bpa wrote: > As I understand it, a good reason is to get away from "rebuffering" > (which users hate) - HLS/HDS/DASH all allow for changing bitrates while > a stream is playing so if backbone network gets overloaded or just the > user home wifi gets slow - the server will be able to choose to send a > slower bit rate audio stream fragement for the duration of the overload > so eliminate/minimise "rebuffering". It will also probably enable > servers to be more efficient. Side effect is that audio quality could > vary during a live transmission - that'll be the issue BBC has to get > right.
That sounds horrendous. A more-or-less listenable stream repeatedly descending into compressed, dishwasher-in-a-bag squelch. Yummy. I think I'd rather have the gaps. As for "the issue the BBC has to get right": well, given their performance of late with anything they *should* have gotten right (and in many cases a five-year-old could have gotten right), my hopes aren't high. Big thumbs-up to the agitators on the BBC thread who managed to get the BBC mob talking to Triode. Here's hoping something comes of that, it could be a real scalp for this community if Auntie is actually seen to be listening to us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Havin_it's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
