W1A download issue

[steve phillips]

Thanks for the reply. Deleted the partial flv file as suggested and retried and lo and behold....success

> That's a rather old version, which probably also means you have a rather
old version of ffmpeg.  The handling of non-monotonic timestamps has
changed in later versions of ffmpeg so that it doesn't automatically die
in every case


Noted your comment about version 2.82 Tend to shy away from updates which sometimes appear to have direct relevance in fixing a bug which doesn't affect my 'simple' use via Windows; never attempted pvr use etc. However whilst I don't fully understand implications of the 'non-montonic timestamps' maybe it's time to do an upgrade and explore more of the inner workings of this fabulous little program

Thanks again



----- Original Message -----
From: dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com>
To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2014, 21:15
Subject: Re: W1A download issue

On 02/04/2014 20:58, steve phillips wrote:
> Have tried to download episode 2 of W1A a few times over the last 5 days but not successful. Keep getting message "application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 1.....etc" Is there anything I can do or is it an issue in the bbc source file?

Not a source issue.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who downloaded it 
perfectly fine. The error message comes from ffmpeg, which means either 
that rtmpdump thinks the file downloaded OK when it didn't, or else 
there were some rtmpdump errors you didn't tell us about.  You probably 
got a duff download that you didn't delete, so you're feeding the same 
bad file repeatedly to ffmpeg.  Delete the .flv file and start over.

> Have used the --force --get commands to clear the partial flv file but still no joy

That won't remove a partial download.  You have to delete the .flv file 
from disk.

> PS running 2.82 on windows 7

That's a rather old version, which probably also means you have a rather 
old version of ffmpeg.  The handling of non-monotonic timestamps has 
changed in later versions of ffmpeg so that it doesn't automatically die 
in every case.




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