[backstage-developer] DVB-H finally gets formal adoption by the EC (oh and vista SP1!)
* http://www.betanews.com/article/DVBH_finally_gets_formal_adoption_by_the_EC/1205874432 * ** *It's official, so now the process can finally begin for a national licensing system for terrestrial broadcasters that exclusively service mobile devices.* This time, it actually happened: The European Commission has formally decided that DVB-H is Europe's official national standard for digital mobile broadcast television. This affects how broadcast and transmission licenses are handled throughout Europe, where viable alternatives to DVB-H now have a significantly diminished chance to compete. Does this mean that we can now clear C36 from RADAR use and allocated it to some form of Freeview Mobile? If DVB-H is used as a European, US (Arqiva have been using it there already) and worldwide standard, it's going to be cheap to fit to mobiles. How about just replicating the whole of the Freeview lineup on DVB-H, should be no problem at 360x288 with MPEG-4? PS: Vista SP1 is out! http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Microsoft_Windows_Vista_32bit/1149728719/1 --- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?
The --limit-rate parameter of curl is often used to simulate low or variable bandwidth, e.g.: curl --limit-rate 128 URL On the subject of DRM, Adobe has just announced their DRM server availability: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200803/031908FMRMS.html Bizarrely, the server can run on Red Hat even though clients arre only available for Windows and OSX... On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:24 PM, David Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/03/2008, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *maybe*, but considering the interface only lets you view video if you're viewing from a wifi connection and not the phone's data connection (just a javascript check) then the only difference is, as suggested Quicktime limiting itself or pulling down a chunk of data at a time which is entirely possible but doesn't seem very likely. The download scripts let you download an entire iPlayer MP4 in a matter of minutes or seconds. AFAIK, Quicktime on the iPhone streams the programme gradually, with a read-ahead buffer of a few megabytes (which is much kinder to the BBC's servers!) Hence if a programme was downloaded in 5 minutes but the show lasts 30 minutes, it was probably leeched! -dave - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] DVB-H finally gets formal adoption by the EC (oh and vista SP1!)
* http://www.betanews.com/article/DVBH_finally_gets_formal_adoption_by_the_EC/1205874432 * ** *It's official, so now the process can finally begin for a national licensing system for terrestrial broadcasters that exclusively service mobile devices.* This time, it actually happened: The European Commission has formally decided that DVB-H is Europe's official national standard for digital mobile broadcast television. This affects how broadcast and transmission licenses are handled throughout Europe, where viable alternatives to DVB-H now have a significantly diminished chance to compete. Does this mean that we can now clear C36 from RADAR use and allocated it to some form of Freeview Mobile? If DVB-H is used as a European, US (Arqiva have been using it there already) and worldwide standard, it's going to be cheap to fit to mobiles. How about just replicating the whole of the Freeview lineup on DVB-H, should be no problem at 360x288 with MPEG-4? PS: Vista SP1 is out! http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Microsoft_Windows_Vista_32bit/1149728719/1 --- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
Re: [backstage] BBC Home Page broken
Also, you can stop a site being index using robots.txt too... http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html On 15/03/2008, Martin Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't this where a 303 See Other would be handy? http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.4 On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:58 AM, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those pages are as designed, incidentally: nobody will link to them that way (unlike a relocation). On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, www.bbcnews.co.uk Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fox Tucker Sent: 14 March 2008 13:01 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Home Page broken Seems fine now, but they should sort http://www.bbciplayer.co.uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Lockwood Sent: 13 March 2008 12:06 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] BBC Home Page broken 12.05 GMT - it's looking a little, shall we say, untidy. :-) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ Cheers, Rich. - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- http://james.cridland.net/ | http://www.mediauk.com/ Media UK is a Not At All Bad Ltd production. http://notatallbad.ltd.uk/legal_info/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?
More here.. http://www.betanews.com/article/DRM_is_added_to_Flash_with_new_rights_management_server/1205935789 On 19/03/2008, Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The --limit-rate parameter of curl is often used to simulate low or variable bandwidth, e.g.: curl --limit-rate 128 URL On the subject of DRM, Adobe has just announced their DRM server availability: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200803/031908FMRMS.html Bizarrely, the server can run on Red Hat even though clients arre only available for Windows and OSX... On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:24 PM, David Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/03/2008, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *maybe*, but considering the interface only lets you view video if you're viewing from a wifi connection and not the phone's data connection (just a javascript check) then the only difference is, as suggested Quicktime limiting itself or pulling down a chunk of data at a time which is entirely possible but doesn't seem very likely. The download scripts let you download an entire iPlayer MP4 in a matter of minutes or seconds. AFAIK, Quicktime on the iPhone streams the programme gradually, with a read-ahead buffer of a few megabytes (which is much kinder to the BBC's servers!) Hence if a programme was downloaded in 5 minutes but the show lasts 30 minutes, it was probably leeched! -dave - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
