I'm not sure it's a problem with your connection. I use a VPS which has, I believe, reliable and fast bandwidth (downloading a 91M package just now I got 7.34 megabytes/second) and I often see problems with stalled downloads.

I have wondered if it's related to time of day, but it seems to occur with similar frequency when I download during weekday daytime.

I usually see various kinds of RTMP errors, but I'm not familiar with RTMP to understand what they are telling me - I just restart and retry until successful.

As another data point, I get similar issues when trying to using get_flash_videos (which uses rtmpdump behind the scenes) so it's not just BBC/iPlayer or rtmpdump related.

On 06/12/2015 13:21, Computing wrote:
Hi, I quite often end up with incomplete mp4 files. I put it down to
either a failure at the BBC end, servers overloaded and the like or my
quite poor ADSL connection.

Martin

On 06/12/15 01:41, S Ca wrote:
On 6 December 2015 at 00:32, Alan Milewczyk <[email protected]> wrote:
Is anyone else having problems with stalled TV downloads?

I've had a couple over the last 48 hours that have stalled and not
finished downloading (ended up with small mp4 files being saved that I
knew were wrong).

Not sure on the exact problem though as removing them from the
download_history and running my script again downloaded them OK.

Steve

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