Audio/Video Out of Sync

John Bingham john at ukmail.org
Mon Aug 15 10:08:50 PDT 2016


Fairly easy to slow down everything on a Linux interface.  If anyone has 
the time/inclination, maybe worth investigating the tc command.

On 15/08/16 17:42, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 03:52:52PM +0100, George Eycott wrote:
>
>> 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 :-)
>
> I think that's unlikely. That said, if someone were to add rate-limiting
> options to get_iplayer I'd be very happy.
>



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