downloading hd files stalls before complete files are downloaded

[Mark Fraser]

On Monday 24 Jan 2011 14:13:17 Christopher Woods (CustomMade) wrote:
> >  most hd files are converted from flv to mp4 before the
> > 
> > downloading is finished and all i get is part of
> > programmesother definitions are ok OS= windows xp  help  thanks
> 
> We need more info Chris. What version of get_iplayer are you using? Have
> you updated it recently? Did you download the infradead version or are you
> still using the old version from linuxcentre?
> 
> The stalling download problem sounds like an flvstreamer problem, and
> latest versions of get_iplayer use rtmpdump with the swfVfy parameter to
> persuade the BBC streaming servers to properly supply the stream.
> 
> Fwiw, the latest version of get_iplayer available via "get_iplayer --update"
> is Version 2.79 -- Sun, 9 Jan 2011.

sudo get_iplayer --update
[sudo] password for mfraser: 
get_iplayer v2.79, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.

INFO: Please run the following commands to update get_iplayer using apt
  wget http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/packages/get-iplayer-current.deb
  sudo dpkg -i get-iplayer-current.deb
  sudo apt-get -f install
mfraser at Rachael:~$ wget http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/packages/get-
iplayer-current.deb
--2011-01-24 15:37:24--  http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/packages/get-
iplayer-current.deb
Resolving linuxcentre.net... 173.243.123.135
Connecting to linuxcentre.net|173.243.123.135|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html 
[following]
--2011-01-24 15:37:26--  
http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html
Resolving www.infradead.org... 85.118.1.10, 2001:770:15f::2
Connecting to www.infradead.org|85.118.1.10|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10102 (9.9K) [text/html]
Saving to: `get-iplayer-current.deb'

100%[==============================================================================>] 
10,102      --.-K/s   in 0.05s   

2011-01-24 15:37:26 (190 KB/s) - `get-iplayer-current.deb' saved [10102/10102]

mfraser at Rachael:~$ sudo dpkg -i get-iplayer-current.deb 
dpkg-deb: `get-iplayer-current.deb' is not a debian format archive