You had also better watch out with the new HD (720p) BBC iPlayer streams I noticed the 1hr Doctor Who special notched up 1.3GB when I streamed it! Looked fantastic though :-)
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 12:13 +0100, Nico Morrison wrote: > mp4 when badly setup glitches horribly on slower machines. and it > isn't easy to setup well & has to be checked (on a slower machine ;) > > this 'format competition' is boring, especially as my dongle got > caught inadvertently dloading a 5min 500mB file which really annoyed > me, I only get 3GB/month on it. we don't all have permanent megapipes > seems to be forgotten in the techie oneupmanship stakes. public > service broadcaster remember. > > .mkv/xvid public domain software - standardise - finito - spend time > instead putting out some archive material on bbc r & d would be great. > There must be something on blumlein or baird heh heh. now that would > be interesting. > > Nico M > > 2009/4/16 Adam Sampson <[email protected]>: > > Mr I Forrester <[email protected]> writes: > > > >> So if Mpeg4 isn't to your taste, you should hold out for the Ogg > >> Theora, Xvid and WMV versions once I crank up my Quad Processor PIII > >> Xeon box :) > > > > Looks good! It'd be nice to have a Dirac version too, if you've got some > > CPU time spare -- Dirac started as a BBC R&D project and is supported by > > several free video players now, but there's not a lot of content out > > there using it yet... > - > 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]/ - 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]/
