[Live-devel] Trick play support

[Ulrik Mikaelsson]

> I have heard that some kreatel boxes does not support high bitrates,
> even bitrates that are far within specs. I have also heard rumors that
> even some satellite channels need to be reencoded to lower bitrate for
> the STB to be able to play them. Given such a high bitrates as here,
> this does indeed sound like a kreatel issue.
>
> I have myself observed that some tv channels streamed to kreatel boxes
> has been reencoded, even on a fibre network. I cannot say the exact
> reason for this, but high bitrate troubles comes to mind...
Interesting point. I know the box works without issues on 12mbit
streams, but I haven't tried any higher than that. (more than 12mbit
for SDTV is quite silly anyways. ;)