notnac
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1 year ago This is something of an edge case triggered by inclusion of a curly quote in the value of --output. This is related to limitations of Perl on Windows. Will reopen this issue for now, but we are undecided on whether a fix is worth the effort. Avoid the problem by not using curly quotes. A better solution is to let get_iplayer do the work so that directory and file names are generated consistently:
get_iplayer --pid=m000fj9f --pid-recursive --output="E:\BBC iPlayer" --subdir
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Windows 10
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When trying to download "History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley" the response from the Windows PowerShell terminal is:-
ERROR: Cannot open (write): E:\BBC iPlayer\Royal Historys Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley\Royal_Historys_Biggest_Fibs_with_Lucy_Worsley_Series1-_01._The_Reformation_m000fj9c_editorial.video.ts
During the process of attempting to download the files, all of the 6 files in the recurrence show an error in the title name as follows:- "Royal History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley" when is should read "Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley".
It seems to be wrongly translating the apostrophy to ’ which, I think is causing the problem. Downloading the file via BBC iplayer works okay leading to believe its not a problem on the BBC server,
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PID=m000fj9c
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get_iplayer --pid=m000fj9f --pid-recursive --output="E:\BBC iPlayer\Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley"
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Verbose070523.txt
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