Stream corrupt error and then rtmpdump goes nuts!

[Alexis Fotiadis]

>> On 21 December 2012 16:57, Neill Mitchell <neill at nlkmitchell.com> wrote:
>> I'm running the latest git versions of get_iplayer and rtmpdump on Ubuntu
>> 12.10. I am regularly having failures downloading programmes now.
>
> exactly which versions? which programmes? have you tried the repo
> here: ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer-testing or here:
> ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer (-testing is notionally less stable,
> but it's the one I use so if it breaks it gets fixed pretty quickly)
> or are you rolling your own?

I used to have the same problem on my old WinXP laptop. Seemed to be caused
by very unstable wireless connection; drop-outs caused rtmpdump to hang and
overload. Temp solution was to kill rtmpdump from TaskManager, delete the
temporary file in the get_iPlayer temp folder, and restart the download.
I didn't try on a wired connection to check if that stopped it happening.

See a similar rtmpdump issue in RadioDownloader
bugzilla.nerdoftheherd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588