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

2010-03-26 Thread Christopher Woods
...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Kieran Kunhya Sent: 26 March 2010 00:59 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? 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

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

2010-03-25 Thread John O'Donovan
-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 24 March 2010 12:12 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? It could be because the News stream gets a lot of views on Budget day? On 24 March 2010 12:05, Christopher Woods chris

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

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher Woods
Of John O'Donovan Sent: 25 March 2010 18:35 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? 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

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

[backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Woods
Noticed in the past week there's only a 384kbps stream of BBC News via the web site - it looks rubbish, jerky video and low quality audio. Better quality on TVCatchup. Does anybody know if this downgrade is permanent? - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please

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

2010-03-24 Thread Brian Butterworth
There's another version of the BBC News channel at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_news24/ On 24 March 2010 11:01, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: Noticed in the past week there's only a 384kbps stream of BBC News via the web site - it looks rubbish, jerky video

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

2010-03-24 Thread Brian Butterworth
is currently ~132kbps) -- *From:* owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] *On Behalf Of *Brian Butterworth *Sent:* 24 March 2010 11:18 *To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk *Subject:* Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? There's

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

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Woods
2010 11:18 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? There's another version of the BBC News channel at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_news24/ On 24 March 2010 11:01, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: Noticed

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

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Woods
It's been like it for a few days now... _ From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 24 March 2010 12:12 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? It could