I've noticed in recent weeks that the thumbnail which the PVR manager displays in the browser alongside
programmes are often appearing blank and with increasing frequency. XBMC is also affected.

I thought about replacing this:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/images/episode/
in Get_iPlayer.pl with this:- http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/programmeimages/p01txssd/
until I realised that it was more complicated than that as the bit on the end is different for each programme.

Any helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The Beeb broke thumbnails. The workaround for this is to explicitly set a thumbnail size in your preferences:





or else add to every command. 2 is the normal default, but you can use values 1-6 (bigger number = bigger thumbnail, e.g., 2 = 150x84, 6 = 640x360)

The issue has already been dealt with in code, so you can manually update to new version if you like:

https://squarepenguin.co.uk/wiki/install...itheadwin/

Many thanks for your reply.
I updated as you suggested and all of the thumbnails are restored.

Thanks also for all of the good work here.
Get_iplayer has greatly improved the quality of my life.