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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by jscholes on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:50PM (#17527547)
I haven't been watching the football, but I have been streaming another live event for the past two weeks: Wimbledon. My advantage comes from two things: I'm blind, and the BBC's CDNs have audio-only variants for every HLS stream. So I've been able to cut out the huge amount of bandwidth that would otherwise be consumed by streaming HD video, run the audio-only variants through FFmpeg and seek right to the end until the stream buffers. I'm usually ahead of the official Wimbledon live scoreboard, and the same coverage on cable TV, by a few seconds.
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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by blowski on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:42PM (#17528040)
Out of interest, why don’t you listen to the radio?
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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by djhworld on Saturday July 14, 2018 @05:08AM (#17529503)
Not all the matches are broadcast on radio
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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by jscholes on Saturday July 14, 2018 @05:19AM (#17529530)
> Not all the matches are broadcast on radio

Yup, this sums it up. Now that we're in the second week of the tournament there are less matches to cover and the radio becomes a good option. Before that, there are too many good matches on outside courts to stick to the main action.

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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by stevetrewick on Saturday July 14, 2018 @06:58AM (#17529800)
Mildly OT, as you’re a blind tennis fan, have you ever tried the adapted version of the sport for blind and partially sighted participants? If not, and you’re interested, I might be able to point you in the right direction depending on where you’re based.
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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by jscholes on Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:52AM (#17530795)
Sure, I played for a short while in Leeds. Good exercise but not enough opportunities to practice, leading to nobody really developing their skill unless they had the time and money to travel around the country to different clubs. Realistically there's not a lot to be done about that but I found it frustrating. Happy to hear if anything has changed since.
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