Video Podcast Auto Play Highest Quality

[tmurphy2792 21]

So this might be pretty closely related to a post I've done in the past about m3u streams and choosing the highest quality stream. For video podcasts I've run into a very similar issue, when I open an episode it will automatically choose the lowest quality video and will not find the higher quality video.

Being as it's RSS instead of m3u, I'm not sure if there's a difference here, but I figured it's worth posting.
Is this the same underlying issue that should be resolved whenever newer version of FFMPEG releases?

[Luke 39685]

Hi, how does the rss represent multiple versions?

[tmurphy2792 21]

3 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, how does the rss represent multiple versions?

I'm not sure, it looks like going to the URL for the video file somehow redirects me to a new URL when I open the video file in Chrome. VLC also seems to get the high def video.

 

I guess to make this easier I should have included the RSS for you guys.

 

https://cooperstuffpodcast.libsyn.com/rss

[Luke 39685]

12 hours ago, tmurphy2792 said:

I'm not sure, it looks like going to the URL for the video file somehow redirects me to a new URL when I open the video file in Chrome. VLC also seems to get the high def video.

 

I guess to make this easier I should have included the RSS for you guys.

 

https://cooperstuffpodcast.libsyn.com/rss

OK, what example in that feed should we focus on?

[tmurphy2792 21]

41 minutes ago, Luke said:

OK, what example in that feed should we focus on?

Hey Luke, I'm sorry, I should have done more due diligence before reporting this apparently. It looks like the ones I noticed were SD are older episodes that actually are SD on chrome and VLC as well, but when I had checked the RSS feed manually I grabbed stuff from the top which was of course newer and in HD.

Please disregard/cancel this post. I apologize again for wasting your time with this one.

[tmurphy2792 21]

The good news is, this has made me stumble on a real bug (or maybe a counterintuitive feature?), I'll start a new post for it.