Quoting Gareth Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
If you do a 'view source' on the pop up player windows in Radio iPlayer
you'll see the URLs for Windows Media, Real and Flash streams all
embedded in the source code if they are available.
The World Service has no plans to drop the narrowband Windows Media and
Real Media streams.
BTW: The two World Service streams you mention on your webpage are the
core news network that provides only news programming, and a second
network which is (currently) based roughly on the European English
network that provides a mixture of News, Documentary and Entertainment
programming minus any rights restricted content. The World Service
stream linked to from iPlayer is based on the schedule used on the UK
digital networks, and so is a third different stream of our content. We
know it is confusing, and we are working on it.
--
Gareth Davis | Production Systems Specialist
World Service Future Media, Digital Delivery Team
Part of BBC Global News Division
* http://www.bbcworldservice.com/ * 702NE Bush House, Strand, London,
WC2B 4PH
Cheers for your reply :)
My site doesn't get much traffic but I'm always one for being as
complete as possible in listings... If you have a definitive list of
stream URLs available at some point in the future, please send 'em
over. I still use the site for listening to radio on an ad-hoc basis,
and the radio streams still appear to be up and readily streaming
(yay)! However, I did already check the iplayer streaming page for BBC
News and unfortunately there just doesn't seem to be an alternative
stream URL there - so can I/we assume from this notable absence of any
fallback streaming method that BBC News now streams solely in FLV?
It'd be a great shame if this is so.
Cheers
Christopher
[as a small aside, I'm resorted to using Horde at the moment as I'm
between computers - blimey, I'd forgotten how... rustic... web-based
email feels when you have to use it all the time!)
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