BBC Archive - Great Egg race download problems

[Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer]

Jimmy Aitken <jimmy.aitken at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I've been trying to work out how to download episodes of the Great Egg
>Race from the BBC archive site.  I'm actually just wanting to watch
>them, to be honest, but not on a desktop and the episodes seem to be
>only on Flash, so mobile devices don't play them.
>
>Specifically http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/great_egg_race/10801.shtml
>and using get_player (2.91) on OS X Yosemite gives:
>
>$ get_iplayer --url http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/great_egg_race/10801.shtml
>INFO: Trying pid:
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/great_egg_race/10801.shtml using type: tv
>INFO: Trying to stream pid using type tv

I wonder why "tv" here turns into "radio" a few lines further on?


>INFO: pid not found in tv cache
>Matches:
>
>INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
>ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site
>INFO: Trying pid:
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/great_egg_race/10801.shtml using type:
>radio
>INFO: Trying to stream pid using type radio
>INFO: pid not found in radio cache

(I dunno how to fix it.)

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Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.