BBC Dropping MP3 and garbled downloads ....

[C E Macfarlane]

(Follow-up to group, omitted accidentally from original reply)

Yes, plenty, but I'm listening through a backlog at the moment, so I can't
really comment on current downloads.

You should be made aware that this has always been an ongoing problem even
with mp3 downloads  -  it has always come and gone over a period of minutes,
hours, or days  -  it's just that the incidence of the problem went up very
dramatically when the changeover to m4a occurred, with at least for a while
seemingly every single program affected.

My guess is that it happens when the servers running the encoding software
start to run out of resources.  The software probably doesn't clear up after
itself and gradually leaks one or more resource types  -  memory, threads,
handles, etc.  Perhaps the new encoding places greater demands on server
resources, hence the dramatic increase in incidence.

www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html

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>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org]On
>     Behalf Of Christopher Woods
>     Sent: 17 February 2015 19:16
>     To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
>     Subject: Re: BBC Dropping MP3 and garbled downloads ....
>
>
>     Has anyone else observed any glitchy/skippy/odd on-demand files since
>     my last reply to the thread? Trying to get a large enough
>     sample set, I
>     can't possibly listen to everything... ;-)
>
>     Chris
>
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