The default option is to download in HD, i.e. --modes=best Try --modes=better or good for smaller files CJB
On 28/02/2020, Nic Siddle <[email protected]> wrote: > May be totally unconnected, but we have found that i-Player is getting > less and less reliable when just watching catchup TV through a cheap > NowBox.. Buffering issues, often grinding to complete halt leading to > need to re-start. We do not experience the same problems with ITV or > Channels 4 & 5. I have my suspicion that the BBC is a lot more resource > hungry and that our i-net connection struggles to cope. But I am > guessing...... > > Nic > > On 28/02/2020 06:42, Dave Widgery wrote: >> Hi >> For many years I have used get_iplayer very successfully for >> downloading bbc content (thanks to all who maintain it) but a year ago >> I got a firestick and thought that I would be able to use that rather >> than downloading everything with get_iplayer, but I was wrong. ITV >> hub, Channel4, UKtv and many other players all work fine with live and >> replay content (with just the occasional error), but not bbc iplayer >> 75-80% of the time I get the purple worm then it errors, usually with >> a "something went wrong loading this program", also if playing live tv >> it has lots of buffering problems, does anyone else experience this >> sort of unreliability with iplayer. >> >> I am using a proxy server but it is not showing any errors that might >> be associated with that. I am not really asking for a fix, I was just >> wondering if it was just me or is bbc iplayer just not very reliable? >> or at least the firestick version. >> >> Dave >> >> _______________________________________________ >> get_iplayer mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
