Availability Pattern (?)

dinkypumpkin dinkypumpkin at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 10:17:45 PDT 2014


On 12/10/2014 03:25, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> pid=b04lckj1
> JSON pl -> vpid=b04lckgr
> ms4 URL:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/b04jtzhv
> ->  <media bitrate="1500" encoding="h264" expires="2014-11-09T23:45:00Z"
>
> These are the CORRECT values for every episode;
> if GiP could be patched to parse that info,
> it would always report the correct expiry!

Agreed.  AFAICT, the catch-up data feeds are still defining 7-day expiry 
for everything.  The expiry date in metadata is only for information 
purposes, but there is no point in using values known to be incorrect. 
Git HEAD has been updated accordingly.






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