From: tellyaddict Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 21:51
My best guess on why these problems suddenly started about a month ago would be... All of the segmenting, playlist creation etc will be done by some software at Akamai if they are doing the packaging. It's possible that maybe they have >done a software update that has introduced a bug into their encoding systems. From what Jim said it sounds like Akamai have been doing this for the BBC >for quite a while and in the past their software has processed things without any problems. So something has changed in the last month or so which has >affected pretty much all of the content Akamai processes for the BBC. All I can think of is that something must have changed with the systems that are >processing things.
I agree that one question is what happened a month ago to change things, and it could have been a buggy software update. However The Moth in the Flame programme (b07l1wv4) got corrected a week after broadcast. It could be that it was edited and re-encoded as a result of the edit. It could also be that the Segment not found error was brought to the attention of the BBC or Akamai and that was why it was corrected. The second question is why things have got steadily worse over the intervening month, so that now virtually all programmes are affected.
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