Winter Olympics live stream recording

[Paul Phillips]

Pleased to report the new HEAD successfully found the Snowboarding
live stream this evening, and recorded the whole thing (2GB). I'll
test it further tomorrow.

On 12 February 2014 14:59, dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/02/2014 20:55, Paul Phillips wrote:
>>
>> I think the latest Git Head is picking up the live stream from the
>> player page but something wierd is happening at the end when the
>> stream finishes.  That's my hunch.  The player pages seem to have
>> things feeding into them - eg the main channel sometimes feeds into
>> them. It's as if they are channels in their own right with different
>> feeds going into them
>
>
> Seems plausible, but I've no real idea.  It still seems strange that a
> static resource like one of the event guides would overwrite a live stream.
> I don't understand how an output file would be overwritten at all unless
> they're monkeying with the streams and rtmpdump gets confused.  It's
> impossible to tell from the log what is going on.
>
> I've made another change to HEAD that refreshes the values of <dldate> and
> <dltime> for each download attempt for a live stream.  Those two parameters
> are in the default value of <fileprefix> for live streams, so the effect
> would be to create a new output file every time rtmpdump croaks and
> get_iplayer restarts the download. That should probably be in get_iplayer
> anyway. I don't know if it will completely prevent files being overwritten
> on your machine, but give it a try if you're feeling brave.
>
> Another approach would be to choose a single CDN and quality (e.g.,
> --modes=flashhd1) and --retries=1 to prevent additional download attempts if
> rtmpdump croaks.  But if it chokes in the middle of the event, that will be
> the end of the recording.
>
> Anyway, I'm throwing in the towel on this.  I'll leave the changes in HEAD
> until the Olympics are over, though.  As you said, you can still use the
> "olympics" branch version of get_iplayer with playlist URLs picked out of
> Firefox web console or similar.  For anyone keeping score, that means you
> can fall back to the earlier instructions here:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org/msg05225.html
>
>
>
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Paul Phillips