Red Button now on iPlayer

RS richard22j at zoho.com
Mon May 15 05:33:01 PDT 2017


>From: James Scholes Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 12:36

>Not at all.  These are just internal numbers used to assign a priority to 
>each stream.  The BBC iPlayer and apps will try the stream with the lowest 
>priority first, and if performance seems lackluster or there's an error 
>they will try the stream with the next highest priority and so on.

So those numbers are a red herring.  Even so there are some dramatic 
differences between the sub-modes.  I haven't tried them all but hlsvhigh1 
and hvfxsd5 both download at about 60Mbit/s, while hvfxsd1 only manages 
about 14Mbit/s.





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