Stalled TV downloads

[Alan Milewczyk]

A footnote to this. I've realised that my problem really started when I 
amended my batch files to download HLS streams rather than FLV.  I did 
this originally because HLS seems to be faster and I can ensure HD is 
downloaded where applicable, as --tvmode=best sometimes gave SD where HD 
was available. I've just had a programme download stall 3 or 4 times on 
HLS download but when I tried FLV it all went smoothly. So maybe the HLS 
route is more prone to stalled downloads.

Alan

On 14/12/2015 07:12, Dominic Binks wrote:
> 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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