get_iplayer Digest, Vol 28, Issue 2

[Chris Cullen]

So the moving the previous file and using --start works fine. I ran a 
few more streams. Increasing the timeout helped a lot with resuming. But 
I found they all stop and die at the same point: ~4.18GB. Resuming does 
not work. I'm assuming it's something on the server side causing thing, 
but I don't know for sure.

On 8/1/2012 6:50 AM, get_iplayer-request at lists.infradead.org wrote:
> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:23:38 +0100
> From: dinkypumpkin<dinkypumpkin at gmail.com>
> To:get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Olympic replays
> Message-ID:<50191FCA.50606 at gmail.com>
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> On 01/08/2012 13:06, Chris Cullen wrote:
>> >First off, Thanks for all you work on this. I'm trying to download some
>> >olympic replays and can't seem to get anything to finish. Randomly, it
>> >seems, the download times out and it fails to resume.
>> >
>> >ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet body. len: 96632
>> >1663859.707 kB / 3916.92 sec (27.6%)
>> >INFO: Connection timed out, trying to resume.
>> >Often it will say:
>> >"WARNING: Stream does not start with requested frame, ignoring data..."
>> >a bunch of times then
>> >"XXXX kB  / XXXX sec (XX.X %)"
>> >"Couldn't resume FLV file try --skip 1"
> The connection was dropped and rtmpdump tried to resume the download and
> append to the existing FLV file.  The resume process often fails.  You
> can try the --start option to pick up from where it died. Just remember
> to rename the previous partial download so rtmdump doesn't attempt to
> resume again.  Otherwise, there's not much you can do but delete the
> partial download and restart.
>
>> >And it loops back  around. I tried skip, but it didn't do anything. I
>> >say a previous post about 4GB files sizes and file systems, but I doubt
>> >that's the problem as i'm using ext4. shall I send more debug info? Any
>> >ideas what to try next?
> As you say, nothing to do with file system limitations.  You'd
> downloaded less than 2GB anyway.  Your email address suggests you may be
> attempting to download from the US, which means you might be using a
> proxy or VPN.  The problem may lie there.
>
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