Thanks for your reply. As you correctly surmised, I'm using Ubuntu Lucid. get_iplayer version is v2.80+n15-git050a4a1-ppa4. rtmpdump version is v2.4-n25-git60218d0-ppa5~lucid.
I have tried to download the particular programme a number of times (it is Shock and Awe - The Story of Electricity: 3. Revelations and Revolutions, BBC Four, Factual,Science & Nature,Science & Technology,TV, default which is currently 583. I am using command: get_iplayer --force 583 --get --raw I know about the workaround. But this happens so often, that I would like the download to operate properly without doing it. Typically, I have to do the workaround 10 times, each time failing at any time between 1 second and near the end of a programme. This means that it can take 5 hours plus to do a download. PS it's very difficult to get a message onto this mailing list: I usually receive a message stating that there is a suspicious header. I don't understand why considering that I send my mail as Plain Text. Anybody know why this happens? Regards, John _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
