RE: A little bit of free humour WAS: [backstage] Embracing the torrent of online video

> As the BBC News 24/BBC World feeds on http://www.livestation.com/ show. Indeed, and with just a ten second offset from realtime last time I checked AND in higher quality... Can't argue with that! I only use Livestation to stream N24 now. :)

RE: A little bit of free humour WAS: [backstage] Embracing the torrent of online video

> Ian Forrester wrote: > > I can confirm, we do utter the word bit torrent now and then :) > > However *only* in the following sentence structure using the > subsequent > vocabulary: Haha, you said what I was about to say in a much more convoluted (yet amusing) way ;) Got a chuckle out of me

RE: [backstage] DVB-H finally gets formal adoption by the EC (oh and vista SP1!)

I suspect you're a little confused about Olinda. It's not R&D's project (actually, it would be R&I now), but a project being funded and run by BBC Audio & Music Interactive, of which I'm Head of Future Media & Technology. So, I might know a thing or two about it. I thought you might ;) Oli

RE: [backstage] DVB-H finally gets formal adoption by the EC (oh and vista SP1!)

> DVB-H is fine, as long as you don't mind waiting ten seconds to change channels (!!!) or waiting until 2011 for the frequencies to be freed up in the UK. I doubt that'd remain as-is forever... Remember the first Sky digiboxes, Freeview and DAB receivers? How sluggish they were? As device power i

RE: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I mean is, what thing have they done to make it unique for the > iPhone and what can we do to route around that so other phones can use it? What they have done is called "user agent sniffing". They basically look at whats

RE: [backstage] BBC Support page

I dunno... I was lucky enough to have a tour round BBC Brum (Mailbox) last year, and I found TV Ops absolutely fascinating. Could've easily spent all day in there just asking annoyingly technical questions. Maybe it was a good thing we left after ten minutes and were let loose on the Midlands Toda

RE: [backstage] Is it just me, or is some stereo audio on BBC chans (Freeview) out of phase?

> Martin Deutsch wrote: > > I've suggested that Christopher tries another reciever, or > moves the > > aerial to somewhere with better signal strength. (I don't know that > > much about how the decoding process works, but perhaps someone more > > fluent in DVB will know - is it possible that er

RE: [backstage] Is it just me, or is some stereo audio on BBC chans (Freeview) out of phase?

> Can you give an exact channel, date and time when you > observed the phenomenon? (03:59 GMT last night on N24, perhaps?) Definitely. Observable on BBC2 last night/this morning (05/03/2008) during the intro for "Spin" (03:44am). Also observable during the 60second countdown buffer for N24 top o

RE: [backstage] New concept to solve last-mile broadband: walk yourself over to a video ATM

> As I understand it, their idea is that you buy their > proprietary USB-based key, walk over to their kiosk, select > and download a film in under a minute, bring it home, dump it > into the computer via standard USB the time it takes, then > watch it on Windows or in a purchased branded set-

[backstage] Is it just me, or is some stereo audio on BBC chans (Freeview) out of phase?

Not used my USB Freeview receiver for a while, hooked it up because I dug out an amplified aerial and thought 'heck, why not.' In essense, audio seems to be varying degrees out of phase - measurably 90 degrees out of phase on BBC Three and N24. I observed this phenomenon tonight on BBC Three, BBCs

RE: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

> I'm so tempted to think that any software that is called Air is probably vaporware... Duke Nukem ForAirver anyone? Anyone? - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list

RE: [backstage] Internet TV standard

> url ? As mentioned by Nick Reynolds from the FM&T team, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/02/p2p_next.html - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: htt

RE: [backstage] Internet TV standard

Oh, and projects like Livestation and P2P Next. Competition, but not necessarily in the same arenas (public vs. private initially... Whose idea will spread to both? This is going to be exciting). Hat-tip also to the marvellously geeky bod at the Beeb for the inclusion of the Archimedes reference o

RE: [backstage] Internet TV standard

> After hearing that bbc wordwide is to sell shows on itunes, > the whole iplayer keeps all the bbc stuff together argument, > seems to be breaking up into little bits of hypocrisy. I'm just waiting for my [EMAIL PROTECTED] iTunes login to drop into my Inbox so I can download all of these shows

RE: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

> Maybe - I get more vinyl every month, but I haven't bought a > CD for ages. SACDs are tempting, sounding far better than > CDs, but there are few new releases, so rather than buying a > player this year, I think I'll invest in a better gramophone > for my 78s :-) The ELP Laser Turntable is

