[backstage] iPlayer URL's

2010-03-25 Thread Dave Walker
Hi, I'm trying to find a method to autoplay and automatically full-screen the flash iPlayer. The nearest seems to be the console version, which starts playing automatically: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00gd1mr However, it would be really nice to find a way of fullscreening;

RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-25 Thread John O'Donovan
The stream has always been 368Kbps with 320K video and 48K audio. We recently upgraded all news sport encoders to h.264 video and aac audio and one of them is had a glitch and fell back to default encoding settings rather than the optimised ones we use. Should be fixed now. Some of the other

RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher Woods
Hurray, great news :) I did suspect that the News stream might be slightly lower to accommodate higher viewer levels but I didn't want to sound stupid suggesting it. Glad to know that it wasn't just me going crazy seeing a quality difference. Is there any chance of ever getting an HQ feed of BBC

RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-25 Thread Kieran Kunhya
And now the H.264/AAC workflow is in place... How about bumping the audio up to AAC+? AAC at 128kbps should be transparent provided the encoder is up to scratch. Making it AAC+ would probably keep the audio the same quality or perhaps reduce it slightly in my opinion because the algorithms it