With a reputation as one of the world’s wise founding fathers of OTT video, it’s no wonder the BBC took the brunt of criticism following certain World Cup streaming mishaps – yet mention of any specific technical faults have been missing among the backlash of coverage, until now. The BBC UHD encoder is thought to have been optimizing for PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) rather than for visual quality – with an analysis concluding the encoder is using a very limited subset of features available in HEVC due to performance limitations onboard, in order to hit real-time UHD, according to Open Broadcast Systems. The encoding and contribution vendor has conveniently translated an HEVC bitstream analysis report by Parabola Explorer…