get_iplayer creating incomplete mp4 files

[Alan Milewczyk]

Would logging the output and scanning the log for errors help? I know 
it's not quite what you wanted but at least you'd be warned of errors in 
the download.

A

On 05-Jan-17 18:42, CJB wrote:
> 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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