Olympic ceremonies

louisebay2 at ntlworld.com louisebay2 at ntlworld.com
Tue Aug 14 07:09:41 EDT 2012


Ah ok, it appears that it didn't like 10seconds, I tried 100 seconds
and it seems to have done it.

I'll try and do the whole thing now.


On 14 August 2012 12:03,  <louisebay2 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Apologies I hit the reply without changing the address .. oops  :-)
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> Subject: Re: Olympic ceremonies
> To: dinkypumpkin <.......>
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> Yes I had renamed the file but the same thing happens. What's curious is that
>
> perl get_iplayer.pl  --modes=flashhd1  --start=0 --stop=100 --get
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00x8v4f --force
> --verbose > log.txt
>
> This one works ok. This is a different video - closing ceremony with
> highlights I think. The only real difference I see is that I'm using
> the direct url from the bbc sports site rather than and iplayer ID.
>
>
>
> On 14 August 2012 11:52, dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 14/08/2012 11:40, lpc wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks - I got that and am not having any joy getting the start stop to
>>> work.
>>>
>>> perl get_iplayer.pl  --modes=flashhd1  --start=0 --stop=10 --pid
>>> p00w2r5c --force --verbose > log.txt
>>>
>>> This is what I used to get the closing ceremony and I added the start
>>> stop parameters to test a 10 second chunk. Without the start stop it
>>> worked ok (of course it fails at the end due to the limits discussed):
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> WARNING: Stream does not start with requested frame, ignoring data...
>>> WARNING: Stream does not start with requested frame, ignoring data...
>>> WARNING: Stream does not start with requested frame, ignoring data...
>>> 3325.994 kB / 8.00 sec (0.0%)
>>> DEBUG: RTMP_Read returned: -2
>>> Couldn't resume FLV file, try --skip 1
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> It is trying to resume the previous download because the old partial.mp4.flv
>> is still in place.  Rename/delete it and start again. Use a different
>> --fileprefix value for each chunk to avoid this.  And there is no need for
>> --start=0 to begin at the beginning, so to speak.
>>
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