Nice coverage people, great stuff Oh,I'll explain if you do not live on planet earth, we have a new president of the world
Sam Mbale Mpelembe Network http://www.mpelembe.net Follow me on http://twitter.com/mpelembe On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Ian Forrester <ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk>wrote: > I've been a little quiet recently but I'm still reading all the > conversations. > > Anyway, I wanted to ask the backstage community a challenging question. > > Say, we had a ton of media assets from a BBC programme which we owned all > the rights to and wanted to distribute widely. Not just video, but images, > sound, subtitles, metadata about the programme scripts, etc. > > How would you > 1. Package it? > 2. Distribute it? > 3. Licence it? (this isn't such a worry) > > As far as I know this is still new territory some exploring. Nine Inch > Nails (not exactly my taste in music) uploaded 405 Gig of Live HD footage > online the other day - > http://newteevee.com/2009/01/09/nins-newest-game-changer-hd-concert-footage-via-bittorrent/ > > They packaged everything it would seem in a zip/tar and included a README > files, some further notes about the footage, which was conveniently > formatted for easy editing and even a Final Cut Pro sequences with the > footage pre-organized for editing. > Distribution was of course done on Bit Torrent using there own Tracker. > > Some thoughts > > I wonder how long it took to actually build the zip files and upload them? > We were considering MXF - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXF but it looks > difficult and time consuming to build, however the BBC did help build it so > we could get help. Matroska, Nut and QuickTime are also look worthy. > > Distribution wise, Bit Torrent, P2Pnext, Edonkey2k, Usenet, Archive.org, > Blip.tv, rapidshare (joking!) who knows, but YouTube isn't going to cut it. > > What do you guys think? > > Ian Forrester > > This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable > > Senior Producer, BBC Backstage > Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ > email: ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk > work: +44 (0)2080083965 > mob: +44 (0)7711913293 > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >
