get_iplayer currently broken...

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Thu Jan 14 04:39:40 GMT 2016, Alan Milewczyk wrote: 

> The above is where I got stuck. I got the response:
> 'ffmpeg' is not recognized as an internal or external command, 
> operable program or batch file
> 
> I was pasting the command in a DOS box, 
> initially in the get_iplayer folder, 
> then in the subfolder in which  ffmpeg.exe resides.

Hi Alan (in warmer climates, I suspect :-) ).
 
 My ffmpeg commands for both radio & TV 
were tried to work before posting - in x86 
architecture, though. 

 My commands assume you are using the standard 
Windows Command Prompt (not the GiP CLI one), 
and that the current working directory is a folder 
which contains the ffmpeg.exe binary - this is also where 
downloads are saved. 
With commands containing these long strings, you have 
to make sure no inadvertent linebreaks or whitespaces 
are introduced while copy/pasting (windows Notepad 
is notorius for that, I always use a proper text editor), 
but, of course, your report does not seem to relate 
to such an issue...

 On WinVista and higher, you can navigate via 
Windows Explorer to the directory which itself 
contains the folder with the ffmpeg executable and 
while keeping SHIFT depressed , right click on said folder 
- in the context menu there should appear an entry 
saying: "Open Command Window here"; 
click that and the CPW should open in the 
proper folder...
This is to save you the trouble of first opening  
the command prompt and then cd-ing to the 
ffmpeg.exe location.

 I can't say why it's not working in your case...
You can amend my commands by including 
full paths to ffmpeg.exe and saved media files, 
I omitted that for simplicity...
Plus, if you download latest 2.8.4 win32 binaries from zeranoe: 
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win32/static/ffmpeg-2.8.4-win32-static.7z
the uncompressed folder contains a batch file 
called: "ff-prompt.bat", you can then run that 
to issue commands, but the files 
will be saved inside the "bin" folder. 

On Thu Jan 14 09:30:11 GMT 2016, C E Macfarlane wrote: 

> You need to add the path to the ffmpeg program file 
> to your system or user path. 

Thanks Christopher, but while I can understand the 
convenience of doing that, I tend not to... 
Plus I keep on disk several different flavours of 
ffmpeg binaries of various branches (in different 
folders), so I like to know which one I'm running 
by navigating to it manually...

I tend not to mess with PATH on Windows, after 
some time I forget my custom additions and in the past 
I was biting my nails why some things wouldn't work 
as I expected - an old forgotten manual entry was 
the culprit...
For anyone interested: 

http://stackoverflow.com/a/4822435

Regards, 
Vangelis.