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h264 iplayer?
gamersxchange
22-04-2011
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.
Roush
22-04-2011
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.
gamersxchange
22-04-2011
Originally Posted by Roush:
“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!
The Phazer
22-04-2011
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.

Phazer
Tassium
23-04-2011
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.
Roush
23-04-2011
Originally Posted by The Phazer:
“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.

Phazer”

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.
Tassium
23-04-2011
Originally Posted by Roush:
“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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