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[Brandon]

Can anyone helpme with this, the wife wanted to watch somat on iplayer, but recently it has really struggled, so I sorted it to download, but it will not, and comes up with this

I will try and find the offending XUL, 'cause this living room ain't big enough....

[wookey]

get_iplayer lets you actually download the programmes and watch them on whatever player you want to use:
http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/  It's exceedingly cool. ('apt-get install get-iplayer' on a recent Debian machine)
But I guess from that dialog that you are talking about a Windows machine? In which case I can't help you.

[Brandon]

wookey, I had only resorted to the windows machine as I ws struggling with the linux, but you may well have solved that , thanks.

[pcmadman]

Try and install the K-lite codec pack. It's free. http://codecpack.nl/klmcodec416.exe

This installs a whole bunch of codecs for prety much anything and comes with the Media Player Classic. (That's a unbloated alternative to WMP)

If you must go the MS way, then you should google that error till you come up with some knowledge-base article. Looks like you're running some kind of outdated/incompatible 'platform'.

[KLD]

The Wikipedia page in XULrunner is quite informative for a starting point.

And from https://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:Xul_Runner

Versioning

XULRunner is a delivery vehicle for the XUL toolkit, which is not a frozen API. It is an API that has historically evolved over time, and it will likely continue to evolve for some time to come. While people agree that we need to stablize that API, it will not happen overnight.

For these reasons, it is important that XULRunner support applications that require specific versions of the toolkit. The current thinking is that XULRunner will be versioned (with version number matching the corresponding Gecko milestone), and applications will be able to specify the version(s) of the toolkit that they require.

This is in fact already implemented as options in the .xulapp file. Applications can specify a MinVersion and MaxVersion for the toolkit versions they require. XULRunner will refuse to load an application that does not pass the version test.

[wookey]

wookey, I had only resorted to the windows machine as I ws struggling with the linux, but you may well have solved that , thanks.

The way the beeb has written iplayer itself means the only way you can make it work on Linux is to use the proprietary Adobe Flash plugin. It's totally borken with swfdec or Gnash (the free equivalents).  get_iplayer sidesteps the whole awful edifice and gets you a more flexible solution to boot. No doubt the conventional iplayer will also be made to work eventually, but it's very hard because flash is not a published spec or a standard of any sort and thus must be entirely reverse-engineered.

[Brandon]

OK, so it's downloading a program as we speak, but how do I watch it?

Cheers Brandon.