"The Sky at Night" problem

[dinkypumpkin]

On 13/11/2012 04:27, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> I have consulted get_iplayer --helplong and the obvious solution to add
> --versions=default2 to the download command simply does not work - it
> returns:
>
> INFO Trying to stream pid using type tv
> INFO: pid found in cache
> Matches:
> 970:    The Sky at Night - The Story of Stuff, BBC One, Factual,Science
> & Nature,TV, default
>
> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
> INFO: No versions of this programme were selected (default are available)

This appears to be a flaw in get_iplayer.  Basically, when you use 
--versions to request non-default versions of the programme, get_iplayer 
assumes that the only available alternatives are "audiodescribed" and 
"signed", so it requests the metadata for the audiodescribed/signed 
version and bypasses the alternate "default" version.  It does that even 
though it correctly generates a "default2" version identifier for the 
20-minute edition.  This must be a very rare case, but it should be 
possible to amend get_iplayer to accommodate.  I'll post when I have a fix.