Download errors on both TV and Radio

2017-03-18 Thread Dave Widgery
Hi, For some while now I have been getting lots of problems recording TV with RTMPDump timing out, an example is below, in this case I got a DNS error which as you will see at the end was fine when I checked it, sometime it gets as far as creating a MP4 file although very truncated, initially it w

RE: Download errors on both TV and Radio

2017-03-18 Thread C E Macfarlane
Download errors on both TV and Radio > > For some while now I have been getting lots of problems recording TV > with RTMPDump timing out [...] 1) If you have a dynamically assigned IP, has it been changing recently? > I live in the sticks and only get a 2mb download speed

Re: Download errors on both TV and Radio

2017-03-18 Thread James Scholes
Dave Widgery wrote: For some while now I have been getting lots of problems recording TV with RTMPDump timing out Support for rtmpdump will soon be removed from get_iplayer and there's very little reason to still be using it. Please consult the documentation and release notes for a recent ve

Re: Download errors on both TV and Radio

2017-03-18 Thread Dave Widgery
Hi Thanks James for that, I did have a look at it a while ago when things first changed, but the default was downloading at much higher resolution hence much bigger files which wasn't very good with my slow download speed and I was also experiencing picture freezing although sound continued OK, Thi

Re: Download errors on both TV and Radio

2017-03-18 Thread Nick Lord
I found this very useful: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modes On Sat, 2017-03-18 at 22:04 +0100, Dave Widgery wrote: > Hi > Thanks James for that, I did have a look at it a while ago when > things > first changed, but the default was downloading at much higher > resolution henc

Re: Download errors on both TV and Radio

2017-03-19 Thread RS
From: Nick Lord Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 21:41 I found this very useful: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modes I prefer https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modesref as it gives the actual resolutions and bit rates, although the scroll bars are annoying.

Re: Download errors on both TV and Radio

2017-03-23 Thread Dave Widgery
Hi All, Thanks everyone for you help much appreciated and I have followed your suggestions and moved away from the old method but unfortunately although a better solution it didn't solve the problems, Anyway after my ISP insisted that there was no problem even after changing my router, my phone lin

Re: Download errors on both TV and Radio

2017-03-23 Thread RS
From: Dave Widgery Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:49 Anyway after my ISP insisted that there was no problem even after changing my router, my phone line and connection went down completely for several days after a particularly windy evening, It is now up and running with no download errors s