On 25 Mar 2014 at 22:24, Peter S Kirk Peter S Kirk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Found it, it was square not dinky: On 2013-12-31 2:57 AM, Peter S Kirk wrote: > Hi, > > How do I configure the web PVR to do nothing when stream ends? > > ie leave it as ....partial.mp4.flv You can append the --raw command* to your download command. This will prevent transcoding or any change to the downloaded stream and leave you with the flv file. * Just for reference, this info is available in the Options page of the get_iplayer Wiki, which is mirrored here: http://squarepenguin.co.uk/wiki/options/ Cheers, Peter 15GB + 5GB bonus Free cloud storage, no credit card details required: https://copy.com?r=VnqHxA - 5GB bonus for both for using referal link Cloud storage space and app provided by https://www.barracuda.com Files are stored on Barracuda's own servers, not amazon/aws or other third party as most including dropbox use _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
