One last snippet, our Erik in his keynote yesterday ponted out that
iPlayer is currently delivering 23 diferent formats for diferent
devices! 23! It's actually a real challenge to get all of those done
and it's expensive too, and I think he'd be keen for a greater
standardisation in viewing platforms and codecs- wouldn't we all!
If you've got ideas and suggestions for improvement, or any further
questions, I'd be happy to pass them along to the team. The BBC
Internet Blog had an iPlayer day back in April with loads of posts,
and updates do appear occasionally:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/iplayer/. We could ask if a
more technical article could appear running through the production
chains, or we could even see if a more detailed technical post could
appear on the forthcoming BBC Research Development blog! (to be
honest RD is engaged with only a few iPlayer elements- might be
cheeeky to ask them to write up for us!).
ant
p.s. Erik Hugger's keynote at IBC was really interesting, Roo's
already tweeted about the announcement of OpeniPlayer, but the speech
had a lot in it worth looking at:
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2009/09/11/bbc-to-open-iplayer-to-third-parties-ibc09/
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Frankie Roberto
fran...@frankieroberto.com wrote:
Hi Ant,
Thanks for the update. I'm not sure I 100% follow, but it's good to know
that this kind of stuff is being thought about and constantly improved upon
at the BBC.
It's amazing how BBC iPlayer has become so well known and so
taken-for-granted now, that I feel compelled to complain about it not being
considered from script stage onwards... :-)
Next I'll be suggesting that directors cut down on fast pans and
low-contrast shots, in order to minimise compression-related problems...
(although these affect DTV too)
Frankie
2009/9/10 Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com
Ok, so some of you have noticed iPlayer for the iPhone is a bit
different- this 'I think' is via an Off Air system (or was at one
point). Radio has a system called Coyopa that takes original content
from the networks between the studios and final terestrial and digital
playout, but is part ofthe same chain. Most iPlayer stuff I think
comes from the same chain as playout, but not the very end. Basically
very very little is ingested seperately from the normal playout, but
the point of 'branching' varies from network to network, and between
the versions of iPlayer.
Complicated, but we do our best. And importantly it's ALWAYS evolving.
Sometims I wish it did so a bit more publicly.
a
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Phil Lewis backst...@linuxcentre.net
wrote:
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 17:48 +0100, Frankie Roberto wrote:
snip...
you could even do things like cut down the amount of trailing ahead
- which surely is less required on iPlayer where people have chosen to
watch something specific and are in less danger of changing channel...
(You could probably shave a good few minutes off from Dragons Den in
this way, which trails ahead constantly in a really annoying way).
Surely a bad idea, that would just make the 'BBC News at Six' just 10
minutes long ;-)
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