Now here's an idea: branded, platform-neutral clients...
http://www.getmiro.com/blog/?p=363
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though. In the absence of any press communication, this is one
of those quiet events which could have enormous impact.
Sean
On Jan 24, 2008 11:39 PM, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sean DALY wrote:
> > I think this is fabulous news. Congratulations to all who worked on it.
I think this is fabulous news. Congratulations to all who worked on it.
A patent-unencumbered (say that 10x fast) royalty-free codec is
something the world needs.
So what if Microsoft doesn't support it, they don't support H.264 or
AAC either (XBox & Zune aside) and look where that got iTunes.
N
MPEG-4 has a whole chapter on it.
The issue of open standards is of course perfectly valid. RealNetworks
for example has had great streaming for years but I believe their
protocols are entirely proprietary.
Sean
On Jan 24, 2008 11:42 AM, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe ic
I believe icecast would be a better FOSS candidate for a multicast
on-demand streaming server than VLC.
But really, any discussion of streaming must needs associate the file
format container and codec and client-side application (browser
plug-in, dedicated, ...). And on a large scale, the workflow
As I've said previously, transcribing is a long, tedious and generally
thankless task, yet is so well worth it -- often years down the road,
when you can easily find what was said with just a remembered keyword
or phrase.
It's true that one would always like to have expressed oneself better,
but i
but no source
code, nor any indication of where to find it.
Sean
On Jan 20, 2008 10:35 PM, Michael Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:01:43 Sean DALY wrote:
> > A longstanding rumor, for which I have no proof, is that parts of
> > Microsoft's
I have found David Wheeler's analysis of the GPL vs. BSD-style
licences very helpful:
GPL, BSD, and NetBSD - why the GPL rocketed Linux to success
http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2006/09/01/
Debates on this topic can be endless, in particular since the arrival
of the GPLv3 which had to be updated 17
I stand corrected. Concerning Corporation X, I should have said
"without attribution and without source code".
Sean
On Jan 19, 2008 2:22 PM, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 19/01/2008, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, it's "p
Well, it's "public domain" then, which is fine as long as you don't
mind Corporation X incorporating and selling your code.
Often, a simple copyright notice saying "this notice must accompany
all subsequent versions of this code" is better than nothing.
Sean
On Jan 19, 2008 12:46 AM, Iain Wal
Nick - I often use xmlstarlet to wade through unfamiliar XML files, like so:
first, the structure
$ xml el -u b008s14v.xml
iplayerMedia
iplayerMedia/concept
iplayerMedia/concept/longSynopsis
iplayerMedia/concept/masterbrand
iplayerMedia/concept/masterbrand/ident
iplayerMedia/concept/masterbrand/
I saw the BBC press release go up an hour ago:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/01_january/17/gulik.shtml
On Jan 17, 2008 5:15 PM, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's only mid-Jan, but I bet the below is the best news about the BBC I will
> hear this year
here's what curl (v7.14 on Darwin) has to say, with and without the
trailing slash:
$ curl http://www.bbc.co.uk/technology --dump-header bbc-co-uk.technology.txt
>
>
> 301 Moved Permanently
>
> Moved Permanently
> The document has moved href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/technology/";>here.
>
$ cur
With or without slash, the redirect is OK for me on Firefox v2.0.0.11,
Safari v1.32, Opera v9.25 on Mac, and Firefox v2.0.0.11, IE v6 on PC
XP.
On Jan 9, 2008 2:57 PM, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 09/01/2008, Michael Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It simply because http://www.bbc.c
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> > 404 for me here inside the firewall.
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
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> > [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean DALY
> > Sent: 09 January 2008 09:13
> > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
> > Subject:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/technology/ is showing 403 Forbidden.
