Pick up from Download Completed?

Dave Liquorice allsorts at howhill.com
Thu Feb 5 17:42:38 PST 2015


Hi,

Is it possible to pickup from the "Download Completed" point? 

I run get_iplayer on a Raspberry Pi using a NAS as the download location and 
also processing the files there via SMB. Problem is the NAS is playing silly 
B's and goes into a sulk after the download completes and the next avconv 
stage eventually times out/gives up. The downloaded file should be complete 
as the script had said fired up avconv...  

I've looked through various pages of get_iplayer options but can't find 
anything that looks likely. I've got several of these complete "partial" 
programmes due to trying to work out what was going on. Seems daft to have 
to download 'em all again.

Asking for the programme again is rejected as it's in the history file and 
suggests --force. Using --force gets a complaint that the file exists and is 
skipped.  B-(

I thought I'd be sneaky and replace rtmpdump with a bash script that just 
returns a 0 exit code. After emulating the --help response so that gip knows 
rtmpdump's capabilties that didn't work either or maybe it objected to 
getting the help text at that point? Adjusts that, nope still skips. 
Actually it doesn't look like it's getting as far as firing up rtmpdump to 
try and download/resume before deciding to skip the programme.

Removed the programmes entry in the history file, still skips. Adds --force 
still skips.

-- 
Cheers
Dave.





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