Re: [backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-18 Thread Nico Morrison
mp4 when badly setup glitches horribly on slower machines. and it isn't easy to setup well has to be checked (on a slower machine ;) this 'format competition' is boring, especially as my dongle got caught inadvertently dloading a 5min 500mB file which really annoyed me, I only get 3GB/month on

Re: [backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-18 Thread Jeremy Stone
R . -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Sent: Sat Apr 18 12:13:50 2009 Subject: Re: [backstage] RDTV launched mp4 when badly setup glitches horribly on slower machines. and it

Re: [backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-18 Thread Nico Morrison
R ?? My curiosity is killing me - is this a Bbc code? Does it stand for 'right' or maybe 'rong' ;) Nico M 2009/4/18 Jeremy Stone jem.st...@bbc.co.uk: R . - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-18 Thread Ant Miller
It's a pirate thing. On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Nico Morrison microni...@gmail.com wrote: R ?? My curiosity is killing me - is this a Bbc code? Does it stand for 'right' or maybe 'rong' ;) Nico M 2009/4/18 Jeremy Stone jem.st...@bbc.co.uk: R . - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-18 Thread Phil Lewis
You had also better watch out with the new HD (720p) BBC iPlayer streams I noticed the 1hr Doctor Who special notched up 1.3GB when I streamed it! Looked fantastic though :-) On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 12:13 +0100, Nico Morrison wrote: mp4 when badly setup glitches horribly on slower machines. and it

Re: [backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-18 Thread Nico Morrison
Heads up on that, I go home for iPlayer my 24Mb/s Be connection. But the roaming 3G+ convenience is too good to be without. Someone write a HUAWEI traffic alerting system make some money please. All the dongles use the same chipset. And all the telcos gouge their customers, so what's new? Nico

Re: [backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-18 Thread Andy
2009/4/18 Phil Lewis backst...@linuxcentre.net: You had also better watch out with the new HD (720p) BBC iPlayer streams I noticed the 1hr Doctor Who special notched up 1.3GB when I streamed it! Looked fantastic though :-) At the risk of going off topic, what did you use to measure how much

Re: [backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-18 Thread Phil Lewis
I actually downloaded the file and checked the size. I guess you could take a peak at the ethernet interface statistics on the PC using iplayer - no idea how you do that on windows though... There must be a free tool somewhere to measure network volume usage. On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 20:28 +0100,

Re: [backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-18 Thread Nico Morrison
On Windows I used to use: http://www.desksoft.com/BWMeter.htm Costs money but lovely display good statistics. trial period download. Never found a good free one. My Orange dongle has built in stats but no alerting is what I want. Towards the end of the month I find myself in a sort of