2009/4/18 Phil Lewis <[email protected]>:
> You had also better watch out with the new HD (720p) BBC iPlayer streams
> I noticed the 1hr Doctor Who special notched up 1.3GB when I streamed
> it! Looked fantastic though :-)
At the risk of going off topic, what did you use to measure how much
bandwidth iPlayer was taking up? I only ask because a member of my
family was worried about using iPlayer because they have quite a low
bandwidth cap and where worried about hitting it. Their ISP doesn't to
display how much bandwidth has been used, so has to guess what their
remaining bandwidth allocation is then guess how much bandwidth a
single iPlayer episode is going to use up. This is why we need to
scrap bandwidth caps, the average person does not understand them!!!
Back on topic, could anyone explain what the 3 different .mov files
for the 5 min version on the FTP server are for? I can guess what
uncompressed is but I haven't got a clue what the _2.mov file is.
Perhaps a README[.txt] file with details of the encoding parameters of
each file would be useful. And just because I'm curious could you tell
us what software you use for transcoding and whether you have to do
each format by hand or whether you have auto build scripts?
Cheers
Andy
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