Pleased to report the new HEAD successfully found the Snowboarding live stream this evening, and recorded the whole thing (2GB). I'll test it further tomorrow.
On 12 February 2014 14:59, dinkypumpkin <dinkypump...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/02/2014 20:55, Paul Phillips wrote: >> >> I think the latest Git Head is picking up the live stream from the >> player page but something wierd is happening at the end when the >> stream finishes. That's my hunch. The player pages seem to have >> things feeding into them - eg the main channel sometimes feeds into >> them. It's as if they are channels in their own right with different >> feeds going into them > > > Seems plausible, but I've no real idea. It still seems strange that a > static resource like one of the event guides would overwrite a live stream. > I don't understand how an output file would be overwritten at all unless > they're monkeying with the streams and rtmpdump gets confused. It's > impossible to tell from the log what is going on. > > I've made another change to HEAD that refreshes the values of <dldate> and > <dltime> for each download attempt for a live stream. Those two parameters > are in the default value of <fileprefix> for live streams, so the effect > would be to create a new output file every time rtmpdump croaks and > get_iplayer restarts the download. That should probably be in get_iplayer > anyway. I don't know if it will completely prevent files being overwritten > on your machine, but give it a try if you're feeling brave. > > Another approach would be to choose a single CDN and quality (e.g., > --modes=flashhd1) and --retries=1 to prevent additional download attempts if > rtmpdump croaks. But if it chokes in the middle of the event, that will be > the end of the recording. > > Anyway, I'm throwing in the towel on this. I'll leave the changes in HEAD > until the Olympics are over, though. As you said, you can still use the > "olympics" branch version of get_iplayer with playlist URLs picked out of > Firefox web console or similar. For anyone keeping score, that means you > can fall back to the earlier instructions here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org/msg05225.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer -- Paul Phillips _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
