Overwriting lower quality files

[fred.d]

... he might be a fan of Pan's persons and wanting the best quality 
video he can to spark youthful memories.

but your point is correct, of the few I have watched I never saw what I 
would call HD quality output and you can often get better music quality 
on Spotify or even Youtube - of course they won't be the TOTP versions 
with DLT or Kid Jensen's commentary drowning out the end of the song.



On 30/09/2023 23:17, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote:
> On 30/09/2023 12:05, MrBrunes wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> I've refrained from replying before because I thought you might not 
> welcome my advice, which is simply: don't waste your time!
>
> Remember that ...
>
> As far as video resolution goes, TOTP2 dates from analogue days, which 
> IMS at its best was roughly equivalent to the 720 x 576 of a DVD, but 
> often when rebroadcast digitally was worse, for example ITV broadcast 
> at 544 x 576 for a long time, and I have a series of programmes about 
> Stonehenge recorded, IMS originally onto VHS, variously from UK TV and 
> Ch 5 for which the resolution width is often actually less than the 
> height, though whether that's down to the original broadcast or the 
> VHS I can not now recall.  Currently SD downloads as 960 x 540 & HD as 
> 1080 x 720, so there's really little to be gained by HD over SD given 
> the source material is not likely to be much if at all better than the 
> former.
>
> Secondly, as far as the audio resolution is concerned  -  and call me 
> old-fashioned if you must, but I thought the most important thing 
> about music is, well, the music, not the video  -  both SD & HD have 
> only 128k stereo @ 48k, so there can be no improvement there, either.
>
> However, if you insist on allowing the devil to make work for idle 
> hands, I will point out that you don't need a special program to sort 
> your download history, merely a spreadsheet.  Depending in which 
> flavour of Office that you use, import the file as text specifying the 
> vertical bar '|' as the field separator character, and perhaps also 
> specifying the duration to be a numeric field and everything else as 
> text.  That will enable you to sort by column within column, etc.
>
>
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