Comments on: BBC Readies new iPlayer HD 720×404 streams

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:27 +0000

Okay, this program is totally awesome. I’ve had a few problems with the 10060 error, and rerunning the script continually until it works seems to do the trick. I get hundreds of lines of no-name with a random number when trying to get the thing to run mind.

Anyways, keep up the wonderful work

By: David Richardson

David Richardson — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:21:29 +0000

And suddenly it’s working again!

Just downloaded nigella in flashvhigh. Very curious.

By: David Richardson

David Richardson — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:08:09 +0000

Actually I did a plain “get_plyaer” earlier this afternoon and then got called away. 5 hours later it’s STILL getting the TV index.

I restarted in a new window with the –verbose option. The first time was very slow, but subsequent tries have been faster. But each time I get the following line:

WARNING: Cannot read C:\Documents and Settings\Dave/.get_iplayer/download_history

Never seen that one before. I can’t see where the file might be created.

WARNING: Cannot read C:\Documents and Settings\Dave/.get_iplayer/download_histor
y

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:39:18 +0000

You can get all versions at https://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/archive/ (older) or https://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/

Have you tried without redirecting STDOUT so that you can see exactly what is so slow? Maybe try with the –verbose option. I’m curious what it might be – nothing much in the feed parsing code has changed for a while.

By: David Richardson

David Richardson — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:55:41 +0000

Hi Andrew,

It’s just weird. I only discovered get_iplayer a couple of weeks ago and I love it (mainly because I’m a command line / batch file geek!) and it’s been working wonderfully up until this week.

I’ve been writing the programme listing to file through STDOUT which used to only take a few seconds and now takes several minutes and actually sometimes never finishes. I find it really weird because my 8Mbit broadband connection is not limited in any way, nothing has changed on my PC. I don’t even use the conversion apps as I’m quite happy to view in the raw FLV (I use –raw).

Is there any way I can hold of a version previous to 1.59 so I can test? I tried uninstalling, but the windows installer i originally installed from always seems to get the latest version.

By: AndrewM

AndrewM — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:23:41 +0000

Hi David, I can only speak from personal experience as I have no idea what’s actually causing the error 10060 (which according to the author of rtmpdump is a ‘socket timeout error': http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3161605&forum_id=900998 ) but the only thing that I’ve found that works is to set get_iplayer to download overnight.

It doesn’t always work perfectly and sometimes I have to rename the file to .partial and try again (hence I always use –raw when downloading over RTMP) but generally it works OK. Downloading in the evening (like trying to watch a flashvhigh programme on the iPlayer website in the evening) just doesn’t work over my connection.

By: David Richardson

David Richardson — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:27:52 +0000

oops sory. should have replied like this sorry… response below.

I guess IO will wait until tomorrow night to see if anything changes with my connection.

By: David Richardson

David Richardson — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:24:54 +0000

That was quick!

Yes I’m using rtmpdump v1.4.

I just tried to download the same file. It went through all the usual motions but ended with this:

ERROR: ReadN, RTMP recv error 10060
ERROR: ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
Closing connection… done!

WARNING: Failed to download file f:\tv/Top_Gear_Series_12_-_Episode_6_b00g2gml_d
efault.partial.flv via RTMP
INFO: skipping flashvhigh2 mode
INFO: Trying flashvhigh3 mode to download tv: Top Gear: Series 12 – Episode 6
INFO: Checking existence of default version
Getting iplayer download URL
WARNING: No flashvhigh3 versions available
INFO: skipping flashvhigh3 mode
INFO: Trying flashvhigh4 mode to download tv: Top Gear: Series 12 – Episode 6
INFO: Checking existence of default version
Getting iplayer download URL
WARNING: No flashvhigh4 versions available
INFO: skipping flashvhigh4 mode
ERROR: Failed to download ‘Top Gear: Series 12 – Episode 6 (b00g2gml)’

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:02:10 +0000

Ensure you are using the Windows latest rtmpdump (v1.4) that I have linked on my download page. It hasn’t changes for 2-3 weeks though.

It *could* be taht too many are using HD mode – but I doubt it. Could also be a problem with your broadband connection.

I just downloaded Top_Gear_Series_12_-_Episode_6 with vmode-flashvhigh and it worked no probs. Could eb connection dependant.

I haven’t changed the code that calls rtmpdump at all since 1.59 either ….

By: David Richardson

David Richardson — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:45:26 +0000

Hello. First time poster here.

I’ve been using get_iplayer for a few weeks now. I recently upgraded to 1.59 and started noticing many downloads were skipping because a flashvhigh version wasn’t found.

I upgraded to 1.65 this evening and everything I try to download now gets cut off. The download does restart, but they all eventually fail. I’ve tried using the new flashhd mode, but that fails point blank. Same deal with flashvhigh2,flashvhigh3 and flashvhigh4. It’s giving me exactly the same error messages as AndrewM above. Namely:

ERROR: ReadN, RTMP recv error 10060
ERROR: ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet body. len: 36709
DEBUG: zero read!
WARNING: Download may be incomplete, try –resume!
Closing connection… done!

Has anyone any idea what’s going on? This has been working wonderfully up until my first upgrade. Is it on the BBC server?

Oh, by the way, I’m using the Windows version (sorry)