On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 01:08 +0100, Nick Morrott wrote: > On 09/04/2009, Mr I Forrester <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ian and Team, > > Congratulations on the launch of R&D TV. I've just watched the first > episode (222MiB Ogg version) and enjoyed it a lot, so will be looking > forward to the next edition.
Thanks, its been a killer keeping quiet about it all. The blog post a while back about video now makes a lot more sense - http://welcomebackstage.com/2009/02/sharable-and-remixable-video-on-backstage/ > The Theora version is already online, along with Flash and Quicktime > versions. I doubt you'd need both MPEG4 and Xvid versions, unless you > intend to have a lower quality MPEG-4 part 2 version (e.g. Xvid) and a > higher quality MPEG-4 part 10 version (e.g. x264) available. MP3 > and/or Vorbis audio-only options might also be desirable for those on > the move/commute. Yes we were planning to do a Mpeg4 layer 10 aka a H.264 video/AAC+ audio version. Then a Xvid version which will play nicely on lower cpu devices like my phone and xbmc on a xbox. WMV should keep windows and xbox360 users happy. Blip.tv has a pro option which creates a mp3 and ipod mpeg4 version from what ever file you upload. But I take your point, we should do audio versions. But to just add to everything, there is nothing stopping you guys transcoding it into another format and distributing it. I kind of want to play with MKV and Theora, so I may add that somewhere else in a few days time. > > A question and a comment: > > i) Will there be subscription feeds for the different media types so > that I can have new episodes appear on my MythBox? So good question, you might have seen the ATOM file which I created for the asset bundle? I had thought about doing the same for the video files but I started thinking we would wrap those up in a service. So for example we would use iplayer, blip.tv, youtube, and you would subscribe to the video though that service instead of through us directly. > ii) Media quality info on the blog and download filesizes on the FTP > site would be useful to get an idea as to what quality to expect from > the different versions available. Agreed, we kept the blog entries quite simple and wanted to direct people who are interested to the FTP site which has not only file size but MD5 hashes. Quality is interesting, maybe we should adopt the /sample type system or do screenshots of quality. Cheers, - 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/[email protected]/
