Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management
On 13 July 2010 16:43, Nick Reynolds-FMT nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote: 6. I don't understand your point. The purpose of these measures is to keep honest people honest. I don't understand this keep honest people honest thing. Is the BBC saving people from themselves, just in case they might be tempted to do something unlawful like copying a TV programme to their portable media player? And … are you saying that I'm dishonest for wanting to subvert these restrictions? Or is it a slippery slope - one day you're making a personal archive of a TV programme, the next you're wondering around West End pubs with a carrier bag full of DVD+Rs of shaky camcorder versions of Hollywood films? Bizarre. If pirates choose to do certain things then that is their responsibility not the BBCs. If we had no content protection at all clearly we would be opening the door to pirates doing anything they want. They already are! And nothing the BBC is doing will stop them. (Encrypting the EPG on Freeview HD while the video itself is in the clear? Give me a break!) They're also doing anything they want with Sky HD and Blu-ray, both of which have far harder protections than anything the BBC's mooted. And, just to be clear, who do we mean by pirates? People downloading stuff? People uploading stuff? People making personal copies? People sharing copies with their friends? People selling stuff on for money? People uploading it to online storage sites with affiliate plans? There's such a huge gulf between the stated aims and the implementation of this policy. Paul. - 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] Freeview HD Content Management
On 15 June 2010 16:23, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote: why can I not watch Freeview HD on my (slightly older) HD TV? This (HDCP) is one of the restrictions I understand the least. It's like screwing shut the cat-flap (the DVI/HDMI signal) when the door (unencrypted broadcasts) is open. If you want to rip HD content, you'd do it at the point where it's easy. - 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/
[backstage] Invalid XML in iPlayer feeds
The iPlayer feeds seem to be broken today. They currently have a blank line before the XML declaration, making them invalid. E.g. (Firefox will also complain if you load it up) http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/popular/tv/list Has anyone else noticed? I can't be the only person who is using a real, strict XML parser to consume them! Paul. - 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] RDTV launched
2009/4/18 Nico Morrison microni...@gmail.com: Heads up on that, I go home for iPlayer my 24Mb/s Be connection. But the roaming 3G+ convenience is too good to be without. Someone write a HUAWEI traffic alerting system make some money please. All the dongles use the same chipset. It might be better just to scrape the telco's web interface using WWW::Mechanize or equivalent (assuming that they have one; I know 3 does). You can be sure that it matches up with billing cycles and different devices - and their measurement is the one that really matters. And all the telcos gouge their customers, so what's new? I notice that 3 are offering 15GB for £15/month. £1 a gigabyte is pretty good value. But overage is charged at 10p/MB - that's £100 per GB. A hundred times the cost! How anyone can devise these punitive, sleazy, grasping pricing structures and still have any kind of self respect is a mystery to me. .. And that's why I have a pre-pay dongle. Paul. - 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] If you had a ton of content to freely distribute
2009/1/20 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk: Seems BitTorrent, P2Pnext (tribler) and the internet archive are the best solutions by a long way. I did speak to people about how we pass footage around internally and the answer was via hard drives. There was some thought in the past about having drop off points in major cities where you can get all the footage in one go by bringing your 1TB drive for example. Sneakernet, or what ever they now call it. Sneakernet is a very good idea (and reminds me of the old Tanenbaum networking book). Downloading half a terabyte of data is quite a challenge on a domestic connection. Paul. - 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 - a typical Google search on a desktop computer produces about 7g (0.25oz) of carbon dioxide
2009/1/12 Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com: Wonder how much energy the BBC uses to power its webservers? :-) How much CO2 is emitted per hour of TV programme watched via the iPlayer, compared to traditional TV broadcast? And, to continue that line of thought, how much CO2 is emitted as a result of the pointless calculations required to encrypt/decrypt DRMed content? Paul. - 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] [Event] Social Innovation Camp in Dec
2008/11/24 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please post a link. Those of us who read in plain text or in a non-graphical reader are not gonna be able to click on that! (I can't see any html so I wonder if there was a link there at all?) It looks like the list server stripped it out. I can't see anything in the message source. Would love to read more, please let me know where ;-) Likewise! Paul. - 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] Flash everywhere
2008/11/19 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Adobe notes that 98 percent of computers have Flash installed, and it is becoming crucial to have it to enjoy the Internet. That is of course, unless you own an iPhone. This is what scares me about Flash. Adobe's gaining a monopoly over the internet. Being dependent on one company is a practical drawback as well as an ideological one: there's no Flash for 64-bit Linux, for example, let alone more obscure platforms, and this is a practical barrier to the emergence of new technologies. I feel the same about the BBC's embrace of Flash's cousin Air - it's giving Adobe yet more leverage over the computing public. I can see the pragmatic reasons, but I feel that the BBC has deeper responsibilities than that. Paradoxically, I see the very closed iPhone platform as something of a bulwark against Flash: it's popular enough - especially among a segment of the population that makes technical decisions - that that 2% still matters. I really hope that Apple sticks to its decision over Flash. Paul. - 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] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100
2008/7/7 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is Adobe Air any good for developing in? Has anyone done anything good with it? I tried this Twitter client, but it's a bit pants, IMHO Twitter clients are the Hello Worlds of Air development: http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps#MultiPlatform Paul. - 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] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100
2008/7/3 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Interesting question to the backstage community... If we ran a competition which required the final prototype to be in Adobe Air, how would people feel about that? Personally, I'd be disappointed to see a proprietary technology being a requirement. As an option, I'd have no problem with it, but as a prerequisite it would seem to show favour to Adobe. There's a run time and SDK for Win, OSx and now gnu/Linux. But it's still from only one company, and dependent on their grace (and, when it comes to Adobe and Linux, competence, frankly). Then again, I'm not happy with the iPlayer being dependent on Adobe/Apple, either, though I do my best to address that ;-) Paul. - 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] RealPlayer banished Toady!
2008/6/13 Jonathan Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Surely the point is that flash embedded content is a plain, simple, easy thing that works. That makes it more user friendly than before. It looks like the audio data's just MP3; it would be even more user friendly if it just used HTTP instead of obfuscating it with a proprietary protocol (RTMP). Then you wouldn't need Flash at all, although it does make it easier to click and listen in a web page. (Worried about people 'stealing' the audio? Don't be. I and other people have been merrily downloading Real streams for years. It's better quality if you grab it straight off air, though. My radio does that, by the way.) Paul. - 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/
