majones wrote: > A commentator has pointed out on the BBC blog that BBC's own iPlayer web > page is now playing Listen Again as RTMP whereas it was HDS. This made > me think about a comment I saw somewhere by the BBC about the > "resilience" of their streams, and I'm wondering whether RTMP might > continue long-term as a backup to "chunked HTTP". Just a thought. We're > fortunate now to have tools in place (not requiring hacks) that provide > Listen Again access to either "chunked HTTP" (as HLS) via Triode's alpha > plugin, or RTMP (at 320kbps for Radio 3) via bpa's BBCiPlayerExtra > plugin.
I'd be interested if anyone knows if HDS has actually been used for the BBC's own flash/brower based iPlayer Listen Again. I've been looking regularly, and seen no evidence of that happening, but I may have missed it. There are so many curiosities with what they are doing at the moment. The weirdest things are with the 'audio-syndication' mediaset which looks like the mediaset that "hardware internet radios" should be using - that is what is picked up by Triode's alpha HLS plugin and also it looks like it used by Pure radios (well at least the Pure Connect app). Using this mediaset for Listen Again doesn't show the now-withdrawn-and-soon-to-expire 320kpbs HLS Listen Again streams, which are available via apple/android devices. So there seems to be deliberate blocking of the HD 320kbps Listen Again content from other than the BBCs own players. Even more curious is that this 'audio-syndication' mediaset provides HDS rather than HLS streams for Live content! That isn't used by Pure Connect - they are using the MP3 Shoutcast streams for that. All in all it seems to be a complete mess. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