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If the HTML is fairly standardized (I see that the datestamp is both
in the metatags and in the body), it's even easier to add or change
the presentation of datestamps, just a text operation which I'd take
over a fancy CMS any day of the week. Static pages can be great for
performance, reliability,
Perhaps a better solution would be to increase the size of the header datestamp:
Last Updated: Wednesday, 11 February, 2004, 09:20 GMT
Or, to add the year to the datestamp at the end of the piece:
The Money Programme on self-cert mortgages was broadcast on BBC Two on
Wednesday 11 February at 1
Well, It takes about 2 long minutes to encode to Ogg Vorbis, a format
which can embed metadata unlike MP3 which cannot.
Supposedly, "everyone" can watch Windows Media video too ;-)
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But on the
Windows desktop, anything other than WM9 has a steep uphill climb.
Free codecs will have better chances as Microsoft's stranglehold on
personal computers diminishes.
Sean
On 12/13/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13/12/2007, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTE
>> De facto standards are typically undocumented, controlled
>> by only one or two organisations, and patent encumbered.
>>
>> Sometimes, like with PDF, they can become real standards.
Quite right, Microsoft / Apple / Real are only too happy to introduce
running spec changes to their formats whic
Does anyone know, is the Flash-encapsulated video On2-VP6, or H.264? I
suspect it's the latter but support for that is very recent and
compatible players are certainly not widespread yet.
I'm waiting for the day the BBC arranges Dirac encapsulation with
Adobe. There was a precedent with the specia
DRM is central to Adobe's pitch to broadcasters:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6558979.stm
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200712/120407adobefms3.html
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Stone free
The Jimi Hendrix version.
Smoke free
All flights.
fre
The Tivo version.
It seems the romance languages avoid the pitfall by sensibly having
two words for the two ideas, just like for penguins. So I'm on a
one-man campaign to import 'libre' into English.
Sean
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is-tools v1.1.1:
./oggenc --downmix -q 2 --title='Sean Daly Interviews Ashley
Highfield, BBC Director of Future Media and Technology, for Groklaw'
--artist='Ashley Highfield' --date='November 14, 2007'
--genre='Speech' --comment 'copyright=(c)2007 Pamela
My impression is that this is a comment from a nontechnical user. She
says "system" and talks about download, was she referring to the
iPlayer client? If she is using a Mac, that would explain why it
doesn't work. Maybe she is using Windows and has spyware slowdown
syndrome. Maybe she can't get Rea
On the subject of citizen journalists, if I could generalize, I'd say
it's quite true that we work for free and have to support ourselves by
other means. Yet we feel that some stories should be covered that both
the mainstream press and the specialised press cover superficially, or
not at all, or f
Robert Andrews thinks BBC Worldwide is in it for pay-per-view outside the UK:
http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-official-broadcasters-join-for-kangaroo-commercial-vod-platform/
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>> Is there such a thing as "legal creep"? It's either legal or it isn't.
Nick, I think what was meant is when rules, or regulations, or
technical measures such as DRM go beyond what is legal.
For example, an FBI logo-style warning shown at the beginning of a
DVD, long enough to annoy me but not
I agree with what Michael says.
However I'm not sure the rights holders insist on DRM. They insist on
protection of their income which flows from copyright, which is not
the same thing. DRM is today's solution to provide that protection,
but it is broken, costly, complicated, annoys end users, abu
> a crisis in available bandwidth, which could lead to slow-downs
> in about three years time.
I first heard this theory in 1995 (along with the theory that Apple
was about to go under or be bought by Sun).
These days, I think it's code for telcos who want to segregate
packets, e.g. charge more
>> neither have I seen GNU/*BSD (has anyone applied
>> the GNU toolset to the BSD kernel,
Steve Jobs did it, and look where it got him.
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Martin Belam wrote:
> I'm more interested in "Usability" and "Value For Money" for Licence
> Fee payers. Does anyone have any kind of gauge of what percentage of
> portable music players will actually play files encoded in Vorbis out
> of the box without either a firmware upgrade or installing soft
Greetings everyone, this is my first post.
Jason Cartwright wrote:
> Of course, this won't happen (it be being popular, IMHO), because nobody
> cares what format they consume their content in - they just care that it
> works (which MP3 does). As proved by the BBC OGG trial years and years ago.
I
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