Greetings everyone, this is my first post.
Jason Cartwright wrote:
> Of course, this won't happen (it be being popular, IMHO), because nobody
> cares what format they consume their content in - they just care that it
> works (which MP3 does). As proved by the BBC OGG trial years and years ago.
I
Martin Belam wrote:
> I'm more interested in "Usability" and "Value For Money" for Licence
> Fee payers. Does anyone have any kind of gauge of what percentage of
> portable music players will actually play files encoded in Vorbis out
> of the box without either a firmware upgrade or installing soft
>> neither have I seen GNU/*BSD (has anyone applied
>> the GNU toolset to the BSD kernel,
Steve Jobs did it, and look where it got him.
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> a crisis in available bandwidth, which could lead to slow-downs
> in about three years time.
I first heard this theory in 1995 (along with the theory that Apple
was about to go under or be bought by Sun).
These days, I think it's code for telcos who want to segregate
packets, e.g. charge more
I agree with what Michael says.
However I'm not sure the rights holders insist on DRM. They insist on
protection of their income which flows from copyright, which is not
the same thing. DRM is today's solution to provide that protection,
but it is broken, costly, complicated, annoys end users, abu
>> Is there such a thing as "legal creep"? It's either legal or it isn't.
Nick, I think what was meant is when rules, or regulations, or
technical measures such as DRM go beyond what is legal.
For example, an FBI logo-style warning shown at the beginning of a
DVD, long enough to annoy me but not
Robert Andrews thinks BBC Worldwide is in it for pay-per-view outside the UK:
http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-official-broadcasters-join-for-kangaroo-commercial-vod-platform/
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On the subject of citizen journalists, if I could generalize, I'd say
it's quite true that we work for free and have to support ourselves by
other means. Yet we feel that some stories should be covered that both
the mainstream press and the specialised press cover superficially, or
not at all, or f
My impression is that this is a comment from a nontechnical user. She
says "system" and talks about download, was she referring to the
iPlayer client? If she is using a Mac, that would explain why it
doesn't work. Maybe she is using Windows and has spyware slowdown
syndrome. Maybe she can't get Rea
is-tools v1.1.1:
./oggenc --downmix -q 2 --title='Sean Daly Interviews Ashley
Highfield, BBC Director of Future Media and Technology, for Groklaw'
--artist='Ashley Highfield' --date='November 14, 2007'
--genre='Speech' --comment 'copyright=(c)2007 Pamela
Stone free
The Jimi Hendrix version.
Smoke free
All flights.
fre
The Tivo version.
It seems the romance languages avoid the pitfall by sensibly having
two words for the two ideas, just like for penguins. So I'm on a
one-man campaign to import 'libre' into English.
Sean
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DRM is central to Adobe's pitch to broadcasters:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6558979.stm
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200712/120407adobefms3.html
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Does anyone know, is the Flash-encapsulated video On2-VP6, or H.264? I
suspect it's the latter but support for that is very recent and
compatible players are certainly not widespread yet.
I'm waiting for the day the BBC arranges Dirac encapsulation with
Adobe. There was a precedent with the specia
>> De facto standards are typically undocumented, controlled
>> by only one or two organisations, and patent encumbered.
>>
>> Sometimes, like with PDF, they can become real standards.
Quite right, Microsoft / Apple / Real are only too happy to introduce
running spec changes to their formats whic
But on the
Windows desktop, anything other than WM9 has a steep uphill climb.
Free codecs will have better chances as Microsoft's stranglehold on
personal computers diminishes.
Sean
On 12/13/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13/12/2007, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTE
Well, It takes about 2 long minutes to encode to Ogg Vorbis, a format
which can embed metadata unlike MP3 which cannot.
Supposedly, "everyone" can watch Windows Media video too ;-)
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Perhaps a better solution would be to increase the size of the header datestamp:
Last Updated: Wednesday, 11 February, 2004, 09:20 GMT
Or, to add the year to the datestamp at the end of the piece:
The Money Programme on self-cert mortgages was broadcast on BBC Two on
Wednesday 11 February at 1
If the HTML is fairly standardized (I see that the datestamp is both
in the metatags and in the body), it's even easier to add or change
the presentation of datestamps, just a text operation which I'd take
over a fancy CMS any day of the week. Static pages can be great for
performance, reliability,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/technology/ is showing 403 Forbidden.
