Trevor Campbell Davis, Download help

[Carl Fletcher]

On 06/08/11 19:49, Trevor Campbell Davis wrote:
>
> Shevek,
>
> I've been away, so apologies for not responding before now.
>
> No good, I'm afraid - I've switched back to RTMP from flvstreamer, after
> updating to RTMPDump 2.4. So now I'm using the current version of
> get_iplayer (2.79) and the latest RTMP.
>
> But here's the thing - lots of TV programmes will download fine, as FLVs
> converting on completion to mp4s. But some won't - I can see them
> downloading on the router, but an empty file envelope appears on the
> destination drive, without a file type shown (in contrast to those
> downloading successfully, which show a "partial.mp4" file type).
>
> To give examples, I've just successfully downloaded the second episode
> of The Code on BBC HD (PID b01320wn), with an mp4 file size of 1153 MB,
> but failed to download Thursday's Elgar Prom on BBC4 (PID b012znpz),
> which does the empty envelope trick.
>
> Any idea what's going on?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Trevor
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Shevek
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 12:35 AM
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: FAO: Trevor Campbell Davis RE: Download help
>
> Apologies for the new thread start - I can't seem to reply to anything
> without a Suspicious Headers Moderator Approval response.
>
> Trevor,
>
> Your problem is you are using the old FLVStreamer.
>
> You need to install RTMPDump 2.3 and then set get_iplayer to use that
> instead with a command such as:
>
> get_iplayer --prefs-add --flvstreamer ./your/path/to/rtmpdump.exe
>
> HTH
>
> Shevek
>
>
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If you remove prefs with
get_iplayer --prefs-clear
get_iplayer will use rtmpdump

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