downloading hd files stalls before complete files are downloaded

[Shevek]

On 25 January 2011 10:06, Roger Burton West <roger at firedrake.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 09:57:30AM +0000, Chris Davies wrote:
>>Actually, you don't (!). Go to the directory in which get_iplayer is
>>installed and then run the update command again. That should fix your
>>issue.
>
> Given how often this issue and related ones come up, might I suggest
> simply removing the auto-update code completely? Many many programs
> manage without it...
>

I posted a patch which fixes --update for Windows get_iplayer last week:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2011-January/000711.html