Problems downloading Winter Olympics

[Mark Carroll]

On 05 Mar 2022, Paul Phillips wrote:

> I am having difficulty downloading some of the Winter Olympics - it
> seems to affect broadcasts that are from the red button / digital
> channel.
(snip)
> It seems to me, Red Button recordings on iPlayer don't work, But TV
> channel ones do
(snip)

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer says,

] It is often possible to download other content such as red button
] programmes or iPlayer box sets directly via PID or URL.

so I guess that "/often/ possible" indicates it's already known not to
be reliable.

-- Mark