<story><title>How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live streams</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/england-vs-croatia-live-stream-bbc-iplayer-itv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jscholes</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;m blind, and the BBC&amp;#x27;s CDNs have audio-only variants for every HLS stream.  So I&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;m usually ahead of the official Wimbledon live scoreboard, and the same coverage on cable TV, by a few seconds.</text></comment>
<story><title>How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live streams</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/england-vs-croatia-live-stream-bbc-iplayer-itv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>Whatever happened to multicast over the general internet? Seems like the perfect use case for it. Let the hardware do the copying instead of unicasting TCP connections or whatever it is they do.</text></comment>