In article <[email protected]>, The Kernel <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/08/16 20:12, Shevek wrote: > > If I then retry using FLASHHD the download completes without error.
> Just to say > If you are working from a connection that would have trouble with HD > I tried flashstd and it too works without error More specifically, you may mean, "It worked for me on that occasion, without error". However it seems clear there *is* an 'intermittent' problem of some kind. Alas, as any repairman knows, intermittent problems can be the hardest to diagnose and fix. Once again this morning I tried fetching the last episode in the "Saving lives at sea" series. This halted early at about 40m duration when fetched using hls. However the alternative method described in my earlier postings then duly worked OK. Indeed, this gave me about 1h 15mins! There seems to be an 'bonus' item about the RNLI people added on at the end, following a blank gap of some seconds after the end credits of the actual broadcast. I didn't see the live over-air TX so wonder if this was aired or is meant to be a 'bonus' file which might have been planned to be obtainable from iplayer. What I can't tell, of course, is if the problems are down the something the BBC are doing that is 'wrong', or if some rare aspect of the system is catching out hls fetching with gip. But either way, it now seems clear that something is going wrong on some occasions. The problem for me with the alternative fetching method (which here only states it is RTMPDump, but that may be a mislabel) is rather slower than HLS. This is an minor irritant, but nevertheless, something somewhere isn't always working as it should. Jim -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
