[backstage] Need your help!
Hi guys I know this isn't necessary related to this email forum, however I am writing if somebody out there could help me find a solution. I work for a nightclub chain, and have a mpeg of our logo which I have been asked by my boss to convert onto a DVD. the only problem is that I don't know where to find the right codec to download (or what the right one would be.) I have gone back to the orginal company but they don't know either... I have uploaded the file here : http://www.timbionline.googlepages.com/5074ambient_neon.mpe the file is about 7mb so sorry about the size. I have tried some programmes like AVIcodec, (it says which codec is required to play file) but it doesn't work with MPEGs. Thanks for your time. TIM BISHOP -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
Re: [backstage] www.FreeTheBBC.info
On 19/06/07, David Greaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: vijay chopra wrote: > On 19/06/07, *David Woodhouse* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > I totally agree, however seeing as I have no intention of breaking the > spirit of the law (I may be breaching a technicality) I have no qualms > in using any software to break copy protection to make personal backups, > and supply it to others if requested. I regularly get told by friends > and family "my computer won't let me copy this DVD" my reply is either > to do it for them, or give them a CD with the appropriate tools on it. > I doubt that the BPI is likely to come after me as a pirate (Argghh!) as > I only back up for personal use, and only use file sharing services in > legal ways. The only thing I have downloaded unlawfully is an out of > print RPG book, that I would be happy to pay for, if only I could find > someone selling it! Interesting business model called "The long tail" in Wired a while back. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail_pr.html > The flipside to that is when does it become a "normal" number again? I > translated the ACSS decryption key back into base10 if I were then to > perform various other mathematical functions on it would it stop being > the ACSS key? What if I needed that number for another purpose? I'm not > saying that posting an entire DVD in hex is OK, just asking questions. Like I said, context. You posted that number and even quoted the words "ACSS decryption code". Problems with laws arise when you start enforcing them rigidly :) Technology has no common sense. It's a bit like speeding. Technically doing 31mph in a 30 zone is illegal. No policeman would ever stop you (just) for that. Have you been in Plymouth City Centre on a weekend?!? Devon and Cornwall Police have done this when its a quiet night... (The Pub I work in has a open fire - one Saturday evening the police turned up because they were walking past and decided to enquire if the smoke coming from the chimley - or however you spell it - was coming from the open fire or if the building was on fire...) BUT I DIGRESS... SORRY! DRM, being technological, cannot turn a blind eye to the law. The law is supposed to be a bit fuzzy. David - 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/ Also. DRM will be "Hacked" by whoever wants to, its just the general public that will not be able to figure it out... "Where there is a will, there is a way..." -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
Re: [backstage] BBC "Radio" 7
Just a thought but over the last couple of months (can't remember when it happened) the BBC Radio Devon and BBC Radio Coprnwall changed to BBC CORNWALL and BBC DEVON on DAB. On 29/05/07, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just thinking about this yesterday! It occurred to me > that 6 Music and BBC 7 probably have/had a larger non-radio > (i.e. non-wireless) audience in their first few years so > using the word "radio" in the station name could be misleading. > Could it be that DAB listenership is now higher than Internet > listenership? Many years ago, the reasons for not calling them BBC Radio 6 and BBC Radio 7 was posted on one of the BBC mnessage boards. And the reason that was given was that online and TV listening, isn't "radio" - so pretty much like you say. Of course radio as a term has been appropiated for the concept of listening to programmed content - not listening to a particular device, via a specific transmission method. People listen to the "radio" via their TV, via their phone, via the internet. - 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/ -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
Re: [backstage] BBC Archive trial
No... the "R" is already there... It's just silent... I heard they will be running for the contract to deal with the complaints with the eurovision song contesting voting irregularities.. On 28/05/07, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 20:04 +0100 27/5/07, Kim Plowright wrote: >>I _suspect_ they just fob people off and ignore complaints they >>dislike. Or maybe I was unlucky and the two people I communicated with >>didn't do their job properly? > > >Audience comms and complaints are outsourced to Capita. >- You missed out a letter "r" I believe? Gordo -- "Think Feynman"/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - 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/ -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
[backstage] DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY
Hi I just been ripped off! Tried to get a new mobile and used this company - they charged a non-refundable £199.00 to my credit card - even though their webiste says its 1.99 - after a week of phoning them they are refusing to give it back! they are called mobilerainbow.co.uk DO NOT USE THEM! Please forward, the more people that know about these scammers the better! -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
RE: [backstage] Five Live Partnership - get your
It's also one reason why BBCi doesn't assign page numbers to individual stories (there are other, more boring reasons as well!) Please do! I find this really interesting, for example News South West is 1670. what happens when we get the interactive streaming of Local TV? -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
Re: [backstage] Five Live Partnership - get your
