On 20 Jun 2011, at 08:18, Richard Lockwood wrote:
Morning all,
I suspect the answer to this is no, but is there a BBC feed of live
football score data - ie the data that provides the live scores on a
Saturday and Sunday? I've had a look around but can't find one - am I
just being dim, or
On 19 Jun 2011, at 23:16, blueBill Mobile wrote:
At the time it wasn't clear to me whether I was fairly using the BBC service
or not, so the integration was not made publicly available; in any case,
after more or less one month I pushed a release of my app with other features
that worked
On 3 Jun 2011, at 19:48, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
I ended up stealing Mo's ideas about open source broadcast*, having read
about them on this list, and am now working to get a similar concept**
production ready and deployed at well known names in the US and Europe..
...which is splendid, by
On 3 Jun 2011, at 16:49, Brian Butterworth wrote:
On 3 June 2011 16:21, Ant Miller ant.mil...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
And to think people ask me why this list has gone quiet..
True.
If the list was really being used I would be asking why the BBC News Android
app doesn't work on Ice Cream
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 13:24, Christopher Woods
chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote:
Indeed, 10.2 is much better and regular 1080p plays at 30fps thanks to the
NVidia ION GPU acceleration. (I've also tried both the 10.1 beta and the
final release as bundled in Chrome). Unfortunately the iPlayer
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:17, Ben Weiner b...@readingtype.org.uk wrote:
Bearing in mind your opening remark, does licensing attributable to Flash
cost a lot [of the licence-payers' money]?
it's a cost/benefit thing, though.
if, e.g., CBeebies games were reworked as SVG, then it'd cut off a
Hello folks,
I wanted to throw in my tuppence worth in the form of a sort of
retrospective from my point of view. Opinions my own, and any
similarity to those of persons living or dead are entirely
coincidental.
The good:
* Getting BBC people out into the public and meeting developers (both
at
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 16:21, Martin Poppy Hatfield
mar...@moppy.co.uk wrote:
Come on Mo,this list has very rarely acheived significant volume to even
justify splitting it into 2 lists.
It's nothing to do with volume -- everything to do with audience.
There has been, over the past year,
On 21-Oct-2010, at 18:25, Ant Miller wrote:
test
syntax error. redo from start.
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 13:43, Gavin Johnson gavin.john...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Well Jemima qualifies “end of bbc backstage” by saying “not being pushed off
a cliff, but winding down”. That could easily be one developer saying this
list is a bit quiet. I think really the news is about the Guardian
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 14:39, Gavin Johnson gavin.john...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Now I'm wondering if we listened to the same audio? About 2 minutes-worth
starting at 22:30.
I haven't listened to the audio yet :)
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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:43, Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
I've had that fortune. Some are good. Some are okay. Some are frankly
appalling. And they all have YouTube's logo on the top of the screen.
And the appalling ones look very bad on YouTube because YouTube's logo
is
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 13:49, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote:
Wii isn't too difficult to figure out, though it's more complicated. I have
actually had a little look at Wii iplayer myself to see how H.264 decoding is
done on such a feeble device. There are lots of layers of encrypted
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 14:20, Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
No it doesn't. But lets imagine that the UK TV system was being designed
right now... What do you think a popular request would be?
I'm sure it would be, but that doesn't alter its feasibility, does it?
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:18, Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Well BBC dev certs tend to give the holder huge amounts of access over our
internal wikis, bug tracking systems and more! So don't take it personally!
I think the question Alex is gunning for is:
What is the process
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:46, Stephen Jolly st...@jollys.org wrote:
I suspect that there is currently no way for third parties to get access to
iPlayer *content* without providing satisfactory guarantees that the content
will only be used in certain specific ways. I also suspect that *by
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 14:23, Anthony McKale anthony.mck...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
yah the feeds aren't https/firewall protected so i'm guessing no one should
mind
or at least it'll be a lesson to them if they didn't want folks accessing
them
If memory serves either the EMP SWF itself or the
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 13:49, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote:
Um, it's not weview, it's YouView, (though no, I'm no fan of the name or the
branding) and copyright for content of a website is usually vested in the
website owner- I'd doubt you'd find much different on most commercial
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 15:45, Alex Cockell a...@acockell.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
http://www.youview.com/terms-and-conditions/
Clauses 3.2.2, clause 5 (esp where the code is open source), clause 10.
Basically it would appear that the jv are trying to close what was
previously open.
Also worth
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 15:45, Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Ahem. I think it's worth reading clause 1.1... These are terms for using
the website and for content provided on You View. There's no claiming of
copyright ownership over open source software.
[snip]
If you use
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 16:09, Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
People have been saying that for years.
