Re: Problems downloading Winter Olympics

2022-03-06 Thread fred.d
Re. file sizes doubling. In my expereince some are and many aren't. I can't quite get a handle on why. I too have seen 1.5 hour films go to 5.5GB where before I would expect 2.5 - 3. Yet one episode of Killing Eve from the last series yields the info below for the full HD and the 1280x720

Re: Problems downloading Winter Olympics

2022-03-06 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 06/03/2022 18:07, Paul Phillips wrote: The change in video quality available is described on this page for version 3.29. https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release329 I've seen a doubling in file sizes to approx 4GB per hour when selecting fhd video quality

Re: Problems downloading Winter Olympics

2022-03-06 Thread Paul Phillips
The change in video quality available is described on this page for version 3.29. https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release320to329#release329 I've seen a doubling in file sizes to approx 4GB per hour when selecting fhd video quality Whether it is true full HD or not, I'm not sure,

Re: Problems downloading Winter Olympics

2022-03-06 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 06/03/2022 02:25, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: On 05/03/2022 21:00, Paul Phillips wrote: Where you downloading in HD or Full HD (1080) ? FWIW, I downloaded all the above using the following command ... perl \get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir= --type tv --tvmode

Re: Problems downloading Winter Olympics

2022-03-05 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
Duh! Forgot to 'reply all' to include the mailing list ... On 05/03/2022 21:00, Paul Phillips wrote: Where you downloading in HD or Full HD (1080) ? See below! On Sat, 5 Mar 2022 at 20:54, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: On 05/03/2022 19:50, Paul Phillips wrote: Hi, I am having

Re: Problems downloading Winter Olympics

2022-03-05 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News
On 05/03/2022 19:50, Paul Phillips wrote: Hi, I am having difficulty downloading some of the Winter Olympics - it seems to affect broadcasts that are from the red button / digital channel. It ends up downloading small sound-only recordings - not even sound for the whole episode NB - My

Re: Problems downloading Winter Olympics

2022-03-05 Thread Mark Carroll
On 05 Mar 2022, Paul Phillips wrote: > I am having difficulty downloading some of the Winter Olympics - it > seems to affect broadcasts that are from the red button / digital > channel. (snip) > It seems to me, Red Button recordings on iPlayer don't work, But TV > channel ones do (snip)