... he might be a fan of Pan's persons and wanting the best quality
video he can to spark youthful memories.
but your point is correct, of the few I have watched I never saw what I
would call HD quality output and you can often get better music quality
on Spotify or even Youtube - of course they won't be the TOTP versions
with DLT or Kid Jensen's commentary drowning out the end of the song.
On 30/09/2023 23:17, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
On 30/09/2023 12:05, MrBrunes wrote:
I've just realised that some of my historical downloads of TOTP are in
SD or non-50fps HD but the download history doesn't seem to note the
quality, so I need to force download them again. Since new programmes
are currently made available each week (for 30d) I thought I could add
"force 1" to the PVR search for that programme, but then this will
obvs download files that are already in 50fps. Also it will keep
downloading files each time they are made available.
I thought of deleting all the TOTP lines in download_history as that
at least would prevent them from being downloaded again subsequently,
but I don't know if this is an easy thing to do (can't see if my text
editor can do this (Notepad++).
Is there a better, more efficient method of doing this?
I've refrained from replying before because I thought you might not
welcome my advice, which is simply: don't waste your time!
Remember that ...
As far as video resolution goes, TOTP2 dates from analogue days, which
IMS at its best was roughly equivalent to the 720 x 576 of a DVD, but
often when rebroadcast digitally was worse, for example ITV broadcast
at 544 x 576 for a long time, and I have a series of programmes about
Stonehenge recorded, IMS originally onto VHS, variously from UK TV and
Ch 5 for which the resolution width is often actually less than the
height, though whether that's down to the original broadcast or the
VHS I can not now recall. Currently SD downloads as 960 x 540 & HD as
1080 x 720, so there's really little to be gained by HD over SD given
the source material is not likely to be much if at all better than the
former.
Secondly, as far as the audio resolution is concerned - and call me
old-fashioned if you must, but I thought the most important thing
about music is, well, the music, not the video - both SD & HD have
only 128k stereo @ 48k, so there can be no improvement there, either.
However, if you insist on allowing the devil to make work for idle
hands, I will point out that you don't need a special program to sort
your download history, merely a spreadsheet. Depending in which
flavour of Office that you use, import the file as text specifying the
vertical bar '|' as the field separator character, and perhaps also
specifying the duration to be a numeric field and everything else as
text. That will enable you to sort by column within column, etc.
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