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> > 404 for me here inside the firewall.
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean DALY
> > Sent: 09 January 2008 09:13
> > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
> > Subject:
With or without slash, the redirect is OK for me on Firefox v2.0.0.11,
Safari v1.32, Opera v9.25 on Mac, and Firefox v2.0.0.11, IE v6 on PC
XP.
On Jan 9, 2008 2:57 PM, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 09/01/2008, Michael Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It simply because http://www.bbc.c
here's what curl (v7.14 on Darwin) has to say, with and without the
trailing slash:
$ curl http://www.bbc.co.uk/technology --dump-header bbc-co-uk.technology.txt
>
>
> 301 Moved Permanently
>
> Moved Permanently
> The document has moved href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/technology/";>here.
>
$ cur
I saw the BBC press release go up an hour ago:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/01_january/17/gulik.shtml
On Jan 17, 2008 5:15 PM, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's only mid-Jan, but I bet the below is the best news about the BBC I will
> hear this year
Nick - I often use xmlstarlet to wade through unfamiliar XML files, like so:
first, the structure
$ xml el -u b008s14v.xml
iplayerMedia
iplayerMedia/concept
iplayerMedia/concept/longSynopsis
iplayerMedia/concept/masterbrand
iplayerMedia/concept/masterbrand/ident
iplayerMedia/concept/masterbrand/
Well, it's "public domain" then, which is fine as long as you don't
mind Corporation X incorporating and selling your code.
Often, a simple copyright notice saying "this notice must accompany
all subsequent versions of this code" is better than nothing.
Sean
On Jan 19, 2008 12:46 AM, Iain Wal
I stand corrected. Concerning Corporation X, I should have said
"without attribution and without source code".
Sean
On Jan 19, 2008 2:22 PM, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 19/01/2008, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, it's "p
I have found David Wheeler's analysis of the GPL vs. BSD-style
licences very helpful:
GPL, BSD, and NetBSD - why the GPL rocketed Linux to success
http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2006/09/01/
Debates on this topic can be endless, in particular since the arrival
of the GPLv3 which had to be updated 17
but no source
code, nor any indication of where to find it.
Sean
On Jan 20, 2008 10:35 PM, Michael Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:01:43 Sean DALY wrote:
> > A longstanding rumor, for which I have no proof, is that parts of
> > Microsoft's
As I've said previously, transcribing is a long, tedious and generally
thankless task, yet is so well worth it -- often years down the road,
when you can easily find what was said with just a remembered keyword
or phrase.
It's true that one would always like to have expressed oneself better,
but i
I believe icecast would be a better FOSS candidate for a multicast
on-demand streaming server than VLC.
But really, any discussion of streaming must needs associate the file
format container and codec and client-side application (browser
plug-in, dedicated, ...). And on a large scale, the workflow
MPEG-4 has a whole chapter on it.
The issue of open standards is of course perfectly valid. RealNetworks
for example has had great streaming for years but I believe their
protocols are entirely proprietary.
Sean
On Jan 24, 2008 11:42 AM, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe ic
I think this is fabulous news. Congratulations to all who worked on it.
A patent-unencumbered (say that 10x fast) royalty-free codec is
something the world needs.
So what if Microsoft doesn't support it, they don't support H.264 or
AAC either (XBox & Zune aside) and look where that got iTunes.
N
though. In the absence of any press communication, this is one
of those quiet events which could have enormous impact.
Sean
On Jan 24, 2008 11:39 PM, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sean DALY wrote:
> > I think this is fabulous news. Congratulations to all who worked on it.
Now here's an idea: branded, platform-neutral clients...
http://www.getmiro.com/blog/?p=363
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lking to Miro ;)
> >
> > Ian Forrester
> >
> > This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable
> >
> > Senior Producer, BBC Backstage
> > BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP
> > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > work: +4
I found the Miro announcement so interesting, I decided to interview
Nicholas Reville about it:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080207173143823
Sean
On Feb 5, 2008 3:20 PM, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, very interesting. The Miro folk have experience cobbling
I came across this recently but have not tested it:
Flumotion Cortado by Fluendo, streaming applet for Ogg formats
http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/
http://stream.fluendo.com/en/textos.php?id=8
On the client side, it's a java applet which can be embedded into a page.
