Refresh of podcast failing on Windows 10

[artisticforge .]

Hello Vangelis

How goes it?
Serious pain issues here.
No joy.

I gave up on the Web Manager and Windows 10. Enough of the "Cannot
Fork" nonsense.

Just trying the CLI now. The fix mentioned by dinkypumpkin does work.
Downloading my Sunday morning programs as I write this.

I have done enough Windows 10 to remember why I never used Windows and
never let my
children while growing up close to Windows or DOS. They were weaned on
Macs and Unix.
;-)


After this I will go back to the Raspberry Pi 3 and play with it.

On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Vangelis forthnet
<northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> On Sat Jul 30 20:47:53 BST 2016, artisticforge . wrote:
>
>> I have get_iplayer-2.95 installed on Windows 10 on a Toshiba laptop.
>> I have noticed yesterday and today that podcasts are not being refreshed.
>> the podcast.cache file is basically empty except for the field header
>> line.
>
>
> First thing is I have a custom GiP 2.95 installation
> on Windows Vista SP2 x86 and I can't replicate
> your issue:
>
> perl get_iplayer-295.pl --type=podcast -f --force
>
> in the CLI refreshes the podcast cache and some
> minutes ago created a 24.3 MiB sized
> "podcast.cache" file within
> %USERPROFILE%\.get_iplayer\
> while previous cache was backed up to "podcast.cache.old"
>
> I don't have access to a Win10 box
> (and I wouldn't touch one even with
> a barge pole), so can't check there... :-(
>
>> Hints would be welcomed.
>
>
> Are you using the CLI or the WebPVR Manager
> to refresh the podcast cache?
> I am not a GUI user myself, but just
> for the heck of it I also gave that a go...
> The podcast refresh went fine there, too,
> but if I may say so myself,
> I didn't quite like the "dotted-line" going all the
> way to the right and not doing a "line-wrap",
> as is the case in the CLI...
>
>> the log file for Linux contains:
>> INFO: Search args: '.*'
>> (snip)
>> the log file for Windows contains:
>> INFO: Search args: '.*'^M
>
>
> On your Win laptop, somehow an extra
> "^M" is added to your search arguments;
> this in turn causes GiP to append it to the
> Podcast feed URLs, resulting in 404
> (Not Found) responses from the beeb servers.
> As you can tell, that results in no podcasts
> found, ergo an empty cache...
>
> I would begin troubleshooting by pinpointing
> the source of this extra "^M" item
> (possibly something inside user options?).
>
> (Under another heatwave over here, Core Temp
> reports my CPU's 2 cores being at 65/64 C just
> doing simple browsing, while bedroom temp's
> is currently 30.4C at 04:00 in the morning!
> So only minimal usage of the laptop this period!)
>
> Best regards,
> Vangelis.
>
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