Incompleate downloads creating mp4

[Peter S Kirk]

On 25 Mar 2014 at 23:10, Dave Widgery Dave Widgery 
<widgery.david at orange.fr> wrote:

> Hi, I have a fairly slow and sometimes unreliable internet connection (hence
> I use get_iplayer rather than trying to stream video) sometimes if a
> download fails I get a xxx.partial.mp4.flv file left, that is a little
> annoying but I just try and re-download, sometimes it will continue,
> sometimes I have to delete the xxx.partial.mp4.flv file (such is life with
> my connection).
> 
> But what I do find more than a bit annoying is when a download has failed
> but get_iplayer has converted what it has downloaded into a mp4 file,
> especially when I have watched 1 ½ hours of a film and the last 10 minutes
> is missing! This is made worse when it is a week after I recorded the
> program and it is no longer available.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a way getting get_iplayer to automatically flag a file
> when it has had excessive download errors or has produced an incomplete
> output file? Then I can schedule the file to be downloaded again.
> 
> I am using the latest get_iplayer for windows.
> I appreciate that the main problem is my connection, but any ideas on a
> workaround would be gratefully received.

I have the same problem and often make copies of the partial every 100MB or 
so. These sometimes allow resuming if the latest partial is broken.

dinky did post a reply to my question (similar to yours) about stopping the 
conversion of the partial, but I can't find it.

You could try renaming the ffmpeg directory so the file stays as .flv