get_iplayer creating incomplete mp4 files

[Alan Milewczyk]

In which case back to my original suggestion of piping the download 
output into a log file and taking it from there using the error reports...

A

On 06-Jan-17 15:59, Dave Widgery wrote:
> Hi
> what you say is true but I want to do it from a batch file so I can
> clean up and maybe get it to try re-downloading the program
> automatically without be having to check every one manually.
> Dave
>
> On 6 January 2017 at 01:21, Alan Milewczyk <alan at soulman1949.com> wrote:
>> 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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