Re: BBC-wants-shows-available-iPlayer-12-months-bid-compete-rivals

2019-01-10 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Thu Jan 10 08:38:45 GMT 2019, David Lake wrote: they use the same CDN providers as all the others - Akamai, Limelight and Level 3. I don't think Level3 is anymore in the picture; as I recall, it was exclusively used for one of the FlashHD tvmodes and L3-hosted streams were the first to be

RE: BBC-wants-shows-available-iPlayer-12-months-bid-compete-rivals

2019-01-10 Thread David Lake
Correct. All content is mastered and uploaded to the CDNs. BTW, the BBC has virtually nothing to do with actually storing the stuff - they use the same CDN providers as all the others - Akamai, Limelight and Level 3. The Internet as it is currently built is hopeless at end-to-end streaming -

Re: BBC-wants-shows-available-iPlayer-12-months-bid-compete-rivals

2019-01-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 12:52:28PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: > The BBC already has Redux, which is basically a DVB-T tuner somewhere in > London ... > > iPlayer appears to be a client of Redux ... Pretty sure iPlayer isn't a Redux client. Or at least, if it is it also gets lots of content