On 8 January 2011 14:08, spam.mc <spam...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Also running Ubuntu. > > Okay, I happen to have a Ubuntu virtual machine installed on the same > windows box that I'm having the download troubles with. So I've just fired > it up and installed the get_iplayer script and rtmpdump 2.3-2 from the > Ubuntu Software Center > > Surprisingly (to me anyway) it's working fine, it's downloaded 46% of my > randomly selected Arena download (why did I pick an hour long program to > test with!). > > So it's obviously nothing to do with my IP address or internet connection as > the working VM is using the same connection as the host PC which is failing. > So this points to it being a problem with the Windows version of rtmpdump > 2.3? >
I think I _may_ have cracked it! I set up a brand new Ubuntu VM, updated the OS, installed get_iplayer, rtmpdump and ffmpeg and tried the Arena episode It gives the error! ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256) WARNING: Failed to stream file /home/shevek/Arena_-_The_Archers_b0074t7h_default.partial.flv via RTMP My Windows host get_iplayer is still working fine. The only thing I can think of that is different is that I have applied the latest patches from the git repository to my Windows version. So in the VM I downloaded the latest commit from git, ran that and it works! So it looks to me that the problem is with older revisions of get_iplayer itself For those who are having this issue try this: DOwnload the latest snapshot from http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/snapshot/f17e8cc9070edf7d7c19fa12cdf09cd743cf8fbf.tar.gz Open the archive (depending on your archive app you may need to open a further archive inside it) and extract the get_iplayer file. Save this to your get_iplayer directory Rename the existing get_iplayer.pl file to get_iplayer.old Rename the file you just extracted to get_iplayer.pl Try downloading again using RTMPDump. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer