RT Deutsch

Rank 1322 of 1,409 in Germany. 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.

Ard zdf is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Germany uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

At 4664 kbps, RT Deutsch streams at more than double Germany's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

RT Deutsch streams in AACH264 rather than the MP3 that most of Germany's dial uses. Uncommon codecs are worth noticing for a practical reason as well as a nerdy one: browser support for them is thinner than for MP3 and AAC.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.