RE: [backstage] Video Encoder

2006-12-15 Thread Kim Plowright
FFMpeg? (I may have misunderstood what you're after tho) http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most operating

[backstage] Best links of the year

2006-12-15 Thread Tom Loosemore
Hello all I'm doing a review of the year's best links, for use inside Auntie. Any suggestions? For 'best' read: Funny/useful/fabulous/bonkers/innovative Dropsend.com is my link of the year, which is a sad reflection on my life. -t - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To

RE: [backstage] Best links of the year

2006-12-15 Thread Jason Cartwright
Its an old one, I know, but I got into using del.icio.us properly this year. Apart from RSS, I think it's the technology/site/thing/whatever that's had the most dramatic effect on my browsing habits - with the 'network' feature responsible for me (among many other things)... * Browsing

Re: [backstage] Best links of the year

2006-12-15 Thread Richard Lockwood
www.secondlife.com - although whether you want the corporation's employees wasting every waking hour is another matter. :-) www.hiveminder.com - collaborative to-do lists www.battleon.com - AdventureQuest - the lunchtime role-playing adventure (Flash) and of course, www.scopies.co.uk - for all

[backstage] Re: Best links of the year

2006-12-15 Thread Jonathan Chetwynd
the three games: http://www.espgame.org/ http://www.peekaboom.org/ http://www.peekaboom.org/phetch from: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/ watch the video talk... the source and results need to be open source, then with RDF the potential could be amazing. especially for web accessibility and the

Re: [backstage] FW: BBC doesn't get web video

2006-12-15 Thread Gordon Joly
At 19:28 + 8/12/06, Ian Forrester wrote: This is taken from an internal discuss list, I thought you guys might have something to say about thisĀŠ I promise no more spammy messages today ...and what happened to our open source codec?

Re: [backstage] Re: Best links of the year

2006-12-15 Thread Mr I Forrester
So my best links are web 2.0 services which I have in my tabs more that 50% of the time Flickr http://www.flickr.com - Growing from strength to strength with no features Blip.tv http://www.blip.tv - Free hosting of video of any quality and plays well with the rest of the web Democracy

[backstage] Psiphon on BBC Persian blog

2006-12-15 Thread Mr I Forrester
Thought this might be interesting, So a few weeks after Mario posted about Psiphon, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/persian/2006/11/post_143.html - (obviously in farsi) I find that the links tell you everything you need to know. Comment 16 specially. Comment 20 seems to be a proxy which