Ability to specify a temporary directory.

[John G. Dargie]

Here's an example, a current episode of "Book at Bedtime".
The first command shows the --info value of <episodeshort>, and the second command uses <episodeshort> for the subdirectory name (but it's not right).

$ get_iplayer --type radio --pid b01qlmls --info
episode:        The Bell Jar: Episode 6
episodenum:     6
episodeshort:   The Bell Jar

$ get_iplayer --type radio --pid b01qlmls --subdir --subdirformat "<episodeshort>"
INFO: Recorded [my-current-path]/The_Bell_Jar_Episode_6/Book_at_Bedtime_-_The_Bell_Jar_Episode_6_b01qlmls_default.m4a

I've had a brief look at the get_iplayer script and I see there are two places that episodeshort is evaluated:
a) Lines 5428-5432 (sub generate_filenames).  This defines $prog->{episodeshort} as used by --info.
b) Line 4546 (sub get_metadata).  This defines $prog->{episodeshort} as used by --subdir-format.
I've not looked through in depth to see how/where these subs are called, but either they should have identical code, or better still have both call a subroutine to do the defining.

John.

On 19 Feb 2013, at 19:58, dinkypumpkin wrote:

> On 19/02/2013 15:03, John G. Dargie wrote:
>> In the past I found the internal history would let me down regularly when a download had previously stalled, while get_iplayer assumed I had got it fully downloaded ok.  Other things were frustrating me as well, like --subdir-format "<episodeshort>" used to use the value of "<episode>", even though the "info" for a programme showed them as different.
> 
> It's unlikely, though not impossible, that rtmpdump would return successfully without fully downloading a programme, and that would be even less likely to occur if you kill it when it stalls.  If that were anything other than a rare circumstance, I think we would have heard more about it here.  Make sure you don't have an obsolete or broken version of rtmpdump.  A few people have had trouble with rtmpdump writing to a directory on a network share that is used as a hot folder for another application, but rtmpdump should fail properly in those cases.
> 
> As for <episodeshort>, if you can document an instance of what you described, I'll take a look at it.  I've never noticed a case where <episodeshort> and  <episode> are the same, but the --info display said otherwise.
> 
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