Hi For a long time now over various versions of get_iplayer I have been using the following command.
get_iplayer --get %%A --tvmode=vgood --nopurge --output=c:\iplayer\tv\ --file-prefix="<name>-<episode>" (The "%%A" is the program name that I want to record, I read it from a text file in a batch file loop) This has given me very acceptable recording quality and file size of about 10Mb/minute. (a 30 minute program was about 300Mb -330Mb) When I jumped a few versions I started to get sync problems between sound and vision so I added the --no-hq-audio to my command so that it recorded sound and vision as one this solved the sync problems. get_iplayer --get %%A --tvmode=vgood --no-hq-audio --nopurge --output=c:\iplayer\tv\ --file-prefix="<name>-<episode>" I then a while after ( a couple of months ago) I started getting problems with reduced quality and file size reducing by a third (a 30 minute program is now just under 200Mb) I also started seeing sync problems again. More recently I upgraded to 3.09 and from what I read the --no-hq-audio was no longer needed, so I removed it. so I am back to. get_iplayer --get %%A --tvmode=vgood --nopurge --output=c:\iplayer\tv\ --file-prefix="<name>-<episode>" I am still getting poor quality and reduced file size, I see that it is recording the sound and vision separately again and I am still suffering with sound/vision sync problems. My internet connection is very poor at the moment and I am guessing that if either the sound and vision files get an error they do not match up correctly when the final file is created. but I still don't understand why the quality and file size has dropped when I am still using the same --tvmode=vgood Any suggestion welcome. Regards Dave _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
