The BBC's detecting of my bandwidth has been annoying me recently. It
seems to think that I am on narrowband, and doesn't give me the option
to go for something better (although it is possible to get around it, so
that I can at least watch things at a size that is viewable). I should
point out that I have a 10mbps connection courtesy of the University of
Bath, and really shouldn't have any bandwidth issues.
Any chance of this being improved upon sometime?
Thanks
Duncan Barclay.
James Cridland wrote:
(Apologies: this is almost wholly off-topic.)
On 5/16/06, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 22:46 +0100 15/5/06, James Cridland wrote:
>I can't speak for the BBC, but certainly when you make the Virgin
>Radio player appear ( www.virginradio.co.uk/listen on any PC)
Ahem. The "live.pls" file was (correctly?) sent to iTunes from
Firefox. I am listening as I type this:-)
The plan works. And yes, correctly, sent to iTunes from Firefox since
you're on a Mac; while our internet radio player works just fine on a
Mac with Windows Media Player installed, we can't check if it's
installed and therefore don't serve it to you. Shame.
NumberOfEntries=3
File1=http://mp3-vr-32.smgradio.com:80/
Title1=Virgin Radio 1215AM, LIVE from London [HBR](peered -
8x.1xxx.1xx.3x)
The other thing that our player does is it does a quick
bandwidth-check, and serves you the high bitrate stream if you can
cope happily with it. We can't do that otherwise, so you've got the
dirty 32k mono thing. Change the '32' to '128' and Bob's your uncle.
Incidentally, this is one (the only?) benefit of the BBC using Real
Player - trying to drag this thread back on-topic. Real includes some
nifty bandwidth-sensing, and the same stream can serve anything from
8k to 800k. The BBC's are configured this way; also our only native
Real streams auto-sense from 8k-32 to allow you to listen on a device
over GPRS.
Microsoft Windows Media does do some auto-sensing too, though these
streams aren't very backward-compatible; our high-bitrate stream is
auto-sensing from 20k up to 100k, from memory.
I don't get much text in the iTunes window with from Virgin
I don't think iTunes supports the in-player "now playing" text; oddly,
Winamp does, so you do get some text there. Real can support this,
kind of, using some odd format or an inbuilt browser window; Windows
Media Player can send scripting events which is what we use for our
radio player (in MSIE).
compared with text on my handy DAB radio.
Glad you like it; that's my department too.
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