In article <abba0747-ad84-98f1-70c4-804214ae6...@macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News <n...@macfh.co.uk> wrote: > On 21/01/2024 11:51, Jim web wrote: > > > > Question: Should simply giving the pid as m001vxvk rather than > > m001vkll cause gip to get the full-length version? Or is that not > > sufficient? As yet I've always used the pid of the webpage address for > > an item.
> Not sure where you got the pid m001vxvk from Used gip to give me the info on the pid. That showed that the 'editorial' version had a different pid as per above. > , but anyway ... > https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vxvk > ... redirects automatically [probably a 301 or 302] to ... > https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vkll > ... so no difference should be expected, but I thought I'd try it anyway: > perl <path>\get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir=<path> --pid m001vxvk -g > ... results in ... Yes, it redirected here. > However, I can confirm that, as suggested by 'iz', adding ... > --versions=editorial > ... to the command line does download the full programme. I now have: > Select Committees Horizon IT Scandal Inquiry.mp4, 6.55GB, 3:9:23 long, > 1280x720x50 I just added a "--versions=editorial" to the set of statements for one of my choices and it also started downloading that - i.e. the full fat version. :-) However I then interrupted. Prefer to download big items before 9am. > > I also now wonder: Are BBC Parliament (and News) Channel items > > available a 'genuine' HD? Or is that simply causing a transcode > > upwards with no improvement, just more data to shovel? > It says fhd under --info, so yes to fhd, but I've no idea whether it's > upscaled or not, you'd have to ask your pals at the Beeb. Anyway, why > waste disk space for a news item where quality doesn't really matter? > It's not as though it's a wildlife documentary. Agreed. In this case I'll use it because the problem is an odd one. Not something I'v encountered before. It also will give me a chance to see if the editorial 'hd' version actually *is* hd in image content! I suspect it is upscaled when you fetch HD as the size of the file seems more like 3 hours of SD than HD. (1) I guess that the BBC may well just use HD kit as standard, even when a channel is SD only. (Is Parilament on satellite also SD only?) Sadly, the only people I knew at the BBC were on the radio side, and most seem to have left now. Sign of how old *I* am, I guess. 8-} (1) BTW I checked and I already have a number of AV files from iPlayer that are around 7GB or more. So EXT4 still seems fine to me. 8-> No need for 'Nice Try FS' or Fat. Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer