Ability to specify a temporary directory.

[dinkypumpkin]

On 19/02/2013 15:03, John G. Dargie wrote:
> In the past I found the internal history would let me down regularly when a download had previously stalled, while get_iplayer assumed I had got it fully downloaded ok.  Other things were frustrating me as well, like --subdir-format "<episodeshort>" used to use the value of "<episode>", even though the "info" for a programme showed them as different.

It's unlikely, though not impossible, that rtmpdump would return 
successfully without fully downloading a programme, and that would be 
even less likely to occur if you kill it when it stalls.  If that were 
anything other than a rare circumstance, I think we would have heard 
more about it here.  Make sure you don't have an obsolete or broken 
version of rtmpdump.  A few people have had trouble with rtmpdump 
writing to a directory on a network share that is used as a hot folder 
for another application, but rtmpdump should fail properly in those cases.

As for <episodeshort>, if you can document an instance of what you 
described, I'll take a look at it.  I've never noticed a case where 
<episodeshort> and  <episode> are the same, but the --info display said 
otherwise.