Sounds like (pun intended) you should checkout the multicast goodies at http://www.bbc.co.uk/multicast/
Most (all?) UK unis are on JANET, who are on the BBC's multicast trial Cheers, J ________________________________________________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media & Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: BC4 C5 29, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TP Personal site: www.jasoncartwright.com "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duncan Barclay Sent: 17 May 2006 16:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] All streamable programmes The BBC's detecting of my bandwidth has been annoying me recently. It seems to think that I am on narrowband, and doesn't give me the option to go for something better (although it is possible to get around it, so that I can at least watch things at a size that is viewable). I should point out that I have a 10mbps connection courtesy of the University of Bath, and really shouldn't have any bandwidth issues. Any chance of this being improved upon sometime? Thanks Duncan Barclay. James Cridland wrote: > (Apologies: this is almost wholly off-topic.) > > On 5/16/06, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 22:46 +0100 15/5/06, James Cridland wrote: >> >I can't speak for the BBC, but certainly when you make the Virgin >> >Radio player appear ( www.virginradio.co.uk/listen on any PC) >> >> Ahem. The "live.pls" file was (correctly?) sent to iTunes from >> Firefox. I am listening as I type this:-) > > The plan works. And yes, correctly, sent to iTunes from Firefox since > you're on a Mac; while our internet radio player works just fine on a > Mac with Windows Media Player installed, we can't check if it's > installed and therefore don't serve it to you. Shame. > >> NumberOfEntries=3 >> File1=http://mp3-vr-32.smgradio.com:80/ >> Title1=Virgin Radio 1215AM, LIVE from London [HBR](peered - >> 8x.1xxx.1xx.3x) > > The other thing that our player does is it does a quick > bandwidth-check, and serves you the high bitrate stream if you can > cope happily with it. We can't do that otherwise, so you've got the > dirty 32k mono thing. Change the '32' to '128' and Bob's your uncle. > > Incidentally, this is one (the only?) benefit of the BBC using Real > Player - trying to drag this thread back on-topic. Real includes some > nifty bandwidth-sensing, and the same stream can serve anything from > 8k to 800k. The BBC's are configured this way; also our only native > Real streams auto-sense from 8k-32 to allow you to listen on a device > over GPRS. > > Microsoft Windows Media does do some auto-sensing too, though these > streams aren't very backward-compatible; our high-bitrate stream is > auto-sensing from 20k up to 100k, from memory. > >> I don't get much text in the iTunes window with from Virgin > > I don't think iTunes supports the in-player "now playing" text; oddly, > Winamp does, so you do get some text there. Real can support this, > kind of, using some odd format or an inbuilt browser window; Windows > Media Player can send scripting events which is what we use for our > radio player (in MSIE). > >> compared with text on my handy DAB radio. > > Glad you like it; that's my department too. > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
