Recent read failure

Berni Elbourn berni at elbournb.fsnet.co.uk
Mon Aug 1 07:02:38 EDT 2011



On 01/08/11 11:19, Berni Elbourn wrote:
>
> On 01/08/11 04:17, Carl Fletcher wrote:
>>
>> Running Latest patch from git
>> WARNING: Stream does not start with requested frame, ignoring data...
>> WARNING: Stream does not start with requested frame, ignoring data...
>> 340891.890 kB / 3487.96 sec (98.4%)
>>
>> Any one else seeing this?
>>
>
> Yes - 2.79 here on Debian squeeze to resumes do not work. Since started
> for me last week. There is a pattern. The first few pvr downloads seem
> to work but subsequent downloads fail after fetching about 100mb. So
> its i just a guess but perhaps files, or parts of files are being moved
> around on the BBC servers and confusing rtmpdump mid stream.
>
> Solution for me so far has been to leave a few hours, and remove the
> *partial* files at the start of each pvr run. Eventually they come down ok.
>
> Actually, it does occur that the default does seem to be HD these
> days....maybe I will try the non-hd formats a while.
>

Seems non-hd makes no difference here. Next pvr run using flashstd1 
failed  three downloads after 300, 97, and 89mb. None worked at all this 
time.



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