Andrew,
World Service is a bit more complicated:
WS English was the first BBC Radio channel to offer a live AAC stream
without having to sign up to a beta. This was available from
http://bbcworldservice.com/ initially, and more recently from iPlayer
after some technical issues with the integration were resolved. BBC
Arabic, BBC Russian also offer full time AAC live streams currently.
In terms of on-demands: BBC Brasil was the first BBC Radio station to
offer AAC on-demand, followed by BBC Vietnamese, BBC Urdu, WS English,
BBC Mundo, BBC Russian, BBC Arabic BBC Hindi and BBC Turkish. The
remainder of the 33 languages will get live and on-demand AAC as the
sites and infrastructure are updated over the coming months.
In addition we also provide Shoutcast MP3 at 32Kbps of our English,
Arabic and Russian live streams for mobile use. We are looking into
expanding this into more live streams and an on-demand service in the
future, but no firm dates as yet.
--
Gareth Davis | Production Systems Specialist
World Service Future Media, Digital Delivery Team - Part of BBC Global
News Division
* http://www.bbcworldservice.com/ <http://www.bbcworldservice.com/> *
702NE Bush House, Strand, London, WC2B 4PH
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From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk
[mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of
adancy+backst...@gmail.com
Sent: 08 September 2009 10:23
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
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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From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk
[mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of John O'Donovan
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
