Must Have BBC IPlayer Programme

Guys,

Discovered this programme this morning to allow you to download and play tv/radio programmes at your leisure..installed and working no problem..absolutely beautiful programme..go get it !!

http://linuxcentre.net/?page_id=6

Apologies if you already know about it..I can't contain my excitement..opens up another dimension for me on my lovely new AAO !!!!!

Later

 

Innit fab! I even got it to work within 5 mins. Very fast too :lol:

 

Excellent program, very powerful thanks for the heads up.

 

This is very useful. Wish there was an easy way to dl the flash version though - more progs and quicker.

 

CAn anyone tell me how to download this and get this going please?

I'm a linux noob

 

Read the link.

 

I've managed to download and install using instructions on website http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/ and I have managed to find the programme I want (last weeks Holby ), but I'm stumped at how to download and play it... tried this as suggested in Documentation

get_iplayer -get 288

288 was index number given in listings and I still just get a listing of the -h help information - where am I going wrong!?

 

@holywoodmum

try this ./get_iplayer --get 288

there needs to be two dashes in front of get (minus signs if you like) only one show up in documentation page leading to error also I found the need to do the ./ bit before get_iplayer not sure how I figured that out but also necessary

hope this holby helps

 

brilliant thanks!!

yep, that's downloading now... do I need special software to view it or will it work with Media Master? Also do I view from terminal or just double click when browsing?

 

Hi

I've managed to install this, but when I try to download something it doesn't seem to work. This is what I am getting:

[user@localhost ~]$ ./get_iplayer --get 623
Matches:
623: The Weakest Link - 16/01/2008, 'BBC One', Entertainment,Games & Quizzes,TV, default

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Attempting to Download: The Weakest Link - 16/01/2008
INFO: Getting version pids for programme b008thhx
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: File name prefix = The_Weakest_Link_-_16_01_2008_b008thhx_default
WARNING: Retrying download for 'The Weakest Link - 16/01/2008'
INFO: Attempting to Download: The Weakest Link - 16/01/2008
INFO: Getting version pids for programme b008thhx
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: File name prefix = The_Weakest_Link_-_16_01_2008_b008thhx_default
WARNING: Retrying download for 'The Weakest Link - 16/01/2008'
INFO: Attempting to Download: The Weakest Link - 16/01/2008
INFO: Getting version pids for programme b008thhx
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: File name prefix = The_Weakest_Link_-_16_01_2008_b008thhx_default
WARNING: Retrying download for 'The Weakest Link - 16/01/2008'

Am I doing something wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Cheers

 

Still need help please.

 

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The instructions (copied & pasted direct from the site linked) are:

Code:

Linux RPM Package (Fedora/Redhat)
Install/update using rpm (as root user):

    rpm -Uvh [url]http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/packages/get_iplayer-current.noarch.rpm[/url]

What is it that you don't understand about that? You need to be using a terminal, and you can become root user by typing "su" in the terminal and entering your password.

 

Ok. Sorry to be so obtuse its just I'm new to linux. I didn't even know about the su thing to get to root, even though I've installed a few things already I've mainly gone off guides to help me. I appreciated your time to reply to my post. I will give this a go tomorrow.

Cheers.

 

I managed to get this working. Its great! The quality is really good even at full screen.

 

glad you got it sorted- it's good isn't it!!

 

Its brilliant. Its definitely the best app I've used on the One so far.

 

sorry but fairly new to linux and can't get this to work, can someone possibly post a step by step guide to download/install/use for new to linux people

 

trying to reply and it won't let me!! OK it didn't like something I typed in the instrucitons, will try again...

 

I'm going to post this in stages as it's objecting to something I typed, bear with me,..

OK I'm no expert but if you got to the website listed
http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/
then go to "installation" on the right hand side
the instructions there are fairly straight forward!

open a terminal (Alt+F2 and type xterm)
and type in or copy and paste the lines given for linux and the rpm package

OK it doesn't like me typing the three lines of code from theinstallation page - you need the line that starts wget, then chmod, then rpm..

enter them as three separate lines and press enter in between each one.

you also download the tv programmes through terminal(Alt+F2 type xterm)

the page on documentation http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/documentation/ explains it all

for example, to download all episodes of holby city you would type

get_iplayer --get "holby"

you'll see the download progress in the terminal window.

once downloaded you'll need to use VLC to watch them, as the pre-installed media player can't play these files... search these boards for VLC if you haven't already installed it...