2009/1/19 Ian Forrester <[email protected]>:
> 1. Package it?
File formats:
Packaging: None. Direct files on...
> 2. Distribute it?
BitTorrent clients are now wide spread enough for a mass market
audience. But I would sadly still expect that even in 2009 "a BBC
programme which we owned all the rights to" means some minor
specialist audience, so that isn't a bonus.
And if you are dealing with a lot of files ("405 Gig of Live HD
footage online the other day" could be a lot of files, but since its
HD video, it is probably some very large files...) which I suppose is
the case when dealing with an ongoing series, rather than a one off
programme, as you mention, then BitTorrent on its own is a bit sparse.
You'd want keyword searching, content recommendations based on
collaborative filtering, donation of upload capacity to spike
recommendations to friends also on the tracker, that kind of thing.
So, good thing the BBC has been paying for the development of Tribler
already, then.
> 3. Licence it? (this isn't such a worry)
I cuss the non-commercial restrictions.
> They packaged everything it would seem in a zip/tar
Pointless.
> and included a README files, some further notes about the footage,
+1
>conveniently formatted for easy editing
Please support free formats.
> and even a Final Cut Pro sequences with the footage pre-organized for editing.
Shame on them for supporting Apple.
Doing that for Cinelerra/etc and including a copy, would be good though.
> I wonder how long it took to actually build the zip files and upload them?
"Upload them" means what for BitTorrent?
> We were considering MXF
It looks proprietary to me, so that was a mistake.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXF but it looks difficult and time consuming to
> build
Oh good :-)
> however the BBC did help build it
Did they ensure it was a free standard?
Cheers,
Dave
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