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Originally Posted by toady
The non TIVO boxes are not upto using iPlayer over broadband. Its also not a bit more content VM can only provide around a 1/3 of the broadband iPlayer, I assume there is a limited capacity in transcoding to MPEG2
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Transcoding what to mpeg2?
SD is mpeg 2 anyway.
Even for HD there's no need to transcode any more than it already has been to broadcast it. They're already transcoding the channel on the fly, the videos for iplayer are simply taken from the video stream that's broadcast so everything is already in a format that's displayable by the box.
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Originally Posted by Mr K
Ok thanks, I'm certainly going to write to them on the subject. Ben Mcr indicated earlier in the thread that it was that the boxes weren't up to it, now its the BBC's fault for not supplying it. The BBC certainly are supplying it or it wouldn't be on TIVO. I'll report back if I get a response from the Beeb.
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The boxes aren't up to showing the online version of iplayer like the tivo boxes do.
The BBC aren't supplying the full iplayer content it to VM's VOD servers.
Tivo takes it from the same source as the BBC's online player, NOT from VM's VOD servers, hence the difference in content available, one is taking it from VM's VOD servers, the other from online, in both cases it's the BBC that dictate what is available. VM are offering everything the BBC gives them, that the BBC aren't delivering the full catch up service to VM's VOD servers IS NOT VM's fault.