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BBC iPlayer HQ Streams
20-08-2008 2:43 PM
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Are PN ready for the increase in bandwith that this is going to bring? I ran the show in both NQ and HQ settings with Windows Taskmanager on the bandwith usage setting and it came out looking like so:
The first ups and downs are in NQ, as you can see it spikes up, then drops off, spikes up, drops off all very quickly, the traffic is in short bursts. The 2nd part of the graph is the HQ setting, it has the same spikes, but instead of instantly dropping back down, the spike has to stay up longer to get the data from the stream.
Are PN seeing an increase in iPlayer traffic as people use the Beta service? Does PN have the bandiwth to cope if the BBC start to put everything on a HQ option? How much extra bandwith does the HQ setting take? From just looking it looks like you may need 3 times as much? Though thats just eyeballing the graph.
Re: BBC iPlayer HQ Streams
20-08-2008 2:47 PM
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This might be of interest:
http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/08/19/online-olympic-coverage-more-and-more-turn-to-the-bbc-ipla...
Re: BBC iPlayer HQ Streams
20-08-2008 3:18 PM
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20-08-2008 3:27 PM
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From the Blog posts I bet Dave T walks up in the night screaming and sweating wondering how much bandwidth the monster that is iPlayer is going to eat the next day on the Plusnet network
Re: BBC iPlayer HQ Streams
20-08-2008 3:35 PM
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20-08-2008 3:47 PM
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Quote from: Jameseh Thanks to Mr. Bolt, we've just peaked at 875Mbps.
Not for long though I suppose, given the speed that he runs at!!
Re: BBC iPlayer HQ Streams
20-08-2008 3:51 PM
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He's just run off with 200Mbps of iPlayer traffic
Re: BBC iPlayer HQ Streams
21-08-2008 11:44 AM
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Re: BBC iPlayer HQ Streams
21-08-2008 1:54 PM
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Quote from: artificer it would probably be even more if us linux folks were able to use the facility. at present the british (public service broadcasting) outfit has seen fit to exclude us.
Have a look at http://beebhack.wikia.com/wiki/Beebhack
Works in any OS.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: BBC iPlayer HQ Streams
21-08-2008 3:54 PM
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21-08-2008 7:02 PM
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http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/get_iplayer
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Re: BBC iPlayer HQ Streams
21-08-2008 8:16 PM
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You might as well be speaking Chinese AFAIAC
With PCLOS I can happily stream iPlayer, but it would be handy to ba able to d/l. Is there any easy way for a Dummy to do that?
Re: BBC iPlayer HQ Streams
21-08-2008 9:24 PM
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In a nutshell:
1. You download the script
2. You make it executable.
3. You run it: get_iplayer --get http://blah.blah.blah/b00d2xmp/
If you want a GUI you could try this: http://po-ru.com/projects/iplayer-downloader/
If all of the above is too difficult you can either wait for someone to create an automated build for the lot (rpm, or debian) or perhaps you could buy me a beer next time I am in the neighbourhood?
Re: BBC iPlayer HQ Streams
21-08-2008 11:43 PM
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22-08-2008 8:35 AM
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HEALTH WARNING: Don't drink and post!
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