Olympic ceremonies

louisebay2 at ntlworld.com louisebay2 at ntlworld.com
Tue Aug 14 08:12:40 EDT 2012


Well Sadly I'm still being left with "default.partial.mp4.flv" files.
The first chunk is about 2GB and it went straight to the second chunk
leaving the first file unfinished for some reason.

Not sure what to try next ....

On 14 August 2012 12:09,  <louisebay2 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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  :-)
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>
>> Subject: Re: Olympic ceremonies
>> To: dinkypumpkin <.......>
>>
>>
>> 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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