Problem with BBC HD I player.

"2Bdecided" wrote in message
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On 20 May, 15:59, "Ivan" wrote:

I downloaded and played back episode six of Wainright Walks and although
it
cured the 'slideshow' effect there was still a pronounced juddering on
moving objects, especially noticeable on the 'panning' countryside shots.

That's just how it's encoded. It's only 25p (not 50i or 50p, which
would be nice), so it's less smooth than normal video to start with.
Unless your PC monitor's refresh rate is an integer multiple of 25
(i.e. 50, 75, 100 etc) you'll get horrible judder due to frame rate
conversion. Unless you video playback is frame-locked to the monitor,
you'll get occasional hic-ups even when the frame rates are supposed
to match. Google Powerstrip, ReClock etc.


I'm using a 26" Philips LCD Matchline TV as a monitor set to its (almost)
maximum refresh rate of 75.
Although as downloading a 30 minute HD (sic) TV programme during the hours
of daylight apparently breaks the Virginmedia rules and will result in my
connection being throttled back to 2.4mb, it's now becoming abundantly clear
that all of the guff we see, read and hear about broadband taking over as
'the' replacement TV delivery service isn't likely to happen anytime soon,
well not in my lifetime anyway!

tony sayer wrote:

So why is a publicly funded broadcaster doing that?..
Because people wanted to use it on Macs and Linux...


So LINUX can't handle a streaming video feed then?..

They could produce one app for all platforms. No, it shouldn't have
been beyond the wit of man to port it, but...

Andy

Mike wrote (apparently) in uk.tech.digital-tv on Wed 20 May 2009
15:39:17:


Ubuntu rocks. I love it. I've got an older (5yrs?) Dell laptop
and it whizzez all over my Vista and XP machines.
You can even run ot from CD to see if you like it first

If you can't be bothered, you can install it dual-boot via

http://wubi-installer.org/index.php

It'll download the right bits and set the boot menu up. Got it on my
"development" laptop and it's very good.
--
MrGuest
Always, seemingly, on the road to nowhere

Ivan wrote:

"David Hearn" wrote in message
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Ivan wrote:

It also now looks as if Virginmedia are also beginning to take the
****, as earlier this morning the BBC download speed check showed
around 10mb, since then its struggled to make 2.4mb with a streaming
speed of 2.2mb, hopefully this is just a temporary glitch (as
they're still upgrading different areas) however if it does start to
become a regular feature then I suspect that they will soon start
receiving large amounts of customer flak, including some from me!

Have you hit their usage limit?

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.php

If you're on the free upgrade to 10Mb, if you use 1.5GB during 10am to
3pm, you get throttled by 75% (so 10Mb connection becomes 2.5Mb
connection) - you get throttled for up to 5 hours.

During the evening (4pm to 9pm), the limit is 750MB down or 400MB up
before throttling.



No mention at all of any limitations when the bearded one
'personally') emailed me with information of the upgrade, which
incidentally a friend of mine reckons that it 'isn't' free, as he says
that he was told over the phone that it's going to cost everyone £2.00 a
month extra, irrespective of whether they wanted to upgrade or not.

Those limits were in place on the 2Mb line too, in fact, they've been
there for quite a long time on most products (I think it was the 64Kb
service which didn't have limits).

As you say, the M sized broadband was increased in price by £2pm, along
with a number of other packages and deals. In the case of the M
package, they also promised to (sometime) upgrade you to 10Mb from 2Mb.

D

"David Hearn" wrote in message
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Ivan wrote:

"David Hearn" wrote in message
...
Ivan wrote:

It also now looks as if Virginmedia are also beginning to take the
****, as earlier this morning the BBC download speed check showed
around 10mb, since then its struggled to make 2.4mb with a streaming
speed of 2.2mb, hopefully this is just a temporary glitch (as they're
still upgrading different areas) however if it does start to become a
regular feature then I suspect that they will soon start receiving
large amounts of customer flak, including some from me!

Have you hit their usage limit?

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.php

If you're on the free upgrade to 10Mb, if you use 1.5GB during 10am to
3pm, you get throttled by 75% (so 10Mb connection becomes 2.5Mb
connection) - you get throttled for up to 5 hours.

During the evening (4pm to 9pm), the limit is 750MB down or 400MB up
before throttling.



No mention at all of any limitations when the bearded one 'personally')
emailed me with information of the upgrade, which incidentally a friend
of mine reckons that it 'isn't' free, as he says that he was told over
the phone that it's going to cost everyone £2.00 a month extra,
irrespective of whether they wanted to upgrade or not.

Those limits were in place on the 2Mb line too, in fact, they've been
there for quite a long time on most products (I think it was the 64Kb
service which didn't have limits).

As you say, the M sized broadband was increased in price by £2pm, along
with a number of other packages and deals. In the case of the M package,
they also promised to (sometime) upgrade you to 10Mb from 2Mb.



Can I thank you and everyone else on this thread who have taken the trouble
to reply to my original query, especially as I now understand so much more
about what was going on than I did yesterday, which goes to prove that these
groups 'can' work really well, especially when they don't degenerate into
endless willy waving and petty squabbles.