Help needed with BBC Collections Archive programmes

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On 10 February 2015 21:10:33 GMT+00:00, M Clark <mclark at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 12:54 AM
>> From: "Vangelis forthnet" <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr>
>> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
>> Subject: Re: Help needed with BBC Collections Archive programmes
>>
>> On Sat Feb 7 15:20:59 GMT 2015, M Clark wrote:
>> 
>> > Finally, is this the correct place to report 'problems'?
>> > There are two more I'd like to bring to attention before they trap
>others.
>> > I have work-arounds so in no way are they critical but would be 
>> > 'nice-to-haves'.
>> 
>> Hello again...
>> If you ask me, the best place to report problems
>> would be the GitHub issue tracker @
>> 
>> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/issues
>> 
>> dinkypumpkin would definitely see it there;
>> you'd have to register an account first...
>> 
>> Then there's the Support Forum owned by
>> Square Penguin (registration needed):
>> 
>> https://squarepenguin.co.uk/all-forums/
>> 
>> which is aimed more at the average GiP user;
>> dinkypumpkin is "Keymaster" there...
>> 
>> The mailing list..., well you know that already!
>> Dinkypumpkin DOES read it (as your latest
>> issue proved), but recently he stays shy from
>> posting here directly (in fact, his latest post
>> was on Dec 29th 2014...)
>> 
>> I am sorry I can't help you further with your issue;
>> I am using custom filenames via the --file-prefix
>> option, i.e. I do not rely on the auto-generated
>> filenames for downloads.
>> Have you explored using it too with the
>> substitution parametres of your liking?
>> 
>>
>http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/documentation#Substitution%20Parameters
>>
>https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#substitution-parameters
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Vangelis. 
>> 
>
>Thanks Vangelis for the documentation pointers.  For some reason I
>thought the Options file only related to CLI.  Will have a play.
>
>I feared your response suggestions :-) .  Post 3 times?  Hmmm.
>
>I did have a problem with broken links on https://squarepenguin.co.uk/
>when trying to find out how to use g-ip on Linux.  Found info
>eventually but still using Windows...
>
>Regards.
>
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I'm sorry to hear you had trouble finding the info on the forum site.

Please let me know where the broken links are so that I can correct them.

Many thanks,

SquarePenguin