Incompleate downloads creating mp4

[Peter S Kirk]

On 25 Mar 2014 at 22:24, Peter S Kirk Peter S Kirk <peter.kirk at isauk.biz> 
wrote:

> 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.
> 

Found it, it was square not dinky:

On 2013-12-31 2:57 AM, Peter S Kirk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How do I configure the web PVR to do nothing when stream ends?
> 
> ie leave it as ....partial.mp4.flv

You can append the --raw command* to your download command. This will
prevent transcoding or any change to the downloaded stream and leave you
with the flv file.

* Just for reference, this info is available in the Options page of the
get_iplayer Wiki, which is mirrored here:
http://squarepenguin.co.uk/wiki/options/


Cheers,

Peter

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