get_iplayer Download Olympics In Chunks Tutorial

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On 09/08/12 10:31, Andy Waddington (software devel) wrote:
> Sometime before sending, Matthew Stanfield typed (and on Wednesday 2012-08-08 sent):
>
>> 30% realtime is not
>> fast enough to view the video on the BBC Olympics live video pages, so
>> something is amiss
>
> Surely that's one of the main reasons for using get_iplayer (and
> youtube-dl and vimeo-dl, etc.) ? Most of rural UK has broadband
> speeds too low to watch iplayer, youtube, vimeo or any other
> streaming video in real time... I'm doing well if I can listen
> to radio programmes in real time :-(

Really, I had no idea that it got as bad as that, that's shocking. As a 
central London dweller I've got cable available and I've had fast cable 
broadband for more than 10 years, always buying the fastest package as 
and when it became available in my area - 5 Mb/s, became 10 Mb/s, became 
20 Mb/s, then 40 Mb/s, till now when I'm on 100 Mb/s and get genuine 12 
MB/s downstream speeds, which allows multiple people in the house to 
stream at perfectly adequate rates.

Isn't Ofcom supposed to make the ISPs sort out rural broadband? Doesn't 
sound like the regulator is doing a very good job at this. I bet there's 
a campaign you could join. Personally I feel fast broadband in the 21st 
C is (almost) a human right, and I'm sorry to hear rural dwellers don't 
have it.