On 21/01/2024 11:51, Jim web wrote:
Question: Should simply giving the pid as m001vxvk rather than m001vkll
cause gip to get the full-length version? Or is that not sufficient? As yet
I've always used the pid of the webpage address for an item.
Not sure where you got the pid m001vxvk from, but anyway ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vxvk
... redirects automatically [probably a 301 or 302] to ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vkll
... so no difference should be expected, but I thought I'd try it anyway:
perl <path>\get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir=<path> --pid m001vxvk -g
... results in ...
get_iplayer v3.30, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
--warranty.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain
conditions; use --conditions for details.
WARNING: Could not determine PID type (m001vxvk). Trying to record
PID directly.
Episodes:
get_iplayer - m001vxvk, BBC iPlayer, m001vxvk
INFO: 1 total programmes
WARNING: PID m001vxvk does not refer to an iPlayer programme
episode or clip. Download may fail and metadata may be inac
curate.
WARNING: No programmes are available for this PID with version(s):
default
However, I can confirm that, as suggested by 'iz', adding ...
--versions=editorial
... to the command line does download the full programme. I now have:
Select Committees Horizon IT Scandal Inquiry.mp4, 6.55GB, 3:9:23 long,
1280x720x50
I also now wonder: Are BBC Parliament (and News) Channel items available a
'genuine' HD? Or is that simply causing a transcode upwards with no
improvement, just more data to shovel?
It says fhd under --info, so yes to fhd, but I've no idea whether it's
upscaled or not, you'd have to ask your pals at the Beeb. Anyway, why
waste disk space for a news item where quality doesn't really matter?
It's not as though it's a wildlife documentary.
I've assumed that BBC Parliament/News was simple 'SD' formats, because I
only use DVB-T2 for broadcast. But is this wrong? If so, knowing HD is
available is useful should it be preferred for some specific content
reason.
I didn't specify the quality on my test download, if I had it would have
been just SD because that's all the content merits, but again you'd need
to use the --info switch on the particular programme of interest to see
what it is available as.
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