get_iplayer creating incomplete mp4 files

[Dave Widgery]

Hi thanks for the suggestion,  But I have discovered that if I run the
command for example.
get_iplayer "jonathan creek" --i | find "runtime"
I get the result.
runtime: 90
which gives the length of the program in minutes, if anyone can
suggest a simple dos utility (or maybe even a command line option for
ffmpeg) so that I can then
interrogate the mp4 file to get the actual length in minutes, I could
use this to compare and verify the output file.

Thanks
Dave

On 5 January 2017 at 13:18, Alan Milewczyk <alan at soulman1949.com> wrote:
> 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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