Problem with Radio Downloads

[Budge]

On 26/01/17 16:32, C E Macfarlane wrote:
> Hi Budge,
>
> I can't comment on the LC profile, but I presume that you've noticed that in
> the first sample the durations reported by AP and FFprobe do not agree,
> whereas in the second they agree ...
>
> --
> www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html
>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org]On
>>     Behalf Of Budge
>>     Sent: 26 January 2017 14:48
>>     To: get_iplayer
>>     Subject: Problem with Radio Downloads
>
> [snip]
>
>>     Movie duration: 823.275 seconds (13:43.28) - 320.00* kbp/sec bitrate
> [snip]
>>     ...Duration: 00:27:50.40, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 321 kb/s
> [snip]
>>     Movie duration: 1996.800 seconds (33:16.80) - 320.00* kbp/sec bitrate
> [snip]
>>       Duration: 00:33:16.80, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 321 kb/s
>
> At times in the past I've had troubles with truncated files, where the
> download just appears to end suddenly part way through, without any obvious
> explanation other than that it usually occurs when I'm having broadband
> troubles of some sort or other, or another download is occurring at the same
> time, and hogging the tiny amount of bandwidth available to me, which is
> easily done, as my download speed is only 1.58Mbps (although I'm retired
> now, I've just returned from a day's work on Skye configuring a legacy
> customer's WiFi system to use his new FTTP connection of 100Mbps  -  you can
> imagine my mixed feelings of triumph and envy on getting everything to work
> and measuring a download speed of a little over 94Mbps!)
>
> Since Christmas I've been about a fortnight behind with my listening, but
> AFAIAA I've not had such prematurely ended download problems recently, but
> nevertheless that looks to me as being the most likely cause of your
> problem.  An easy way to spot it would be to compare filesizes of similar
> length, similar bitrate programmes, one of which plays and the other does
> not  -  if the one that doesn't play is shorter than the one that does, then
> that's what went wrong, and you'll just have to redownload it using the two
> switches --force --overwrite.

Hi and very many thanks.  No I confess I didn't look at durations, 
mainly because the Linn problem had sent me off in another direction.
Now I am back with this issue will do some more work but only downloads 
since 17/1/2017 have been faulty and every one I have tried today has 
had problems.

Of course there could be a broadband problem  sending emails takes over 
10 seconds at present even for a few lines with no attachments.  Being 
in Aberfeldy, which is not too far from A9, I do envy the folk on Skye 
who are so much further away.  Fibre has come to our local exchange but 
we are out of town and too far away to benefit.  We will be 2 km from 
the cubicle when it is installed.  At present I pay for two lines to try 
and get bandwidth.

Thanks again for the suggestion.  Will look into it further.
Regards,
Budge.