Always run with --verbose if you encounter any problems 
so that will see any additional warning messages.