Gareth Jones Senior Roku Software Engineer

ABOUT

After development of the Xenon embedded media player was complete, I helped the iPlayer team integrate it into iPlayer which brought with it a number of significant improvements:

Media load times have been halved
Video scrub times are now 3-4 times faster
Toggling between SD and HD is now 3-4 times faster
Subtitles load times are improved tenfold down from 30-40 seconds to just 3-4 seconds

When these savings are applied to the platform’s usage statistics, the results are that Xenon saves the country almost 1,700 hours per week or 9.9 years per year.

MADEIT CREDITS

Who pooled - BBC iPlayer for Virgin TiVo