Audio/Video Out of Sync

[tellyaddict]

Hi Jim,
How many times did your first command fail?

The reason you have ended up with a non HD version using the Flash method is that there is only 1 supplier if flashhd content which is Akamai. As you had excluded that, it had to jump down a mode to flashvhigh which is supplied by 2 suppliers (Akamai and Limelight).

The reason for the failure of the HLS attempt is that again all HLS streams are only supplied by Akamai (which you had excluded).

I've just downloaded the flashhd version of this with no problems.

> This morning I had increased problems fetching a TV programme.
> 
> The item has pid b07nwk5h. I initially tried using an 'old' method to avoid
> the difficulties with HLS that were causing fetches to end prematurely.
> However this morning before 9am this 'old' method using
> 
>  --type=tv --mode=best --no-tag --pid <>
> 
> started an "RTMPDump" which terminated abruptly having fetched less than
> the first minute of the programme file.
> 
> I tried HLS for comparision, using what used to be fine until a few weeks
> ago
> 
> --tvmode=hlsbest --no-tag --pid <>
> 
> But this also terminated with less than the first min obtained.
> 
> I then tried
> 
> --tvmode=best --no-tag --exclude-supplier=akamai --pid <>
> 
> This fetched the programme OK via "RTMPDump" and completed OK. However
> whereas the previous methods had started fetching 1280x720 this only got me
> a 832x468 version. It seems complete, but obviously has less detail.
> 
> Not knowing what was going on I then tried out combining --tvmode=hlsbest
> with --exclude-supplier=akamai. This failed telling me the relevant modes
> weren't available.
> 
> I can try again to see if anything changes, but any insight or advice or
> suggested alternatives would be welcome. Having to use the 'old' method is
> awkward because it is slower. But at least until this morning it was
> working. However for the above, it failed.
> 
> Separate to the above. Using the mpeg-dash method to fetch 320k Radio seems
> fine.
> 
> Jim