Re: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

2007-07-29 Thread Andy
On 28/07/07, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy, it would probably also be common sense to read around on the topic before insulting the majority of the BBC developers who frequent this list. I read the restrictions that the BBC *claims* it has to implement. However the section about

Re: [backstage] Making the underground accessible to all

2007-07-29 Thread Michael Sparks
On Friday 27 July 2007 19:03, Dave Crossland wrote: Sun announced an intention to release Java under GPLv2. http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/ From Open Source Java Technology Quote Sheet – What People Are Saying About This Announcement --

Re: [backstage] Making the underground accessible to all

2007-07-29 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29/07/07, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 27 July 2007 19:03, Dave Crossland wrote: Sun announced an intention to release Java under GPLv2. http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/ Roadmap. What are the remaining key steps that Sun and the OpenJDK community are

Re: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

2007-07-29 Thread Jonathan Tweed
On 27 Jul 2007, at 16:18, James Bridle wrote: Looking forward to seeing what it looks like in XP on my Intel Mac... I installed it under Parallels on my MacBook Pro yesterday. No problems during installation (I had sorted out any WMP issues a couple of months ago when I last tried it).

Re: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

2007-07-29 Thread Richard Lockwood
Oh hark, I hear the ill-informed rabid bleat of the one-issue conspiracy theorists with absolutely no interest in the BBC and its content. Again... Must be full moon soon. * sigh * Rich. On 7/29/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/07/07, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy, it

[backstage] Can we have a developer mailing list?

2007-07-29 Thread Adam Leach
Is there any chance of a separate developer list for discussion of APIs, services, Geek events, etc. The BBC with the encouragement from Ian Matthew are providing some great sources of information for doing mashups and organising some great events like Hackday, but this mailing list is just

RE: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

2007-07-29 Thread Christopher Woods
The choppy and pixelated video issue is due to a lack of sufficient drivers for the Mactels to enable DirectX-accelerated hardware video rendering for video playback (hardware-accelerated DX primary surfaces are just something you take for granted until they go wrong or disappear entirely one

Re: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

2007-07-29 Thread mike chamberlain
On 7/29/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would actually be the same issue. No iPlayer client existed when the BBC started the project. They created it. The BBC claim (possible incorrectly) that there exists no cross platform DRM solution, and yet they never considered creating it. If

RE: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

2007-07-29 Thread Christopher Woods
I concur with Mike's sentiments - personally, I'm not entirely satisfied with the solution the Beeb has gone with, but then again, I can understand why the BBC chose what they did - and it could be worse (there are aspects of the MSDRM scheme they're using which some would describe as 'benefits',