RE: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

> Also, a lot of the time we buy CDs for each other, and a > tangible object is definitely better there. I wonder what > proportion of CDs are bought as presents? The industry itself readily acknowledges that the vast majority of CD purchases are from the demographic who buy one, maybe two CDs

[backstage] Odd Torchwood iPlayer webpage bug

Firstly, the same ep (Adam) has two entries: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008z1rb.shtml?filter=category%3A1000 03&start=2&scope=iplayercategories&ve

BBC Three simulcasting on the web (Was: RE: [backstage] Livestation)

an BBC World. It's ahead of the News 24 Windows Media stream, which is interesting. On 12/02/2008, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Indeed, I just received my account activation email (months after I signed up!) but I had been piggybacking on someone else's shar

RE: [backstage] Livestation

ork. I was a bit disappointed - but not surprised - to find BBC World Service than BBC World. It's ahead of the News 24 Windows Media stream, which is interesting. On 12/02/2008, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Indeed, I just received my account activati

RE: [backstage] Livestation

Indeed, I just received my account activation email (months after I signed up!) but I had been piggybacking on someone else's shared UID occasionally (it might've even been Brian who gave me access!) - which was useful, but I lost all the configs anyway when my laptop broke in November. Just instal

FW: [backstage] BBC recruits Kazaa's Rose

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester > Sent: 21 September 2007 12:39 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] BBC recruits Kazaa's Rose > > Quote from Ashley Highfield's monthly > > "As part of these changes,

RE: [backstage] Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join TheDataPortability Workgroup

I did read an interesting argument in favour of keeping details like these distinct and separate... Which is definitely going to be one of the key concerns the DP project's gonna have to deal with from day dot - friends have rights too... The ability to almost set a flag to your details somehow to

RE: [backstage] Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The DataPortability Workgroup

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester > Sent: 08 January 2008 19:08 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The > DataPortability Workgroup > > http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/

RE: [backstage] Re: New BBC customisable homepage

> I refer the honourable gentleman to > http://james.cridland.net/code/clock.html - which should be > accurate within a second or so. Oooh, aaah... Most useful! *steals* *adds to codebank* *attributes credit to original author* (I play nice ;) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion gr

RE: [backstage] iPlayer Volume Control

I noticed that last week - had a good chuckle at that :D > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Williams > Sent: 21 December 2007 12:43 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] iPlayer Volume Control > > Just a quick !Hu

RE: [backstage] Re: New BBC customisable homepage

This discussion is beginning to evoke scenes from The Holy Grail ("... It's only a model") - It's a beta design! The clock'll probably get taken off when the site goes live as the main frontpage, the amount of times that script'd be hammering an NTP server, they'd either have to set their own one u

RE: [backstage] New BBC customisable homepage

Never mind EOT, just emply a tasteful dollup of SiFR - http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr for the uninitiated. Never mind all that proprietary EOT stuff, (and whilst I don't actually loathe IE, I just think it's a waste of a feature.) Bonus: cross-browser branded headers in whatever font the BBC's

[backstage] New BBC customisable homepage

Wow, what a great job! First impressions are fantastic - clean, easy on the eye, very nice purple colour scheme and I very much like the rollover effects (the customisation aspect is nice, too). I'm glad to see that the clock has finally made a comeback - I remember a discussion about that a whil

RE: [backstage] flash streaming version of iplayer is live

My Vario 2 (HTC Hermes) has Flash Player 7, the latest supported (and available) release of Flash for WinMo mobile devices. Believe me, I've tried to update it to something newer, it just ain't happening. It doesn't do youtube or just about any other embedded-flash webpage properly, and can't even

RE: [backstage] flash streaming version of iplayer is live

Well well, this was snuck out, wasn't it! The first I knew was when Iain (housemate) rushed into my room earlier and loudly announced that he'd 'gotten his wish', because as a mac user all he's ever wanted to do is stream the iplayer content to watch then and there (he doesn't want to download anyt

RE: [backstage] The next big thing in ipTV

TVU's alright, it's probably one of the more user-friendly IPTV solutions. I've used this kind of IPTV streaming on occasion in the past few years to get feeds of F1 races (to watch the F1 whilst I was at uni where I didn't have a TV or even TV signal (!)) or to watch american networks like the US

