2010-03-19, 14:26
gobbledigook Wrote:hi! thanx for your suggestion but i am using ubuntu 9.10 server so don't have a full desktop gui...! i use the command startx and this pops open a fluxbox gui. I've tried dropping the comands into /etc.init.d/local, and making it executable, but it doesn't seem to work/do anythingI'm confused why you're using Ubuntu Server with an XBMC frontend.
ultimately i am working on how to start the server, startx, open terminal, start xbmc, THEN execute that command to get iplayer working!! (because if i issue the command before xbmc starts it doesn't seem to work either!!) but i'm not getting anywhere fast!! Have posted over in the ubuntu server forum but haven't had any replies yet!!
(You could just install Ubuntu-desktop using apt-get.)
(No idea why you can't use get_iplayer.cgi before starting XBMC, it works fine for me without XBMC.)