BBC iPlayer subscribers will soon receive free updates that allow them to better access their favorite programs.
BBC’s tech gurus have developed new technologies to ensure that you are able to stream live shows with minimal delay.
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It has been introduced a pseudo-VOD (programmes on demand) technology that allows programmes to become available on iPlayer more quickly.
Henry Webster explained that “anyone who tried to watch the last episode of Strictly Come Dancing, or Match of the Day, but failed, knows the frustration of waiting for it to be available on iPlayer,” in a recently published article. blog post.
“Previously there was an important delay in the availability of a program after its broadcast.
“This was because it takes time for us to process programmes into a high quality on demand video after they’ve been broadcast.
“What we’ve done now is sped this up significantly.”
The pseudo VOD system reuses the live segments of video you see when you’re watching live on iPlayer to “plug the gap” while folks behind the scene process the high quality on demand video.
The temporary recordings will be replaced by the new, higher-quality video once it is available.
BBC iPlayer’s second update is a reduction in latency.
This will, in layman’s language, reduce the delay viewers feel between what is broadcasting live and when it reaches the viewer.
Webster says that it happens to everyone who streams live content but is more noticeable when streaming live sports.
“If England manage to get through to the semi-final of the Women’s World Cup, viewers streaming the match live on iPlayer will be seeing it closer to real-time, after we’ve been able to cut latency by about 20 seconds,” he wrote.
“Typically, viewers will still be about 60 seconds behind the TV broadcast, but it’s progress, and we’re working on lots of other things to bring it down even further in the future to get it much closer to that of TV broadcast.”
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