My favourite are the terms that say you have to have a licence to link to
their site.
Amongst my pet hates are the sites which cheerfully note that you
don't need a licence to
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:38, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
On 14 September 2010 17:12, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote:
For all it's flaws I think there was a decent model at the heart of it.
It did describe a model of media use that made sense, that described the
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:35, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote:
Are you honestly saying that a DVB-T receiver bought today in Germany
won't work in France or the UK? Yes, the US won't use DVB because it
wasn't invented there and there are some slight
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:41, Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
It should work. But not everything will work. The EPG probably won't,
nor the Now and Next. You're unlikely to get traditional teletext.
And if you're German, you won't get the menus in German.
As a German would
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:34, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote:
I think that until we start seeing manufacturers piping up saying that
they're going to start supporting Canvas in devices I can pop down to
Tesco and buy it's too early to say that Canvas will
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:42, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:08, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
Given the specs haven't been finished yet, it's the preserve of
precisely nobody _right now_.
True, but I still would have
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 15:31, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Seems like that very silly almost-content-protection system HDCP is no
more...
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/14/hdcp-master-key-supposedly-released-unlocks-hdtv-copy-protect/
Fear not! I'm sure HDCP+ will be along
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 13:21, Nick Morrott knowledgejun...@gmail.com wrote:
Accordingly, Project Canvas should publish all the application
programming interfaces (“API”s) and use unencumbered open standards so
as to enable anyone to provide “Project Canvas-ready” client solutions
on any
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 13:33, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 13:21, Nick Morrott knowledgejun...@gmail.com wrote:
Accordingly, Project Canvas should publish all the application
programming interfaces (“API”s) and use unencumbered open standards so
as to enable
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 19:38, Scot McSweeney-Roberts bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-
To be honest, I'm unconvinced by Project Canvas. It's difficult to see
how a UK only system is going to compete in this day and age. What
does it do that a Google TV box can't do? Why would a manufacturer
make a
Nobody else has mentioned it here, so I might as well.
In case you've not seen already, *some* of the Canvas specs have been
released. They date back to May, so look like some of the ones which
were circulated to DTG members back then which Robert Andrews from
pc:UK failed to get disclosed, but
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 21:54, Alex Cockell a...@acockell.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Thanks.. but why are they being so bloody anal about not being able to
patch this into the aux connector on a sound system?
Analogue ports being excluded? Bastards...
’cos you might record the audio, and that
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 00:58, Alex Cockell a...@acockell.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
but what about plugging the box into my hifi to get better sound? Don't they
think of that aspect?
Or is that more the Beeb I remember from a few years ago?
From what I know, and have been told from people in an
Hi all,
Weirdly, Google doesn't provide a way to link to its handy responses
summary page for a form, so you can have the raw data instead (names
email addresses removed).
There weren't a massive number of responses to this, but it makes for
some interesting reading as a finger-in-the-air
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 15:25, Gavin Johnson gavin.john...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Hi Phil, Jim et al
You be already aware of this but the BBC proposed a local video service last
year. The proposal was rejected by the Trust following public consultation.
One of the key concerns was about the
Hi Andrew,
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:50, Andrew McParland
andrew.mcparl...@rd.bbc.co.uk wrote:
We are starting to lose the source of data we are using for the TV-Anytime
files on Backstage:
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/feeds/tvradio/
Is there any chance of the archive being kept around even
Happy Friday 13th Everybody!
This month, I'm running a short questionnaire (should only take a
couple of minutes to complete) on IPv6 planning and adoption in the
UK. Not the most exciting of topics, I realise, but *quite* important
in some respects.
Some of you will undoubtedly have seen this
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:55, Matt Hammond matt.hamm...@rd.bbc.co.uk wrote:
Hi Mo,
I was looking at the question: What is your current level of IPv6
deployment?. Either you've added the No plans at all question, or I
missed it first time around! Either way, I have no concerns about this now.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:11, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote:
We got contacted by a researcher on an eu project looking at this question.
I pointed them to core tech strategy types. Not sure what response was.
FOI time? Would need carefully framing.
I have been pondering that
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 14:13, Gareth Davis gareth.da...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
I couldn't tell you what the official BBC position is on IPv6. But it
has been an ongoing agenda item for some months at the Online Operations
meetings, and we are well aware that we do have to adopt it sooner
rather
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 13:13, blueBill Mobile
bluebill-mob...@tidalwave.it wrote:
Fabrizio Giudici
bluebill-mob...@tidalwave.it
blueBill Mobile with BBC integration
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2010/07/16/about-android-semantic-web-and-bbc
Ohhh, that's *you*?
