Re: Level3 CDN issue affecting RTMP HD downloads

2015-09-11 Thread Jim web
In article , tellyaddict wrote: [ snip clarifications with thanks :-) ] > > I got about 1/3rd of real time rate. i.e. it would take about three > > hours to fetch an entire 1 hour 1280x720 program. Are you saying that > > is a "good speed"? Or are you saying the slooow rate I got was > > anom

Re: Format of BBC Radio 4 .m4a files

2015-09-11 Thread Jon Davies
On 9 September 2015 at 11:05, RS wrote: > If I try to play the BBC Radio 4 .m4a files in the Longevity player the > player freezes for about 4min. I recall hearing about similar behaviour with someone's mp3 player - it appeared that the player was reading through the entire file to read some met

Re: Format of BBC Radio 4 .m4a files

2015-09-11 Thread Jon Davies
On 9 September 2015 at 12:28, Jim web wrote: > Why not flac? because as others have pointed out, the raw data downloaded from the bbc is aac. you can't improve the quality by removing compression, all this will do is occupy more space on your disk. All get_iplayer does by default is re-package