Audio/Video Out of Sync

[George Eycott]

> But they want people to shift away from using Akamai, so may not be
> concerned. I don't use the standard BBC webpage interfaces, etc, these
days
> so have no idea if current browsers or BBC apps are being affected by
this.
> If they are, I'd have expected an outcry by now as this has been happening
> for weeks.

Having a thought about this, when you stream something through IPlayer or on
a device of any sort to watch as it streams, it pulls data at a far lower
rate than when we try and download the whole programme in one hit. I wonder
whether it is this attempt to get the data quickly that is causing the
problem. If I were wearing a tin hat I would say it could have been a
deliberate change to cause problems to people using get_iplayer :-)

One way to test this would be to make get_iplayer behave more like a
"legitimate" (for want of a better word) client and pull the data at closer
to real time speeds. May be worth doing as a test if someone has the
time/inclination.