Yes as James rightly says, there can be multiple vPIDs with any PID. You can
see from looking at your output that World Championship Snooker Extra: 2018 -
8. Day 8 (b0b1y57h) has at least 2 vPIDs associated with it. You've got the
Original version (b0b1y54f) and the Shortened version (b0b1zhhq).
> Nick Payne wrote:
> > I've noticed this now a couple of times on different downloads - I give
> > GiP a PID on the command line, and it errors out on a different PID
> > number.
>
> The PID you provide on the command line represents the main program
> entity, in this case, "World Championship Snooker Extra, 2018, Day 8".
> Using that PID you can load the program page in your browser, and GiP
> can get information about it.
>
> There is, however, no media associated with that PID. Each program can
> have multiple versions, and the main PID is not assumed to represent one
> single version. For example, a TV episode might have an original
> version, a version which has been edited, a version which carries audio
> description for the blind, and yet another version which carries sign
> language. A radio episode of The Archers might have an original
> broadcast version and an edited, podcast version.
>
> Each version is represented by yet another PID, so when GiP reports that
> it had a problem downloading a PID different to what you gave it, it's
> reporting that it failed to download a specific version. If a program
> has multiple versions, or you want a particular one, you can supply it
> by name on the command line using the --versions parameter.
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