Hi all I have a gentoo setup here and run the PVR facility every night at 1am.
Sometimes, I am encountering a bug (I believe in rtmpdump, not get_iplayer), which means the download never completes. In an attempt to catch this, I have another script running at 7am to kill any get_iplayer and rtmpdump process... ... Except that sometimes the darn thing just respawns and carries on as before. Any advice on how I can handle this? How *should* I be calling the PVR function, and killing off the resultant processes? Thanks, Phil ---- Technical details: Watching what happens, it appears that the process is as follows: get_iplayer will start to download a file. At some point during the download, there will be an error (sorry, I have lost the exact message), and an attempt will occur to renegotiate a download. It is here that everything always goes wrong. CPU usage goes up to 100%, and the process will continue to download data ad-infinitum (which is a bugger, since I am on a restricted download tarriff. I then have next-to-no internet for the rest of the month...) I am not sure what causes the download error. I did suspect that it might be my ISP giving me a new IP in the middle of a download - however, I did notice that there are sometimes a specific file that will always trigger the issue if I download it manually. If I notice this, I just remove it from the PVR list, and download it manually a few days later. Oh, and is this a suitable point to beg if someone has downloaded episode 4 of Orphan Black? I lost it as a result of this error... _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
