[Fsuk-manchester] BBC iplayer stream quality (was: Fsuk-manchester Digest, Vol 45, Issue 1)

[Simon Ward]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:26:25PM +0000, Ben Webb wrote:
> On 2 March 2011 09:58, Andrew Gladwell <address@hidden> wrote:
> > get_iplayer (to list all programs)
> > or
> > get_iplayer click (to list all programs with click in the title)
> >
> > then, once I have the program id (let's say its 593 this time) I do:
> >
> > get_iplayer --get 593 --modes flashvhigh
> 
> get_iplayer --modes flashvhigh url
> works too
> 
> > There's nothing particularly dodgy about doing it this way, this stream is
> > available to iPhone users, the software just pretends to be an iPhone, as I
> > understand it.
> 
> Actually the iPhone stream is low quality and becoming increasingly
> more difficult to get. "flashvhigh" means you're actually getting the
> same stream the flash player would, over rtmp.

See the following for the numbers (and if the numbers mean nothing to
you, look at the “Video Quality” column):

http://beebhack.wikia.com/wiki/IPlayer_TV#Comparison_Table

Simon
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