GiP 3.00 on Windows XP?

[Dave Widgery]

Hi

I have tried it and I agree that it doesn't take too long, but I was
under the impression that the method that is now used to create the
cache is not ideal and just thought that the option to only update the
cache for certain programs might improve things.

Dave

On 2 May 2017 at 16:36, Amro Bilal <info at amrobilal.net> wrote:
> Just try it. It doesn’t take as nearly as it’s been suggested.
>
> Amro
> -----Original Message----- From: Dave Widgery
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 2:47 PM
> To: Mark Carroll ; get_iplayer
> Subject: Re: GiP 3.00 on Windows XP?
>
>
> Hi
> I have just re-read the cache refresh section in the release notes,
> and that obviously explains my problem,
>
> I am not sure exactly how gip updates its cache, but I do not need a
> complete list of everything available on iplayer every day, I wonder
> if there is a possible way to just update the cache for named programs
> for example a command something like --refresh=(eggheads,pointless)
> this would certainly speed up the cache refresh and possibly not put
> so much load on the BBC if that is an issue.
>
> Dave
>
> On 2 May 2017 at 14:42, Mark Carroll <mtbc at ixod.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 02 May 2017, Dave Widgery wrote:
>>
>>> The only problem I have noticed so far, I usually record all my stuff
>>> overnight using the GIP command line from a batch file run from XP's
>>> scheduler , but for some reason GIP didn't update the cache of
>>> programs, therefore nothing new got downloaded, running get_iplayer
>>> --refresh beforehand seemed to do the trick.
>>
>>
>> You noticed the release notes related to cache refresh?
>>
>> -- Mark
>>
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