Stalled TV downloads

[Dominic Binks]

I'm not sure it's a problem with your connection.  I use a VPS which 
has, I believe, reliable and fast bandwidth (downloading a 91M package 
just now I got 7.34 megabytes/second) and I often see problems with 
stalled downloads.

I have wondered if it's related to time of day, but it seems to occur 
with similar frequency when I download during weekday daytime.

I usually see various kinds of RTMP errors, but I'm not familiar with 
RTMP to understand what they are telling me - I just restart and retry 
until successful.

As another data point, I get similar issues when trying to using 
get_flash_videos (which uses rtmpdump behind the scenes) so it's not 
just BBC/iPlayer or rtmpdump related.

On 06/12/2015 13:21, Computing wrote:
> Hi, I quite often end up with incomplete mp4 files. I put it down to
> either a failure at the BBC end, servers overloaded and the like or my
> quite poor ADSL connection.
>
> Martin
>
> On 06/12/15 01:41, S Ca wrote:
>> On 6 December 2015 at 00:32, Alan Milewczyk <alan at soulman1949.com> wrote:
>>> Is anyone else having problems with stalled TV downloads?
>>
>> I've had a couple over the last 48 hours that have stalled and not
>> finished downloading (ended up with small mp4 files being saved that I
>> knew were wrong).
>>
>> Not sure on the exact problem though as removing them from the
>> download_history and running my script again downloaded them OK.
>>
>> Steve
>>
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