FW: Incompleate downloads creating mp4

[Dave Widgery]

Hi All Thanks for your replies.

Firstly Madeline, I am not using WiFi I am using a direct cable connection
to the router. 

I suspect several reasons for the performance problem, I live in a small
village on the limit of the distance from the exchange, having said that
generally the connection isn't too bad, the second factor is that I am using
a VPN and the problem has appeared to increase dramatically since the UK
freesat (or whatever it is called) moved satellites, removing converge of UK
TV from most of France and Spain, I am also speaking to the VPN provider to
see if they have experienced problems due to increased traffic.

Secondly Chris, thanks for the tip about regularly copying the downloading
file might give that a try, as regards the --force switch is there a way to
reset the history for a particular download so you don’t need to use the
--force switch?

Finally Peter, I have had a look at the --raw switch and I am not sure how
this will help, unless I have misunderstood this will leave all my downloads
in the format xxx-partial.mp4.flv whether they have successfully downloaded
or not, at least at the moment I know that the xxx-partial.mp4.flv haven’t
downloaded correctly and the ones converted to mp4 might have downloaded
correctly.

Is there a way of finding out the predicted download size so I can compare
it with the resultant file?

Thanks 
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf
Of Peter S Kirk
Sent: 26 March 2014 00:17
To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Incompleate downloads creating mp4

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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