Just curious as to what sort of quality people might be seeing for the
broadband BBC video forecasts. (Maybe this is BBCi but I'm not sure).

On my 512 K connection (but seemingly streamed at 224kbps from the
BBC) the native-size forecast video quality - at a guess around
320x200 - is very poor (in RealOne player) consisting of little more
than a few still or at best jerky images. Audio is fine but then I can
get the modem quality video forecast fine again with good audio direct
from the BBC site. The image is pretty small but quality is
reasonable.

I'm sure I can get decent quality streamed video at modest/moderate
image size from other sites over a 512K connection - it's not as if
the forecast is an all-action movie with considerable movement from
frame to frame.. So why not from the BBC? Maybe either the BBC servers
or my ISP (Nildram) servers are throttled in the interests of
bandwidth conservation? Or is there some other explanation or setting
or new codec that needs playing with or installing?

John Dann
www.weatherstations.co.uk