Get-iplayer now doesn't work for us !

[grey1beard]

My wife regularly downloads video and radio programmes from the BBC via get-iplayer using 12.04 on a Sony viao, but this morning half way through a download it came up with an error message.
To check, I tried the same down load on my hp6700, and the first programme downloaded OK, but the second one threw up the same error message ......

WARNING: ffmpeg does not exist - not converting flv file
INFO: File name prefix = Sherlock_Series_1_-_2._The_Blind_Banker_b00tc6t2_default
WARNING: Your version of flvstreamer/rtmpdump does not support SWF Verification
FLVStreamer v2.1c1
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
ERROR: Last tag size must be greater/equal zero (prevTagSize=400147357) and smaller then filesize, corrupt file!
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
WARNING: Retry recording for 'Sherlock: Series 1 - 2. The Blind Banker (b00tc6t2)'

Her laptop downloads radio programmes via get-iplayer OK, but not videos.

We'd be very grateful if anyone could advise, and guide us towards solving the problem.

John

[grey1beard]

OK, so my laptop doesn't like me telling tales out of school !
This time it worked as normal, with the usual error message that seems to be part of the workaround.
I've no idea why, as I havent done anything differently.
At both previous attempts, I removed the partial downloads, before trying again, as previous experience has shown that sometimes a restart will pick up where it left off, but sometimes not.

So at this moment, both laptops are behaving themselves, but if anyone can point out any hidden meaning in the error message, at least I'd have learned something !

John

[grey1beard]

This morning, the same thing has occurred, with the error message as before, the download reaching ~430 Mb out of a total ~560 Mb.

ERROR: Last tag size must be greater/equal zero (prevTagSize=400147357) and smaller then filesize, corrupt file!
INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)

She's removed the partial download, and is trying again.
I have a feeling that the problem is external to the laptop, but have no knowledge to back that up.

It's just failed again, at 288 Mb, with only the "prevTagSize" figure different.

Trying for a third time.

[grey1beard]

This time a new message has appeared, a window in front of the terminal window (which is showing a simillar message as before) -

Problem in flvstreamer

Sorry, the program flvstreamer closed unexpectedly.
Your computer does not have enough free memory to automatically analyse the problem and send a report to the developers.

Possibly not significant, but then what do I know

John

[coldraven]

WARNING: ffmpeg does not exist - not converting flv file

See this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...9#post12651629

I'm not sure about the other errors but it may help if you have the latest version of get_iplayer.
You have trimmed your output so I cannot see, it should be vers. 2.8.2
If not go here:
http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer...t_iplayer.html
Download and extract the get_iplayer perl script (348.4kB) and just overwrite the version that you have in /usr/bin.
Edit: You will need to change the permissions to match the original file.
Use "gksu nautilus" in a terminal
Set
Owner = root (RW)
Group = root (R)
Others = Read Only
Execute = Allow

To extract just double click the get_iplayer.tar.gz file.

[speartip]

get-iplayer is working fine here, but I updated get-iplayer & ffmpeg using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg

and

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer

then

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Everything should now work fine.

[grey1beard]

Hi coldraven, and thanks for your help.
Both our laptops have 2.80 running on them, so I'll try setting mine up first.
I've downloaded 2.82 and extracted the contents as a folder get_iplayer-2.82 onto my desktop.

Edit: You will need to change the permissions to match the original file.
Use "gksu nautilus" in a terminal
Set
Owner = root (RW)
Group = root (R)
Others = Read Only
Execute = Allow

To extract just double click the get_iplayer.tar.gz file.

Sorry, coldraven, but this has got me lost. I've never used gksu nautilus before, so when I typed it into Terminal, gave it my password, I was then faced with a Terminal line -"Initialising nautilus-gdu extension " and a window showing my home folder. So my next step is unknown to me.

I understand what I am trying to do, but not the route !
So I'd be grateful if you could spell it out for me.
John

[grey1beard]

Hi speartip.
I used your lines of code on my wifes laptop, and so far all seems well.
However, something that has happened to me before has re-occurred. Update manager immediately ran and gave me a warning message over the top of the UM window, to the effect that some of the updates were unauthenticated. How do you get round this, as it keeps reappearing ? I tried just unticking the ppa entries which seemed to be the problem, but I'm thinking it will come back again in the future.
Regards
John

[speartip]

Hi speartip.
However, something that has happened to me before has re-occurred. Update manager immediately ran and gave me a warning message over the top of the UM window, to the effect that some of the updates were unauthenticated. How do you get round this, as it keeps reappearing ? I tried just unticking the ppa entries which seemed to be the problem, but I'm thinking it will come back again in the future.
Regards
John

Not too sure, the 2 ppas I gave above should not give that error.
A quick google brought this up, it may help.
http://www.answeredubuntu.com/85641/...oftware_center

[grey1beard]

Thanks speartip.
Looks promising, and if the problem persists, I'll try that.
I'm assuming that approach is universal ?

Regards
John