Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!
Hi James, I am looking forward to all these changes, I hope it will be great. One quick question, regarding the iPlayer Radio is it possible on an update to make the volume control actually go down to zero? I can then watch the Magic Roundabout on Youtube instead of listening to the news... :-) Mine's a pint of Dog-bolter or Abbott. RichE On 16 Jun 2008, at 18:48, James Cridland wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/13 James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As the man in charge of the Coyopa project, which'll be fiddling with a lot of our streams, You mean this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/03/ coyopa_takes_shape.shtml ? Yep. It's in BH now. I saw it last week, warming up one of the apparatus rooms. And it's even working. Hopefully we'll switch stuff on within the next month. Some niggles to sort out still though. 2. Flash streaming just works for most people, and as the TV iPlayer has shown, a tremendously popular way of consuming content. Not on mobiles. How about an Ogg stream with Cortado[1] for mobiles (or other people who dislike Flash). Agreed. We have plans on mobile also, though any solution must just work. Yes, we're providing a ton of extra streams in different formats for wifi radios and the like to use; no, Ogg Vorbis is not one of them. I refer the gentleman to the answers I gave here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/03/ streaming_radio_online_your_co_1.shtml Not sure whether our streaming will work on Gnash or not, incidentally. I'd think, for a while at least, it will. 3. HTTP downloads are not possible I think the idea was to stream over HTTP. (or something that is similar enough to streaming that no one notices). RTMP or RTSP is streaming. Nobody (using Flash) will notice it's any different to any other experience they have. Again, it must just work. HTTP streaming is less good for Content Restriction And Protection. (Again, sorry we have to put crp in our streams in this way, but we do.) (Yes, the abbreviation is intentional). I'm sorry we have to use it. But we have to use it. Is there no a more open streaming protocol one could use? Again, back to the Content Restriction And Protection issue; but also coupled with the knowledge that a typical user wants something that just works. 5. A pop-up player will continue to be available in iPlayer when radio moves in. Unfortunately there is not much the BBC can really do about stay on top however. If the OS/Browser don't provide it then you're out of luck. Some OSes let any window stay on top. Yep, agreed. We can't provide stay on top with anything internet, without a software product, which people don't, generally, download. (Sweeping generalisation, but my experience). If only browsers supported video[2] and audio tags, and if there was actually some base codecs defined that would work on any browser. (chicken/egg?) Ye... to a point. There are some base codecs defined that work on any browser with Flash installed (ie virtually all of them); and that's the way that the world is going. Beer, anyone? Are you buying? ;) Nope. You? Mine's the guest ale. //j
[backstage] Matt Cashmore on Tech Weekly
http://download.guardian.co.uk/audio/1213737956679/8617/gdn.tec.080617.sc.Tech_Weekly.mp3 Enjoy... -- Brian
[backstage] Techcrunch BBC debate
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned here already... or maybe I've been asleep... http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/06/12/the-techcrunch-bbc-debate/ -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/peeebeee - 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] More for Mashed
Seeing as we've got Arduino, ARM, Microsoft Robotics and Goddard Space Flight Centre all turning up to Mashed, we've got you some electronics kit to play with. Expect to find capacitors, resistors, op-amps, 74 series logic, voltage regulators, breadboards, batteries, solder, wire, tools, soldering stations for some good honest sparky fun. It's a bit of a random selection so do feel free to bring your own stuff too. See http://mashed08.backnetwork.com/event/?articleid=31 for more info :-D We'll also be radiating a DVB-T (aka Freeview) signal for you guys to hack around with. We've got some USB DVB-T sticks, some software links and a talk on how to hack DVB-T and MHEG interactive stuff. -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research Engineer (Electronics) PRINCE2^TM Registered Practitioner *BBC Future Media and Technology* mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [backstage] Techcrunch BBC debate
Peter Bowyer wrote: I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned here already... or maybe I've been asleep... http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/06/12/the-techcrunch-bbc-debate/ Yep I assumed everyone just knew about it too. I'll be there recording for those who can't make it. Cheers, - 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/
Re: [backstage] Techcrunch BBC debate
Thanks Ian, I can't make it so will appreciate the recording. I'll be there recording for those who can't make it. Cheers, - 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/
Re: [backstage] More for Mashed
