TheLastMan wrote: > The surprising thing is that it works fine for every program on the list > that is available. It seems that on the Extras national listing in the > UK there is no delay in getting the WMA stream, it is there at the same > time as the AAC one. I am able to play a program that was on air just an > hour ago whereas with the iPlayer listing I might have to wait half a > day.
The Extras listing is interesting in that it can pick up programs that are ready for broadcasting but not yet broadcast (or a repeat). For example Crossing Continents of R4 Mon 4th 8.30pm can be played now. The BBC aims to have both formats available simultaneously but if it is from a live broadcast there are extra steps as conversion uses "studio" streams and not the live broadcast stream as live quality make some audio compromises to ensure encoding in realtime. However sometime a conversion chain breaks down and one formats is not available for hours. > So there does not seem to be any logical reason why the XML listing > couldn't be as up to date as the one the Extras plugin uses (AFAICT). The XML data is taken from a different database than the iPlayer menu listing. I believe there is a 3rd party dealing with the XML feed and probably to ensure no "interference" with the iPlayer databases there is an addtional database extraction step. So the "logic" could be protection or perhaps simply commercial - iPlayer is up to date where devices using official XML are always "late" so users prefer iPlayer. Extras menus uses unofficial/historical/undocumented feeds and web site and is intended as a backup to BBCiPlayer plugin as these feeds can change or disappear at any time. I feel if rebuffering is frequent and nearly predictable - then it on the user side. Something on the user server, player and/or network needs to be "fixed". My litmus test would be playing a live WMA stream through mysb.com on a player hardwired into the router which connects to ISP. When changing LMS server - personally I would look for a one with more one than more core and decent amount of memory. Pi is too minimal for my liking - something like Wandboard dual would make a better LMS server. Also I'd use Arch to avoid unnecessary processes/overheads. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
