Web PVR in v2.96 - Recording modes

artisticforge . artisticforge at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 09:19:42 PDT 2016


hello

a sampling of 1400+ video files the max audio is 93kbps.
That seems to be the best audio with video files.

the best radio is 320kbps.

I download the file you mentioned. the audio is 128kbps.

that appears to be the exception rather than the norm.


On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Simon Morgan <s.morgan at skm.org.uk> wrote:
> I have been recording an item from BBC Last Night of the Proms. BBC iPlayer
> now seems to offer each piece of music separately which is very convenient
> as I only wanted Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music using
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p046p4fj/bbc-proms-2016-ralph-vaughan-w
> illiams-serenade-to-music in the Quick URL field.
>
> Because of my extremely slow broadband speed, I wanted to record the best
> sound while accepting a lower video quality. According to the get_iplayer
> wiki, this can be achieved by the use of "tvgood,radiobest" (without quotes)
> in the Recordings tab (see
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modes#config-quality). This
> resulted in an Audio quality of 96kbps.
>
> I was expecting a higher audio bit rate than this so I recorded the piece
> again using the default quality setting. This resulted in an audio file of
> approx 128kbps.
>
> It therefore seems that the "radiobest" setting is not returning the best
> quality available when used in conjunction with a lower quality TV mode. Of
> course it may be me that is misunderstanding something but I would welcome
> any comments and/or advice.
>
> I use get_iplayer v2.96 running the web pvr in Windows Home Server 2011.
>
> Rgds
> Simon Morgan
>
>
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