Thanks Jim, > Afraid the info I have is limited. But it makes clear that the BBC realise > there *is* a problem with the hls segmentation and that Akamai are said to > have a fix which is supposed to be being put in place. However I'd have > thought that would happen today. Might be my misunderstanding, though.
As this problem appears to have got significantly worse today, I think it's possible that something was attempted but hasn't worked. > A problem here is that I'm just one stage of a 'pass the parcel' when it > comes to this. IIUC The fix isn't one the BBC themselves are doing, but > someone else who is responding to them. >From what you have said before, I get the feeling that the BBC have no control >over this problem because on that legacy system, all they (the BBC) do is send >the video files to Akamai. Akamai does the rest (segmenting, uploading etc) so >the problems start when Akamai start processing. So Akamai are the only ones >who can actually fix this problem. As we have seen from HVF and DASH, these >are segmented, packaged etc by the BBC and then uploaded to Akamai's servers, >and it seems that things processed by the BBC tend to work. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
