Downloading Opening Ceremonies

dinkypumpkin dinkypumpkin at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 18:52:56 EDT 2012


On 29/07/2012 23:44, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2012, at 6:40 PM, dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 29/07/2012 16:55, Derek J. Balling wrote:
>>> 2.4 was able to download the new/final ceremonies just fine.
>>
>> Out of curiosity: Did it download the whole 4717MB programme in one continuous operation, or did it croak at 4GB and resume from the second CDN, like it did for me?
>
> To be honest, I didn't pay attention I was just overjoyed to have it say "successful" :-)

Fair enough.  Small pleasures can indeed be the best.  I was just 
looking for another data point.  The only way to debug this is to tinker 
with rtmpdump, and I'm too busy watching the Olympics :}

> Just wish I had been able to D/L the "no commentary" version, because while the BBC Sport announcers they had on the show were good, it's still nothing like just taking it in  "naturally".

Amen to that.  It's easy to understand why Danny Boyle wasn't exactly 
thrilled that the BBC decide to overlay commentary on the show.






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