RE: [backstage] Classical music joins the DRM-free trend

They want ?44 for 320kbps MP3s of a 1975 recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier... Pisstake? I think so. Most of their other stuff is a little more sensibly-priced, but it's still too expensive - and not good enough quality. Classical music buffs will stay away, preferring to get the CDs unless the

RE: [backstage] Radio One^^^Two Video Feed

Bug report time... .. It ain't perfect yet, I fired it up and got "watching Friends by Middleman played on radio 10 mins ago"... .. And this is the video it chose: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fNa28ZUSmv8 Going to wait for the next tune and see if it works a little more accurately ;) (bet it w

RE: [backstage] Radio Labs plug

List needs moar Olinda info! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tristan Ferne > Sent: 19 November 2007 18:15 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] Radio Labs plug > > I'm also trying to get one of our team to post

RE: [backstage] What's going on with the News 24 live stream?

Ha :D I went to a Two Pints filming a couple of Sundays ago (at TV Centre), it's a real shame the 'wardens' almost bit my head off at the sight of my camera, I was told twice I couldn't take any photos at all :( even though people with instant cameras and smaller ones were taking loads of photos

RE: [backstage] What's going on with the News 24 live stream?

Indeed Brian, I've been an iPlayer user since they opened up the second private beta a few months ago. I'd heard rumblings that all the BBC channels would eventually be streamed via the iPlayer interface though - can't confirm that though because I don't know who to ask either way. Maybe I should'

[backstage] What's going on with the News 24 live stream?

I've noticed for a few weeks now that the BBC news stream has really gone down in quality. It looks overexposed and awfully washed out; prior to this it looked great, just like a pure digital feed should. Also, the stream is apparently being encoded at 29fps (according to WMP) but it's playing back

RE: Etiquette and TCP (was Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails)

Sent: 09 November 2007 12:30 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: Etiquette and TCP (was Re: [backstage] Use of > Tinyurl in Emails) > > On Friday 09 November 2007 01:34, Christopher Woods wrote: > > Does anybody have a new mashup to show off? > > I w

RE: Etiquette and TCP (was Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails)

I'm glad to see this list didn't once more descend into the realms of mild silliness while I was away. Does anybody have a new mashup to show off? *gets hounded off to the backstage-dev list* - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.b

RE: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview

Top notch! That should keep the dogs sated for... Well, all of five minutes ;) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester > Sent: 29 October 2007 16:29 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] Ashley Highfield o

RE: [backstage] Are the WM and WM live streams down?

Noticed the BBC site was intermittent (eventually falling over completely) via my work's BT Business Broadband connection earlier, could load the mobile pages fine though so put it down to (usually shit) BT network. Did get an odd error page from an attempt to load a video player (of the OiNK guy g

RE: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

If you were addressing my comments; > Let's just get this 100% clear: Sky DO NOT OWN THE ASTRA SATELLITES. Sky Subscriber Services Ltd do provide the encryption systems for the channels that their card is used for, but they do not own the upload services. I knew this, they lease space on them ju

RE: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Sparks > Sent: 22 October 2007 14:01 > I'm actually half tempted to do this, but couldn't do the > encrypted channels on Sky - which is a pity since a lot of > what I watch is on Sky 1/

RE: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

Here's a thought... On Sky, and on cable too (right?) there's no channels at each hundred's -00 (100, 200, 300 etc). Why not do some interactive service which shows realtime mosaics, just like like CanalSatellite and Astra do in Europe? That'd be smashing. I've emailed Sky about that in the past a

RE: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

Thinking about Sky's power over us, my housemate told me that if you want to get Freesat (or their £75 one-off offer which gives you six months of knowledge mixes and then after that, just freesat) then you're quite entitled to do so, no problems. But, if you want to get a Sky+ box, you HAVE to pay

RE: [backstage] Pop!Tech Conference live stream

Ah yes, excellent - registered for notification and got the 300k stream up in wmp, but couldn't find the 700k stream! Watched all day at work in a little window whilst doing my regular duties :) Interesting talk about self-making machines earlier, unfortunately I couldn't pay it my full attention

RE: [backstage] iPlayer usage

Am I the only person who thinks that there should be backstage-iplayer? ;) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.c

RE: [backstage] iPlayer usage

Oooh, aaah... > ps I don't know if this has only just turned up but *thanks* > to whoever put the option not to p2p with the application > turned off which I've just noticed. Saving me from having to > kill kservice every time I'm finished watching anything is a big win. I noticed the 5.5 up

RE: [backstage] Na sowas!

