> recently I have been experiencing issues when downloading videos
I get similar problems with audio. I've seen various postings about similar problems and it seems to be caused by networking problems - the software which is downloading the file assumes a nice steady connection and doesn't cope well when things get a bit bursty. With a typical shared broadband connection, this tends to happen during busy periods, for example at the weekend or in the evening when the kids come home from school. (I worked in an ISP once and there was always a marked decrease in network traffic when Dr Who was on the TV. Sad but true.)
Anyhow, that's why trying over and over works - eventually you hit a window when everybody else stays quiet for a few minutes and you get your download done. I mainly download audio and it tends to happen to me with programmes that are at least an hour long - the bigger the file, the more chance of hitting a network glitch while downloading it.
If you run your PVR in the middle of the night or very early in the morning it will probably work better. As you will have noticed, when the PVR it completes, it schedules itself to run in four hours time. Try running it before you go to bed, tidy up any failure and leave the PC switched on. The odds of the next run working are good.
GetiPlayer is cobbled together from lots of bits of software. The real solution is to find the component that's causing the glitch and reworking it so that it's not so nervous about temporary network glitches, but that will require a fair amount of work by somebody with the right skills - probably a couple of days solid work from scratch. Like many people who read this forum, I have the skills, but sadly not the time.
There is an alternative, which is the YouView system: http://www.youview.com. It does something very like getIplayer, but it's a supported commercial product and hopefully a bit more resiliant.
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