On 30/10/2013 13:48, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
In theory the perl program lets you code --attempts=nn, which has a default value of 3, but there's code that overrides this to 50 (sometimes?). It seems to me that if the user wanted eg --attempts=8 then that's the value that should be used.
Incomplete documentation is at fault here. In short, --attempts sets the number of times rtmpdump should try to resume a particular stream before giving up. If you look at the section of code you referenced, you'll see that --attempts applies per stream. For TV, each recording mode corresponds to 2 streams (1 for each of 2 CDNs). The maximum number of retries for a programme is:
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