get_iplayer Download Olympics In Chunks Tutorial

[Matthew Stanfield]

On 8 August 2012 05:41, MS <jmstanfield at gmail.com wrote:
>
> BTW don't use --stop when grabbing the chunks, just use --start and
> let it run for as long as possible to grab as much as possible with
> each chunk. It'll save you time in the long run (well it saved me
> time anyway).

On 08/08/12 04:14, Matthew Kerle wrote:
>
> ah, good call. My downloads seem to maxing out around the 2.2GB mark,
> which is about ~1:26:00 into the broadcast. I'll probably have enough
> to start stitching tomorrow. Sadly I seems I can only pull down HD at
> 30% realtime speed, so for 3hour sessions it will take me  about
> 9hours, not counting restarts :-(

First of all Matt let's switch back to the list, reply to the whole list 
please (CC me if you want but it's not necessary). By keeping the emails 
in the list other people may be able to help if I can't (and I'm far 
from expert), furthermore people with the same problem in the future may 
be able to get a solution from the list archives.

A lot of my Olympic downloads stopped at about the 2.2 GB mark as well. 
Looking through my downloaded chunks, which span 2 whole days of fencing 
and total approx. 17 hours of video, I see that only 3 chunks went 
through all the way to 4 GB, 2 at over 3 GB, and the rest almost all 
between 1.8 GB and 2.5 GB. As I wrote in the tutorial I deleted any 
chunk which failed to deliver less than 1 hour of video and tried that 
chunk again (guessing: I had to restart about 1 in every 3 chunks). Note 
that 1 hour of the 1280x720 Olympics video is about 1.5 GB.

Downloading at 30% realtime speed does not sound good at all. I just 
tested my download speed, it's at approx. 300% realtime (i.e. 1 minute 
takes 20 seconds to download). My internet connection is fast though - I 
have Virgin Media's scorching 100 Mb cable service. 30% realtime is not 
fast enough to view the video on the BBC Olympics live video pages, so 
something is amiss, I am afraid I don't know what unless it is as simple 
as your having terribly slow internet bandwidth or downloading to a 
laptop using wireless (not very advisable). Maybe others have some 
bright ideas? You'd better reply to this email (to the list) about 
whether you have low bandwidth or not, so that can be ruled out as the 
problem or not. If downloading to a laptop using wireless, try 
connecting the laptop directly to your cable modem/router.

Hope this helps,

Matt