get_iplayer Digest, Vol 38, Issue 4

Michael Bannerman michaelbannerman24 at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 6 15:39:15 EDT 2013 

1) Where does one find the perl script if one is using windows?
2)  I take it I would change whatever value exists for this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/iplayer/revisions/617463_618125_4/617463_618125_4_emp.swf

Thank you in advance.

On 06/06/2013 11:51, get_iplayer-request at lists.infradead.org wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 15:04:04 +0100
> From: "Chris Marriott" <chris at chrism.demon.co.uk>
> To: <get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
> Subject: Re: RTMP failing with send error
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> -----Original Message-----
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> To: philip at colmer.me.uk
> Cc: 'Chris Marriott' ; get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: RTMP failing with send error
>
>> Well, SWF verification works by submitting a hash of the SWF file,
>> doesn't it? And we aren't actually *using* the SWF file, so we just have
>> a hard-coded URL to download it from. And that sometimes changes.... ?
> Is there a way to fix this, in that case? Earlier on it was failing
> intermittently, but now nothing's working for me at all, despite repeated
> retries.
>
> Chris
>
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> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:08:56 -0600
> From: User Name <magic_cheezer at outlook.com>
> To: "get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org"
> 	<get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
> Subject: RTMP failing with send error
> Message-ID: <BLU170-W86520D00484E5A5865F5A784980 at phx.gbl>
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> for those with SWF hashing errors, fyi...
>
> I had success yesterday by changing the swfurl in the get_iplayer perl script to:-
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/iplayer/revisions/617463_618125_4/617463_618125_4_emp.swf
>
> Hope this helps, it took pain and time to figure out!
>
> m 		 	   		
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 15:10:40 +0100
> From: Philip Colmer <philip at colmer.me.uk>
> To: "'User Name'" <magic_cheezer at outlook.com>,
> 	<get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
> Subject: RE: RTMP failing with send error
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>> for those with SWF hashing errors, fyi...
>>
>> I had success yesterday by changing the swfurl in the get_iplayer perl
> script
>> to:-
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/iplayer/revisions/617463_618125_4/6
>> 17463_618125_4_emp.swf
>>
>> Hope this helps, it took pain and time to figure out!
> Indeed - I've just found the same URL, changed it in the Perl script and the
> programme is now downloading.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:18:00 +0100
> From: dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com>
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: RTMP failing with send error
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> On 06/06/2013 15:10, Philip Colmer wrote:
>>> for those with SWF hashing errors, fyi...
>>>
>>> I had success yesterday by changing the swfurl in the get_iplayer perl
>> script
>>> to:-
>>>
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/iplayer/revisions/617463_618125_4/6
>>> 17463_618125_4_emp.swf
>>>
>>> Hope this helps, it took pain and time to figure out!
>> Indeed - I've just found the same URL, changed it in the Perl script and the
>> programme is now downloading.
> I'm still intermittently getting downloads with the old value, so I'm
> going to wait until tomorrow to see what shakes out before committing a
> new SWF URL value to get_iplayer.  SWF verification has been messed up
> before by BBC changes that were fixed shortly thereafter.
>
> For the time being, you can add this to the command line:
>
> --rtmp-tv-opts="--swfVfy
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/iplayer/revisions/617463_618125_4/617463_618125_4_emp.swf"
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:25:36 +0100
> From: dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: RTMP failing with send error
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> On 06/06/2013 15:18, dinkypumpkin wrote:
>> For the time being, you can add this to the command line:
>>
>> --rtmp-tv-opts="--swfVfy
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/iplayer/revisions/617463_618125_4/617463_618125_4_emp.swf"
> Web PVR users can use the options file. Set the value from the command line:
>
> get_iplayer --prefs-add --rtmp-tv-opts="--swfVfy
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/iplayer/revisions/617463_618125_4/617463_618125_4_emp.swf"
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 15:26:59 +0100
> From: "Chris Marriott" <chris at chrism.demon.co.uk>
> To: <get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
> Subject: Re: RTMP failing with send error
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: User Name
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:08 PM
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: RTMP failing with send error
>
>> for those with SWF hashing errors, fyi...
>> I had success yesterday by changing the swfurl in the get_iplayer perl
>> script to:-
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/iplayer/revisions/617463_618125_4/617463_618125_4_emp.swf
>> Hope this helps, it took pain and time to figure out!
> Thank you very much indeed - that seems to have fixed it.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:13:24 +0100
> From: Edward Colbourne <tratvia at blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: RTMP failing with send error
> Message-ID: <DCA6FBDB-9B8C-438E-9668-2CE6457A2F2B at blueyonder.co.uk>
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> On 6 Jun 2013, at 15:26, "Chris Marriott" <chris at chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message----- From: User Name
>> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:08 PM
>> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
>> Subject: RTMP failing with send error
>>
>>> for those with SWF hashing errors, fyi...
>>> I had success yesterday by changing the swfurl in the get_iplayer perl script to:-
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/iplayer/revisions/617463_618125_4/617463_618125_4_emp.swf
>>> Hope this helps, it took pain and time to figure out!
>> Thank you very much indeed - that seems to have fixed it.
>>
>> Chris
>>
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> That seems to have fixed it here too, on Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Edward.
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 09:23:36 -0600
> From: User Name <magic_cheezer at outlook.com>
> To: "get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org"
> 	<get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
> Subject: RE: RTMP failing with send error
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>
> ALL - also, I am reminded of a thread from a while back where I had to find the same info (of course, I re-found this rather later in my current investigation!!)
>
> Maybe it can help people again in the future - problem is Aunty changes this so infrequently, it all gets forgotten.
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2011-October/002027.html
>
> As for the current situation, my current experience is using get_iplayer in conjunction with a partial-proxy config. I couldn't download ANY HD content yesterday (not even intermittently) until I determined the new swfurl. I was able to download some flashvhigh though.
>
> I believe this is attributable to the fact that the only flashhd content I can get comes through iplayertokfs.fplive.net, whereas all other modes seem to be edgefcs.net CDNs, so maybe fplive was affected first/differently?
>
> Of course, since the iPlayer embedded media player does seem to have a new .swf, I can only imagine that this will be the new file used for all current/future hashing handshakes across all CDNs...
>
> m 		 	   		
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> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:51:28 -0400
> From: Ian macdonald <ianmac51 at gmail.com>
> To: User Name <magic_cheezer at outlook.com>
> Cc: "get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org"
> 	<get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
> Subject: Re: RTMP failing with send error
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> I am still having problems, however I am using a proxy on windows 7 I
> am happy to wait a day or two, but if someone does have a fix, even
> better.
>
> Ian
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> WARNING: rdf URL contained no data
> WARNING: PID URL contained no RDF data. Trying to record PID directly.
> INFO: Trying pid: b015msyb using type: tv
> INFO Trying to stream pid using type tv
> INFO: pid found in cache
> Matches:
> 125:    Blackadder: Series 2 - 2. Head, BBC Two, Comedy,Popular,Sitcoms,TV, defa
> ult,
>
> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
> ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site
>
> On 6 June 2013 10:08, User Name <magic_cheezer at outlook.com> wrote:
>> for those with SWF hashing errors, fyi...
>>
>> I had success yesterday by changing the swfurl in the get_iplayer perl script to:-
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/iplayer/revisions/617463_618125_4/617463_618125_4_emp.swf
>>
>> Hope this helps, it took pain and time to figure out!
>>
>> m
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