Overwriting lower quality files

[MrBrunes]

Tx to Michael I think I've eventually found a way to do this.

A quick search in download history shows TOTP quality varying with:

hvfxsd1
hvfhd1
hlshd1
dashfhd1

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modesref/a1db796dfe2a447d5e917f25a6a8b5deb0bfef9e#tv-modes
helped decode these, meaning that I needed to re-download all the
non-dashfhd1 programmes as they are just 540/720 rather than 1080.

I then used NP++ Search, Mark / Bookmark line /Mark All functions to
bookmark all the lines matching a certain title, then cut and pasted
all bookmarked lines into a separate file. Edited that file to leave
just the 1080 lines, and then pasted them back into the download
history file.

On Sat, 30 Sept 2023 at 12:41, Michael Gregory <mike at mikegregory.net> wrote:
>
> You can use NP++ to sort your download_history starting at column 10 to get all the TOTP together to help.
> Should have quality there too, in the field after pid, eg: hvfhdq1, dashfhd1, (HQ which you want to leave)
> But some in my file do not have that field populated... I think they are ones I downloaded before broadcast.
>
> 30 Sept 2023 12:08:36 MrBrunes <mr.brunes at gmail.com>:
>
> > I've just realised that some of my historical downloads of TOTP are in
> > SD or non-50fps HD but the download history doesn't seem to note the
> > quality, so I need to force download them again. Since new programmes
> > are currently made available each week (for 30d) I thought I could add
> > "force 1" to the PVR search for that programme, but then this will
> > obvs download files that are already in 50fps. Also it will keep
> > downloading files each time they are made available.
> >
> > I thought of deleting all the TOTP lines in download_history as that
> > at least would prevent them from being downloaded again subsequently,
> > but I don't know if this is an easy thing to do (can't see if my text
> > editor can do this (Notepad++).
> >
> > Is there a better, more efficient method of doing this?
> >
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> Mike
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