Usual reduction in audio quality since the BBC believes everyone uses earbuds 
anyway for iPlayer. Meanwhile I want stuff broadcast in 5.1 audio (on HD 
channels) to have 5.1 audio in iPlayer. Fat chance now.

-- 
Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net>
Cambridge, UK

> On 17 Jul 2019, at 10:28, RS <richard...@zoho.com> wrote:
> 
> This forum post may be of interest to some here.
> 
> errfmt:
> I've noticed that the 320kbps audio streams that used to be default for 
> hvfhd/hvfsd/hvfxsd TV seem to have disappeared and have been replaced with 
> 128kbps streams.
> Looking at my series downloads the change appears to have happened around 3rd 
> week in June, for instance Episode 4 of the 'The Planets' downloaded on 19th 
> June has 320kbps stream, Episode 5 downloaded on 1st July has 128kbps stream.
> As far as I can tell all current programmes now only have the 128kbps stream 
> available (I noticed this because Glastonbury downloads were all 128kbps).
> 
> I suspect this a BBC change and there will be nothing that can be done in 
> get_iplayer to re-enable 320kbps (but I hope I'm wrong!).
> 
> dinky:
> Nothing get_iplayer can do about it. If someone knows that 320k audio TV 
> streams still exist somewhere, start a new thread and explain how to find 
> them. Thread closed.
> 
> https://forums.squarepenguin.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=2055
> 
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