That
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 14:13, blueBill Mobile
bluebill-mob...@tidalwave.it wrote:
That prototype's generated quite a bit of buzz already :)
Thanks :-) Out of curiosity, where's the buzz? In private emails or some
public forum? Because I've always wondered whether blog posts (that
don't
On 20-Jul-2010, at 18:26, Brian Butterworth wrote:
More DRM...
http://www.betanews.com/article/The-entertainment-Industry-debuts-yet-another-DRM-scheme-Ultraviolet/1279643971?
The mind boggles. A lot of it sounds like Marlin (even down to the wide range
of industry partners, including
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:38, Nick Reynolds-FMT
nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Mo - although we didn't publish your article on the blog I did circulate
it to other colleagues in the BBC and I was pleased to see it published
in the Guardian. We also linked to it from the blog when it was
On 18-Jul-2010, at 12:05, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Personally, whilst there are a few design decisions I might personally have
done differently, I think the change is clearly one for the better.
this.
M.
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:07, Nick Reynolds-FMT
nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
In the case of Erik's post that you mention all we are actually doing is
cross posting to it on the Internet blog. So the editor of the About The
BBC blog has editorial responsibility for it because it was published
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 19:27, Nick Reynolds-FMT
nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
glossing over details which might not seem important but are
What does or does not seem important is a matter of interpretation and
is in the eye of the beholder...
Not really...
What does this mean for consumers
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:10, Nick Reynolds-FMT
nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
I think it is a kind of slippery slope - one day you're making a personal
archive of a TV programme, the next you are publishing it all on the internet
for your friends - even this which might seem harmless might
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:15, Nick Reynolds-FMT
nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
I don't write other people's posts on the blog I only write my own.
Okay, just so we're clear (and as a minor educational exercise in
behind-the-scenes-on-the-Internet-Blog) - a post from, say, Erik
Huggers (like the
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:33, Nick Reynolds-FMT
nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
What I'm describing is not home taping - it's publishing - the internet
makes everything different
The point is -- the leap from 'having recorded some programmes' to
'publishing them on the Internet' isn't a small
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:10, Nick Reynolds-FMT
nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
I think it is a kind of slippery slope - one day you're making a personal
archive of a TV programme, the next you are publishing it all on the internet
for your friends - even this which might seem harmless might
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 16:43, Nick Reynolds-FMT
nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Hi Mo,
I am going out this evening so will be away from a computer.
However I thought I would try and give you a quick response to some of
your questions.
1. Because I didn't know it was happening until after
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 13:39, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
No, since the line break ate the URI !!
interestingly[0], GMail's web interface is smart enough to correct that. neat.
M.
[0] I use the term loosely.
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On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 14:21, Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Handy tip that many people don't know about. Wrap longish URLs in
angular brackets
E.g.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/01/freeview_hd_content_mana
ement.html
Most email clients won't do line breaks in
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:56, David Tomlinson
d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Without the Canvas UX, you're not permitted to access any Canvas content.
That is, you can run a completely separate system based on the Canvas
specs, but unless you implement the Canvas UX, you can't access the
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 14:03, David Tomlinson
d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
It is a legal obligation for the BBC (and other public service broadcasters)
to make it's services available to the public and act in a
non-discriminatory way to all third parties (in my view).
^
In *your*
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:13, Ian Stirling backstage...@mauve.plus.com wrote:
Proritising classes of traffic can be less bad than the alternatives.
No, they're a bloody stupid way of doing it.
By all means, offer it as an option for those users who don't know how
to configure
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48, Ian Stirling backstage...@mauve.plus.com wrote:
Regrettably, most people do not know how to setup QOS.
yes, which is why I accounted for that right at the beginning of my e-mail...
Are you seriously arguing that everyone should have a deep understanding of
QOS,
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:41, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
That’s very cool! It starts to turn it into a data visualisation
tool/toy...
I think my IA mate was talking about actually linking through to the
programme, on iPlayer or /programmes.
Don’t suppose you still have the
On 17-Jun-2010, at 21:36, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Hi,
I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who
So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for
each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:29, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote:
... and then everyone who uses an open source
project could individually get their own tables.
