RE: [backstage] Why are iPlayer SD programmes encoded at funky resolutions?

2010-03-30 Thread Ian Forrester
I had wondered about this myself a while ago. So use to the underground scene of resolutions, it always seems strange when looking at others methods of distribution's choice of rez. Although I think Brian might be right about the aspect ratio Secret[] Private[x] Public[] Ian Forrester Senior

[backstage] Inspiration: Digital Data - Physical Products

2010-03-30 Thread lists @ tobyz
Hello List, I listened to the stream of a talk last night that I thought others here may appreciate. Its a discussion about moving beyond purely digital stuff, taking internet data and turning it into physical stuff. With the wealth of data the BBC publishes, it certainly started me thinking

Re: [backstage] iPlayer URL's

2010-03-30 Thread Dave Walker
Hi Anthony, Thank you for your reply and your greasemonkey extension idea. I now appreciate that it is not possible to automate Adobe flash to go into full screen mode automatically. However what i would really like to achieve is the same behavior youtube presents: Fullscreen:

Re: [backstage] iPlayer URL's

2010-03-30 Thread Anthony McKale
Yah set display=none to all non emp id keys (and the parent dom of emp) Then set the width/hieght of emp to desired, or 100% (if all parent dom) :D Ant On 30/03/2010 12:53, Dave Walker davewal...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Anthony, Thank you for your reply and your greasemonkey extension idea.

Re: [backstage] iPlayer URL's

2010-03-30 Thread Anthony McKale
More info same techinique used for these I think http://whomwah.github.com/ http://whomwah.github.com/radioaunty/ http://whomwah.github.com/tellybox/ Done by the very excellent and clever duncan Ant On 30/03/2010 13:05, Anthony McKale anthony.mck...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Yah set display=none to

Re: [backstage] iPlayer URL's

2010-03-30 Thread Anthony McKale
Or write the body to embed width=100% height=100% allowfullscreen=true allowscriptaccess=always wmode=default quality=high flashvars=embedReferer=amp;embedPageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fiplay er%2Fepisode%2Fb00rqkgl%2FRussell_Howards_Good_News_Series_2_Episode_1%2F%3F

Re: [backstage] iPlayer URL's

2010-03-30 Thread Dave Walker
Hi Anthony, That is great stuff, but does feel somewhat fragile and likely to break in the future. I was sort of hoping that there was something available server side, or something could be added. ?fullscreen=true , comes to mind :) If this is entirely unfeasible then I'll have to work

RE: [backstage] Why are iPlayer SD programmes encoded at funky resolutions?

2010-03-30 Thread Christopher Woods
What bothers me is whether it's actually the most efficient way of encoding - does the equipment doing the capture have the ability to extract the true square pixel 'quality' from the nonsquare 'broadcast' pixels, thus resulting in a dimensionally larger, but equal quality, video... Or is the