On 2014-04-16 04:22, Linda Walsh wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-04-14 18:53, Linda Walsh wrote:
Ok, I'll try now - wait [...] nope:
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 2014-04-14 21:53:16 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
That is different -- that indicates you don't have access to that URL. It might only be good while you are watching it, OR it might require cookie support. (note, as you already have it solved, don't bother w/more testing... just file it away for future ref)
It had timed out, that test was done several hours after I got the link. I tested again with a fresh link and it worked fine. Yes, wget is indeed a possibility, but it is inconvenient because you have to find first the precise link and change the output file name. And the "link" can be two hundred chars long... On the other hand, it probably handles speed throttling fine.
Specially when they use "DASH" - see my other post. FF doesn't appear to have it, perhaps Chrome does.
Depends on V of FF, newer versions have it, but don't know when it went in... within the last year, I think.
Ah. Dunno.
In fact, when I watch a youtube video in FF, it often stutters or worse. But when I watch it in the dedicated android app of my mobile phone it works nicely, albeit on a very small display. So surely this device negotiates successfully, whereas FF doesn't.
"Negotiate" a 320x200 display on your PC and I'll bet it won't stutter.
Guess not X'-)
The combination of "trickle" and "youtube-dl" works very nicely. I can do other things while the download slowly progress, and in any machine. It is what I wanted: to do the download slowly. Not at a constant low speed, but it is acceptable. It can even resume an interrupted download!
Pity that the flash download add-ons to Firefox that I know about are unable to do such an, at least apparently, simple thing as throttling down the download.
Well, it's about "DEMAND", -- i.e. there are more people trying to figure out how to *speed up* a D/L than slow it down.
Sigh! Yes. My house is within 20 meters from the fiber box of one of the big ISP here (ONO). It is an old neighbourhood, so although current regulations say that utilities must be supplied underground, there are no provisions for that here. As it is old houses, not high rise flats, meaning low "human" density, they see little profit in it. So the cable has to be passed old style, at first floor level (not ground level), and ask permissions to all the neighbours. Fine, they got it. But... as the first house in the row happens to be a kindergarten, they say that they have to comply with some extra regulations or insurance or who knows what to do work at that height with children nearby... and they refuse. A friend of mine says that is simply an excuse, that the real reason will be different. Dunno. So no fiber. Plain Old Copper instead. So it is copper, from Telefonica. Next hurdle... apparently, the hardware at the exchange for my block is only capable of 1 Mbit/s (it is not the copper line itself that is the problem, I understand). Other houses get 10 Mbit/s. Ah, well... :-( I know people limited to even less speed, 255K or less. I count my blessings. Mine is stable, no disconnects. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)