Re: Inconsistencies

2015-08-31 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 29/08/2015 21:26, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Sat Aug 29 15:41:55 BST 2015, Alan Milewczyk wrote: Ah! Now I've not tried hls. That's worth an experiment. Can I just substitute --modes=hlsvhigh for tvmode=best ? Yes, I was originally alerted to this option by Vangelis when I was having

Re: Inconsistencies

2015-08-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, C E Macfarlane wrote: > Vangelis wrote: > > PID strings which begin with "b0xx" 99.9% of times > > correspond to (full) broadcast episodes/shows - these do come > > into HD versions (as a rule of thumb; exceptions may apply...). > [snip] > > PID strings that begin with

RE: Inconsistencies

2015-08-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2015-08-30 17:22, C E Macfarlane wrote: I can see no evidence for any such distinction, AFAICS they are used about equally. For example, the following is a list of complete programmes which I want to watch and which either have been broadcast in the last week or so or will be broadcast

RE: Inconsistencies

2015-08-30 Thread C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html I can see no evidence for any such distinction, AFAICS they are used about equally. Is it possible that the p0... ones are essentially re-broadcasts of 'archive' programmes, whereas the b0 ones are current

Re: Inconsistencies

2015-08-29 Thread Jim web
In article pheaihcmjkhmhmofbpogmelkckaa.c.e.macfarl...@macfh.co.uk, C E Macfarlane c.e.macfarl...@macfh.co.uk wrote: See below ... www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html But if someone else finds they can get *all* the Barenboim/Whitacre files as 1280x720 it would show

Re: Inconsistencies

2015-08-29 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 29/08/2015 09:50, Jim Lesurf wrote: 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

RE: Inconsistencies

2015-08-29 Thread C E Macfarlane
Maybe should've given the command-line template used: gip --type tv --tvmode flashhd,flashvhigh --pid pid --fileprefix BBC_Proms_-_2015_nn_-_details -g With Linux, as on my embedded NASs, I usually convert any accented letters in the fileprefix to the nearest Latin equivalents, and then once it

Re: Inconsistencies

2015-08-29 Thread Jim web
In article 55e1921c.3070...@soulman1949.com, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: On 29/08/2015 09:50, Jim Lesurf wrote: 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

RE: Inconsistencies

2015-08-29 Thread C E Macfarlane
See below ... www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html But if someone else finds they can get *all* the Barenboim/Whitacre files as 1280x720 it would show immediately that I'm doing something wrong/sub-optimal. Prom 32 Whitacre: 01:59:09, 1280, 720 Prom 44 Barenboim:

RE: Inconsistencies

2015-08-29 Thread C E Macfarlane
See below ... www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html Prom 32 Whitacre: 01:59:09, 1280, 720 Prom 44 Barenboim: 02:27:48, 1280, 720 Yes, that looks like what I get for the entire broadcast files. But what about the files for various individual works that were

Re: Inconsistencies

2015-08-29 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 29/08/2015 15:05, Jim web wrote: OK, Here is a per file list for the two example Proms by pid: Apologies again for any typos due to my 'pen and paper' methods and typing (in)ability! Useful list for me to try... The 1280x720 examples are all with video rates around 2200 kb/s. The others

Re: Inconsistencies

2015-08-29 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 29/08/2015 12:45, Jim web wrote: In article 55e1921c.3070...@soulman1949.com, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: On 29/08/2015 09:50, Jim Lesurf wrote: 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

Re: Inconsistencies

2015-08-29 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 29 Aug 2015 at 12:06, Alan Milewczyk Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I wonder, Jim, whether this is part of the general inconsistency we've commented on previously - where sometimes you download a file and it's not the usual 1280x720 norm, but you go back a few days later and

Re: Inconsistencies

2015-08-29 Thread Vangelis forthnet
), if not worsened, since the audio streams now employ the SBR profile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Efficiency_Advanced_Audio_Coding). Now, with regards to what you called Inconsistencies in the fashion the BBC provides HD versions for video files, from my experience I can say the following: PID