hlshd download speeds

[tellyaddict]

The Pure Perl HLS Downloader that is now built into 2.95 is much faster than downloading with FFMpeg.

> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 at 4:59 PM
> From: RS <richard22j at zoho.com>
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: hlshd download speeds
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: James Scholes
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 15:35
> 
> >This is probably caused by the switch to using a built-in HLS/DASH
> >downloader, rather than FFmpeg.
> 
> Sorry, when I said I hadn't changed anything I meant I hadn't changed 
> anything.   I have not installed the release version of 2.95; I am still 
> using whichever dev version it was.  I haven't got a Perl editor set up at 
> the moment, so I can't check the Perl, but if it was using ffmpeg before 
> Thursday it still must be.  It could be that Virgin Media is throttling it, 
> but it is a strange coincidence if it has decided to do that just as 2.95 
> was released.  Also a 20:1 speed reduction seems a bit heavy.  The 
> explanation that occurred to me was that the HLS servers were now more 
> heavily loaded.  Has anyone else noticed a difference? 
> 
> 
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