Hi All Thanks for your replies. Firstly Madeline, I am not using WiFi I am using a direct cable connection to the router.
I suspect several reasons for the performance problem, I live in a small village on the limit of the distance from the exchange, having said that generally the connection isn't too bad, the second factor is that I am using a VPN and the problem has appeared to increase dramatically since the UK freesat (or whatever it is called) moved satellites, removing converge of UK TV from most of France and Spain, I am also speaking to the VPN provider to see if they have experienced problems due to increased traffic. Secondly Chris, thanks for the tip about regularly copying the downloading file might give that a try, as regards the --force switch is there a way to reset the history for a particular download so you dont need to use the --force switch? Finally Peter, I have had a look at the --raw switch and I am not sure how this will help, unless I have misunderstood this will leave all my downloads in the format xxx-partial.mp4.flv whether they have successfully downloaded or not, at least at the moment I know that the xxx-partial.mp4.flv havent downloaded correctly and the ones converted to mp4 might have downloaded correctly. Is there a way of finding out the predicted download size so I can compare it with the resultant file? Thanks Dave -----Original Message----- From: get_iplayer [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter S Kirk Sent: 26 March 2014 00:17 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Incompleate downloads creating mp4 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 _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