Ah never mind, I just figured out it's his funky German out of office message. Those crazy Germans... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Christopher Woods > Sent: 28 September 2007 21:40 > To: backstage@li

RE: [backstage] Na sowas!

Hallo und Willkommen zur BBC Backstage Postsendungliste. Sprechen sie Englisch? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 September 2007 15:02 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] Na sowas! >

RE: [backstage] Voting data ideas

Leaving the last digit from the last octet out would be fine, though? Then you could group by IP addresses for purposes like fraud checking and suchlike. I'm sure the BBC sites always say that standard information such as browser and IP address will be collected whenever you submit information to t

RE: [backstage] Mobile Developer Un/Conference/Camp

And, on a related note, here goes nothing... http://www.siliconvalley.com/latestheadlines/ci_6927270?nclick_check=1 Somehow I doubt that all $139 of the markup is "value added tax", here's some sums I did quickly... (All sums done with Google btw because I'm lazy and it has currency conversion

RE: [backstage] Mobile Developer Un/Conference/Camp

> (It's a bit tricky to find the right menu option when you phone them, but Orange do unlimited mobile internet for a day for £1 on contract phones now, as well as PAYG. I find it rather handy for long train journeys.) As do T-Mobile (my provider); it's my understanding that if you don't have a

RE: [backstage] Mobile Developer Un/Conference/Camp

I'm waiting for something like Python for Mobile Devices - a truly cross-platform language which would allow programmes to go mad. .Net CF is the closest WinMo users can get to that kind of thing at the moment, and while the party is fun for us WM5/6 users Symbian users have their own little party.

RE: [backstage] Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:46:04 +0100

Officially A Good Thing. I was first with Vodafone years ago when I had my first (pay as you go, aww!) phone - their coverage was great but expensive. Hasn't changed much from what I can tell. O2's network just couldn't handle the amount of usage, especially data-wise - Vodafone's far better geare

RE: [backstage] Invite from Andy Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

What are they doing to merit their 'rogue' label? I've not kept up with the goings-on of Quechup, though this isn't the first time we've had invite spam on here from them. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Roberts Sent: 04 September 2007 11:22 To: back

RE: [backstage] Release: BBC Weather iGoogle gadget

It's both personal and non-commercial, so what's the problem? After all, due to the unique way in which the BBC is funded... _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Cridland Sent: 02 September 2007 22:00 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage

RE: [backstage] Latest Podcast - Edinburgh TV Unfestival - Is TV Dead?

Is it holding an unannounced lightning strike? Just sic it with an injunction :D > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Cashmore > Sent: 29 August 2007 12:16 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] Latest Podcast

RE: [backstage] Tags du jour

I saw a really nice, nifty little widget for social bookmarking on this site: http://foxattacks.com/iran Avoiding the content and topic of this site (which I happen to agree with, anyway), scroll down past the YouTube vid and - see the little maroon Digg-like icon? Click it. Not only does it add

RE: [backstage] A bit late

ackstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] A bit late > > But I presume they'll make a knock-off copy on Blue Peter out > of sticky-backed plastic and household waste? > > > > > > On 22/08/07, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

RE: [backstage] A bit late

New for Christmas 2007: Early Learning Centre presents Tomy's 'My First Interactive Media Player' £130's about average for those sought-after faddy kids' toys these days anyway, isn't it? You know, like Pogs or Tracey Islands or what have you I'm showing my age now _ From: [EMAIL P

[backstage] Getting iPlayer Kontiki client to install on WS2003?

I went to install iPlayer on my WS2003 machine just now and the installer (both the one I downloaded at the end of May and the one I downloaded fresh from the site today) kicked back an error saying that the software was only for XP. The Wikipedia entry for iPlayer mentions that the open beta is

RE: [backstage] Russia forces World Service off FM radio

I saw a YouTube video where a guy shows how to tune into one (using a Sony radio which allowed you to tune to non-standard sidebands to pick the stations up), and it had some audio... I did a lot of reading about the Russian Woodpecker and Numbers Stations last year after one of my uni lecturers sa

[backstage] [slightly offtopic] A shot in the dark

Ok, I know that this isn't really related to Backstage or BBC stuff (bad me!) but I'm hoping that the combined knowledge of the subscribers to this list will be able to answer this question, because it's driving me nuts. I once found an AJaX comic strip aggregator which was REALLY nice - lovely i

RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City

Because of the nature of how the iPlayer CDN works though, it's going to have that disproportionately-big effect on bandwidth and network usage for the ISPs which has already been highlighted in stories on El Reg and ArsTechnica. ...Which leads me to ask: have any of the ISPs actually contacted t

When are we going to get another list? (was: RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City)

I think that description of a shill is fairly accurate myself (but then, I don't think I always fall under the WP NPOV guidelines! ;) Now then, all this discussion regarding MS, DRM, fair use, more DRM, Apple, Windows, more DRM etc... I find hugely interesting, and I even take part in discussions

RE: [backstage] Shadowy Technology

.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] Shadowy Technology > > Pooh, > > what a cynic! > > presumably the software is on the senders end... > > cheers > > Jonathan Chetwynd > > > > On 9 Aug 2007, at 17:26, Christopher Woods wrote: > > I give it about a mo

RE: [backstage] Shadowy Technology

I give it about a month before someone hacks the software to enable someone to see what the camera on the other person's device sees without the processing to make it look like a shadow figure... A new world of voyeurism begins! > -Original Message- > From: Gordon Joly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: [backstage] More iPlayer(/jam) protesting (plus Sky+ comment @ Vijay)

ginal Message- > From: Deirdre Harvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 August 2007 11:46 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] More iPlayer(/jam) protesting > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting

: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting > > On 8/1/07, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > With regards to worldwide takeup, I too thought the iPlayer was a > > UK-only thing, but I've heard rumblings ab

RE: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting

> Sent: 01 August 2007 18:50 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting > > On 01/08/07, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > maybe the BBC were just realists when it came to the > practicalities of > > develop

RE: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting

The quality was abysmal though, and RealVideo? Urgh. The simile employed in the DbD article is a little inaccurate, the more I think about it; the BBC's choice of MS-based systems for its iPlayer platform is more like their choice to broadcast in PAL - more or less an international industry standa

RE: [backstage] Kontiki Backlash

With regards to EULAs, I think we all saw from the Sony DRM 'incident' that EULAs have been ruled virtually unenforceable. I'm prepared to seed content I've downloadd whilst it's downloading, and maybe seed it for a little while afterwards, but I'm much less generous than when I'm torrenting becaus

RE: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

I concur with Mike's sentiments - personally, I'm not entirely satisfied with the solution the Beeb has gone with, but then again, I can understand why the BBC chose what they did - and it could be worse (there are aspects of the MSDRM scheme they're using which some would describe as 'benefits', b

RE: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

The choppy and pixelated video issue is due to a lack of sufficient drivers for the Mactels to enable DirectX-accelerated hardware video rendering for video playback (hardware-accelerated DX primary surfaces are just something you take for granted until they go wrong or disappear entirely one day!)

RE: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

s > outside of the BBC's control. However, in the interest of > those members of the public who will be disadvantaged until > this matter is resolved, the Trust will audit the BBC's > progress against this objective every six months and publish > its findings." >

RE: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

Problem's not fixed. Suggested a solution (a checkbox or some other on/off switch mechanism, off by default, to enable background transfers only whilst main application is open) - given that I don't fully understand every single way in which Kontiki works (although I've wrestled with it as a user

RE: [offlist] RE: [backstage] iPlayer Facebook Application

NEVER MIND, onlist! Note to self: when working nights, attempt sleep before human-computer interaction. > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 July 2007 14:02 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [offlist] RE: [bac

RE: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

What's your browser's user-ident? Maybe one of the Mac-supplied drivers in their driver package is altering the user-agent somehow and the bbc site isn't authorising access on that basis. Only a guess... Is your XP install updated to SP2? If all else fails, I'm sure someone could send you BBC-i

[offlist] RE: [backstage] iPlayer Facebook Application

.name... ... Fill me in! Cheers Christopher > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Tweed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 July 2007 20:58 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] iPlayer Facebook Application > > On 27 Jul 2007, at 20:3

RE: [backstage] iplayer reviewed on mashable.com

I was under the impression that the series link / prebook features were still under consultation, and would most likely arrive sometime soon down the line? That's a little disheartening, if it's been definitely ruled out. > -Original Message- > From: Martin Belam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [backstage] iPlayer Facebook Application

, that's nice! Installed and worked first time with my closed beta login, I might as well do a little addition to my beta test blog iplayer entry in a bit :) (http://thebetatestblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/fabled-iplayer-review.html if you're curious, if you're still waiting for your login de

RE: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

When the BBC make their mind up on this matter, they should collect together all these various CRIDs and URIs in one place on their site for the benefit of others, accessible via any browser - they could call the minisite "CRID Land"... ... I'll get my coat > -Original Message- > From

RE: [backstage] Microsoft TV - Live!

