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steveh · 16-02-2016, 12:10

iPlayer is currently a maximum 3.2Mbps 720p 25fps using AVC / H.264 encoding. BBC 3 via cable was 1080i 50fps using MPEG 2 - no idea of the average bitrate, but think was said before that BBC on VM is higher than Freeview or Freesat even accounting for the different encoding.

According to, http://en.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php...live=9&lang=en, BBC 1 on Freeview averages 5Mbps with a max of around 14Mbps with AVC / H.264 encoding.

So yes, not as good as broadcast.

16-02-2016, 12:10	#522
steveh Inactive Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 272	Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) iPlayer is currently a maximum 3.2Mbps 720p 25fps using AVC / H.264 encoding. BBC 3 via cable was 1080i 50fps using MPEG 2 - no idea of the average bitrate, but think was said before that BBC on VM is higher than Freeview or Freesat even accounting for the different encoding. According to, http://en.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php...live=9&lang=en, BBC 1 on Freeview averages 5Mbps with a max of around 14Mbps with AVC / H.264 encoding. So yes, not as good as broadcast.