get_iplayer hangs

[Carl Fletcher]

On 03/09/11 13:40, Alexis Fotiadis wrote:
>
> On 02/09/2011 09:35, John Rose wrote:
>> WARNING: Stream does not start with requested FLV frame, ignoring
>> data...
>> ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet body. len: 74212
>>
>> and get_iplayer hangs.
>>
>> Is this due to BBC's duff communication or a bug in get_iplayer?
>
> On 02/09/2011 21:18, dinkypumpkin wrote:
>> Not a problem with get_iplayer per se.  Looks like rtmpdump was having
>> trouble with the content server - not a new problem.  Delete the partial
>> download and try again.
>
> If it's the same problem I've had the same problem off and on, agree it
>   seems to be from rtmpdump 2.4, not get_iplayer itself. When it happens
>   on mine, rtmpdump seems to 'overload' - according to TaskManager it
> starts using 1GB RAM (i.e. more than any other program running - my
> laptop only has 512MB RAM...) then hangs/crashes, either by me closing
> it from TaskManager, or by itself in which case it takes other programs
>   down with it. Also, it happens separately to parallel downloads i.e.
> only happens on one while the others still work.
>
> Temp solution is to manually close rtmpdump from TaskManager, which often results in a repeated error message (or just restart the whole get_iplayer program).
>
> Then delete the partial file as dinkypumpkin said (although if you're
> downloading subtitles aswell, they don't always restart with the main
> file - just do it again).
>
> Don't know why it happens, but it hasn't done it on mine for about a week,
> and the new get_iplayer 2.8 runs pretty stable. 		 	   		
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Try switching to flvstreamer
I have a version that works here
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/get_iplayer/flvstreamer