I don't think it's speed that's the issue. You can try downloading the failed segments in a browser and they fail because they are just not on the server. Working segments (eg. the one before the failure) will download fine.
__________ > Having a thought about this, when you stream something through IPlayer or on > a device of any sort to watch as it streams, it pulls data at a far lower > rate than when we try and download the whole programme in one hit. I wonder > whether it is this attempt to get the data quickly that is causing the > problem. If I were wearing a tin hat I would say it could have been a > deliberate change to cause problems to people using get_iplayer :-) > > One way to test this would be to make get_iplayer behave more like a > "legitimate" (for want of a better word) client and pull the data at closer > to real time speeds. May be worth doing as a test if someone has the > time/inclination. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
