On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 03:52:52PM +0100, George Eycott wrote:
> Having a thought about this, when you stream something through IPlayer or on
> a device of any sort to watch as it streams, it pulls data at a far lower
> rate than when we try and download the whole programme in one hit. I wonder
> whether it is this attempt to get the data quickly that is causing the
> problem. If I were wearing a tin hat I would say it could have been a
> deliberate change to cause problems to people using get_iplayer :-)
I think that's unlikely. That said, if someone were to add rate-limiting
options to get_iplayer I'd be very happy.
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