--before not working on films

[Dan Ashby]

Hi Andy - thanks for your reply.

>> I recently started using the argument --before 24 to ensure that
>> everything was at least 24 hours old before downloading. The intention
>> of this was to give the BBC time to get HD versions up (where
>> applicable).
>>
>> This works fine for everything but films. I have a pvr search that
>> simply grabs everything in the category film. No films get downloaded
>> unless I remove the --before 24 option. I've checked the films have been
>> out longer than 24 hours.
>
> This is odd. This is my default setting for all pvr downloads, including
> films.
>
> So, considering that "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is in the film
> category, you must be having a problem with it.
>
> Please post the output of:
>
>   get_iplayer --pid b00s3v0w --before 24

(That didn't turn out to be a useful example today as it's now gone) - but 
it did work fine for Primeval which is still up there. I have no idea 
what's going on as I could not get it to fail today.

I will keep an eye on this and apologize in advance if I've wasted your 
time.

Dan