How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live streams

Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by laumars on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:00PM (#17527594)

That's "just" a problem with unicast though. Lots of different media houses are working on getting multicast support over the internet, by which point IP streams will behave a lot more like OTA's one-to-many relationship.

I couldn't say how close they are to getting that working - nor if it even is possible - because I don't work on that specific side of things. But I do know there used to be multicast networks over the internet back in the 90s (IIRC David Bowie even streamed one of his concerts over it) so it strikes me as a solvable problem.

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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by isostatic on Saturday July 14, 2018 @03:17AM (#17529239)

Bbc did multicast 20 years ago, and with most uk households on one of half a dozen isps it would be possible.

However multicast struggles over wifi and 4g.

A CDN edge box in each exchange would probably solve the problem.

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