Re: Failing to download msg

2021-05-02 Thread Steve Dodd
On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 22:59, James Scholes wrote: > All that being said, there appears to be something blocking GiP from > accessing Bidi. Maybe it needs authentication now, maybe it's just broken. > Who knows. Either way, blocking Bidi requests should never lessen the > effectiveness of

Re: "Canal Boat Diaries" problem?

2019-11-30 Thread Steve Dodd
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 21:22, Steve Dodd wrote: > Anyone else see weird problems with "Canal Boat Diaries", > https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000bks0/canal-boat-diaries ? > > Episodes 1-4 have only downloaded in SD, and I'm seeing all sorts of > errors like: [.

Re: no more hslv format ?

2018-05-03 Thread Steve Dodd
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 12:24 AM, RS wrote: > I think it was Nick Payne who said he had experimented with re-encoding in > HEVC (H.265) and found that the file size was the same for 25fps as it was > for 50fps, which led him to conclude that frames were being duplicated to

Re: Using ffmpeg to halve frame rate

2018-04-16 Thread Steve Dodd
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 9:59 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > I experimented a while ago with running some GiP downloads through > Handbrake to convert the video to the x265 codec. That reduced the file > size to about 1/3 of the original download, with no subjective > difference in

Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

2018-04-11 Thread Steve Dodd
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:50 PM, RS wrote: > My initial reaction was that it was too early to worry about this. When we > had problems with Segment not found errors in HLS, that was at a holiday > time and many programmes were corrected within a week of broadcast. >

Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

2018-04-10 Thread Steve Dodd
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:39 PM, CJB wrote: > Not sure about loudness of narrators, what I find extremely irritating > - to the point of switching to another channel - is the overly-LOUD > dramatic music. This is so loud that the narrator cannot be heard, and > I then have

Re: Steve Backshall - Nature's Microworlds - 2 Serengeti.mp4, b01l4906

2018-04-09 Thread Steve Dodd
On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 6:34 PM, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > Yes, I can see that that might be so, but I don't think it alters the thrust > of my argument, does it? Wouldn't 1080p25 still be better to watch than > 720p50? Brains are weird things, could easily