FYI, BBC Parliament is HD on satellite... not upscaled. 21 Jan 2024 14:41:27 Jim web <w...@audiomisc.co.uk>:
> 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 Cheers, Mike -- Michael Gregory Share a sign-up bonus.... Octopus Energy: https://share.octopus.energy/pure-rhino-141 Kroo Current Account: https://our.kroo.com/r/inviteFriendsGet5/D2Lxmn Chip savings: (referral code CHIP-NBF945) https://app.adjust.com/6ah491f Internxt cloud storage _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer