WARNING: Stream does not start with requested FLV frame

marshall marshall at brooklandsand.co.uk
Tue Aug 2 09:49:29 EDT 2011


On 02/08/11 13:09, chrism at spamcop.net wrote:
> Quoting "David W. Legg" <dwlegg at gmail.com>:
>
>> For the last few days, I have been getting:
>>
>> 'WARNING: Stream does not start with requested FLV frame, ignoring 
>> data...
>> 96382.681 kB / 254.76 sec (16.4%)
>> Couldn't resume FLV file, try --skip 1
>>
>> INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256)
>> ERROR: Failed to record 'The Sarah Jane Adventures: Series 4 - Lost in
>> Time: Part 1 (b00vz64d)'
>> '
>>
>> The WARNING gets repeated loads of times.
>> I get a file of size about 95MB.
>>
>> The command was:
>> 'get_iplayer --get 723 --modes=flashvhigh'
>>
>> Any steers?
>
> Hi David,
>
> I think this is all related to the issues that have been widely 
> reported on the list for the last week or so, which all seem to stem 
> from "rtmpdump" and restarting streams after a redirection. The Beeb 
> seem to have changed something around about last Tuesday.
>
> Make sure you have the latest patched version of the "get_iplayer" 
> script. Other than that, all I can suggest, if you get this issue, is 
> to delete the partial file and re-try the download.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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The RTMPdump 2.4 update came down this morning. 
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/rtmpdump
I shall be testing tonight with a fresh git pull. :)

Regards
Marshall



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