iPlayer Quality?

Nitefly · 13 Nov 2010 at 20:22

Hi there,

I'm currently trying to watch blade runner on BBC iPlayer and it just looks awful, at full screen it's like watching a bad youtube video.

I'm looking for ways to improve to quality but perhaps I'm being a massive dunderhead, because I can't see anything

If anyone can help me I'd appreciate it.

Many thanks

OzyOly · 13 Nov 2010 at 20:23

Have you tried right clicking and making sure flash player quality is set to high?

muon · 13 Nov 2010 at 20:24

right click on the video and tell us what bitrate you are getting

1500kbps is the highest non-hd video you can get

Nitefly · 13 Nov 2010 at 20:30

Weirdly enough, I just reloaded the film and now it looks great, how odd!

Thank you very much for your replies, they are appreciated

muon · 13 Nov 2010 at 20:39

Nitefly said:
Weirdly enough, I just reloaded the film and now it looks great, how odd!

Thank you very much for your replies, they are appreciated

What sometimes happens is when it starts failing to buffer (for whatever reason) it drops quality levels thinking your internet isn't fast enough.

A reload fixes this.

Nitefly · 13 Nov 2010 at 22:30

Well, that was meh!

*hides*

2bit · 13 Nov 2010 at 22:37

Nitefly said:
Well, that was meh!

*hides*

Yeah that's what I thought. I get loads of problems with iPlayer.

At best mine looks really flat and lacking in colour saturation but there's no controls for anything.

Nitefly · 13 Nov 2010 at 23:15

2bit said:
Yeah that's what I thought. I get loads of problems with iPlayer.

At best mine looks really flat and lacking in colour saturation but there's no controls for anything.

I was more refering to the much hyped film

shifty_uk · 13 Nov 2010 at 23:16

iPlayer never streams properly for me anymore. Using wireless BeBox.

Django x2 · 14 Nov 2010 at 00:13

iPLayer throttles depending on how many people are using iPlayer and/or watching the same thing as you.

Tummy · 14 Nov 2010 at 00:18

Blade Runner is an amazing film

sanaxe1 · 14 Nov 2010 at 00:20

for me blade runner is only 7/10.

mattyfez · 15 Nov 2010 at 22:32

late to the party here, but ive just fuigure out my my iplayer has been jerking, stupid flash update turned off hardware acceleration by default. Right click turned it back on.

Thanks for the tip.

Stupid Adobe....

Tysonator · 15 Nov 2010 at 22:37

I find that using iPlayer on a Sunday is a pain, as it stalls with buffering and some times I get error messages stating that there is a problem with my internet connection.
This normally happens when I watch iPlayer via the Wii.
On my wired PC I just get the buffering problem !