Legacy Low-Res tvmodes removed

[Chris Marriott]

Yes, I reported a week or so ago that low-res modes were no longer available 
as HLS for the majority of programmes. Fortunately, they are still available 
with the "hvfx" modes. I download everything with "hvfxhigh", which produces 
a file similar in size to that of the "hlsstd" mode which has now mostly 
disappeared.

Chris


-----Original Message----- 
From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2017 9:09 PM
To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Legacy Low-Res tvmodes removed

"--info"-ing yesterday's --pid=b08qlg9p

perl get_iplayer-301.pl --type=tv --pid=b08qlg9p -i | findstr hls

one can see that only

hlshd1,hlshd2,hlsvhigh1,hlsvhigh2

are now offered from the group of the legacy
(non Video Factory, aka hvf*) AppleHLS tvmodes.
Actually, both "1" variants are identical to their "2"
counterparts and served from Akamai CDN,
they only differ in the protocol used
(1=HTTPS, 2= HTTP).
So that leaves us with only 2 quality variants
from the legacy AppleHLS streams:

hlshd => 1280x720p @25FPS
hlsvhigh => 832x468p @25FPS

If you're still (or can use) previous versions
of GiP that come with RTMP stream support,
you'll find the same to be true for the (legacy) flash tvmodes.
To re-enable detection of flash modes
you'll have to apply the patch I posted in
the second part of
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2017-May/010720.html

In GiP 2.99 (last version with flash support),

perl get_iplayer-299.pl --type=tv --pid=b08qlg9p -i

will reveal that now only

flashhd1,flashvhigh1,flashvhigh2

modes are offered.

flashhd  => 1280x720p @25FPS
flashvhigh => 832x468p @25FPS
(1= Akamai CDN, 2= Limelight CDN).

If it's anything to go by (obviously I haven't
tested many PIDs), this displays a trend...

V.

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