Problems with auto-refresh under Windows?

[dinkypumpkin]

On 25/09/2012 10:43, Andy Wedge wrote:
>> This is a bug in the web pvr on Windows.  It will be present for all
>> browsers, all Perls.   Already reported and confirmed here:
>>
>>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2012-August/003293.html
>>
>> I have a patch for this bug, but the patch presents another problem.
>> I'll commit the patch once I have a chance to sort that out.
>>
>
> I guess in the mean-time, you can use the Web PVR Manager to define your
> searches and download requirement and execute the
> 'run_pvr_scheduler.bat' file from 'C:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer'
> to check every few hours. This seems to work fine.

I've posted the patch in a separate thread.  AFAICT, auto-refresh never 
worked on Windows.  It appears that it was never even intended to work. 
  It obviously isn't a very popular feature (no surprise) since there 
haven't been earlier reports about it.  But 2 reports in 2 months is a 
veritable avalanche here.  I guess there was no point in leaving it 
broken unnecessarily, even if the patch is a windows-specific bodge.

Andy: I've no reason to think the patch will fix your problem since you 
were seeing completely blank pages rather than pages that wouldn't 
refresh.  But the patch replaces that particular bit of code foe 
Windows, so it might be worth giving it a spin.