get_iplayer change output folder

[bill-lancaster]

How can I change the default directory for recordings?
This command "get_iplayer --output="/home/bill/Music/recordings" just results a listing of all programmes.

Any ideas?

Ubuntu 12.04
KDE 4.8.1

[shantiq]

hi Bill from man page

--output, -o <dir>
Recording output directory

add at the end or anywhere else example

get-iplayer --vmode=flashvhigh2 --get 4 --subtitles-only --output ~/Music/recordings

get-iplayer -o ~/Music/recordings --vmode=flashvhigh2 --get 4 --subtitles-only

other refinements

--outputliveradio <dir>
Output directory for live radio recordings

--outputlivetv <dir>
Output directory for live tv recordings

--outputlocalfiles <dir>
Output directory for localfiles recordings

--outputpodcast <dir>
Output directory for podcast recordings

--outputradio <dir>
Output directory for radio recordings

--outputtv <dir>
Output directory for tv recordings

[bill-lancaster]

Thanks for the response.

What I should have said is "how do I change the setting for the default folder"

In my previous installation I managed to do it but have forgotten how!

I suppose the question could also be "how can I edit the output settings"

Thanks again

[bill-lancaster]

Found it!
This is the code I used:-
"get_iplayer --prefs-add --output "/home/bill/Music/recordings"

[Cheesemill]

I have a couple of aliases set up in my ~/.bashrc file:

alias ipl='get_iplayer --nocopyright'
alias gipl='get_iplayer --nocopyright --output /data/Videos/ --tvmode=flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal --get'

This way I can just do:

ipl <string>

to search for a program and then

gipl <pid>

to download a program at it's highest quality into my Videos folder.

[shantiq]

thanx for tips guys


this will simplify my situation

get_iplayer --prefs-add --output "Videos"

[shantiq]

also this to make radio program download so much easier


1. in terminal enter

alias getradio='get-iplayer -o ~/Music --mode=flashaacstd --get'

then again open

gedit ~/.bashrc

and enter at bottom

alias getradio='get-iplayer -o ~/Music   --mode=flashaacstd --get'

and save

2.

. ~/.bashrc

3. now all you need is this

getradio   13434

or whatever number you seek to download

goes to your music folder

[bill-lancaster]

Wow! That's rewarding.
Lots of neat things to try!

Thank you all.

[Merrattic]

Setting output folder manually:

Browse to ~/.get-iplayer

If you have a file called options, good, if not create it:

touch ~/.get-player/options

Open this file in your preferred text editor

Add your preferred download directory like this:

output Videos

and save.

There is also a global options file in /etc/get-iplayer you can edit, but you will need root for that, and if you have multiple users, use a non home directory folder with full path and permissions.

[kernowkoi]

Hi All,

I have be using the --output(-o) option. but have run into some strange behavior If I run a get_iplayer cmd manually on the command line all good but if I try the same command line in a Bash script the output ends up in a different directory to what I specified with the --options switch

Example Cmd line works just fine

get_iplayer --force --overwrite --nopurge --type=radio --pid=b01rz317 --output "/home/htpc/Videos/iPlayer/Radio/BBC Radio 4" --file-prefix="<name>-<episode>-<pid>"

same thing in a script and somewhere while running get_iplayer converts the output directory to

'/home/htpc"/home/htpc/Videos/iPlayer/Radio/BBC"

Which results in a nonsense directory structure in my home user folder
Notice how it added my user home directory to the front and chopped off the last bit of the path I supplied via --output option!

Reading the posts on this thread I conclude that get_iplayer is picking up some 'default' output folder and prefixing whatever I specify with the --output option

Where from?? and Why only when running inside a BASH script

Annoying as it was all going so well, automating downloads of recordings into mythtv

Any suggestions please