Olympic ceremonies

louisebay2 at ntlworld.com louisebay2 at ntlworld.com
Tue Aug 14 08:19:43 EDT 2012


Silly thing is that if I do 100 seconds it finalises....

On 14 August 2012 13:12,  <louisebay2 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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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