To be perfectly honest I do not feel that it would be viable, not until the LocalTV is taken nationally. with DSAT and DTT the main problem is that you currently have 4 different platforms (oops... 5 i mean), Analog Interactive (Ceefax), DTT Interactive (BBCi Freeview), DSAT Interactive (BBCi Sky), DCAB (BBCi ntl: telewest) and finally URL (Internet bbc.co.uk) Once Analog Interactive is swtiched off, the current problem of alainment (or however you spell the bloody word) (example - News 102) of 3 digit numbers will disappear. Although the main problem is that the general public will not like change, On 16/01/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to agree. Being alphabetically at the end of the list it is > really, really, > > annoying getting to 'my region' as it takes so many button presses. > > Someone always has to be last I'm afraid! That's part of the > reason why page numbers were introduced (after an admittedly > long wait) - trawling through long menus can be a pain in the > neck. Far easier to bung a quick number in. > > > The TV for BBCone is regionalized on Freeview and DSat, IMHO this > should > > be recognised and there should be a shortcut to 'this region' on > BBCone (and > > if you can detect the BBCone region setting on the other channels > too). > > It's certainly technically feasible on BBC One on satellite, > although we'd need to do a small amount of work for cable and > Freeview - people may have heard of the Local TV trial which > ran in the West Midlands last year. For that we put up a > special "Local TV" link on BBC One in the West Midlands. Yes, I did see that. > One of the problems now with providing a single quick link is > that there isn't really that regional portal at this time - > regional content is split across the service (News, Sport, > Weather, Travel and Cinema Listings). The idea behind Local > TV is that it would bring together most of that in a single > place per region, complete with video content - all of course > subject to license fee funding and a Public Value Test. How about using page numbers with one and two digits as 'short codes'. Unlike Ceefax where you have to enter a three digit number, you have to press SELECT after entering the number on the digital text services. Am I having a PRESTEL flashback here? You could introduce a 'short code' system, so '11' could be 'my regional news', '13' for 'my regional sport' and '14' for 'my regional weather' and so on, or simply '10' being 'my regional index' with links to the news, sport, weather and travel. > Incidentally the reason why 1670 is the South West regional > news is because, three years ago, I sat in an empty meeting > room and aribitarily determined numbers for each region based > on the then ordering of the regions of the Regional News page > (160). Scotland was the top so it got 1605, South West > England was at the bottom so 1670. Actually South West is > still at the bottom, however the rest seem to have been > re-organised rather randomly. I don't think I have seen these regional page shortcode before? Are they on Freeview or satellite? > To make up for slightly random assignments, I do try to keep > the same two last numbers for all regional content in > different areas. Hence regional sport for the South West is > 3970, and Cinema Listings for the same area can be found on 6170. Having more than one index should be no problem to implement, because, unlike Ceefax, you can have dynamic menus. So you could have 9061 being the first regional index 9070 as the last so you can browse by subject (news->regional news->myregion) or by region (myregionpage->news). As long as pressing BACK takes you back the way you came there would be no confusion. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.12/630 - Release Date: 15/01/2007 20:28 - 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/ -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
RE: [backstage] Five Live Partnership - get your
It's also one reason why BBCi doesn't assign page numbers to individual stories (there are other, more boring reasons as well!) Please do! I find this really interesting, for example News South West is 1670. what happens when we get the interactive streaming of Local TV? -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
Re: [backstage] Happy New Year!
this is 2007? Golly! I thought it was still 1990. you know we're at war with Iraq, President Bush is making a cock-up in the US, I am still looking young and pretty (okay the last one is a bit far fetched...) Happy New Year - Tim Bishop LGBT Officer City College Plymouth Student Union - - - From January 1st Plymouth College of Further Education is changing its name to City College Plymouth. please visit http://www.cityplym.ac.uk On 01/01/07, Kirk Northrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gordon Joly wrote: > Thanks! 2007 is great so far! Not quite as great for the people at BBC Online though, where I have already seen a review of 2005 (reviewing 2006) and The Today Programme's 20006 poll to repeal an Act of Parliament... -- From the North, this is Kirk - 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/ -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
Re: buffy (was Re: [backstage] democracyplayer)
Hang on... Commercial companies can produce utter trash (buffy I rest my case) but look at HBO producing Angels in America. Proper quality programming can be produced, you just need to keep the execs away from the bank manager. Tim Bishop City College Plymouth Students Union LGBT Officer http://www.cityplym.ac.uk http://www.timbionline.googlepages.com On 20/12/06, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Richard Lockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I rest my case. If Buffy is the best TV that can be made by commercial > television companies, they need to be outlawed. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is > the worst television show I've *ever* seen. Then either you are not watching enough television or you are not watching Buffy closely enough. Buffy was a show for teenagers making clear the complexity of modern adult life. It built a consistent model of the world within the genre of fantasy/science fiction. It tackled real adult issues like sex and death and responsibility without talking down to anyone, sermonizing or being disrespectfull. At the same time it was amusing, well acted had good special effects and challenging story lines. You are quite wrong if you think it was bad. Like Keats it can be shown, objectively, to be good work. I would remind you that US commerical television also produced 24. I personally don't like it but it is innovative. And the West Wing. Again, not my favourite but it is challenging being neither cynical not cloying about politicians. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs - 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/ -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
