Deprecated features to be removed in next release (2.97)

[artisticforge .]

hello

i understand that. there is a Mac OSX program, Get iPlayer Automator,
which will become unusable unless the developers decide to fork GiP
and continue to maintain the flash code.
i can see a good solid reason to fork GiP .

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:29 AM, Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net> wrote:
> I think that's the point.
>
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> Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net>
> Cambridge, UK
>
>> On 8 Sep 2016, at 03:31, artisticforge . <artisticforge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> hello Vagelis
>>
>> that is not going to leave much code left.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Vangelis forthnet
>> <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
>>> On Wed Aug 31 00:28:27 BST 2016, I wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The flash (RTMP) on-demand modes
>>>> (Radio+TV) will be axed in 2.98:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/milestone/8
>>>
>>>
>>> ... Apparently, the maintainer has had a change of heart; FLASH modes have
>>> been rescheduled to be terminated in the next release, 2.97, too, along with
>>> the rest of the deprecated options...
>>>
>>> A real shame, if you ask me, since the flashmodes are the only ones that
>>> support resuming (via rtmpdump) in the case of time-outs, due to
>>> fickle/flakey connections...
>>> We'll be left with DASH/HLS (radio) or HLS (video) segmented modes only,
>>> which abort and re-fetch from the start when the connection, for whatever
>>> random reason, drops out...
>>>
>>> OTOH, the RTMP support code, the backbone of GiP up until a few versions
>>> back (2.94 and earlier), constitutes  a major part of the existing code and
>>> I kind of understand the logic behind the coder's intent to do away with it;
>>> what I fail to justify is the haste to get rid of it while it's still
>>> working very reliably... Dum spiro, spero...
>>>
>>> Regards, V.
>>>
>>>
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>>
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