How to download "Bitesize" education clips?

[Mark Carroll]

On 19 Jan 2017, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
(snip)
> you'd had found that those somewhat older clips 
> (they date back to 2012) are only available as 
> flashmodes: 
>
> modes:          original: flashvhigh1,flashvhigh2,flashhigh1,flashhigh2
>
> However, the flashmodes have been deprecated in GiP 2.97 
> and they are not tried by default; they have to be explicitly 
> requested in the command; so try something like: 
>
> get_iplayer --pid=p00rdkxz --tvmode=flashbest (will fetch flashvhigh1) or 
> get_iplayer --pid=p00rdkxz --tvmode=flashvhigh2 (it's faster for me...)
(snip)

Aha, explicitly requesting flash modes is exactly what I needed, thank
you! (Also to others who responded.) Now all is working fine. I don't
mind having to hunt down the PIDs and I can hope that enough Flash
support remains while the older content isn't otherwise available.

-- Mark