On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 14:41 +0100, Philip Colmer wrote: > > I'm getting this same error this morning intermittently on everything I > try to > > download. If you leave it a few minutes and then try again, it'll > generally > > work. Perhaps a problem with the BBC's server? > > Or have they made a change that is now blocking get_iplayer?
I too noticed downloads not working, but just trying again has been enough for me to get one going: $ get_iplayer --modes=flashhigh --nopurge 885 -g get_iplayer v2.82, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; use --conditions for details. Matches: 885: The Iraq War - 2. After the Fall, BBC Two, Factual,Guidance,Highlights,History,Politics,TV, default, INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Checking existence of default version INFO: flashhigh1,flashhigh2 modes will be tried for version default INFO: Trying flashhigh1 mode to record tv: The Iraq War - 2. After the Fall INFO: File name prefix = The_Iraq_War_-_2._After_the_Fall_b02w1gth_default RTMPDump v2.4 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Connecting ... INFO: Connected... Caught signal: 13, cleaning up, just a second... ERROR: WriteN, RTMP send error 32 (42 bytes) ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256) WARNING: Failed to stream file /home/USERNAME/scratch/The_Iraq_War_-_2._After_the_Fall_b02w1gth_default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP INFO: skipping flashhigh1 mode INFO: Trying flashhigh2 mode to record tv: The Iraq War - 2. After the Fall INFO: File name prefix = The_Iraq_War_-_2._After_the_Fall_b02w1gth_default RTMPDump v2.4 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Connecting ... INFO: Connected... ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256) WARNING: Failed to stream file /home/USERNAME/scratch/The_Iraq_War_-_2._After_the_Fall_b02w1gth_default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP INFO: skipping flashhigh2 mode ERROR: Failed to record 'The Iraq War - 2. After the Fall (b02w1gth)' But just repeating the command and the download started. I guess the BBC have rolled out a change which hasn't taken yet on all the machines that make up their various clusters? Something like that. $ get_iplayer --modes=flashhigh --nopurge 885 -g get_iplayer v2.82, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; use --conditions for details. Matches: 885: The Iraq War - 2. After the Fall, BBC Two, Factual,Guidance,Highlights,History,Politics,TV, default, INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Checking existence of default version INFO: flashhigh1,flashhigh2 modes will be tried for version default INFO: Trying flashhigh1 mode to record tv: The Iraq War - 2. After the Fall INFO: File name prefix = The_Iraq_War_-_2._After_the_Fall_b02w1gth_default RTMPDump v2.4 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Connecting ... INFO: Connected... ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header INFO: Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256) WARNING: Failed to stream file /home/USERNAME/scratch/The_Iraq_War_-_2._After_the_Fall_b02w1gth_default.partial.mp4.flv via RTMP INFO: skipping flashhigh1 mode INFO: Trying flashhigh2 mode to record tv: The Iraq War - 2. After the Fall INFO: File name prefix = The_Iraq_War_-_2._After_the_Fall_b02w1gth_default RTMPDump v2.4 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Connecting ... INFO: Connected... Starting download at: 0.000 kB INFO: Metadata: 3715.515 kB / 38.84 sec _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer