episode oddity

[Alan Milewczyk]

On 05/08/16 05:27, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> On Wed Aug 3 21:52:46 BST 2016, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
>> but one thing puzzles me. For some time now, HLS has been my 
>> preferred method of fetching the programmes. I never got these error 
>> messages with v2.94
>> so is v2.95 reporting errors differently to previous versions?
>
> Hello friend, I do hope your oral health has been restored and no more 
> pain-relievers are needed...

Thanks Vangelis, unfortunately not. After three months of problems I'm 
still suffering on and off - the only thing that worked was Ibuprofen 
but that caused me internal bleeding, so I had to stop that option. The 
referral to the dental hospital finally took place today. I saw a 
consultant today who dismissed the previous theory of my pain being 
caused by a gum infection. He's passing me over to one of his colleagues 
who is a pain specialist in the next few days, so hopefully, there will 
be some light at the end of the tunnel soon. (Moral, don't get diabetes 
and coronary heart disease - diabetes screws your immune system and the 
horrendous cocktail of medication I take daily contributes to my dental 
problems.)

Anyway, back on-topic ...
>
> I can't be verbose right now, but:
> 1. The error messages people get currently when fetching hlshd tvmode 
> of some PIDs with 2.95 appears to be a beeb's glitch and I discussed 
> some alternatives in another thread post.
> 2. In GiP 2.94, AppleHLS streams were dumped via FFmpeg; when 
> something went awry, most of the messages (errors/warnings) were 
> generated by ffmpeg itself.
> In GiP 2.95, as explained many times, the recording is realised by 
> default via a native ("built-in" the coder calls it) perl HLS 
> downloader. Various HLS messages are now printed from that built-in 
> downloader, so yes, "v2.95 IS reporting errors differently to previous 
> versions." 

Ah that explains things perfectly, as always. Thank you. It's a pity 
that some things don't stay the same, but this is life.... For some 
time, I've been using HLS and recently been getting download speeds of 
between 30 and 100Mb/s but I switched back temporarily to Flash (until 
the HLS problems got sorted). Unfortunately this seems to be a quarter 
of the speed of HLS and I'm not prepared to live with such a speed 
degradation in the normal course of events! :-(

So tonight I decided to switch back to HLS but to log all the 
transactions to a text file - I can then go through this and for any 
downloads reporting an error, I'll repeat those using Flash on a 
one-by-one basis.

> (For more, have a look at the code inside: 
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/commit/e2adee8 )
>

LOL, I think I'll pass on that. "Captain, I'm not a programmer, I'm an 
engineer", LOL.

> Have a fine summer day, Vangelis.
>

Thanks :-) Have a superb weekend, dear friend.

Regards

Alan