Web PVR

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Fri Apr 8 21:05:27 BST 2016, Don Grunbaum wrote:

> Does anybody know where the default settings
> for the web PVR manager are held?
> Are they in a cookie, or somewhere else?

 Hi Don - it depends on what you mean by "default";
have a quick read of:

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/webpvr#settings

 Changes to the WebPVR "defaults" made through the GUI
are stored as browser cookies, from "localhost" (or "127.0.0.1",
in older versions of the WeBPVR) hostname - if you have
browser addons or browser settings that clear cookies after
browser is exited, those "settings" will be lost. You then have
to exclude "localhost" from its cookies being wiped out,
if you want those settings to persist between browser sessions.

 The WebPVR picks other GiP settings from GiP's options files,
system options:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\get_iplayer\options
User options:
%USERPROFILE%\.get_iplayer\options

Please do read

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/webpvr#relationship-to-cli

carefully, to understand how the "CLI" settings
(stored in options files) and in what hierarchy
are being used by the GUI along the ones
stored in browser cookies.

> I'm trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox

The "Web PVR Manager" windows shortcut
always opens the system default browser - as
Alan has suggested, if you want to use Firefox
for the WebPVR, then you should make Firefox
the default browser.
If you are currently only experimenting, then, once
Web PVR Manager launches Google Chrome,
you can exit Chrome, launch Firefox and open
a "http://localhost:1935/" firefox tab to access
the local WebPVR server.

(What I have done personally is keep IE
as the system default, but modified
"pvr_manager.cmd" file to use Firefox in a new tab:
- .\pvr_manager.url
+ "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P default -new-tab 
"http://localhost:1935/"
use at your own risk...)

... and one OT comment:
While you are trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox,
the Mozilla devs are doing all their best to ape/clone
Chrome!

Regards,
Vangelis.