Audio/Video Out of Sync

[MacFH - C E Macfarlane]

Please see below ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On
> Behalf Of Jim web
> Sent: 10 August 2016 14:33
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Audio/Video Out of Sync
> 
> The response was...
> 
> Anything served from akamaihd.net is from our legacy platform.
> That means Akamai are doing the media segmenting and manifest
> generation.
> These services are deprecated.
> 
> Without giving too much away I can tell you that the 'current' HLS is
served
> from hosts:
> 
> llnwd.net - Limelight
> edgesuite.net - Akamai

So that would seem to be telling the worthy authors of GiP something useful
for future development, but doesn't really explain the current problems.
The best guess we can make using this new information would seem to be
something like:

iPlayer is using the new servers whenever a browser doesn't have Flash
installed, and the legacy ones for Flash browsers.  The new servers are
geared up for the demand from the Olympics, but the old ones, being legacy,
are being maintained on something akin to a best efforts basis, and the
current level of demand on these legacy servers is causing glitches both in
the recording/storing of programme data on them, and in downloading from
them.  Hence the two types of error, with the first being fixed
retroactively by Akamai, and the second fixable by the user redownloading.

It would be nice to have something less speculative, however.