get_iplayer creating incomplete mp4 files

[Alan Milewczyk]

Perhaps I'm being thick here but surely if you're in Windows just right 
clicking on the file will give you the property details. Alternatively, 
do what I do, have Windows view in "detail" and add "Length" to your 
display.

A

On 05-Jan-17 23:17, Dave Widgery wrote:
> 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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