Anyone else think Rangerstv is a poorly implemented service?

[Anchorman 0]

We must have different expectations and experiences.

It's very old now in a computing context and hasn't been developed for about 3 or more years. Video quality depends on the codec, with the industry leader currently being H.264 (although H.265 is coming as well as VP9). Although later versions of Flash could use H.264, I don't think it's commonly used, and instead it's more likely to be VP6 or Sorenson which will either be lower quality or higher bandwidth.

Flash might be even solid but the Rangers video player is not impressively implemented. Apart from the horrible adverts, there does not seem to be much buffering and so unless you have a constantly and consistently high bit-rate (which not all of us have), it will stutter instead of buffering and playing for a bit when ready. The latter is a bit annoying but the former is just unwatchable.

It is not officially supported and if you look it up you'll find that it's the spat between Apple and Adobe that pretty much killed Flash.

Youtube (and other services of quality) have moved to HTLM5 - not surprising due to the 60% mobile device figure.

As said, it's not official, and what you have is people shoehorning old technology in there without much financial gain and so it's not going to be that great. Android also no longer officially supports it (not surprising as neither does Adobe, it's pretty much dead technology) and so it also suffers from a hacky conversion. That will be why the experience is not good on mobile devices.

For you maybe, but for others it falls massively behind other premium services and even the RaithTV highlights shown in another thread trounces RangersTV in a manner which juxtaposes the match.

 

Just turn the flugelbinder 45 degrees and 'Bob's your auntie's live-in lover'. Result.

Edited September 7, 2015 by Anchorman