downloading hd files stalls before complete files are downloaded

[Christopher Woods (CustomMade)]

> Mark Fraser wrote:
> > INFO: Please run the following commands to update 
> get_iplayer using apt
> >   wget 
> > http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/packages/get-iplayer-current.deb
> >   
> 
> Mmm. That appears to be out of date

See my post last night about this, essentially I was saying this points to
an html page (404 redirect) and the betas from the github are recommended
now for daily usage. As Homer wrote a couple of days ago:

> [...] here (for the development branch):
> 
> git://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git
> 
> I recommend you use the development branch, because things change
> at the Beeb quite often, and there have been a few recent fixes.
> 
> Also, the page you referenced recommends you use flvstreamer, but you
> should actually use the latest version of rtmpdump instead (RTMPE
support).
> 
> http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/
> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=RTMPE
> 
> There also seems to (maybe) be an issue with the latest version, 0.6
> (23607) or 0.6.1 (25512), of ffmpeg (muxing), so you may need to go back
> to the previous version, 0.5.1 (22140). YMMV.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> --
> Homer