On the server side, Ogg Th
The deck makers don't mind giving you control, but the disc sellers
do. That spam bit of FBI warning (means a lot in France) is Hollywood,
terrified that they will suffer by not offering consumers what they
want (cf.: the music industry). In both cases the basic model has been
to upgrade physical r
Concerning physical records, I feel the same way. I buy few items
online, not only because of the silly DRM, but because managing
storage and backups is a headache.
I concur with Richard's comments that consumers are just putting it
all on computers, but every consumer I know has difficulty keepin
Or reuse -- think of DAT, which the music industry succeeded in
killing as a consumer format in the late 80s and was relegated to
recording studios, but which got a new lease on life as a SCSI data
backup format.
The original CD-Audio Red Book gave rise to the CD-ROM XA Yellow Book
after all (mult
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200704/041607AMP.html
For content publishers, Adobe Media Player enables better ways to
deliver, monetize, brand, track and protect video content. It provides
an array of video delivery options for high-quality online and offline
playback, i
I had the honor and privilege of meeting Vint Cerf in Geneva last week
and although he didn't have time for an audio interview, he very
graciously agreed to answer my questions by e-mail:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080303140032154
Sean.
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http://www.news.com/Coming-soon-Movies-on-flash-memory-cards/2100-11398_3-6232651.html?tag=nefd.lede
http://www.portomedia.com/
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, dum
I agree that accessibility is below the radar of most developers. Less
important topics are too, such as color management (modern browsers
interpret ICC color profiles).
In my experience, what's effective is to videotape the conference and
publish the video and audio recordings with transcripts, t
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc_iplayer_on_iphone_behind_t.html
My secret source :-)
I wanted to comment, but I got an http 502, there seems to be a problem.
Sean
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Phil Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > With ideas like this being touted b
ome are getting through
>
>
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Sean DALY
> Sent: Fri 07/03/2008 5:15 PM
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> To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [backstage] Undermining iPlayer DRM
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc
My mother hates unnecessary technical complications (she finds
computers and gadgets are complicated enough as it is) and DRM falls
right into that category :-)
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Andy Halsall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Till then, I would suggest you don't do anything your mot
Dan - have you tried Stuart Caie's cabextract?
I have used it on OSX to extract a single file from a .CAB package.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Dogsbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm still trying for find out more (you know when you get a challenge
> but just can't leave it
Here's The Register on the subject, with an offensive title.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/12/iplayer_linux_stream_download_hack/
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/03/2008, Ivan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks. And if I might make so bo
not be a cab file after all, that's why
> I'm still trying to find out more (see below) :-/
>
> Thanks though
>
> Dan
>
>
> On 11/03/2008 15:07, Sean DALY was seen to type:
>
> > Dan - have you tried Stuart Caie's cabextract?
> >
Well, H.264/AAC is great for preventing technically challenged Windows
users from avoiding DRM, since it is used by everybody worldwide with
one exception... Microsoft Media Player. Well, WMP supports MPEG-1,
that's already something.
H.264/AAC *is* supported in the Xbox, which has a magnetic fiel
One could speculate that the BBC definition of "platform agnostic" is
"time-bombed DRM for every platform in the UK, the universe &
elsewhere, on a platform-by-platform basis, starting with Windows,
then Apple, then..."
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13/03/
Thomas Leitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Market share: lots.
>
> That's the definition of portable as possible.
I disagree. As portable as possible means something will work on the
greatest number of different systems, not on the greatest number of a
single system. Today, 7-bit ASCII is the m
Parliament has a ways to go, too, considering they only stream in
proprietary Microsoft format.
I tried to arrange for rights to republish an audio extract of a
hearing, and they insisted it would only be possible if it was
streamed so as to prevent unauthorized copying. They were quite
dismayed w
I too was disappointed by the cluelessness of most mainstream
journalists, and having worked as a tech journalist some years ago, I
decided the best way to combat sloppy journalism was with better
journalism.
I still make mistakes though, and when that happens I try to do better
next time.
Sean.
> But the BS about the biggest market first is... well, true. You must
> serve your biggest audience first, but that's not at the exclusion of
> others.
The point is that the biggest market, PCs running Windows, is captive
to a monopolist which chooses not to support open standards such as
MPEG-4
If I may comment about the Groklaw interview, since I know a thing or
two about it.
