The stream is still up on the BBC iplayer, does anyone know if the after-stream is of lesser quality or is it the same? Otherwise you could surely just save it off the BBC servers, no?
Afaik, for Uk residents it is available as a 320 kbps stream, for everyone else it is just a 96 kbps stream. You'd better look for the 320 kbps rip or an edited remaster of this HLS stream source.
but is the remaining stream the same quality as that which was streamed live? they wouldn't stream lossless would they?
Nobody streams lossless. The bandwidth required would not only be tough on the streamer, but would also cause bandwidth problems for the listener/ viewer.
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