Web PVR in v2.96 - Recording modes

[Simon Morgan]

Thanks for this. Yes it appears I have misunderstood the wiki. I now know why my download wasn't as I had expected.

Rgds
Simon Morgan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shevek [mailto:shevek at shevek.co.uk]
> Sent: 11 September 2016 17:59
> To: s.morgan at skm.org.uk
> Cc: get_iplayer
> Subject: Re: Web PVR in v2.96 - Recording modes
> 
> On 11 September 2016 at 17:21, Simon Morgan <s.morgan at skm.org.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > I appreciate the fact that the R3 file is at 320k however my point
> was
> > that the "radiobest" option didn't appear to be working on the BBC TV
> > as I seemed to be getting the audio rate associated with the "tvgood"
> > option i.e. 96k rather than the 128k available with the default(i.e.
> > "tvbest"). Either I am doing something incorrectly or there is a
> minor
> > bug (more likely the former!).
> >
> 
> I am going to make an assumption about an assumption I think you have
> made!
> 
> Radio modes and TV modes are entirely separate and are used for each
> programme type on offer from iPlayer.
> 
> radiomode does not set the audio quality available to a TV download.
> 
> radiomode only controls the quality of the audio when your download is
> of type radio
> 
> tvmode only controls the quality of the audio and video when your
> download is of type TV
> 
> Any given TV download only has one audio stream per mode.
> 
> As others have noted, the usual audio bitrate for an HD TV download is
> ~96kbps with the Proms programmes being somewhat of an anomaly at
> ~128kbps