3.06 and 25fps/50fps modes

[Nick Payne]

On 6/11/2017 7:43 PM, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
> On 06/11/2017 08:03, Nick Payne wrote:
>> I'm trying to download episodes 9 and 10 of Ken Burns' Vietnam War
>> series via the command line. The previous eight episodes (downloaded
>> with older versions of GiP) all downloaded as hlshd by specifying
>> --tvmode=best, but when I use --tvmode=best for episodes 9 and 10, they
>> are both downloading as dvfxhigh:
>
> Hi Nick
>
> I downloaded episodes 9 and 10 on Oct 24th around 04:00 using a timed
> batch file and both programmes are 1280x720 and comparable size to
> others in the series. I've just done an --info and hlshd is present.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Alan

Alan

Thanks, but I'm not seeing any hls modes. Here is the output from GiP
from --info for episode 9, no hls modes are listed under modes, and I
have to use --fps50 to get the 1280x720 50fps version, which is about
75% larger than the previous 1280x720 25fps episodes I downloaded:

D:\Users\Nick>get_iplayer --pid=b09bdyrl --info
get_iplayer 3.06.0, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
--warranty.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.


Matches:

brand:          The Vietnam War
categories:     Factual,History,Documentaries
category:       Factual
channel:        BBC Four
desc:           South Vietnamese forces fighting on their own in Laos
suffer a terrible defeat.
desclong:       South Vietnamese forces fighting on their own in Laos
suffer a terrible defeat. Massive US airpower makes the difference in
halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive. After being
re-elected in a landslide, Nixon announces that Hanoi has agreed to a
peace deal. American prisoners of war will finally come home - to a
bitterly divided country.
descmedium:     Series telling the story of the Vietnam War. Massive US
airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North
Vietnamese offensive.
descshort:      South Vietnamese forces fighting on their own in Laos
suffer a terrible defeat.
dir:            D:\Users\Nick\Videos\iplayer
dldate:         2017-11-05
dltime:         18:28:00
duration:       3300
durations:      original: 3300
episode:        9. Fratricide (May 1970-March 1973)
episodenum:     9
episodeshort:   Fratricide (May 1970-March 1973)
expires:        in 16 days 14 hours (2017-11-22T21:55:00+00:00)
ext:            EXT
filename:      
D:\Users\Nick\Videos\iplayer\The_Vietnam_War-s01e09-Fratricide_May_1970-March_1973.EXT
filepart:      
D:\Users\Nick\Videos\iplayer\The_Vietnam_War-s01e09-Fratricide_May_1970-March_1973.partial.EXT
fileprefix:     The_Vietnam_War-s01e09-Fratricide_May_1970-March_1973
firstbcast:     2017-10-23T22:00:00+01:00
firstbcastdate: 2017-10-23
firstbcastrel:  13 days 10 hours ago
longname:       The Vietnam War: Series 1
modes:          original:
dvfhd1,dvfhd2,dvfsd1,dvfsd2,dvfhigh1,dvfhigh2,dvfxhigh1,dvfxhigh2,subtitles1
modesizes:      original:
dvfhd1=1981MiB,dvfhd2=1981MiB,dvfsd1=1099MiB,dvfsd2=1099MiB,dvfhigh1=613MiB,dvfhigh2=613MiB,dvfxhigh1=323MiB,dvfxhigh2=323MiB,subtitles1=82KiB
[estimated sizes only]
name:           The Vietnam War: Series 1
nameshort:      The Vietnam War
pid:            b09bdyrl
player:         http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09bdyrl
runtime:        55
senum:          s01e09
series:         Series 1
seriesnum:      1
thumbfile:     
D:\Users\Nick\Videos\iplayer\The_Vietnam_War-s01e09-Fratricide_May_1970-March_1973.jpg
thumbnail:      http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/192x108/p05k8yvq.jpg
title:          The Vietnam War: Series 1: Fratricide (May 1970-March 1973)
type:           tv
verpids:        original: b0999sll
version:        original
versions:       original
web:            http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096k8kx