Available modes for non-indexed webvideo

[dinkypumpkin]

On 06/02/2013 21:40, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> Thanks for your reply dinkypumpkin, but could you please
> elaborate a little bit more? Why is it that for a pid in the tv cache,
> e.g. b01qj50b, the command:
>
> get_iplayer -i --fields=pid b01qj50b --force
>
> works fine (reveals:
> modes:          default:
> flashhigh1,flashhigh2,flashlow1,flashlow2,flashstd1,fla
> shstd2,flashvhigh1,flashvhigh2,rtsphigh1,rtsphigh2,rtsplow1,rtsplow2,rtspstd1,rt
>
> spstd2,rtspvhigh1,rtspvhigh2,subtitles1)
> without initiating a download?

No --get, --pid or --url, so no download.  That command only searches 
the cache and retrieves programme info for match.

> If -i was implemented also for PIDs not in the cache, why a similar
> behaviour is not to be expected?

It would be the same - if it were implemented, that is.