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 hlshd,dvfhd,hvfhd,dvfsd

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, b

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 Bo

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 vers

GiP size estimates for 1080p downloads are several times too big

2022-03-06 Thread Nick Payne
I've noticed, since downloading a few programs with GiP in 1080p, that that the estimated download size is usually too big by a factor of around three or four times. This for example, is typical - the estimate for the dash video size is 10339MB, but the actual download is 3536MB: =