Have you set in Settings->Advanced Settings and lower the M3U8 download threads to 1-2 parts at a time ?Player does not demand expert mode - but it used to work fine
Tried that. Seemed to work but a video downloaded today exhibited the freeze problem again. Seems to be related to time of day - perhaps how busy the servers are. If I drop a few jobs in for an overnight run they often work with no issues. I have not yet tried using the Chrome emulator mode with iPlayer - largely because simply copying the URL works so well - most times. The issue is with the actual download process not with how the video file is located - so I am not understanding why the setup process makes a difference. With several sites in Canada, Chrome mode is the only way to find the video. Some sites even need expert mode - so I get it that the setup is different for each site. However iPlayer works with simple URL copy. The downloader is happily ticking away downloading a series of parts but sometime it seems that the parts downloaded do not join up properly - suggesting perhaps that download of one or more parts failed. Why the downloader does not detect that and repeat the download is unclear. When I watch GetiPlayer doing the same job there are times that it stalls - again suggesting a server load issue. Mostly it recovers but occasionally it crashes a download and I need to repeat it. I never get corrupted files from GetiPlayer. This seems to be a problem internal to iPlayer. Yes, I am using a VPN product but the network components are way fast enough and totally stable. Neither GetiPlayer nor your downloader run anywhere near the link capacity. I have sufficient bandwidth to watch real-time TV - so downloading offline parts should work fine. But it doesn't all the time.Have you set in Settings->Advanced Settings and lower the M3U8 download threads to 1-2 parts at a time ?
gandalf wrote: ↑09 Jan 2023, 21:51Is this something you are looking into? Would it help you to see a download with one or more missing parts? This is the problem that many are observing. Yes - the cause is likely internal to the iPlayer servers BUT your downloader should be able to detect that two parts are not contiguous and re-request the missing bit.... suggesting perhaps that download of one or more parts failed. Why the downloader does not detect that and repeat the download is unclear.
Hello,gandalf wrote: ↑19 Jan 2023, 01:44Is this something you are looking into? Would it help you to see a download with one or more missing parts? This is the problem that many are observing. Yes - the cause is likely internal to the iPlayer servers BUT your downloader should be able to detect that two parts are not contiguous and re-request the missing bit.... suggesting perhaps that download of one or more parts failed. Why the downloader does not detect that and repeat the download is unclear.
I have not experienced dropout issues in the limited time I have been playing using Chrome mode BUT i have had one download that just crashed completely and repeated tries failed. Fetching a fresh MPD worked - suggesting a possible explanation. From extensive experience with getiPlayer I have found that one of the many streaming suppliers used by the BBC has a problem when accessed over a VPN. Most of the suppliers simply geolocate the IP so VPNs with IP exit ports geographically in the UK work fine. However some also check the IP against known exit subnets of the bigger VPN providers. Many of the BBC providers use a CISCO service to do that - so you either need an under-the-radar VPN supplier or you do as I do and have a dedicated IP in an anonymous subnet. Even so, the supplier 'bidi' does something else (I have not yet worked out what) and all attempts to download from them fail. In getiPlayer I use an 'exclude supplier' switch to avoid 'bidi'. I notice that the failed MPD was targeted at 'bidi'. That leads me to wonder if the normal copy/paste mode streams 'parts' from multiple suppliers and perhaps it is parts fetched from bidi that are the root of the issue. If so, the solution might be to recognize that a request was to 'bidi' and, if so, to get another URL to find a different supplier.Please launch link finder in Chrome mode and use the MPD detected instead of the copy paste mode.
There are some tweaks, you can try it out.