Now rediscovered the exact error... "ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read packet body. len: 65800"
Cheers. On 24 Nov 2013, at 13:39, Phil White <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
