[LINK] ABC Streaming/Downloading TV

[Tom Worthington]

At 08:09 AM 8/24/2006, George Bray wrote:
>ABC are having some success with video these days. The new lateline 
>site requires Flash 9.  Video starts instantly and works well. 
>http://abc.net.au/lateline/

There were a few cracks and pops on the sound and interruption of the 
video on my iBurst (256kbps), but overall it worked well.

A bit more could be done to tune the system. For example Lateline use 
a moving blurry background pattern to make their displays of 
statistics more interesting. The image compression software has 
difficulty coping with this. You can almost see it thinking: "is this 
movement really worth encoding? okay I will send a few blocks of it".



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