get_iplayer currently broken...

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 02:57:53 PST 2016


On 15 January 2016 at 10:37, Vangelis forthnet
<northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> ..
> When I (and I suppose everyone else) a) CD in the command prompt to a folder
> "in which  ffmpeg.exe resides" or b) open directly the command prompt in a
> folder "in which  ffmpeg.exe resides", then any typed command in the form
> of:
> ffmpeg <arguments>
> DOES WORK without having previously added the absolute path to that folder
> (containing "ffmpeg.exe") to the system/user PATH environment variable...

Not true on Linux systems.  Does Windows still allow that (it is a
significant security issue to allow it)?  To run a command from the
current directory one has to do ./command

Colin



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