On Wed Aug 10 09:53:51 BST 2016, Jim web wrote:
However it might matter which server we access.
... Well, of course it matters, a heck of a deal!
Has anyone compared them to see
if one gives blips/premature ends when the
other(s) are OK?
I assume we are discussing here the "Segment not found"
issue plaguing the hls tvmodes (and not the audio artifacts
described as "blips" by C E Macfarlane in audio downloads,
earlier in the thread...).
Well, there aren't OTHERS! All the flavours of the hls
tvmodes (hldhd, hlsvhigh, hlshigh, hlsstd, hlslow) are
hosted/streamed on the same Akamai CDN, whose
hostname is:
"cp401489-vh.akamaihd.net"
(supplier="akamai_hls_open")
The hls tvmodes are the default in GiP 2.95,
thus causing grief to GiP 2.95 users!
One other thing; according to the commit comment at:
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/commit/48150e5
HLS stream corruption has spread to radio
it would appear that radio downloads (hls radiomodes)
are also affected; I haven't noticed such a report in the list/forum
about "Segments not found" during audio downloads,
possibly because the default radiomode (320k in the UK)
uses MPEG-DASH streams.
The hls radiomodes are hosted/streamed again
on a unique Akamai CDN, whose hostname is:
"cp401492-vh.akamaihd.net"
again being (supplier="akamai_hls_open")
To conclude, inform your BBC liaison that
it is the "akamai_hls_open" CDN/supplier
that is misbehaving currently (since the start
of the month...).
Regards.
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