Re: [backstage] Audio levels on iPlayer material (again)

2010-07-09 Thread Brian Butterworth
At least you get the audio all the way though. Several things from Glastonbury were full of audio drop-outs. It was most noticeable on the Pet Shop Boys set. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00syz40 Mind you all the BBC Three coverage from Glasto was labelled as 6 Music TV, as you can see. On

Re: [backstage] Audio levels on iPlayer material (again)

2010-07-09 Thread David Tomlinson
Christopher Woods wrote: I posted a while back asking about why iPlayer videos start loud then get quieter a few seconds later... A Normalisation stage post encoding ? Obviously that won't help where the 'correction' is made within the programme. Grandmother, Eggs, How to suck ? - Sent

RE: [backstage] Audio levels on iPlayer material (again)

2010-07-09 Thread Christopher Woods
-Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of David Tomlinson Sent: 09 July 2010 09:34 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Audio levels on iPlayer material (again) Christopher Woods wrote: I

Re: [backstage] Audio levels on iPlayer material (again)

2010-07-09 Thread Jim Tonge
Unless I'm (quite possibly) misunderstanding you here David, I think he was just highlighting a valid issue. Jim On 9 Jul 2010, at 09:33, David Tomlinson wrote: Christopher Woods wrote: I posted a while back asking about why iPlayer videos start loud then get quieter a few seconds later...

Re: [backstage] Audio levels on iPlayer material (again)

2010-07-09 Thread David Tomlinson
Jim Tonge wrote: Unless I'm (quite possibly) misunderstanding you here David, I think he was just highlighting a valid issue. I wasn't trying to be critical of anyone, just making a suggestion, while well aware that the BBC has people with far more expertise in this area than I. I wasn't

RE: [backstage] Audio levels on iPlayer material (again)

2010-07-09 Thread Christopher Woods
I wasn't aware that Christopher [Woods] works for the BBC ...Neither was I ;-) I think I misinterpreted context of your comment, didn't notice the tongue in cheek second line (sorry!) Hopefully it's something relatively simple to fix and it's just an overeager preset default... Hardly the end of

Re: [backstage] Audio levels on iPlayer material (again)

2010-07-09 Thread David Tomlinson
At the risk of making things worse, normalisation is a technical term, perhaps the correct term I was looking for is replay gain. The BBC 'normalises' it's output to ensure everything is at the same apparent sound level (relative to other output). I was suggesting that some sort of

Re: [backstage] Audio levels on iPlayer material (again)

2010-07-09 Thread David Tomlinson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_Gain No native support is available for Amarok 1, but a Replay Gain script is available for Amarok's script manager. As it is an external script, however, there will be a slight lag between the start of a track and the volume adjustment. This is