Christopher Woods (CM) wrote:
Will own up to not having read the entire thread, but the new BBC player
looks like it uses Chunked HTTP to stream and perform adaptive bitrate
adjustments.
get_iplayer, AFAIK, cannot currently save contents of chunked streams as
the methods used are fundamentally different from standard,
'progressive', linear single bitrate RTMP.
That doesn't really pertain here. The quality of the simulcast streams
normally used by get_iplayer hasn't changed, nor has the method of
delivery. The existing streams can be accessed with the discovery
mechanism used for the Olympics streams (part of this patch), but the
quality and stream format are still the same.
No clue what they're planning post-Olympics. In some ways it might be
good if they moved all iPlayer services to HTTP streaming. It would
mean a hit rewriting bits of get_iplayer, but as we've seen, rtmp
streaming isn't always perfect.
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