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PID will not download

user-308

OK, so in the past I've had some PIDS not work for me --playlist-metadata solved that. No I've come across two PIDS that I can't get to work at all. When I hit this problem I upgraded to 2.92 and I'm still having the problem.

get_iplayer Output:

C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>get_iplayer --pid b05x31b6 --playlist-metadata
get_iplayer v2.92, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; use --conditions for details.

C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>

Tried --playlist-metadata, didn't work. Tried the url and got:

get_iplayer Output:

C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>get_iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0
5x31b6/churchill-when-britain-said-no
get_iplayer v2.92, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; use --conditions for details.

INFO: Episode-only pid detected
INFO: Trying pid: b05x31b6 using type: tv

A possible related issue is - when I do --refresh a number of the download urls fail, however from what I can see this just affects shows from BBC Parliament, not BBC2 where this one was broadcast.

Help please!

user-2

Both of these bugs have been fixed for next release:

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/issues/145
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/issues/153

So the short answer is: stop using
Code:
--refresh-future
until next release. However, even using a cache created with
Code:
--refresh-future
you can still download the Churchill programme with
Code:
--future
. You can also ignore the warnings about BBC Parliament - they only pertain to future listings, not downloads (except in the unlikely event you use
Code:
--refresh-feeds=schedule
).

user-308

Managed to download the Churchill show by using
Code:
--future
. Thanks for that
So does this mean for certain programmes, the PVR won't work until the next release? Is there no workaround? What if I put
Code:
--future
in my default settings? I tried adding
Code:
--future
to the pvr_scheduler batch file, this didn't work.

user-2

Code:
--future
is ignored in pvr. Like I said, stop using
Code:
--refresh-future
until next release. Remove it from preferences if necessary and rebuild your cache without it. If you don't want to do that for some reason, your only choice for affected programmes is to do ad hoc downloads with
Code:
--future
.

EDIT: no need to stop using
Code:
--refresh-feeds=schedule

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