Subtitles only, not the whole file

[Chris Walker]

On Tue, 2020-07-28 at 13:35 +0200, Dave Widgery wrote:
> If you are using the --force to override because you have already
> downloaded the program once, you could try editing the
> download_history file and remove the entry, then you wouldn't need to
> use the --force when you run the command.
> 
> Dave

I downloaded the file when it was first broadcast, some months ago and
have in the past edited the history file but it seems sledgehammer and
nut though when there ought to be a better way i.e. for GiP to respect
the subtitles-only request. IMHO of course ;-)

> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 11:31, Chris Walker
> <cdw_pcmail at the-walker-household.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > This morning I wanted the subtitles only for Thailand: Earth's
> > Tropical
> > Paradise and so set up a pvr-queue request. This is it :-
> > get_iplayer --pvr-queue --pid=b087vgd6 --subtitles-only --force
> > 
> > It seems that the --force instruction overrides the --subtitles-only
> > command. Is there any way this can be avoided?
> > 
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