BBC seems to publish the non-HD streams of the shows I'm interested in first. So get_iplayer downloads them and then I have to delete and force a download of the proper stream. I had stopped this by setting the 50fps option, but, the files were just ridiculously large.

What do I need to do to ensure I only get the HD versions and not have get_iplayer 'fall back' to an SD version?

You might like to look at this which explains all about the different recording modes:

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplay...i/modesref

For those of you coming here for an answer (as opposed to RTFM) this, I believe, is it:

You need to set specific tvmodes, not use things like best.
You'd think you could do this like so:
get_iplayer --prefs-add tvmode=hlshd,hvfhd

But you can't (or at least I can't).

so I added the following line to my get_iplayer options file:
tvmode hlshd,hvfhd

This SHOULD try to record the 25fps version, then the 50fps if the 25 isn't available, and not fallback to the crappier versions.

We'll see if that does the trick.

Quote:You'd think you could do this like so: get_iplayer --prefs-add tvmode=hlshd,hvfhd

You forgot the -- in front of tvmode. --prefs-add --tvmode=hlshd,hvfhd

Quote:For those of you coming here for an answer (as opposed to RTFM)

It's all there for you. We do expect people to try and help themselves. Slicknick pointed you in the right direction.