only for those people who *actively* use open source. doesn't help at
all with open source stacks
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:12, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote:
2) The company release their OS components, but the 'secret sauce' is
a closed source app - again, they just include the include the tables
in their product like a closed source system.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 15:49, Nick Reynolds-FMT
nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
The BBC had a choice
a) do nothing and run the risk of content not be available to licence fee
payers
b) do something which does achieve the desired effect and has a very small
negative impact on a very small
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 15:57, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 15:49, Nick Reynolds-FMT
nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
The BBC had a choice
a) do nothing and run the risk of content not be available to licence fee
payers
b) do something which does achieve
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 16:16, Adam Bradley a...@doublegeek.com wrote:
If the desired effect was to limit what the average consumer can do with TV
- i.e. only making one recording, and limiting how they can transfer this
around their home - then it looks like it could achieve it. This ensures
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 16:16, Adam Bradley a...@doublegeek.com wrote:
If the desired effect was to limit what the average consumer can do with TV
- i.e. only making one recording, and limiting how they can transfer this
around their home - then it looks like it could achieve it. This ensures
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 16:37, Andrew Bowden andrew.bow...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
From: Adam Bradley
Similar questions to Andrew's above will be asked, of course.
Why can't I record this TV show?,
Unless I've missed something (and I'm sure someone will tell me if I
have!) there's no proposals on
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 16:33, Paul Battley pbatt...@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 June 2010 16:23, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
why can I not watch Freeview HD on my (slightly older) HD TV?
This (HDCP) is one of the restrictions I understand the least. It's
like screwing shut the cat-flap
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 16:48, Adam Bradley a...@doublegeek.com wrote:
Point taken, but it would be nice if someone made it easy in future and this
just makes it less likely.
Perhaps Why can't I stream this on my network player upstairs would be a
more likely question in the future.
Oh, but
On 15-Jun-2010, at 20:34, Adam Sampson wrote:
While I'm sure the Huffman tables will be reverse-engineered soon
enough, it'd be much better if I, as a license fee payer, could obtain a
legal copy from the BBC for my personal use. UK copyright law is already
very clear on exactly what I'm
systems manage well with the odd dash of
proprietary stuff in there, like the drivers for some graphics cards.
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On 15-Jun-2010, at 21:13, Nick Reynolds-FMT wrote:
Nor does it contradict anything I said either!
through omission, no. that’s hardly a ringing endorsement, is it?
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On 15-Jun-2010, at 20:58, Nick Reynolds-FMT wrote:
With respect to you Mo presumably this person who wrote this comment on
the Media Guardian story doesn't understand it either:
those caveats, which make quite a significant difference:
nwhitfield
14 Jun 2010, 7:04PM
My understanding is
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On 15-Jun-2010, at 21:13, Nick Reynolds-FMT wrote:
Nor does it contradict anything I said either!
through omission
On 15-Jun-2010, at 21:38, Mo McRoberts wrote:
On 15-Jun-2010, at 20:58, Nick Reynolds-FMT wrote:
With respect to you Mo presumably this person who wrote this comment on
the Media Guardian story doesn't understand it either:
those caveats, which make quite a significant difference
right,
I’m going to level with you all:
I’m tired. very tired. I’m juggling a day-job building e-commerce websites with
a hobby helping to build some very very cool things, and I’ve put an awful lot
of time and effort into questioning, gaining understanding of and explaining
this whole
On 15-Jun-2010, at 22:41, Nick Reynolds-FMT wrote:
The BBC has made its position quite clear on the blog - not once but
several times. We have been straight about it as you can see from these
blog posts, not just recently but as far back as April last year (see
Danielle Nagler's post in the
On 14-Jun-2010, at 17:31, Brian Butterworth wrote:
#FAIL
http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-freeview-allowed-to-use-drm-to-curtail-online-piracy/
Not much of a shock really. Or much use for the stated purpose.
+2
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On 14-Jun-2010, at 18:14, Alex Cockell wrote:
So i'll have to buy box after box to watch content?
doubtful. those which have been sold for FVHD already will have in-built
support for the mechanism (it's specced by the ETSI DVB standards), but will
likely need an update to get the decoding
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:56, Steve Clarke
mailinglis...@trumpton.org.uk wrote:
Thanks Mo Paul,
I've done a bit of playing with the BBC website, and, indeed, the b007k1sk
link works in http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k1sk, which tells you of all
the previous broadcasts, and
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:36, Steve Clarke
mailinglis...@trumpton.org.uk wrote:
Again, Mo and Paul, thanks for a lightning response. I didn't see anything
about http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sqhl.rdf when I was searching, and
now you've found it for me, it will do exactly what I want.
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:59, Yves Raimond yves.raim...@gmail.com wrote:
The pid feeds in XML, JSON and YAML are likely to change shape some
time soon, which is the reason we didn't advertise them more widely,
and didn't put rel=alternate links to them yet. The RDF feeds
mentioned above will
On Friday, June 4, 2010, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
The short form of the headlines are destined for Ceefax - where 0x23 is £
and 0x5F is #...
/me idly wonders if any of the common character set conversion
libraries support MODE7's character set…
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On 28-May-2010, at 19:13, Anthony McKale wrote:
Have you tried these?
