get_iplayer creating incomplete mp4 files

[Dave Widgery]

Hi

I did consider filesize, but as you say this varies depending on what
quality you download at so you would need to know what has been used,
i use --tvmode=flashbetter but this can fall back to a different
quality depending on what is available, also if it has dropped a few
bytes here or there due to download errors the figures may not add up
for an easy compare, but the length of the program in minutes should
be close enough even if the odd few seconds have been lost here and
there.

Dave

On 5 January 2017 at 16:01, RS <richard22j at zoho.com> wrote:
>> From: Dave Widgery
>> Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2017 14:38
>
>
>> 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
>
>
> It may be easier to work with file sizes.  The --info string includes
> modesize.  You can parse it for that string, and then parse the result for
> the mode you are using.
>
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