WARNING: Stream does not start with requested FLV frame

[Carl Fletcher]

On 02/08/11 18:41, Marshall Cleave wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:49:29 +0100
> marshall<marshall at brooklandsand.co.uk>  wrote:
>
>> 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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>
> Well, I have grabbed 18 programmes this afternoon with rtmpdump 2.4 and
> a fresh get_iplayer from git. All came down without error. Most of
> the downloads came from ceebeebees and a couple from bbc parliment. All
> were in flashlow.
> Anyone else able to confirm better stability with rtmpdump 2.4? or
> maybe I'm just lucky this time.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
>
>
> Sent from claws mail/nokia n900
>
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I started an earlier thread on this whole issue, but this AM I grabbed a 
couple of programs with no error. I hadn't changed anything in my setup. 
So I'll be watching the list and steady as she goes, wait and see.