Please see below ... > -----Original Message----- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of tellyaddict > Sent: 10 August 2016 17:13 > To: get_iplayer > Subject: Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync > > My understanding of what Jim has said is that all the HLS recording modes are > legacy streams served only by Akamai. For these legacy streams, the BBC > send the programme files to Akamai and they (Akamai) then segment and > upload the programme to their servers. It seems that the processing that > Akamai are doing is what is at fault and causing the missing segment errors > that we are seeing. > > The new generation of HLS streams are the ones served by both Akamai and > Limelight. In 2.95 they are the HVF modes. These programmes are > segmented and packaged by the BBC and then sent to Akamai. Akamai are > not processing these files and they are fault free. > > The Olympics are mostly only being processed into HVF format, so the BBC is > doing all the processing of these and Akamai are NOT being asked to process > them for HLS (on the legacy system) which is why this option is not available > on most Olympics content.
That successfully shoots down my tentative explanation, but unfortunately doesn't supply a better one. Based on your superior knowledge of both GiP, and the BBC system, what is your understanding of why these problems started to occur about a month ago, bearing in mind that I've seen at least one in a DASH download as well (the night before last, last night's downloads were error free). _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
