Portable Get_iPlayer (Thinstall)

[dinkypumpkin]

On 21/11/2011 20:48, Kapitano72 wrote:
> can do a proper portable installation. From what's been said in this
> thread, I may even be able to have a stab at it myself.

If you take the plunge and find you have any questions, feel free to 
start a new thread here.  Creating a portable installation may not 
involve much more than creating a new wrapper script for get_iplayer. 
If you package your installation with a pre-populated profile directory 
and a wrapper script that knows to use it, that could be enough.  Users 
would still have to configure the output directory somehow, but that 
could be accomplished with an auxiliary script of some kind.

If you're looking to cut down the size of a portable installation, you 
can strip out the unnecessary files from the helper apps.  There is some 
fat there, particularly in VLC.  I tested a self-contained installer 
with stripped-down helper apps and it worked fine.

> (A GUI shouldn't be too hard either....?)

FWIW, I would suggest first trying the Web PVR Manager.  Here again, it 
may only require a new wrapper script and a few pre-populated 
configuration options to run in a portable installation.  Not as smooth 
as a native gui, but people seem to use it pretty effectively.  If you 
do roll your own, you may be able to get some clues from the Web PVR 
source re: how to invoke get_iplayer to service the various gui actions.