Re: How to terminate a downloading task when rtmpdump.exe is still on?

[Chris Marriott]

-Original Message- 
From: general

Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 7:56 AM
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: How to terminate a downloading task when rtmpdump.exe is still on?


How can I terminate rtmpdump.exe when it is still on?


This is under Windows? Run Windows Task Manager (right click on the task 
bar and select Start Task Manager from the pop-up menu), go to the 
Processes tab of Task Manager, select the rtmpdump process, and click 
the End Process button. It will then terminate in the cmd window.


Hope this helps,

Chris




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Re: How to terminate a downloading task when rtmpdump.exe is still on?

[Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer]

general t...@hotmail.com wrote:

Hello everyone,

 Short description: During a downloading session, get_iplayer, after
 calling rtmpdump.exe, can not response to user input like Ctrl+c to
 terminate the program.

I'm not sure that that's true; I think I may have used either ^C or ^Z to
stop a download, but it wasn't immediately acted on.  Maybe rtmpdump.exe
only polls something (to see if an interrupt request has been made) at
irregular intervals?

To me a more annoying problem is that although GiP usefully (if it's
basically working but gets interrupted) continues/retries a fetch quite a
few times, I sometimes have what's a fundamentally broken download retry and
retry and retry and retry... and in my view it retries far too much.  

In theory the perl program lets you code --attempts=nn, which has a default
value of 3, but there's code that overrides this to 50 (sometimes?).  It
seems to me that if the user wanted eg --attempts=8 then that's the value
that should be used.


-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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