Re: [backstage] democracyplayer
Okay, that sounds great, but what about rights management? I know its going to happen anyway but On 21/12/06, Richard P Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is great is that. One 3.5m satellite dish with a four way LNB, connected to four Sky boxes with four Sling Media Sling boxes attached to four Macs, because that is what I like, each with a couple of "realtime" Automator actions, stream the whole lot to Democracy from behind Psiphon. Perhaps £10K for the lot. I believe that it will happen by the end of February, BBC1-4 live'ish on the net. Before I get raided, I will not be doing this, but any guesses on how long until someone does? it really is that easy. Perhaps the one feed that you are all missing is the realtime TV feed that is available to us all. I would call it "BC plus" - plus the hour it takes to digitise,verify and stream. Add more dishes and more torrents, and you end up with the same legal situation as the music industry has. for good or bad. For £166 million the BBC, as the "original BBC" could do it, might upset the Aussies though but hey, they have the Ashes back :-) Better still, everyone who is interested in the UK could be asked to contribute (BBC Associate program) and the BBC could sell the idea to the Rights holders by splitting any revenue with them based on the number of times a show is viewed at the end of the year. similar to the commercial radio model. The BBC could then use a "click" count similar to Google ads. but only if they manage a system whereby they are in some control of the first release. and scan any sites that use the content for numbers of hits. Financially, if done legally, which I believe the majority would, I can see everyone making more money than they do now.. I believe the Music model has shown that the quality is important, so more DVD's could be sold, and the BBC would have more information about what to re-run on TV based on the figures from the net. I don't believe I am a geek with computers. so please don't be upset at the above idea, it is for research and information only.. and it would work:-) Regards Rich E On 20 Dec 2006, at 20:44, Nic James Ferrier wrote: > "Ian Forrester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Nic what kind of stuff are talking about doing? Which Lawyers are >> you worried about? BBC or others? Can you give me an idea. > > Sure. One thing I'd like to do would be to: > > - take the BBC realvideo feeds (say newsnight) > - convert them into something sensible (mpeg?) > - make them into an atom feed > - shove them on democracy > - see them when I want, not when the BBC says I can > > or: > > - the above > - shove them into some website > - let people tag them and cross reference them > - let people search that > - let people cross reference that, say BBC news programmes with other > news programmes like democracy-now > > > I can't do those things coz I'm pretty sure they're against the > law. As soon as I started converting BBC content into something else > so that it would play nicely on the Net the BBC's lawyers would be > talking to me. I'm pretty sure that would happen. > > If you're saying that wouldn't happen that's great! > > -- > Nic Ferrier > http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs > - > 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/ -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
Re: [backstage] BBC to launch six-month trial of online archive next year...?
Great! Where can I sign up? There are several things I would love to watch again (That no longer gets repeated/available to buy/download) from the 50's onwards. I wonder if the Beeb can do this in conjunction with the Television South West Film and Television Archive? Long live TSW!!! Tim Bishop City College Plymouth Student Union LGBT Officer http://www.cityplym.ac.uk http://www.timbionline.googlepages.com On 18/12/06, Brendan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's the press release: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/12_december/ 15/archive.shtml The Broadcast article probably doesn't have much more info than that. One thing to keep in mind is that opening up the archive may need a Public Value Test, which would mean that after the trial we have to close down the public-facing service while the BBC Trust evaluate the proposal, which takes months -- in the same way that we ran the iMP as a trial two or three years ago, and now have to wait for approval before launching the-thing-that-may-one-day-soon-be-called BBC iPlayer. The wheels turn slowly here, but they do turn! Brendan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Dillon Sent: 18 December 2006 12:21 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] BBC to launch six-month trial of online archive next year...? Today's Lovelacemedia is reporting "The BBC is to launch a six-month trial of its online archive next year by making 1,000 hours of content available on-demand to 20,000 test participants. The Corporation's director of future media and technology Ashley Highfield said of the move to eventually place over one million hours of content on the internet: "Our goal is to turn the BBC into an open cultural and creative resource for the nation." I got this link but unfortunately there's a subscription fee involved, I'll see if I can find someone with one. http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcastnowarticle.aspx?intStoryID=166477 Is the same story as reported in October: http://www.spokenword.ac.uk/spokenwordmatters/2006/10/06/bbc-to-pilot-on line-archive-2/ Soudns great, would anyone care to comment? 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/ - 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/ -- This email is intended for the named recipient(s) only. Its contents are confidential and may only be retained by the named recipient(s) and may only be copied or disclosed with the prior consent of Timothy-John Bishop. If you are not the intended recipient please discard this email and notify the sender as quickly as possible. This email and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. Please note that electronic mail may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practices) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
