2010-04-02, 14:30
Windows workaround
Another member of this forum kindly provided me with the Windows installer of get_iplayer, so I have been trying to get it to work. Not surprisingly I will need some help.
I tried to follow the instruction by Schism of 2010-03-02, which I printed from the second link to Google cache on post #315, which is not there any more either. I have condensed Schism's instructions below as I have understood them:
1. Install get_iplayer windows installer to c:\Program files\get_iplayer\
2. Get the windows build of rtmpdump from http://rtmpdump.mplayer.hu and unzip the contents of rtmpdump-2.2b\ to c:\Program files\get_iplayer\
3. Create a file called "options" with this content and move this file to C:\Documents and Settings\User\.get_iplayer\
4. Add code to the XBMC iplayer plugin default.py as in post #333
5. I have added the get_player.cgi from my Linux partition
6. Start the Web PVR Manager
7. Start XBMC iPlayer
Above 3. I believe achieves the same as Schism suggests:
My problem is that get_iplayer.cmd requests a file that I don't have, get_iplayer.pl.
get_iplayer.cmd:
in 6. the missing get_iplayer.pl is again requested in this sequence:
pvr_manager.cmd:
get_iplayer.cgi.cmd:
So where could I get hold of get_iplayer.pl? Tried copying get_iplayer from the Linux partition and renaming it to *.pl, but the XBMC iplayer will not start the chosen movie clip, and it gets stuck there. What to do?
Another member of this forum kindly provided me with the Windows installer of get_iplayer, so I have been trying to get it to work. Not surprisingly I will need some help.
I tried to follow the instruction by Schism of 2010-03-02, which I printed from the second link to Google cache on post #315, which is not there any more either. I have condensed Schism's instructions below as I have understood them:
1. Install get_iplayer windows installer to c:\Program files\get_iplayer\
2. Get the windows build of rtmpdump from http://rtmpdump.mplayer.hu and unzip the contents of rtmpdump-2.2b\ to c:\Program files\get_iplayer\
3. Create a file called "options" with this content and move this file to C:\Documents and Settings\User\.get_iplayer\
Code:
rtmptvopts --swfVfy http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/10player.swf
flvstreamer c:\program files\get_iplayer\rtmpdump
5. I have added the get_player.cgi from my Linux partition
6. Start the Web PVR Manager
7. Start XBMC iPlayer
Above 3. I believe achieves the same as Schism suggests:
Code:
cd C:\Program files\get_iplayer
".\get_iplayer.cmd" --rtmptvopts "--swfVfy http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/10player.swf" --flvstreamer "c:\program files\get_iplayer\rtmpdump" --add-prefs
get_iplayer.cmd:
Code:
perl.exe get_iplayer.pl %*
pvr_manager.cmd:
Code:
@echo off
start "PVR Manager Service" /min /b cmd /k .\get_iplayer.cgi.cmd
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 -w 1000 > NUL
.\pvr_manager.url
Code:
@echo off
perl.exe get_iplayer.cgi --port 1935 --listen=127.0.0.1 --ffmpeg .\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe --getiplayer .\get_iplayer.cmd