get_iplayer creating incomplete mp4 files

[CJB]

Which version of GiP is this with? I used to get that with v2.95+ for
both tv and radio - which is why I reverted back to 2.94.

Sometimes my connection is flackey via a phone dongle, and also with
busy wifi connections - when dropped packets cause a session to have
to be crashed out, 'partial' files deleted, and the whole session
restarted using --force.

Huh - this also used be an issue with RadioDownloader over a flacky
connection. The then developer of RD replied to me that it was not
possible to check the size of the source file against that of the
downloaded file.

I guess the same pertains with GiP - something to do with RTPDump?

CJB

On 05/01/2017, Dave Widgery <dave.widgery at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there anyway of stopping get_iplayer completing the process of
> creating an mp4 file even though there have been errors in the
> recording process.
>
> I have a slow internet connection hence the reason I use get_iplayer
> rather than streaming the programs directly. but at busy times I can
> get a lot of timeouts during the recording process sometimes the
> recording process terminating before the end.
>
> This is annoying in its self but that is my internet connection, but
> when the process continues and creates an mp4 file missing the last 5
> minutes of a program or film it can be very annoying especially if it
> is at a crucial point as happened to me recently with Jonathan Creek.
>
> I usually visualy scan the file size to see if it makes sense,
> unfortunately in the last example the file size was about right for an
> hour (I hadn't realised it should have been 1 1/2 hours).
>
> there must be a  simple way of comparing the expected recording size
> with the actual size and flagging an error. (I am using the windows
> version of get_iplayer)
>
> Regards
> Dave Widgery
>
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