[gujal]

The video had an .avi file (original best quality) and the .mp4 file (internet archive's compressed poor quality).
the video loaded straight to the mp4 file (compressed quality). No choice.
here is the log incase it helps:

Is there anyway this could be fixed?
Once again, cheers!

This is because of IA being inconsistent. They normally present multiple qualities on the web page on 'js-play8-playlist' section. Now for the page you linked above the playlist section only lists the mp4 file as below
 

Code:

<input class="js-play8-playlist" type="hidden" value='[{"title":"MTV Europe #001","orig":"MTV_Europe_#001.avi","image":"/download/mtv-europe-vhs-001/mtv-europe-vhs-001.thumbs%2FMTV_Europe_%23001_000115.jpg","duration":11904,
"sources":[{"file":"/download/mtv-europe-vhs-001/MTV_Europe_%23001.mp4","type":"mp4","height":"450","width":"600","label":"450p"}],
"tracks":[{"kind":"thumbnails","file":"/stream/mtv-europe-vhs-001/mtv-europe-vhs-001.thumbs/MTV_Europe_%23001_000115.jpg?vtt=vtt.vtt"}]}]'/>

Fixing this would be tough, the balance is to find a common method to pull qualities for most files