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> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 10:40 AM
> From: "Nick Payne" <njhp94 at gmail.com>
>
> This behaviour does not accord with the documentation at
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modes

It does. Look at all those "403 No Protocol" errors. If you can't download the stream information, GiP won't be able to access them. You got the best 25fps stream available in both cases. As to why you get those errors, I haven't a clue. The URLs clearly have protocols included, and you would see a different error if they didn't, so the errors must refer to problems on the BBC side or somewhere in between. Even in your example, some errors aren't repeated, so might be difficult to diagnose.