ROTECTED]> wrote: The BBC haven't help Skinkers with the development of Live Station. They've been in a couple of times to show us what they've created. Paul (BBC) On Sun Jul 8 2:20 , 'Christopher Woods' <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &g

RE: [backstage] Microsoft TV - Live!

Interesting, I remember using the Skinkers BBC News desktop widget many moons ago... Maybe the BBC's got a hand or is lending a little resources in the development of Live Station with an aim to using it or broadcasting via it down the line? That's some nice wishful thinking. > -Original Messa

RE: [backstage] Microsoft TV - Live!

...Would you like it to be? ;-D > -Original Message- > From: Sean Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 July 2007 12:05 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] Microsoft TV - Live! > > Christopher Woods wrote: > > Applied... > >

RE: [backstage] Microsoft TV - Live!

Applied... Symbolic irony? The woman in the site's stock art is sitting in the grass and using (presumably) LiveStation... on an iBook. Hah. ... Or is this a hint towards Microsoft implementing some of that much-vaunted platform agnosticism we all talk about but never seem to see much of? _

RE: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

ULTITOUCH... and double-finger scrolling on my laptop's touchpad :( _ From: James Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 July 2007 07:02 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK On 5 Jul 2007, at 19:34, Christopher Woods wrote: Granted they do

RE: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

plans. (imvho) > -Original Message- > From: Ben O'Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 July 2007 14:58 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK > > Christopher Woods wrote: > > Pfft. > > > > Good thing

RE: [backstage] Worried about your music being pirated?

Ah yes, can't beat the sound of analogue, all that warmth and body to the sound every time. Of course, that statement only applies for outboard studio hardware, I have no idea what I'm doing posting that in this conversation. I'm firmly in the "emu-and-rip" camp on this one ;) ... but all it ta

RE: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK

Pfft. Good things and bad things will come from this: Good: O2 won't be able to knacker the phone by slapping their custom memory-hogging interface onto it (like they did with my lovely XDA 2i, it took me ages to clear out the crap they put on it!) O2 won't be able to slap their branding on it

RE: [backstage] Web Service For Terror Alert Level?

Funny you ask that... http://www.terror-alert.co.uk/ has been around for a while now. www.intelligence.gov.uk/threat_levels.aspx > -Original Message- > From: Davy Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 July 2007 08:48 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] Web Se

RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

It is partially P2P... It's the nature of the Kontiki client. You download content and it comes primarily off the BBC servers, but I've noticed connections to other peers whilst downloading content. I've also noticed Kontiki uploading content to other peers when it's just been sitting idle (and it

RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

Ah, here come the naysayers... I've not had any real problems with iPlayer at all (aside from the frustrating 'there are no episodes' error), but I understand that the automated encoding process is still being refined and that much of the content is being manually encoded... Though I was never on t

RE: [backstage] backstage feed on .Mac Reader

backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] backstage feed on .Mac Reader On 7/2/07, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Time to find (and spoof) the iPhone's user-agent! Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3

RE: [backstage] firefox/ie bbc search plug ins

Going a little OT here, but you talking about Wikipedia reminded me of something - their horrible use of Alt+F to focus on the Search box. I'm a HEAVY keyboard user, and do all my 'driving' of Windows via keyboard shortcuts - the Alt+F hijacking wikipedia does really ruins my workflow because I eit

RE: [backstage] backstage feed on .Mac Reader

They've stopped people doing that ;) "This Application Is Viewable Only On iPhone This application can only be viewed using the iPhone. For more information on the revolutionary new iPhone, visit http://www.apple

RE: [backstage] DVD Region 2

Exactly, that's how I unlocked my parents' DVD player - my sister was REALLY pleased :D > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Bowden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 June 2007 09:10 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] DVD Region 2 > > > DVD players are pretty ea

RE: [backstage] DVD Region 2

DVD players are pretty easy to find multiregion and PAL/NTSC compatible, at least in Europe... I'm *sure* that if you go to the right place, a specialist hifi store or electronics dept, you could find em. Or order them online. With the upscaling players coming out, the PAL/NTSC issue is moot (imo)

RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

Just don't spell it Tiananmen and you're golden! > -Original Message- > From: David Woodhouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 June 2007 19:44 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised > > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 18:25 +0100, Ian Forrester w

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