From: Vangelis forthnet Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 01:25
To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Version "shortened"
According to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007gd85/episodes/guide
"latest" version is: Series 18, Episode 14/07/2017,
with an iPlayerRadio page as follows:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xcwz4
That episode was first broadcast, well, last Friday
14/07/2017 at 18:45 BST on R4LW.
and more than half the programme appears to be
>a cricket commentary with Dead Ringers coming in
>towards the end of the 30 mins for the last 5-6 mins.
>The download is shown not original but "shortened."
I think the clue is in the channel name Radio 4 LW (Long Wave) and the time
1845. On Radio 4 FM Dead Ringers started at 1830 on Friday. According to
the LW schedule linked to from the iPlayer there was cricket from 1757 to
1845 and Dead Ringers started at 1845.
What is strange is that as far as I can see the only channels on the iPlayer
are Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.
If you are indeed talking about --pid=b08xcwz4,
then this is something I can't replicate...
I found the PID b08xcwz4 this morning by using get_iplayer to search its
cache for ringer. I downloaded the hlsaacstd1 mode. I only skipped through
the programme but it seemed complete and similar to what I remember of the
Saturday repeat. As Vamgelis suggests it has probably been replaced since
Budge posted his comment.
Another curiosity is that estimated mode sizes in --info show much larger
sizes for DAF modes than the corresponding HAF and HLSAAC modes.
At a later stage, the iPlayerRadio
team did replace that initial incomplete version
with the proper full show... More info at:
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/radio/computer/cut_short
Thanks for that link and the blog it links to. I had not appreciated the
steps that had to be taken to get the right length for Woman's Hour and
allow for the news summary. Programmes from the iPlayer always seemed to be
better trimmed than the podcasts. Having to detect movement of a fader in
the continuity studio seems rather a convoluted way of doing it. Wouldn't
it be easier to give the continuity announcer a button to press to indicate
the start and end of a programme, or for a recorded programme just use the
recording?
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