I've noticed for a few weeks now that the BBC news stream has really gone
down in quality. It looks overexposed and awfully washed out; prior to this
it looked great, just like a pure digital feed should. Also, the stream is
apparently being encoded at 29fps (according to WMP) but it's playing back
at 23.9/24fps - why not encode at 24fps? Surely it's wasting bits, even if
the perceived fps is incorrect and the actual fps is correct... But there's
still no reason for this incorrect setup.
The odd 400x224 resolution is puzzling too, but better than nothing - as is
the (dismal) 32 whole kilobits per second of bandwidth devoted to the audio
stream. Is there ever going to be a decent high quality stream of N24
available via the web site (or maybe be rolled out with a future incarnation
of iPlayer?)
Either way, I'd still appreciate it if some attention was paid to the N24
stream, so if someone's reading this who knows someone who can get someone
else to take a look, that'd be great!
Christopher
