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carlwaring 26-05-2011 08:00
Re: BBC iPlayer goes HD, time to drop STM
 
Erm.... see post #1 :confused: :)

japitts 26-05-2011 09:57
Re: BBC iPlayer goes HD, time to drop STM
 
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Originally Posted by |Kippa| (Post 35244937)
It has been a long time since I watched iplayer on the internet. I just watched last nights Newsnight on iplayer early this morning. Is it me or have they increased the bitrate of their encodes. I remember watching the iplayer tv shows a long time ago and remember seeing a lot of blocking due to which arguably was a bitrate starved video encode. When I watched the program this morning upscaled to fullscreen there seemed to be no visible blocking what so ever.
With the VOD iPlayer suffering from stuttering pictures on a significant amount of content now, the online iPlayer is probably a better service at the moment?

mattysouthall 26-05-2011 10:55
Re: BBC iPlayer goes HD, time to drop STM
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by |Kippa| (Post 35244937)
It has been a long time since I watched iplayer on the internet. I just watched last nights Newsnight on iplayer early this morning. Is it me or have they increased the bitrate of their encodes. I remember watching the iplayer tv shows a long time ago and remember seeing a lot of blocking due to which arguably was a bitrate starved video encode. When I watched the program this morning upscaled to fullscreen there seemed to be no visible blocking what so ever.
BBC are changing all there encoding yes, They have also introduced "BBC Radio HD" which is currently on only one of there stations, might be Radio 2 not sure. Im sure they will introduce this onto there Radio 1 soon, basically its just a much higher bitrate when listening to the Radio so you get that crystal clear HD-like sound.

japitts 26-05-2011 11:37
Re: BBC iPlayer goes HD, time to drop STM
 
Which, all good as it is, implies a lot of development going on with the online iPlayers. Might explain why "issues" with the VOD version are just being left to fester.

BenMcr 26-05-2011 11:57
Re: BBC iPlayer goes HD, time to drop STM
 
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Originally Posted by japitts (Post 35245083)
Which, all good as it is, implies a lot of development going on with the online iPlayers. Might explain why "issues" with the VOD version are just being left to fester.
Don't see why that would be the case. VoD will continue to be part of the platform whether or not the iPlayer content is delivered by it or not.

So if they are technical issues with VoD content they would need to be solved

japitts 26-05-2011 13:24
Re: BBC iPlayer goes HD, time to drop STM
 
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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35245094)
Don't see why that would be the case. VoD will continue to be part of the platform whether or not the iPlayer content is delivered by it or not.

So if they are technical issues with VoD content they would need to be solved
I totally agree that the issue with VoD iPlayer needs to be solved. Whether that will be anytime soon is another question. I am beginnning to wonder if the BBC have bigger and more glamorous things on their plate than fixing unwatchable content.


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