Sorry to bring this topic back up but i would really like to hear from
some of the people in the BBC about it.
Having the scripts of each show, either in pain text or other format,
on the /programmes would be a great resource. it would allow people to
search and find information/section of BBC
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I have forwarded this good idea on.
I've also commented that
Generally a great idea.
But why on earth is this being done this way?
The Astons on the channel carry the information anyway, and we know that
this can be fed into another computer system, as the MHEG5 version of BBC
Parliament.
I can't be that hard for BBC Parliament to provide the feed of
James,
Thanks for the information. I'm always interested to hear about how the
systems work.
I'm particularly pleased to hear that the encoding will happen from the full
bitrate sources in the future. Aside from not having any service drop-outs
and improved monitoring it can only hope that the
Brian Butterworth wrote:
But why on earth is this being done this way?
If by Astons you mean the superimposed captions, then if you had read the
text below (and the blog posting linked to), you would see that we did try
exactly that and it sadly just wasn't good enough.
ATB,
Matthew
The
However, a clear text feed of the data would keep the data pure, surely?
Seriously, where would the fun in that be?
Phil 'timestamp-tastic' Wilson
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Phil,
I'm sure one of the first computing acronyms I ever leant was GIGO...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIGO
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However, a clear text feed of the data would keep the data pure, surely?
Seriously, where would the fun in that be?
Phil
Phil Wilson wrote:
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People are catching up on you, Phil, better get back to it! ;-)
ATB,
Matthew
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Forgive my ignorance, but what is an Aston?
Aston is a company who provide systems for generating on-screen graphics
for live programmes - however it's also used as a generic term for those
same graphics. So the kind of graphics like you get on the News where
they'll say Nick Higham reporting,
I'm sure one of the first computing acronyms I ever leant was GIGO...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIGO
Yes, I know it. Take a look at Etienne's reply for one aspect of the details and why the
captions may also count as garbage.
Another important point is that the video captioner they've
Brian Butterworth wrote:
I thought they were trying to do OCR on the captions from the DVB-T
stream.
No, we have clear text. As it says in the blog post :-)
However, a clear text feed of the data would keep the data pure, surely?
Sadly not (trust me, I've spent some time on this!) - even
Tim Dobson wrote:
The immediate question that, I would like to ask
$[spokesman|admin|person] is, in reference to [1], Why?
...and, as usual, the question falls into a deep, dark, hole with the
rest of the unanswered questions about iplayer. :(
it's a shame really...
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www.tdobson.net
2008/6/4 Etienne Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Brian Butterworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought they were trying to do OCR on the captions from the DVB-T
stream.
What I was saying was that the old Freeview version of BBC Parliament
used
to have a
Phil,
2008/6/4 Phil Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm sure one of the first computing acronyms I ever leant was GIGO...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIGO
Yes, I know it. Take a look at Etienne's reply for one aspect of the
details and why the captions may also count as garbage.
Another
Aston is a company who provide systems for generating
on-screen graphics for live programmes - however it's also
used as a generic term for those same graphics. So the kind
of graphics like you get on the News where they'll say Nick
Higham reporting, the name of an interviewee or
On 6/4/08, Etienne Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Brian Butterworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I was saying was that the old Freeview version of BBC Parliament used
to have a quarter-screen picture and the information that is now in the
Astons was
@christopher:
Ooo ooo oo oo oo oo oo oo, *FLAC streaming*? Lossless WMA?
If you'd be happy trebling your licence fee, and explaining why everyone
else has to... (grin)... but I've plenty of experience adding odd formats to
radio stations which don't have many listeners, thanks.
@briantist:
Hello there,
I'm a journalist working for BBC East in Norwich and I've joined this mailing
list to get advice and guidance - and possibly some ideas - about a project
I've been working on for the last 6 months.
With the backing of my bosses at Look East and BBC English regions, I've
The first radio documentary I heard Ray Gosling do was a series about an
overland trip, 'on the road to new zealand', it came out in the late
seventies. I think I was expecting a whispering reverential right-on Bob
Harris commentary, what we got was very different, very challenging. Ray
has this
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