get_iplayer-2.99 odd behaviour

[RS]

>From: James Scholes
>Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 2:54 AM

>artisticforge . wrote:
>> I do not remember the release notes mentioning anything about this
>> being removed.

>The release notes for 2.98 do say:

> The various download progress displays are now suppressed in the Web
> PVR Manager and when capturing get_iplayer output to a file. The
> progress displays can be forced into a file with the new
> --log-progress  option.

I am not using the PVR or capturing the log to a file.  With HAFstd in v2.99 
I get

Recording:         1.57 MiB  / ~27.49 MiB     5.7%   0.0 MiB/s    01:45:45 
remaining

At present I am using a connection which appears to be throttled to about 
40kbit/s.  With v2.95 a speed of 42kbit/s (or sometimes 4kbit/s!) was being 
reported.  To be fair at the finish or when resuming after an error v2.99 
does display 2 decimal places for the speed (as in 0.04 Mibit/s) and it is 
in Mibit/s instead of MiByte/s,  but 3 would be useful to give the same 
information as before, and the same units should be used throughout.

Another minor niggle is that the TV licence warning is displayed for radio 
programmes.  What is displayed is true, but it is irrelevant for radio.