iPlayer update: Resume functionality is back

My sleeplessness is your gain. Thanks to Paul G’s useful research (reported in the comments of a previous post), we now know that it’s not really necessary to leap around in the file.

I’ve stripped out that unnecessary code complexity this morning. As a result, downloads are faster, and you can resume a partial download once more. Handy!

More information can be found on the project page.

2008-06-24 05:21 UTC. Comments: 10.

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  1. Irregular Shed

    Wrote at 2008-06-24 09:13 UTC using Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Windows XP:

    Getting a 403 Forbidden message when trying to download the Windows executable, sadly. (I have a Ruby install, I really ought to use that and not be so lazy!)

  2. Paul Battley

    Wrote at 2008-06-24 12:28 UTC using Firefox 3.0 on Linux:

    Oops, you’re quite right. It was a permissions problem; it should be rectified now.

  3. liam

    Wrote at 2008-06-24 18:50 UTC using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP:

    how long can you keep the mp4 file for on the ipdl.1.4

  4. Paul Battley

    Wrote at 2008-06-24 18:57 UTC using Firefox 3.0b5 on Linux:

    You can keep it forever, if you wish.

  5. liam

    Wrote at 2008-06-24 19:06 UTC using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP:

    thanks man your a legend

  6. liam

    Wrote at 2008-06-24 19:07 UTC using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP:

    will that program always work

  7. Paul Battley

    Wrote at 2008-06-25 06:18 UTC using Firefox 3.0 on Linux:

    Liam, you’ll only be able to download during the one week availability period, but you can keep the downloaded video and watch it whenever you like.

  8. Philip

    Wrote at 2008-06-26 19:39 UTC using Firefox 3.0 on Linux:

    Just noising around the new iplayer site, disassembled the player.swf (looking for the new mp3 links) and found this interesting place to look around:

    http://extdev.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/3/

    It’s linked in the player.swf for the new flash based radio player.

  9. Anon

    Wrote at 2008-06-27 08:19 UTC using Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Linux:

    Installed iplayer-dl on an iMac running OS X Tiger today, works wonderfully. I did find I had to run ‘ruby setup.rb config’ with sudo or it wouldn’t work (IIRC it wouldn’t create a directory). Are the instructions incorrect, is it a mac bug or did I do something wrong?

  10. Anon

    Wrote at 2008-07-04 08:09 UTC using Firefox 2.0.0.15 on Linux:

    The latest svn code now downloads broken files – exactly the same size, but no “moov” – again!

    So I used an old backup of iplayer-dl (without resume), and it worked for the 2 files I tried: b00bybp3, b00793cx.

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