This all sounds so cool, and it's making me rather envious that I'm not going! If I didn't have prior commitments then I would most certainly be there. On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Simon Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seeing as we've got Arduino, ARM, Microsoft Robotics and Goddard Space Flight Centre all turning up to Mashed, we've got you some electronics kit to play with. Expect to find capacitors, resistors, op-amps, 74 series logic, voltage regulators, breadboards, batteries, solder, wire, tools, soldering stations for some good honest sparky fun. It's a bit of a random selection so do feel free to bring your own stuff too. See http://mashed08.backnetwork.com/event/?articleid=31 for more info :-D We'll also be radiating a DVB-T (aka Freeview) signal for you guys to hack around with. We've got some USB DVB-T sticks, some software links and a talk on how to hack DVB-T and MHEG interactive stuff. -- -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research Engineer (Electronics) PRINCE2TM Registered Practitioner *BBC Future Media and Technology* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [backstage] More for Mashed
2008/6/18 Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This all sounds so cool, and it's making me rather envious that I'm not going! If I didn't have prior commitments then I would most certainly be there. I too can't make it .. Matt made it sound SO exciting on the podcast today. On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Simon Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seeing as we've got Arduino, ARM, Microsoft Robotics and Goddard Space Flight Centre all turning up to Mashed, we've got you some electronics kit to play with. Expect to find capacitors, resistors, op-amps, 74 series logic, voltage regulators, breadboards, batteries, solder, wire, tools, soldering stations for some good honest sparky fun. It's a bit of a random selection so do feel free to bring your own stuff too. See http://mashed08.backnetwork.com/event/?articleid=31 for more info :-D We'll also be radiating a DVB-T (aka Freeview) signal for you guys to hack around with. We've got some USB DVB-T sticks, some software links and a talk on how to hack DVB-T and MHEG interactive stuff. -- -- *Simon Thompson MEng MIET* Research Engineer (Electronics) PRINCE2TM Registered Practitioner *BBC Future Media and Technology* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
[backstage] Mashed TV
Simon Thompson wrote: We'll also be radiating a DVB-T (aka Freeview) signal for you guys to hack around with. We've got some USB DVB-T sticks, some software links and a talk on how to hack DVB-T and MHEG interactive stuff. Just to clarify - this won't be a rebroadcast of one of the existing Freeview multiplexes: it's something we've put together just for Mashed. Broadcasting all weekend on UHF channel 36 inside Alexandra Palace, the DVB-T network will contain two Mashed TV channels that will carry the lecture streams from Saturday morning, a bunch of videos from the O'Reilly Makezine Weekend Projects, some goofy idents created by gen-yoo-ine BBC research engineers and, in theory, anything that people give to us on the day (rights permitting, naturally). Obviously you'll be too busy hacking to watch telly though, so to give you something to play with, there will be all the non-video goodies associated with digital TV, too: full schedule information available in EIT and TV-Anytime formats, a rebroadcast of BBC One complete with subtitles, audio description and so forth, and a rather special red button interactive service provided by our colleagues from the interactive TV teams: they want to get people writing their own Internet-deployed interactive TV apps, and there will be IP-enabled set-top-boxes at Mashed for you to test them out on. http://mashed08.backnetwork.com/event/?articleid=24 gives some more technical details, and I'll be kicking off the How to hack the BBC's TV services session on Saturday morning with a brief talk about the potential of digital TV for cool hacks. S - 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] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP
So last week there was some discussion on this list about writing an app that let you skip the boring bits of a podcast, and I mentioned that we had some code that would let you do just that. We're making that code, some demo apps and some open source applications available that will let you use mp3 tags to enhance audio with images, chapters and descriptive text. We are also providing enhanced versions of the Chris Moyles podcast for you to play around with. See http://mashed08.backnetwork.com/event/?articleid=25 for more details:) Night! Alia - 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] cool visualisation thing for text
So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ It's a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. It's all rather pretty and has me wondering if I should do unspeakable things with scheduling data. Alia - 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/
RE: [backstage] Techcrunch BBC debate
Thanks Ian, I can't make it so will appreciate the recording. Ditto! - 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/
