You need to note: http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_programmes/radio_players
<http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_programmes/radio_players> http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/finding_programmes/real_wma_streams 2009/9/8 <[email protected] <adancy%[email protected]>> > 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 > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *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 > > > > > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
