You never know how technical to go before people start falling asleep at their desks...... The latter idea (a separate feed) would probably be easier to implement in the short term - perhaps an international version of the mediaselector with a similar URL pattern to the current one (hypothetical example : http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/international/stream/p001hlts ) that just has <media> items that are available overseas? Longer term an attribute on the <media> item would make sense and would probably be a good move for future-proofing, as I'm sure long term much more audio and video content will end up being available internationally and it's bound to be useful in the future to distinguish between UK and overseas availability. Out of curiousity how is it done at the moment on bbc.co.uk/iplayer ? I presume there must be some code that chooses which <media> item to use, based on the geolocation data and preferred player settings? Andrew
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester Sent: 08 December 2008 17:06 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Media Selector query never feel sorry for being too geeky! Ah see what you mean, so some kind of attribute would be useful but currently the spec doesn't support it. Or maybe we should be producing two different types of feeds? One international and the other UK?
