Experimental HD and audio only downloads

Paul Phillips paulphillipsdidsbury at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 14:55:09 PDT 2022


I have seen this too. I think get_iplayer is trying to get the
programme in full HD, but actually it is only available in 720p
I think it's a bug in get_iplayer - either full HD isn't there and it
thinks it is, or the programme is only in 720p and get_iplayer doesn't know
that

On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 at 22:02, fred.d <fred.d at timelords.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I've found that a lot of content seems to be available in the new Full
> HD format. However every so often I come across one that downloads only
> the audio. Playing with parameters and download method doesn't help so
> I'm guessing it's the far end.
>
> Anyone know if this is a get_Iplayer thing or is it simply that the
> files on the BBC sites aren't 100% when it comes to this quality?
>
>
> Ta.
>
>
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