They use the offical bbc emp (embedded media player) which is a offical
verified swf in an iframe configured to play the video,
Of course I haven't spoken to Duncan for a while, but I think it still works
Similarly…
On 26-May-2010, at 15:27, David Woodhouse wrote:
I can give accounts on git.infradead.org if you want to publish a git
tree there with your changes, or you can just mail patches to the list
(or to me in private if you'd like them to be applied anonymously for
some reason).
JOOI, how much
On 14-May-2010, at 11:38, Gavin Johnson wrote:
On 13/05/2010 20:33, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
(sadly, even this aside, I’m not applying thanks to being thoroughly in the
wrong part of the UK… so this really is just flinging from the
peanut-gallery)
BBC is pretty London
On 14-May-2010, at 13:34, Brendan Quinn wrote:
The Ingex jobs look splendid (continued insistence on using
CVS for Ingex and libMXF notwithstanding... :)
Heh -- well hopefully one of the first jobs of these two developers will
be moving the codebase to a more modern version control
On 14-May-2010, at 14:21, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
I’ve been slowly rewriting the build logic to be
auto{conf,make}+libtool-driven (I’m targeting an expanded
set of platforms — OpenSolaris, Mac OS X and Linux — so
autoconf helps an awful lot).
There was shock amongst other x264 developers
On 13-May-2010, at 19:19, Brendan Quinn wrote:
Ian wrote:
Interested in what we do in RD?
The following roles within RD are currently being advertised
at: www.bbc.co.uk/jobs
Senior Software Engineer Ingex Solutions (ref. 304587)
Software Engineer Ingex Solutions (ref. 304588)
On 6-May-2010, at 22:05, Sam Mbale wrote:
BBC Television has it all covered with traditional media, where are the
Internets?
http://twitter.com/search?q=ge2010
Sam Mbale
Mpelembe Network
http://www.mpelembe.net
Follow me on http://twitter.com/mpelembe
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On 15-Apr-2010, at 12:54, Brian Butterworth wrote:
I thought a device had to have a reasonable UK market share before the BBC
supported it?
I’m not convinced that “rule” is applied remotely consistently, in either
direction.
M.
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On 15-Apr-2010, at 13:00, Ian Stirling wrote:
Personally, I would argue strongly against this on competition grounds.
That makes no sense. How is *extending* the user-agent whitelist bad for
competition?
The BBC should not be in the business of promoting any one vendor who choses
not to
On 6-Apr-2010, at 19:15, Fearghas McKay wrote:
On 6 Apr 2010, at 19:07, Mo McRoberts wrote:
unlike Sion Simon who is talking about a fantasy world, in his own words...
utter and total waffle.
Tom Watson’s intervention sailed _right_ over his head.
and then Pete Wishart, glossing
On 6-Apr-2010, at 22:10, Christopher Woods wrote:
I'm hoping they'll do the right thing and kill the bill.
Nope - just voted to send it to the committee stage tomorrow.
The eyes have it, the eyes have it. RT @rhodri: And that was that, folks.
The ayes have it. Chuckling in the chamber.
On 6-Apr-2010, at 22:13, Alex Cockell wrote:
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 22:00 +0100, Fearghas McKay wrote:
Nope - just voted to send it to the committee stage tomorrow.
Umm - does that mean we've lost?
I *think* so. not really sure.
That all we can look forward to is paying through the nose
On 6-Apr-2010, at 22:32, Phil Lewis wrote:
According to this (below) it would appear that we haven't lost yet. But
then again, maybe I'm misunderstanding the due process in parliament.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8605648.stm
Controversial elements of the Digital Economy Bill
The Ofcom consultation on this closes at 5pm tomorrow - make sure you
make your views known!
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/content_mngt/
Some of you may enjoy my write-up in the Guardian (who kindly agreed
to publish it as a guest post):
On 29-Mar-2010, at 01:19, Christopher Woods wrote:
I've noticed for a while that the HQ iPlayer stuff (not the HD) is encoded
at 832x468. (recent example: Australian F1, or pretty much every single high
quality iPlayer video you look at). No complaints about the actual PQ, just
really
On 24-Mar-2010, at 18:37, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
It's not listing any new epsiodes for BBC feeds. All my BBC
subscriptions get a red circle with a white bar when I update all
feeds and a Error in podcast feed dialogue when I update an single
feed.
Cached error condition, perhaps? I
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:49, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
I understand that the BBC trash the output from the News channel after 28
days. Shame, really.
My sources suggest that it exists within the BBC in at least one
(internally-accessible) place (probably more).
M.
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