Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4:40 PM I wrote
Alan is right that the --tvmode aliases change their meaning from time to
time. For that reason I prefer to select the mode I want from
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modesref#recording-mode-details
despite what it says after STOP.
I don't think your problem is being caused by such a change. That page
only
shows the current aliases and it is not easy to retrieve the historical
information. Even so
--tvmode=vgood
translates to
--tvmode=hlsvhigh,hvfxhigh,dvfxhigh,hlsstd,hlsxstd,hvflow,hvflow
600 Mbyte/h is about right for HLSvhigh. I suspect what is happening is
that your poor connection is causing errors and/or timeouts. If there is
an
error which can't be recovered from get_iplayer will step through all the
HLSvhigh modes and then on to the HVFxhigh modes and then on through the
list. If you are seeing separate video and audio downloads it may have got
to DVFxhigh.
That is only speculation. To find out what is happening you will have to
look at the get_iplayer stdout output.
I don't know whether Dave Widgery is bothering to read any of these replies.
There is a forum post on a similar subject at
https://forums.squarepenguin.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1618
This is an extract from the response from dinky.
"If you don't want get_iplayer to fall back to lower-quality streams, then
configure it to only attempt the mode(s) of interest, either permanently in
preferences or for a single download via command line. If your connection
drops you'll then be left with a partial download of the desired quality.
Downloads are resumable, so once the connection is restored, just re-run the
same get_iplayer command to complete the download. You have the means to
run get_iplayer automatically with the PVR function. Downloads that fail
during one run should be picked up in the next. "
It seems to me that is good advice.
Best wishes
Richard
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