m001vkll puzzle

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On 20/01/2024 11:16, Jim web wrote:
>
> Puzzled by this item for the following reasons:
> 
> I watched the broadcast on the BBC Parliament (DVB-T2) channel and that
> ended before the 'second half' of the panel sitting. However I downloaded a
> copy using gip on the 16th.
> 
> This *also* was ended part-way though the sitting. So I checked the webpage
> and that states the duration is over 3 hours. Yet what I got was 1h 33m
> long.
> 
> Webpage is at
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vkll
> 
> This morning I tried again in case they'd changed this. The result gave me
> a *different* filename for the same PID, and again despight the webpage
> indicating it was the full sitting of the committee, only the first 1h 33m.
> 
> Puzzled by both the truncation differering from what the webpage claims,
> and the change of file name.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Not seen this effect before in years of using
> gip for many items.

Looks like an initial error at source which has now been corrected. 
After reading your post around lunch-time, I set it to download it as a 
test, and have just noticed that it finished around 1330hrs.  It 
downloaded successfully as "Select Committees Horizon IT Scandal 
Inquiry.mp4" 3.09GB, 1:33:18 long, 1280x720x50 and random seeking within 
the file seems to play back successfully.  The command given was:

perl <path>\get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir=<path>  --pid m001vkll -g