Re: [backstage] What is TV?

2009-12-31 Thread Kieran Kunhya
--- On Wed, 30/12/09, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Why the Flash iPlayer client can't use the hardware acceleration.  I get lots of dropped frames watching through the iPlayer Desktop. The new Flash 10.1 beta uses DXVA (DirectX Hardware Video Acceleration). However it has

Re: [backstage] What is TV?

2009-12-31 Thread Gordon Joly
A tv is box of electronics that is going to the Council dump today - replaced by an iMac and a Freeview dongle (with two UHF tuners). TV and Radio are broadcast media. They exist inside a regulatory framework, and date back to the work of Marconi, Tesla, Hertz and others. Amateur radio

Re: [backstage] What is TV?

2009-12-31 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:11, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote: This is windows-only right now (presumably because Apple won't give Adobe access to the necessary APIs). Er, what? Where did that presumption come from? Nothing else on the Mac or Linux has a problem with video

[backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2009-12-31 Thread Adam
Hi, Nokia have released the Nokia N900 phone based on their Maemo operating system. As it doesn't support S60 WRT that the current Nokia phones iPlayer app is written in is there anyway i can access the iPlayer videos directly. I can access the current videos and play them, but they are

Re: [backstage] What is TV?

2009-12-31 Thread Kieran Kunhya
This is windows-only right now (presumably because Apple won't give Adobe access to the necessary APIs). Er, what? Where did that presumption come from? Nothing else on the Mac or Linux has a problem with video compositing. VLC, which does it entirely in software too, has _no_ issues.

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2009-12-31 Thread Ian Stirling
Adam wrote: Hi, Nokia have released the Nokia N900 phone based on their Maemo operating system. As it doesn't support S60 WRT that the current Nokia phones iPlayer app is written in is there anyway i can access the iPlayer videos directly. I can access the current videos and play them,

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2009-12-31 Thread Tim Dobson
Adam wrote: Nokia have released the Nokia N900 phone based on their Maemo operating system. As it doesn't support S60 WRT that the current Nokia phones iPlayer app is written in is there anyway i can access the iPlayer videos directly. I can access the current videos and play them, but they

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2009-12-31 Thread Dave Crossland
2010/1/1 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net: it was suggested initially that GNU/Linux was pretty much irrelevant Only by ignorant assholes. :-) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.