I'm trying to download episodes 9 and 10 of Ken Burns' Vietnam War series via the command line. The previous eight episodes (downloaded with older versions of GiP) all downloaded as hlshd by specifying --tvmode=best, but when I use --tvmode=best for episodes 9 and 10, they are both downloading as dvfxhigh:
============================================== D:\Users\Nick>get_iplayer --pid=b09bdyrl --tvmode=best []... INFO: Downloading tv: 'The Vietnam War: Series 1 - 9. Fratricide (May 1970-March 1973) (b09bdyrl) [original]' INFO: Downloaded: 49.65 MiB (00:54:39) @ 5.70 Mibit/s (dvfxhigh1) [audio] INFO: Downloaded: 306.02 MiB (00:54:39) @ 9.83 Mibit/s (dvfxhigh1) [video] ============================================== When I run get_iplayer --pid=b09bdyrl --info, it shows me that the modes available are modes: original: dvfhd1,dvfhd2,dvfsd1,dvfsd2,dvfhigh1,dvfhigh2,dvfxhigh1,dvfxhigh2,subtitles1 so no hls modes are available - it looks as though if I don't have --fps50 specified, and no hls modes are available, then the recording defaults to the *lowest* available quality. Is there a combination of options I can specify to have highest available quality at 25fps as the default and fall back to the highest available quality at 50fps if 25fps is not available? According to the documentation, I can do it the other way around if I specify --fps50 on the command line, as it will then fall back to 25fps if no 50fps streams are available, but I find that 25fps is more than adequate for most content, and it downloads in half the time. Nick _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
