Latest version fails to download from news.bbc.co.uk

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install and update to v1.24
2. get_flash_videos --debug http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553
3. Attempting to provide playlist URL directly also does not work: 
get_flash_videos --debug 
http://playlists.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553A/playlist.sxml

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect video to be downloaded, instead see error messages reporting that BBC 
playlist cannot be found and message that videos couldn't be downloaded.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
v1.24, Ubuntu 10.04

Please provide any additional information below.
CONSOLE OUTPUT FROM LINE 2 IN STEPS TO REPRODUCE ABOVE:
No plugins installed
Downloading http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553
-> GET http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553
<- 200 text/html (74233): UTF8 on, ASCII, 74233 characters 74233 bytes
Trying to open plugin ~/.get_flash_videos/plugins/Www.pm
Using method 'bbc' for http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553
Error: Couldn't find BBC XML playlist URL in 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553 at /usr/bin/get_flash_videos line 1135.

Couldn't extract Flash movie URL. This site may need specific support adding,
or fixing.

Please confirm the site is using Flash video and if you have Flash available
check that the URL really works(!).

Check for updates by running: /usr/bin/get_flash_videos --update

If the latest version does not support this please open a bug (or
contribute a patch!) at http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/
make sure you include the output with --debug enabled.
Couldn't download any videos.

CONSOLE OUTPUT FROM LINE 3 IN STEPS TO REPRODUCE ABOVE:

No plugins installed
Downloading http://playlists.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553A/playlist.sxml
-> GET http://playlists.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553A/playlist.sxml
<- 200 text/xml (4908): UTF8 on, ASCII, 4908 characters 4908 bytes
Trying to open plugin ~/.get_flash_videos/plugins/Playlists.pm
Using method 'bbc' for 
http://playlists.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553A/playlist.sxml
Error: Couldn't find BBC XML playlist URL in 
http://playlists.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553A/playlist.sxml at 
/usr/bin/get_flash_videos line 1135.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cfogelb...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2012 at 2:00

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Additional output from running line 3 of steps to reproduce, this comes after 
the "Error: Couldn't..." line and was chopped off in above text:

Couldn't extract Flash movie URL. This site may need specific support adding,
or fixing.

Please confirm the site is using Flash video and if you have Flash available
check that the URL really works(!).

Check for updates by running: /usr/bin/get_flash_videos --update

If the latest version does not support this please open a bug (or
contribute a patch!) at http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/
make sure you include the output with --debug enabled.
Couldn't download any videos.

Original comment by cfogelb...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2012 at 2:01

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Update to date version works, 

$ get_flash_videos http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553 
Using method 'bbc' for http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553
Downloading http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19549553
RTMPDump 2.4pl2
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration              229.80
INFO:   moovPosition          43155492.00
INFO:   width                 688.00
INFO:   height                384.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   avcprofile            77.00
INFO:   avclevel              31.00
INFO:   aacaot                2.00
INFO:   videoframerate        25.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate       44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels         1.00
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length                5745000.00
INFO:   timescale             25000.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            avc1
INFO:   length                10133504.00
INFO:   timescale             44100.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            mp4a
BBC_-_Johnson___The_final_tear-sodden_juddering_climax_of_London_2012.flv: 27% 
(11594.48 / 42161.74 KiB)^C

New versions can be found here...

https://github.com/njtaylor/get-flash-videos/downloads

For specific Os you may need to contact the package maintainer.
As per previous e-mail get_iplayer very good for BBC downloads.

Original comment by njtaylor...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2012 at 3:13

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Works with latest code, thanks to njtaylor for providing support :)

Original comment by zakflash...@gmail.com on 3 Oct 2012 at 7:45

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