get_iplayer v2.79 on Windows with flvstreamer_win32_latest

[Shevek]

On 10 January 2011 07:41,  <chrism at spamcop.net> wrote:
> Quoting Shevek <shevek at shevek.co.uk>:
>
>> On 9 January 2011 21:51, Mike Cooter <mike_cooter at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've upgrade to 2.79 and substituted RMTPDump 2.2d for 2.3.
>>>
>>> Still having problems - although the file begins downloading, it  hangs
>>> after 4.6% and reports:
>>>
>>> ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header.
>>>
>>
>> I've been getting the exact same problem. I just kill the process,
>> delete the partial flv file and try again - it usually succeeds the
>> second time
>>
>
> Since replacing RMTPDump with flvstreamer 2.1c I've had no problems at all.
> I'd suggest trying that instead.
>

as discussed elsewhere on this list - flvstreamer introduces other
issues which I'd rather avoid.