I've been using gip to fetch various 'versions' of Proms and am often puzzled by inconsistencies. I'm not sure if this is down to the BBC system/team not working in the same way all the time or something down to the way I use gip, or what!
Two examples. The Barenboim/WEDO prom, and the Whitacre Prom. In each case you can via http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/r89mxj/series/rd4wrz get to the relevant page Whitacre at http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/evxwhn#b065gyln Barenboim http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/er6j5v#b066d735 (Apologies for any typos. The above were transferred via pen-and-paper from one machine/room to another!) On each Prom's page there is a 'slider' of icons for various files available. Some are of individial works/items, one of the whole HDTV broadcast. The 'as broadcast' files are generally 1280x720 which seems the norm. But the per-work files seem to vary unpredictably. Some are 1280x720, others are lower resolution. I can't work out any pattern in general. At first from some other Proms I wondered if the reason was that items that were *not* included in the over-air broadcasts were the lower resolution ones, and broadcast ones were1280x720. But no, it doesn't fit that pattern. Which leaves me puzzled. What's the reason? Is it that gip is having trouble finding the highest resolution in some cases? Or is this just sloppy work at the BBC? I'm using tvmode=best and in general that seems to find high res OK. FWIW I aim to ask at the BBC about this, but the people I know are generally 'radio' not 'TV' so it may take a while to get a useful response as - for understandable reasons - if the relevant person isn't on the 'radio' side they may be wary of talking to someone they haven't got to know. Or, of course, simply be very busy. So I thought it work asking here in case others *can* use gip to get 1280x720 for all the video files on the above pages. (If you go exploring, note the R3 audio files are also listed there, and that it isn't the case that the description says 'watch...' for a video file!) BTW I recommend both the above Proms! 8-] Cheers, Jim -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.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
