[backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?
Noticed in the past week there's only a 384kbps stream of BBC News via the web site - it looks rubbish, jerky video and low quality audio. Better quality on TVCatchup. Does anybody know if this downgrade is permanent? - 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] BBC News online stream quality drop?
There's another version of the BBC News channel at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_news24/ On 24 March 2010 11:01, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: Noticed in the past week there's only a 384kbps stream of BBC News via the web site - it looks rubbish, jerky video and low quality audio. Better quality on TVCatchup. Does anybody know if this downgrade is permanent? - 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/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?
It could be because the News stream gets a lot of views on Budget day? On 24 March 2010 12:05, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: The quality on that is the same as if you click directly via the BBC News web site. As PMQs is on now, go look at the BBC News version of the Parliament feed and then compare it with BBC Parliament's quality: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_parliament/ N24: 368kbps (48kbps). BBC Parl: 500kbps. Don't understand the drop, if it was due to a costsaving drive surely it'd be adjust to be about 300kbps or below. (Difference is currently ~132kbps) -- *From:* owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] *On Behalf Of *Brian Butterworth *Sent:* 24 March 2010 11:18 *To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk *Subject:* Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? There's another version of the BBC News channel at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_news24/ On 24 March 2010 11:01, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.ukwrote: Noticed in the past week there's only a 384kbps stream of BBC News via the web site - it looks rubbish, jerky video and low quality audio. Better quality on TVCatchup. Does anybody know if this downgrade is permanent? - 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/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?
The quality on that is the same as if you click directly via the BBC News web site. As PMQs is on now, go look at the BBC News version of the Parliament feed and then compare it with BBC Parliament's quality: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_parliament/ N24: 368kbps (48kbps). BBC Parl: 500kbps. Don't understand the drop, if it was due to a costsaving drive surely it'd be adjust to be about 300kbps or below. (Difference is currently ~132kbps) _ From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 24 March 2010 11:18 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? There's another version of the BBC News channel at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_news24/ On 24 March 2010 11:01, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: Noticed in the past week there's only a 384kbps stream of BBC News via the web site - it looks rubbish, jerky video and low quality audio. Better quality on TVCatchup. Does anybody know if this downgrade is permanent? - 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/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?
It's been like it for a few days now... _ From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 24 March 2010 12:12 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? It could be because the News stream gets a lot of views on Budget day? On 24 March 2010 12:05, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: The quality on that is the same as if you click directly via the BBC News web site. As PMQs is on now, go look at the BBC News version of the Parliament feed and then compare it with BBC Parliament's quality: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_parliament/ N24: 368kbps (48kbps). BBC Parl: 500kbps. Don't understand the drop, if it was due to a costsaving drive surely it'd be adjust to be about 300kbps or below. (Difference is currently ~132kbps) _ From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 24 March 2010 11:18 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? There's another version of the BBC News channel at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_news24/ On 24 March 2010 11:01, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: Noticed in the past week there's only a 384kbps stream of BBC News via the web site - it looks rubbish, jerky video and low quality audio. Better quality on TVCatchup. Does anybody know if this downgrade is permanent? - 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/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
Re: [backstage] Podcasts feeds not working in Rythmbox
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 17:53, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Have you tried another client like Banshee? Banshee seems to work. (I've been in two minds about switching to Banshee anyway). Send us in the XML file as you get it your end. Here's the XML ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? rss xmlns:media=http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/; xmlns:itunes=http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd; xmlns:ppg=http://bbc.co.uk/2009/01/ppgRss; xmlns:atom=http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom; version=2.0channeltitleIn Our Time With Melvyn Bragg/titlelinkhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/linkdescriptionThe history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today./descriptionitunes:summaryThe history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today./itunes:summaryitunes:authorBBC Radio 4/itunes:authoritunes:owneritunes:nameBBC/itunes:nameitunes:emailpodcast.supp...@bbc.co.uk/itunes:email/itunes:ownerlanguageen-gb/languagettl720/ttlppg:systemRef systemId=pid.brand key=b006qykl /ppg:systemRef systemId=pid.format key=PT004 /ppg:systemRef systemId=pid.genre key=C00080 /ppg:systemRef systemId=pid.genre key=C00064 /ppg:systemRef systemId=pid.genre key=C00060 /ppg:network id=radio4 name=BBC Radio 4 /ppg:seriesDetails typicalDuration=PT42M active=true public=true region=all wwpid=0 launchDate=2009-01-21 frequency=weekly daysLive=7 liveItems=1 /imageurlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/iot/assets/_300x300.jpg/urltitleIn Our Time With Melvyn Bragg/titlelinkhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/link/imageitunes:image href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/iot/assets/_300x300.jpg; /copyright(C) BBC 2010/copyrightpubDateThu, 18 Mar 2010 17:37:42 +/pubDateitunes:category text=Society amp; Culture /itunes:category text=Society amp; Cultureitunes:category text=History //itunes:categoryitunes:category text=Society amp; Cultureitunes:category text=Philosophy //itunes:categoryitunes:keywordsMelvin, brag, history, science, philosophy, culture, BBC, radio 4, ideas, thought/itunes:keywordsmedia:keywordsMelvin, brag, history, science, philosophy, culture, BBC, radio 4, ideas, thought/media:keywordsitunes:explicitno/itunes:explicitmedia:rating scheme=urn:simplenonadult/media:ratingatom:link href=http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/rss.xml; rel=self type=application/rss+xml /itemtitleIOT: Edvard Munch and 'The Scream' 18 Mar 10/titledescriptionMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, focusing on his painting - 'The Scream'. With David Jackson, Dorothy Rowe and Alastair Wright/descriptionitunes:subtitleMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, focusing on his painting - 'The Scream'. With David Jackson, Dorothy Rowe and Alastair Wright.../itunes:subtitleitunes:summaryMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, focusing on his painting - 'The Scream'. With David Jackson, Dorothy Rowe and Alastair Wright/itunes:summarypubDateThu, 18 Mar 2010 17:20:00 +/pubDateitunes:duration41:32/itunes:durationenclosure url=http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/iot_20100318-1720a.mp3; length=20005421 type=audio/mpeg /guid isPermaLink=falsehttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/iot_20100318-1720.mp3/guidlinkhttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/iot_20100318-1720a.mp3/linkmedia:content url=http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/iot_20100318-1720a.mp3; fileSize=20005421 type=audio/mpeg medium=audio expression=full duration=2492 /itunes:authorBBC Radio 4/itunes:author/item/channel/rss cheers Scot - 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] Podcasts feeds not working in Rythmbox
On 24-Mar-2010, at 18:37, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote: It's not listing any new epsiodes for BBC feeds. All my BBC subscriptions get a red circle with a white bar when I update all feeds and a Error in podcast feed dialogue when I update an single feed. Cached error condition, perhaps? I know some of the iPlayer feeds end up with well-formedness issues from time to time (something somewhere is assumed to be properly-escaped-for-XML when it apparently isn’t always). M. - 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] Podcasts feeds not working in Rythmbox
On 24 March 2010 19:24, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote: I know some of the iPlayer feeds end up with well-formedness issues from time to time (something somewhere is assumed to be properly-escaped-for-XML when it apparently isn’t always). That's a giveaway that someone's building up XML using string concatenation - very naughty. P. - 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/
