On 5/17/06, Duncan Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It seems that JANET doesn't extend to the university accommodation,
although I don't see why it wouldn't.
could it be that your college's LAN is not configured to accomodate multicast connections, but their connection to the wider world (via JANET) is?
cheers,
Tim
On 5/17/06, Duncan Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"This server is configured to support only multicast connections. Please
contact the content provider for more information on listening to this
broadcast."
Duncan
Jason Cartwright wrote:
> 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
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Duncan Barclay
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> Subject: Re: [backstage] All streamable programmes
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> 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.
>>
>>
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