On 23/04/2012 09:06, Alastair wrote:
Referring to the pvr hd issue, you refer to a brute force approach but for my purposes it is too much hands on. My not very sophisticated suggestion was an attempt to think through a hands off approach.
Not sure what you're getting at, but then everybody has their own sweet spot. For me, pvr + cron is about as hands-off as you can get,
My thought was, for a given search string, to have get_iplayer compare what had already been downloaded with what was available. In this way using the fallback modes approach suggested by Andy which is working fine, it would always get the best mode, whenever it was added to server. OK it might not be the fastest approach but could run unattended and suits the cron job approach. If it results in two versions then I do not mind sorting that out manually as it is quick and non critical.
So what you're really after is a means to force get_iplayer to always re-download a programme if a higher quality version exists. Again, it might be possible to add as a dedicated option, but awkward to implement. However, you can accomplish the same thing with pvr searches, I gave you one example, and you can simplify it even further if you don't care about separating HD downloads. There is admittedly a slight gotcha with some radio programmes, but there is no need to muddy the water with that right now.
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