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Perhaps you could mention that this version of the installer requires Leopard.
Does it also require Intel hardware, I wonder?

Nice clean updating of the scripts to be a little more OSX like … so any chance of enhancing it with a queue interface …

From the CLI I just trigger multiple downloads in seperate tabs of the terminal and the iplayer-dl is fine with that. I tend to browse iPlayer once a week and build a list of number of downloads, but once I’ve started one in iPlayer Downloader, I have to wait for its completion before beginning another (gracefully!).

Otherwise its fine, clean and more graceful that Beeb Downloader … many thanks!

great stuff, combine with a scheduler and we will have a great DVR.

Cheers.

I think he means the About box in the app.

Or maybe he doesn’t and we’re both being thick.

Good work! Love this.

Not at the moment I’m afraid. Right now, the actual downloading capabilities are done using Paul Batterly’d iplayer-dl ruby script, which at present doesn’t do the radio shows.
We are looking into either re-writing the app’s “engine” from scratch or using a different script to allow for better options like this.
On the other hand, it’s entirely likely Paul may update his script to do it and we’ll just upgrade to that instead, I’m not sure since Paul doesn’t work with us, he just releases the script for any and all.

Hope this is helpful.

Max:
As for the download location, we’re adding a preference setting for version 3, although if problems persist with other issues (like multiple downloads) then we might put out a 2.1 release with minor fixes and preferences.

As for the needing to restart, do you just restart the app, or are you having to do an entire system restart?
Also, what system are you using and OS version? Thanks for your help.

Math Campbell

No proxy support in this version I’m afraid – wait for the next version

No, sorry snoogly I don’t think the BBC supply any higher quality files other than the DRM’d PC files which we can’t do anything with.

It’s also illegal to break DRM so even if I knew how I’d probably get sued for releasing anything that did that.

Sounds like a permissions problem.

Can you try opening Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and pasting the following line into it?

chmod 777 /Applications

Then press return.

Should work after that

Also make sure you don’t have a previous version of iPlayer installed.

Hi Lawrence thanks for your work on this app.

I seem to be having the same problems as Natalie seems to be having in the comment above. Last week perfect – but now everytime I download, it seems to download really fast – much faster than before – but always fails at around the 95%-99% mark.

Have the BBC got wise to this or am I missing something obvious?

Thanks again.

the downloader says “download failed!” about 2 seconds after i put in the URL and click download. After looking around, it seems ths has happened to everyone as of last tuesday night. I would really appreciate the help

hey, just to check, is using this software illegal? because i’m rather cautious about what i do on the web. secondly, is putting it onto itunes any threat? thanks.
Chris.

strange – some older shows download, yet it seems newer ones fail. maybe some extra protection has been added?

Does produce any downloads. Looked in console and am getting : -

22/12/2008 20:10:02 PM iPlayer Downloader[18975] No application name for definition file at path: /Library/Automator/Office.definition

Any ideas?

Well 3.1 gives me an install failed ‘could not install some files in “/” contact manufacturer for assistance’. Program still starts. However when I can download I have to allow many ‘Ruby’ port 80 requests in my firewall every 2 minutes, even after allowing ‘iPlayer Downloader’ in the firewall. ‘Ruby’ cannot be given access on the firewall as it’s more Darwin level I think. This could be the “/” failure on install.

It’s introduced me to ‘Growl’ though which is very handy.

Been working just fine for downloading both tv and radio material from bbc. But suddenly can only download tv shows. Trying to download radio shows results in a zero kb file being created but nothing downloaded. Please help. Have the beeb changed something?

Hi – Great little app you’ve written (liked it so much, I donated!). Just started not working, though. I’ve updated to 10.5.6 – is this the problem? Or a change in iPlayer itself? When I click on a download, a blank progress bar briefly pops up, then Growl tells me that it’s not possible to download that particular show. Weirdly, iPlayer Grabber still works, but I much prefer your app Any ideas? Thanks -
- Lee.

I’ve only just started to use the downloader and I find that sometimes everything goes well and the programme is downloaded but on other occasions the program runs to the end and then I get a message saying that the programme could not be downloaded. The latest deposited a 222Mb file on my desktop labelled .mov, but this is not recognized by any software that runs .mov files. Is this likely to be intermittant or is there a problem somewhere. I’m running the latest OSX 10.5.6 on the latest iMac 9.1 Thanks in advance for any advice.

Seem to be finding a lot of programmes cannot be downloaded. Tried Landward and Casualty in the past couple of days and tested several others today.
Some programmes will download but most that I tried wouldn’t.

Just downloaded this, but it doesn’t seem to download the HD files, if you click on the ‘Watch in HD’ link, it just downloads the low quality file.

Anybody have any ideas: Some programs wont even download and others download as an incomplete movie file about 20mb and cannot be played.

Thanks

Sorry,
was looking at the top as being the last post..
Still, what’s the state of play
Cheers

Iain

Hi,
iPlayer Downloader has been working fine for a number of months — but starting today I cannot download anything at all, even programs that I have already sucessfully downloaded earlier this week. Is it just me, or are other people being affected?
Cheers,
Paul

I find the same problem in 3.3 with programmes not donwloading

I click on them, the litle window with the progress bar comes up, but almost immediately disappears i.e stops downloading.

On the desktop a quicktime file apperars, but of course it won’t open because it only started to download for asplit second.

I have iPlayer Downloader 3.3 on my Mac. Since returning from 2 weeks in North America (with my laptop), I can’t now download anything using this software. Previously, I would often have to wait a day or two before some programmes would download, now I can’t download anything. I have run the software update and am told I have the latest version. This is really frustrating, can anyone suggest why I can’t now download anything? I have OS Leopard 10.5.8.

Any help MUCH appreciated!

iplayer downloader worked fine when first installed a month ago.

Since around the end of September 09 I keep getting an error message and nothing downloads.

‘the program could not be downloaded’

Whats up?

is it just me or has iplayer downloader stopped working this morning i cant get any of the downloaders to work but the iplayer site is fine done have the beeb something to change and stop iplayer downloader from working?

Hi Guys,

We’re aware of the problem and it will be fixed shortly.