Running PVR from Cron

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Now rediscovered the exact error...

"ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read packet body. len: 65800"

Cheers.

On 24 Nov 2013, at 13:39, Phil White <manx.biz at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I have a gentoo setup here and run the PVR facility every night at 1am.
> 
> Sometimes, I am encountering a bug (I believe in rtmpdump, not
> get_iplayer), which means the download never completes.
> 
> In an attempt to catch this, I have another script running at 7am to
> kill any get_iplayer and rtmpdump process...
> ... Except that sometimes the darn thing just respawns and carries on as before.
> 
> Any advice on how I can handle this? How *should* I be calling the PVR
> function, and killing off the resultant processes?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil
> 
> ----
> 
> Technical details:
> Watching what happens, it appears that the process is as follows:
> get_iplayer will start to download a file.
> At some point during the download, there will be an error (sorry, I
> have lost the exact message), and an attempt will occur to renegotiate
> a download. It is here that everything always goes wrong. CPU usage
> goes up to 100%, and the process will continue to download data
> ad-infinitum (which is a bugger, since I am on a restricted download
> tarriff. I then have next-to-no internet for the rest of the month...)
> I am not sure what causes the download error. I did suspect that it
> might be my ISP giving me a new IP in the middle of a download -
> however, I did notice that there are sometimes a specific file that
> will always trigger the issue if I download it manually. If I notice
> this, I just remove it from the PVR list, and download it manually a
> few days later.
> 
> Oh, and is this a suitable point to beg if someone has downloaded
> episode 4 of Orphan Black? I lost it as a result of this error...