Recent Radio Downloads Not Playing

[RS]

>From: Budge

>Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 12:46

>Over the last weekend I tried to play the News Quiz Extra which is shown as 
>about 45 minutes playing time and it would not play.  Last night the even 
>shorter "The News Quiz" would not play.

I take it this is News Quiz Extra s19e02 b0890f2r.  I downloaded this at 
dashhigh1 at 320kbit/s.  It played fine in VLC.  My Panasonic bluray player 
only supports MP3 and FLAC, so the only device I have which supports AAC-LC 
is a Triax satellite receiver which I feed to my Technics surround sound 
amplifier.  On that It played for 26min 10s and then stopped and displayed 
"UNSUPPORTED FILE".  I was also unable to jump past that point.

I usually download the MP3 podcast for the News Quiz and play it on my 
AGPtEK player (which has problems with BBC M4A/AAC) or in VLC on my 
computer, so I can't say what is normal for dashigh, but the sound was mono.

dashhigh will give you 320 kbit/s
dashstd is 128 kbit/s which is adequate for speech
You can also try dashmed 96 kbit/s, but at that bit rate and lower you may 
get HE components, which according to the standard should be ignored by any 
player which cannot handle them.

The wiki is here.
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modesref
An idea which I haven't yet tried is to use the other CDN, dashhigh2.  I see 
from the wiki I can also use hafhigh, but I'll need to install v2.97 to do 
that.