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Eagles87
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2015-Mar-28 4:07 pm
VOD Pixelating in PhiladelphiaHello, I am new to Verizon fios. I was watching a couple of shows through VOD. Is it normal to have Pixelating picture while watching different shows on VOD. it not the whole picture but it can be a pain in the butt, Thanks |
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Was having the same problem earlier this evening (also VHO8). Gave up trying to watch VOD. |
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VOD is completely unwatchable here in Pittsburgh. |
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Watched a title on EPIX HD VOD last night from ~ 8 - 10 PM. It got about 40% through, pixellated grossly and then hung. I had to back out of VOD completely, the title would not resume from where it stopped when I came back. The remedy was to start it from the beginning and skip, by the 9 minute jumps, to near the place where it crashed. It finished OK from there...
We then watched the last episode of Outlander (108) from the 1st half of the first season on STARZ HD and had no problems.
I'm in VHO8, just outside Phila. |
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JOJOWATKINS
Anon
2015-Mar-30 10:56 am
VOD is always horrible in Philadelphia. I spoke to an engineer that works for FIOS and his input is this: Verizon totally cut operation budgets in FIOS. They have tons of issues going on a corporate level which unfortunately has now been passed down to the consumer. They obviously don't care about FIOS. |
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Streetmanhod
Anon
2015-Apr-1 1:25 pm
That's because they transmitt their VOD over there crap network from there super hub offices. Network congestion = bad quality FIOS. That's what happens when you over engineer it dopes. Looks like all that hard work is starting to unravel and blow up. Back to Comcast |
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doing a bit of tinkering on my new DDWRT router i loaded up a random on demand to see what it needs, it idles at a steady down and upload of 16000~kbps, setting a hardcap under in 100kbps incriments of 15500kbps i started noticing issues, SD was just over 4000kbps
considering the Fios router doesnt even let you change the QoS for the boxes and when i was last attepting to bother working with it, they default it to not even the highest level of 7(IIRC) instead they're down at 5 so you'd have to set the rest of your network at almost 50% its capability
the weird part is that according to the PDF manual for the VMS stats it has adaptive bitrate capability but for whatever reason verizion doesnt appear to utilize it which makes no sense, especially if its using our internet bandwidth.
not to mention, theres absolutely no reason it should take a constant upload and download throughput of 15000kbps steady to send a signal as good as they call HD, not even 4000 for the SD, when you look at traffic from even the 4k Youtube videos, theres a spike of about 15000kbps but that buffers many minutes at a time, not a constant upload and download saturation for essentially each frame
that means if its 15000 each second of a 2 hour movie, equals 108000000 kilobits which is 13.5 gigs, look at any professional movie rip and its 2 gigs max, most not even 1 gig and zero audio or video degradation at 1080p
you would think a CDN would focus on saving money by utilizing better compression methods, which is why every sports streaming service doesnt need more than 1mbps per stream at their highest setting
and if i remember right, all the premium movie channels are only streaming at about 8mbps, so making the bandwidth shared stream take up twice as much is just ridiculous. |
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