File Naming

J K.Eason john at jeason.cix.co.uk
Mon Jul 8 19:31:00 EDT 2013


> You shouldn't need fatfilename just because there is whitespace in 
> a file name. The whitespace option works fine for me without it.  
> You may need/want fatfilename to eliminate other troublesome 
> characters.

Radio programs appear to be ok, but here's a tv failure picked at random.
It downloaded fine with fatfilename, but when I removed it from the
options the filename of the intermediate xx.partial.flv was truncated to
just a zero-length file called 'Arthur' (with no file extension).
 
C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>get_iplayer -g 60 --force
get_iplayer v2.83, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
--warranty.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.

Matches:
60:     Arthur: Series 10 - 16. It Came from Beyond, CBBC,
Animation,Children's,Entertainment & Comedy,TV, default

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: flashhigh2,flashhigh1,flashlow1,flashlow2,flashstd1,flashstd2 modes
will be tried for version default
INFO: Trying flashhigh2 mode to record tv: Arthur: Series 10 - 16. It
Came from Beyond
INFO: File name prefix = Arthur: Series 10 - 16. It Came from Beyond
b0079cg6 default

RTMPDump v2.4
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license:
GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration              774.11
INFO:   moovPosition          28.00
INFO:   width                 640.00
INFO:   height                360.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   avcprofile            77.00
INFO:   avclevel              30.00
INFO:   aacaot                2.00
INFO:   videoframerate        25.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate       24000.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length                19350000.00
INFO:   timescale             25000.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            avc1
INFO:   length                18578432.00
INFO:   timescale             24000.00
INFO:   language              eng
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            mp4a
75459.127 kB / 774.06 sec (99.9%)
Download complete
WARNING: Failed to stream file E:\ulead\Arthur: Series 10 - 16. It Came
from Beyond b0079cg6 default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashhigh2 mode
INFO: Trying flashhigh1 mode to record tv: Arthur: Series 10 - 16. It
Came from Beyond
INFO: File name prefix = Arthur: Series 10 - 16. It Came from Beyond
b0079cg6 default

RTMPDump v2.4
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license:
GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Already Completed at: 773.960 sec Duration=0.774 sec
Download complete
WARNING: Failed to stream file E:\ulead\Arthur: Series 10 - 16. It Came
from Beyond b0079cg6 default
.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashhigh1 mode

<More failure reports for different modes>

INFO: Trying flashstd2 mode to record tv: Arthur: Series 10 - 16. It Came
from Beyond
INFO: File name prefix = Arthur: Series 10 - 16. It Came from Beyond
b0079cg6 default

RTMPDump v2.4
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license:
GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Already Completed at: 773.960 sec Duration=0.774 sec
Download complete
WARNING: Failed to stream file E:\ulead\Arthur: Series 10 - 16. It Came
from Beyond b0079cg6 default
.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashstd2 mode
ERROR: Failed to record 'Arthur: Series 10 - 16. It Came from Beyond
(b0079cg6)'

C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>

Regards
       John



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