I'll look at what the media selector is doing: we'll be adding Windows Media files in there shortly (for wifi radios). It's not my team that does it, but I need to work on making it easier to understand!
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:48 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > 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:* [email protected] > *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? > > > -- http://james.cridland.net/ | http://notatallbad.ltd.uk/legal_info/
