Audio/Video Out of Sync

[Jim web]

In article <000d01d1f31b$9b0ca9e0$d125fda0$@macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C E
Macfarlane <c.e.macfarlane at macfh.co.uk> wrote:

> 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. 

I was also told that the server demands have all been well below maximum
capacity. I was given values but asked not to disclose details. So my
impression is that the difference isn't down to server loadings as such.
And I first encountered the problems I've seen well before the Olympics
started.

My impression was that the 'legacy' machines have their content  segmented,
etc, by someone other than the BBC. Whereas the BBC are doing this for the
new ones. That may be the key difference.

However, as I said, I don't understand this well enough to be sure. So I
just passed on what info I could.

Jim

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