Re: [backstage] The future of the internet

2008-05-15 Thread Alan Parry
facebook terms of usage are quite clear for their api's. They make a lot of data available, pretty much everything in fact including email addresses but you are pretty much only allowed to store indefinitely (more than 24 hours) the uniqueid fields of any records. They state the 24 hour time frame

Re: [backstage] Who spilled coffee on the server?

2008-05-15 Thread Jason Cartwright
On a related note, the blog profiles never seem to work for me (not showing any content other than the page framework)... E.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/profile/?userid=11933551 J -- Jason Cartwright Web Specialist, EMEA Marketing [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44(0)2070313161 On Thu, May 15, 2008 at

RE: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

2008-05-15 Thread Christopher Woods
Good point Gareth 'News 24' is streamed from a SDI source. We moved from analogue to digital capture cards about four/five years ago the difference in quality was immediately noticable - bitrate frame size for Flash has been upped of course, so looks even better (the current encoders are a

Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

2008-05-15 Thread Matthew Cashmore
What kit did the Beeb use, and what do they use now? (fascinated by the choices in tech) Also (off-topic slightly) does anybody know what kit the radio studios use for the automatic level ducking when a DJ's speaking over the intro / tail of a track? I've seen what looks like a

Re: [backstage] Who spilled coffee on the server?

2008-05-15 Thread vijay chopra
Thanks Aaron, You guys fixed it fast! It takes me ages to fix and debug code. As an aside, what caused the problem? thanks, Vijay. On 15/05/2008, Aaron Scullion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this. The DNA team are aware, and are trying to fix right now. We're also trying to make

RE: [backstage] Who spilled coffee on the server?

2008-05-15 Thread Aaron Scullion
I think we should probably just say it was a database error and leave it at that! In all seriousness... adapting DNA to allow it to offer blog comments has been a big job, and it's fair to say that it's thrown up some things that we hadn't foreseen. The team who manage the DNA service have done

RE: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

2008-05-15 Thread Gareth Davis
What kit did the Beeb use, and what do they use now? (fascinated by the choices in tech) No idea about the rest of the BBC, but we do the TV Encoding with Osprey 540 cards in hp DL360G5 servers at Bush running Windows. Windows media audio encoding is also done here at Bush house using Osprey 230

Re: [backstage] Who spilled coffee on the server?

2008-05-15 Thread vijay chopra
Right, it was Cridland on a drunken rampage wasn't it? ;p On the topic of the website redesign, which one of you guys sent the email that made it into Private Eye this week (Eye 1210 p12 Birtspeak 2.0) It was a masterpiece. regards, Vijay. On 15/05/2008, Aaron Scullion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[backstage] MPs eye cash spent on BBC iPlayer

2008-05-15 Thread Brian Butterworth
* http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1049409_mps_eye_cash_spent_on_bbc_iplayer *I love the comment ' maybe the MP's should be looking at them selfs, they waste a lot more money than this, and they are useless, at least the iPlayer has a use and works! ' *--- *Brian Butterworth

Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

2008-05-15 Thread Martin Deutsch
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Gareth Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As others have already said BHX is the extension to London Broadcasting House, apologies for the lapse into BBC TLAs. No idea what the site code is for the Mailbox, if any does know then feel free to email me it - because

Re: [backstage] MPs eye cash spent on BBC iPlayer

2008-05-15 Thread Matt Barber
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1049409_mps_eye_cash_spent_on_bbc_iplayer I love the comment ' maybe the MP's should be looking at them selfs, they waste a lot more money than this, and they are

Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

2008-05-15 Thread Simon Cross
Also (off-topic slightly) does anybody know what kit the radio studios use for the automatic level ducking when a DJ's speaking over the intro / tail of a track? I've seen what looks like a sidechaining compressor in the background of some shots on programmes like Timelapse or suchlike (where a

Re: [backstage] MPs eye cash spent on BBC iPlayer

2008-05-15 Thread Brian Butterworth
2008/5/15 Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1049409_mps_eye_cash_spent_on_bbc_iplayer I love the comment ' maybe the MP's should be looking at them selfs, they waste

RE: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

2008-05-15 Thread Christopher Woods
Also (off-topic slightly) does anybody know what kit the radio studios use for the automatic level ducking when a DJ's speaking over the intro / tail of a track? I've seen what looks like a sidechaining compressor in the background of some shots on programmes like Timelapse or suchlike (where

[backstage] Imitation the sincerest form, etc., or how copy and paste is getting out of hand

2008-05-15 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/hrtova-nova-web-stranica-besramni-plagijat-bbccouk/386887.aspx http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/15/croation-state-broadcaster - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit