All TV downloads failing at about 240s

FJuniper fjuniper at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 04:39:01 EDT 2011


No problem here either - successfully downloaded a 30 minute programme 
in VHigh using command line (and a "three" 3G connection!).

Chris Marriott wrote:
> I've been successfully using the latest get_iplayer under Windows for 
> many months. This morning, however, any attempt to download TV gets to 
> about 240s into the programme and then fails with:
>
> ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet body. len: 73508
>
> it will then attempt to resume, get a little way further, and then 
> repeatedly give:
>
> WARNING: Stream does not start with requested frame, ignoring data...
>
> before finally failing.
>
> This is happening with ALL downloads of TV programmes, although radio 
> downloads seem to be working OK. Every download is failing at the same 
> point - around the 240s point - which makes me suspect an issue at the 
> BBC end of things.
>
> I'm using the standard rtmpdump 2.2d which comes with the Windows 
> installation. I've tried replacing it with the later 2.3, but it fails 
> in exactly the same way.
>
> A typical command line I'm using:
>
> get_iplayer --mode=flashhigh --pid=b012t6ly
>
> Is anyone else seeing this problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris
>
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