Another download failure ...

[Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer]

batguano999 <batguano999 at zoho.com> wrote:

>>.. I tried to fetch this using a normal command-line command...
>
>We can't see it though.

If I understand the PVR correctly, when you use it you point a browser at a
particular webpage that's send to the browser from a web-server running on
your own computer.  Things you type on that page then cause the web-server
to issue get_iplayer commands.

I don't imagine that that prevents you from issuing commands separately from
a command window, instructing perl (which must be installed) to run the
standard G_iP script (which is a perl program) with whatever operands you
require.

The trouble is, I'd have difficulty advising you in detail what the easiest
way to do this is, because I did not use the standard installer to install
perl (etc) the way that the G_iP installer normally does...


I have a feeling that the standard installer allows one to 

  - open a command window

  - set the current directory to wherever get_iplayer is 
    installed to (or maybe run a batch file that does these
    two things for you resulting in a command window that's 
    got the right directory preset), or maybe the directory
    that matters is where perl is installed - dunno

  - issue a command

without having told your OS where perl is etc, but someone-else would need
to explain how to use that. 


Alternatively if you can find out:

a) where perl was actually installed to (maybe by searching for 'perl.exe')

b) where the get_iplayer[.pl] script actually is (it might have a ".pl" 
   extension added to it, or it might not, I'm not sure)

then you should be able to open any command window (by: Start - Run... in XP
and who knows how in W7 or W8), or by running cmd.exe explicitly, 

then issue a command like

 C:>"the-path-to-perl\perl.exe" "the-path-to-gip\get_iplayer[.pl]" parms

where  the first paramater is the location of 'perl.exe' in double quotes,
   the second is the location of the main script (which might be named
    get_iplayer     or   eg   get_iplayer.pl 
   also enclosed in double quotes,
   and   parms    is whatever command parameters  you wish to try.
   

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Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.