On 25 Mar 2014 at 23:10, Dave Widgery Dave Widgery <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I have a fairly slow and sometimes unreliable internet connection (hence > I use get_iplayer rather than trying to stream video) sometimes if a > download fails I get a xxx.partial.mp4.flv file left, that is a little > annoying but I just try and re-download, sometimes it will continue, > sometimes I have to delete the xxx.partial.mp4.flv file (such is life with > my connection). > > But what I do find more than a bit annoying is when a download has failed > but get_iplayer has converted what it has downloaded into a mp4 file, > especially when I have watched 1 ½ hours of a film and the last 10 minutes > is missing! This is made worse when it is a week after I recorded the > program and it is no longer available. > > Can anyone suggest a way getting get_iplayer to automatically flag a file > when it has had excessive download errors or has produced an incomplete > output file? Then I can schedule the file to be downloaded again. > > I am using the latest get_iplayer for windows. > I appreciate that the main problem is my connection, but any ideas on a > workaround would be gratefully received. I have the same problem and often make copies of the partial every 100MB or so. These sometimes allow resuming if the latest partial is broken. dinky did post a reply to my question (similar to yours) about stopping the conversion of the partial, but I can't find it. You could try renaming the ffmpeg directory so the file stays as .flv _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
