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Old 22-04-2011, 00:04
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Just tried to watch tuesdays blue peter and the picture was artefact central! , clicked on the file info and mentions that it's only running at 796kbps.

I'm no technology master but this is abysmal versus the tv broadcast standard equivilent.
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Old 22-04-2011, 01:01
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Yeah, this is sadly becoming common for iPlayer. Only the HD stuff is guaranteed to be decent quality.

You should be able to download a WMV version in better quality though.
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Old 22-04-2011, 07:42
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Yeah, this is sadly becoming common for iPlayer. Only the HD stuff is guaranteed to be decent quality.

You should be able to download a WMV version in better quality though.
Guess i now know where the money defunct bbc has struck first!
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Old 22-04-2011, 22:23
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iPlayer has three quality settings and selects dynamically depending on the quality of your connection. That's the lower one, because your connection is showing up as too slow to support the higher one without buffering.

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Old 23-04-2011, 08:01
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Along the bottom of the playing video are 5 icons, the centre one gives the option to play a "larger" window.

Click on it and the display will grow in size and bitrate to 1500kbps.

You can still go fullscreen on this and it looks very good.
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Old 23-04-2011, 11:07
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iPlayer has three quality settings and selects dynamically depending on the quality of your connection. That's the lower one, because your connection is showing up as too slow to support the higher one without buffering.

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I don't think it does this any more. I definitely have the bandwidth available for a higher quality feed (50Mb cable) and it still only gives me the 796k stream by default.
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Old 23-04-2011, 17:32
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I don't think it does this any more. I definitely have the bandwidth available for a higher quality feed (50Mb cable) and it still only gives me the 796k stream by default.
Info above your post on bitrate settings /\
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