m001vkll puzzle

[Michael Gregory]

FYI, BBC Parliament is HD on satellite... not upscaled.

21 Jan 2024 14:41:27 Jim web <web at audiomisc.co.uk>:

> In article <abba0747-ad84-98f1-70c4-804214ae6e9f at macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C
> E
> Macfarlane - News <news at macfh.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 21/01/2024 11:51, Jim web wrote:
>>> 
>>> Question: Should simply giving the pid as m001vxvk rather than
>>> m001vkll cause gip to get the full-length version? Or is that not
>>> sufficient? As yet I've always used the pid of the webpage address for
>>> an item.
> 
>> Not sure where you got the pid m001vxvk from
> 
> Used gip to give me the info on the pid. That showed that the 'editorial'
> version had a different pid as per above.
> 
>> , but anyway ...
> 
>>      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vxvk
> 
>> ... redirects automatically [probably a 301 or 302] to ...
> 
>>      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vkll
> 
>> ... so no difference should be expected, but I thought I'd try it anyway:
> 
>> perl <path>\get_iplayer.pl --profile-dir=<path>  --pid m001vxvk -g
> 
>> ... results in ...
> 
> Yes, it redirected here.
> 
>> However, I can confirm that, as suggested by 'iz', adding ...
> 
>>      --versions=editorial
> 
>> ... to the command line does download the full programme.  I now have:
> 
>> Select Committees Horizon IT Scandal Inquiry.mp4, 6.55GB, 3:9:23 long,
>> 1280x720x50
> 
> I just added a "--versions=editorial" to the set of statements for one of
> my choices and it also started downloading that - i.e. the full fat
> version. :-) However I then interrupted. Prefer to download big items
> before 9am.
> 
>>> I also now wonder: Are BBC Parliament (and News) Channel items
>>> available a 'genuine' HD? Or is that simply causing a transcode
>>> upwards with no improvement, just more data to shovel?
> 
>> It says fhd under --info, so yes to fhd, but I've no idea whether it's
>> upscaled or not, you'd have to ask your pals at the Beeb.  Anyway, why
>> waste disk space for a news item where quality doesn't really matter?
>> It's not as though it's a wildlife documentary.
> 
> Agreed. In this case I'll use it because the problem is an odd one. Not
> something I'v encountered before. It also will give me a chance to see if
> the editorial 'hd' version actually *is* hd in image content! I suspect it
> is upscaled when you fetch HD as the size of the file seems more like 3
> hours of SD than HD. (1)
> 
> I guess that the BBC may well just use HD kit as standard, even when a
> channel is SD only. (Is Parilament on satellite also SD only?)
> 
> Sadly, the only people I knew at the BBC were on the radio side, and most
> seem to have left now. Sign of how old *I* am, I guess. 8-}
> 
> (1) BTW I checked and I already have a number of AV files from iPlayer that
> are around 7GB or more. So EXT4 still seems fine to me. 8-> No need for
> 'Nice Try FS' or Fat.
> 
> Jim
> 
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Mike
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