search

Ascoware / get-iplayer-automator

The goal of Get iPlayer Automator is to allow iTunes and your Mac to become the hub for your British Television experience regardless of where in the world you are. Currently, Get iPlayer Automator allows you to download and watch BBC and ITV shows on your Mac. Series-Link/PVR functionality ensures you will never miss your favourite shows. Programmes are fully tagged and added to iTunes automatically upon completion. It is simple and easy to use, and runs on any machine running Mac OS X 10.7 or later. And since the shows are in iTunes, it is extremely easy to transfer them to your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV allowing you to enjoy your shows on the go or on your television.
GNU General Public License v3.0
146 stars 26 forks source link

Very Large Files #185

Closed Lordsnooty05 closed 6 years ago

Lordsnooty05 commented 6 years ago

I downloaded last night one episode of the BBC’s excellent drama “A Very English Scandal” and it was a massive 2 GBs whereas the previous episodes were an average 750mbs (large enough). I store these files/episodes on my very large NAS but at this rate I will need another NAS.

mutantcamel commented 6 years ago

Do you have a preference set in GiA for 50 or 25 fps? (prefs --> Download Formats). 50 fps would give a file size that's twice as big as a file with 25 fps.

Backup your download history, then delete these episodes from your download history and try again with "prefer 25 fps" checked and see if that makes a difference. You can uncheck "get higher quality audio" but I'm not sure if that would make a significant difference to the file size.

Lordsnooty05 commented 6 years ago

Thanks for that. I did uncheck the higher quality and it had little or no change on the file size. I will do what you say and reduce the 50 FPS to 25 FPS.....it must be that is giving the large file sizes. I don’t remember ever having to adjust that feature....maybe that is a new update that I hadn’t seen before. Thanks again, for drawing my attention to it. I will try it later on today and report back

mutantcamel commented 6 years ago

If you have Handbrake installed, you can open the large files in that and it will tell you if you're at 50 or 25 fps. I have the 25 fps version of these episodes and the largest file is 814MB.
a_very_english_scandal_series_1_-_3__episode_3___hvfxsd___mp4

skovatch commented 6 years ago

A recent change in get_iplayer 3.14 is causing this. 50 FPS video is now the default, and it will produce much larger video. See the release notes. I did call this out in the release notes for 1.13.7, but I can't fault you for not noticing it in the upgrade notification.

Note that using 25 FPS means you won't get HD-quality video, except for some reruns broadcast before April 2018. See https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modes for more information about that.

Lordsnooty05 commented 6 years ago

Scott thanks. I don't normally look at the changes you have made to each build but these files are very large and quickly fill up my NAS. Obviously I do like a quality recording but and it would have been good if they had been HD quality but beggars can't be choosers .....I'm sure at 25fps will be fine. Thanks