河南卫视伴音

河南卫视伴音 is a description rather than a brand. The name names a place, Henan, and then what the station is for, the audio feed. The directory keeps it in Chinese characters because that is how the broadcaster writes it, and the reading above is what those words say in English.

Rank 321 of 391 in China. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.

The audio comes from piccpndali.v.myalicdn.com, and 34 other stations in China are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of China's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.

Of everything the directory lists in China, the entry this page reads closest to is 测试3, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. This entry's name carries a place in it, Henan, where the other's does not. This entry records Shanghai as the region it transmits from, and the other records no region at all. The broadcaster tagged this entry tv, which the other entry is not tagged with. The broadcasters publish at different addresses of their own, hntv.tv and fqxww.cn.