Recent Radio Downloads Not Playing

[Budge]

On 23/01/17 16:23, RS wrote:
>> 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.
>

Hi Richard,
Thanks for the info.  See my last post and that from batguano999.

I shall need to read up on the many different modes so thanks for the link.

More later.