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iplayer desktop

darkhorizon — Fri May 11, 2012 3:08 pm

Author: darkhorizon

Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 3:08 pm

I'm using 12.04 just upgraded from 11.10 which had Iplayer desktop installed. Now that I've upgraded with a clean install I cant download iplayer desktop.

What I did do was install Adobe air by downloading it from adobe archives. looked up its properties and made it executable in properties/permissions

then did

Code:

sudo su

put in my pass to get root access, and to save time rather than change directories I just opened downloads and dragged and dropped the Adobe air bin file onto terminal hit enter and went to install, I had a bit of a problem here with 12.04 but discovered I needed a keyring in order to allow Air to install so in goes.

Code:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0

then another quick drag and drop of the air bin file and it installed.

That was the easy bit, I should point out drag and drop of files onto Terminal are an often overlooked option..

Anyway I then went to install my favourite Radio player and BBC iplayer desktop. Iplayer desktop just hangs on the web page nothing appears except the little timer and then it just halts and the radio player although I downloaded as a deb. Air will not install it it said the package was not of a good enough quality???

I have another laptop that has 11.10 on it and iplayer installed already, I went to the install page for iplayer desktop to test it out and got the same problem the install window does not show and the application just hangs.

so as a stop gap measure I copied the application files from the laptop and transferred them to a folder on my main computer made a couple of short-cuts on the desktop for them and launched, since Air only provides the environment for them to operate, they worked without installing. However, iplayer desktop works for live TV and Radio but can't download.

Is there a solution to the iplayer desktop install problem?

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

towy71 — Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:25 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:25 pm

Rich_b21 wrote:

There is more from terminal after I entered sudo "apt-get update" would you like it all?

No not really! That has nothing to do with get-iplayer

https://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer/wiki/Documentation explains how to use the various get-iplayer commands to download things from the BBC.

I know it might seem hard but sometimes there is no alternative to reading through the documentation, if it exists

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

Rich_b21 — Sat Apr 14, 2012 11:08 am

Author: Rich_b21

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 11:08 am

There is more from terminal after I entered sudo "apt-get update" would you like it all?

Code:

sudo apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>
W: GPG error: http://archive.canonical.com oneiric Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>
W: GPG error: http://archive.canonical.com oneiric Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>
W: GPG error: http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-backports Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>
richard@richard-desktop:~$

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

towy71 — Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:49 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:49 am

wyliecoyoteuk's first post in this thread sums it up reallr

get-iplayer --get [program number] typed into the terminal downloads that program to your home directory, for instance topgear showed up as Top_Gear_Series_18_-_Episode_3_b01c7x0r_default.flv which i double clicked on and movie player played it

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

Rich_b21 — Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:36 am

Author: Rich_b21

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:36 am

Well I have installed it through terminal this a small part from terminal:-

678: The Devil's Music: Series 2 - Episode 3, BBC Web Only, Arts Culture & the Media,Factual,Jazz & Blues,Music,TV, default

But I can't see or find the program on my computer....Where do I
look so that I can use it......Please.....

Richard

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

MartyBartfast — Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:44 pm

Author: MartyBartfast

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:44 pm

One of the most useful features is the "pvr", you can do something like:

Code:

get_iplayer --pvradd "Corrie" "Coronation Street"

which will create a pvr search, then you can download all your pvr programs with

Code:

get_iplayer --pvr

It's clever enough to remember which shows it's already downloaded and won't download them again, so once you've set up all your pvr searches you can just cron the download to run every day.

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

wyliecoyoteuk — Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:30 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:30 pm

Well obviously there are some drawbacks to the video age

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

towy71 — Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:02 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:02 pm

Having watched I'm not sure I want Clarkson on my computer

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

towy71 — Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:59 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:59 pm

I'm watching a topgear that I downloaded, swmbo does not allow Clarkson in the living room

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

wyliecoyoteuk — Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:45 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:45 pm

It is actually quite easy.
get-iplayer gives you a list of available files with a number before each.

get-iplayer --get 204

will get program 204

get-iplayer --get 204 205 206

will get program 204, 205 and 206

and so on. simples.

It is really quick too

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

towy71 — Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:23 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:23 pm

I think you have to get used to using the command line

Code:

sudo apt-get install get-iplayer

will install get-iplayer then run

Code:

get-iplayer

will update current streams available.NB adjust your terminal screen for the whole thing make sense.
Piping it through 'less' allows you to scroll back and forth

Code:

get-iplayer |less

this site has loads of examples of the command line options, enjoy

I'm messing about relearning this as I go

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

Rich_b21 — Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:16 pm

Author: Rich_b21

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:16 pm

I have "get_iplayer" on my PC. desktop

But I do not know how to get it working?

Have read Readme file, but still have a problem how to get it working...

Thanks again for the help.

Richard

slow internet iPlayer buffering

Rich_b21 — Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:06 pm

Author: Rich_b21

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:06 pm

johnhudson wrote:

I'm not sure why you need to install iPlayer. I simply use chromium which plays everything - radio and TV - other than HD because I don't have 30Meg broadband.

Because we only have 1.5 to 2.0 mHz broadband download and we keep getting pauses (buffering) we need to download and save so that we can watch later, without all the waiting which can be 20 to 30 seconds and some time we get a message bandwidth to low.....

I have not use chromium....How does it work and where do we get it from.

Also we get poor lip-sync on iPlayer streaming of about 1 sec delay of the sound after the lips move....

I am using Dell dimension 2400 & Ubuntu11.10 OS

Thank for the info though...

Richard

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

nelz — Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:35 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:35 pm

The OP mentioned downloading the programmes, a browser only lets you stream them. I second the get_iplayer suggestion.

Re: BBC iPlayer Installation

johnhudson — Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:21 pm

Author: johnhudson

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:21 pm

I'm not sure why you need to install iPlayer. I simply use chromium which plays everything - radio and TV - other than HD because I don't have 30Meg broadband.