Re: [backstage] RealAudio for local radio - gone missing?For the internet
radio device community - the most important aspect of this is that there is
a direct streaming URL using one of the "standard" protocols and codecs.
It is a big shame that it is the low bit-rate version that is offered to
iPlayer users with dial-up modems.
Any dates for when the service is likely to be resumed?
Paul Webster
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Subject: RE: [backstage] RealAudio for local radio - gone missing?
So a fair summary for what's happening with radio would be as follows:
Local Radio - changing from Real to WMA for the low bitrate option
Network Radio - staying as is, although presumably with WMA being added
eventually as per previous comments on BBC blogs
World Service - staying as is, but with the future addition of AAC
Ironically, since Friday a number of the previously missing RealAudio
programme streams appear to have come alive again! Presumably this is just
their last swansong before they are sent to the great /dev/null in the
sky...
Andrew
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Hi Andrew,
generally these streams won't be available as RealAudio in the future. As
you will no doubt have seen, the BBC is reducing it's dependency on Real
Media as a delivery mechanism, though it will still be supported.
Coyopa was designed to meet the needs of centralised National Radio rather
than Local Radio and the distribution problems, source quality and encoding
issues for Local Radio are very different, complicated and expensive to
develop. Local Radio is still dependent on gathering the streams through a
variety of methods and encoding at an aggregation point, and this
aggregation point is at capacity at the moment.
Cheers,
jod
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