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Originally Posted by streamed
Hi,
I would like to know if one of you can build some sort of QA tool to check/verify the downloads. Often I find myself watching a downloaded episode, when suddenly the download seems to be incomplete. End of video, bugger.
I have had incomplete downloads with Iviewnapper and also with IviewFox. They all use the same RTMPDump, so that seems to be the problem (and possibly also the solution?)
Would it be possible to have a little tool that scans a certain folder on your local PC, and verify the length of each of the media files with the length/size as stored/reported on the server? If the file is not on the server anymore, bad luck, but for the files that are still there, wouldn't that be very practical?
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With iViewNapper, there is an indication (SUCCESS) in a panel on the downloader form, which is some help.
About 6 months ago, I had the same thought as you, and asked of (someone - ? rtmpdump coder) if a checksum (CRC, MD5) could be ascertained for a file on the server, and checked against what you downloaded. I answered myself, that this would be a silly idea.
I'm not sure what metadata is available for the files that get streamed (ie, the files on the server that rtmpdump "downloads" to us) and how good that would be as an indication of the success, partial success, etc.
Others may have a more definitive answer for you.