As I said, you need to open another command prompt to test the "start" command (it's not an independent utility), It now seems clear that is where the problem lies. You'll have to manually connect in...

It may be unrelated to the server part of the application. Relaunch, ignore the error message and navigate to http://localhost:1935 in your web browser. If that works, open another command prompt and...

That's a restriction of cmd.exe - only double quotes actually quote arguments. get_iplayer itself does quite well at working the same on Windows and Linux, but the command shells are rather different.

That is what the --output option is for. There is copious documentation to be found:

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki

However, if your video drive is a network drive (or slow...

Ubuntu may not be of much interest here, but that statement is COMPLETELY untrue. It is always updated when the upstream distribution is updated. Having used it for 5+ years, I know the facts on...

There is also a PPA for Ubuntu and derivatives:

https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer



No need to delete download history if you use --force (which, along with...