Thomas Alvarez@siracusa Just FYI, the Sept 2025 iPhone event video streams seem pretty shaky, so you might want to comment out the "rm" lines in the script you're using, and keep trying to download the video portion before the merge at the end. I got a 4K HDR video where the last 20 mins of video were just frozen because it stopped downloading part of the way through.
John Siracusa@tomalvarez Yeah, my video died about a quarter into the runtime. Retrying…
@siracusa It’s a pain. I had to re run it once for the HDR 4K. I couldn’t get either 1440p to get past a few minutes. lol
@siracusa Maybe there’s an ffmpeg flag for failure retry or ignore or something. But I’m no ffmpeg expert.
@tomalvarez There are such options, but it looks like the problem is bad data rather than failed HTTP requests:
[https @ 0x7fdf7e810c00] Opening 'https://events-delivery.apple.com/1208epinirnubocgyngedcvpuacuxred/vod_main_thyQUHMGRRKFgEaEVkDMKRbPKZstDPjT/hdr10_hvc_2160p_20000/hdr10_hvc_2160p_20000_84.m4s' for reading
[https @ 0x7fdf9f021a80] Stream ends prematurely at 1, should be 13619128