We had been in contact with the BBC press service for some time prior
to Tim's comment, but we were of course pleased when the interview was
arranged, no doubt due to the uproar following the unfortunate Linux
comm
Hmmm Alan I take your point, but let me put it another way: the BBC
could negotiate a specific Real build with less obtrusive tracking and
advertising, a specific Miro build with smart playlist and branded
interface, even offer a specific VLC build for exotic codecs such as
Ogg Dirac (which are usu
The --limit-rate parameter of curl is often used to simulate low or
variable bandwidth, e.g.:
curl --limit-rate 128
On the subject of DRM, Adobe has just announced their DRM server availability:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200803/031908FMRMS.html
Bizarrely, the ser
Here's the firsthand info:
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/451&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Also Commissioner Reding's speech I alluded to in the DRM thread the
other day discusses this:
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEEC
Here's a twist:
http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/03/25/237.aspx
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And here's another:
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=301421
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I had some background discussions with PACT while preparing my
interview with Ashley and what I learned (unsurprisingly) is that
rights holders want to be compensated; the actual method is up for
discussion. They hear that DRM doesn't work or is ineffective, but
they don't see an alternative. Pooli
In my humble opinion the hard part is not tracking what is served;
there is a request to a server after all. Tracking use beyond initial
download is much harder. An imposed structure wouldn't work I don't
think, nobody want to be spied on. But perhaps viewers could be
induced to share that informat
> Of course Ogg streams would be nice, but Ogg doesn't work
> on a standard Windows pcs either
Adam - If by "standard" you mean Windows Media Player, that's true. Of
course, WMP doesn't play MPEG-4 H.264/AAC either, which has created
quite an opportunity for Apple. WMP doesn't play MPEG-2 by defau
Tim, what disturbs people about a former MS executive in that position
is that Microsoft's interests are not at all aligned with the
interests of a public broadcaster. Microsoft wants video format
lockin, which is why to this day Windows Media Player has no support
for MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and AAC (Xbo
It's possible there are Microsoft employees who could switch hats and
support open standards - John Sullivan of Microsoft Research who
headed the AVC standardisation effort wouldn't have any credibility
problems. As it happens, Mr. Hugger's former job included blocking
open standards; it's merely r
Michael, that's easy: I would judge you on your actions. For my part,
many (that would be MANY) moons ago I was a journalist for a Windows
magazine and later, purchased over a quarter of a million dollars in
Microsoft licences; in both ways I helped build their monopolies. I
can't even say I didn't
Yes Nick, that reminded me of Toyota "aiming" for zero emissions,
wonder if they'll hit it this year (joke).
DRM on Mac means Fairplay, so the announcement really should be "no
download support for GNU/Linux actually planned or possible since our
proprietary software DRM partners make mutually inc
Dan, I take your point. It's the worst sort of technical issue, the
kind that can only be solved by non-engineers. It's also of little
interest to most developers, a mere nuisance, except for those obliged
to code for it or silly enough to not use Windows. Sean.
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Michael - mail me off-list. Thanks. Sean
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I knew a filmmaker who handed out a card with the title "Grand Pooh-Bah".
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dESY1kJfGdw
The classic Beanbags BT ad which my kids had me play every night for a week
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I think the point is that no technical copy inhibiting scheme will
ever "work"; the best ones will only discourage casual users but time
and time again we see that such solutions merely penalize most users.
Unscrupulous vendors or integrators will assert that "protection" is
available to worried ri
http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=450&doc_id=152567
So Verisign is spinning off Kontiki?
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http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/hrtova-nova-web-stranica-besramni-plagijat-bbccouk/386887.aspx
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/15/croation-state-broadcaster
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If I may add my 2 cents, I think e-mail newsletters should always have
a text-only option with a link to the graphics-rich version. I am
subscribed to fairly vast number of newsletters and I generally don't
read them, I search them for keywords (filters or manually). Plain
text are ideal as a lowes
> The only problem with sending an entirely plain text email
> is when you get into the world of stats.
Well, that's a marketer's problem, and as an end user I don't care, I
want information in a way I can use it. For the past eight years, the
FNAC in France has cheerfully sent me a fat rich HTML
A skeleton walks into a bar.
He says, "I'll have a pint... and a mop"
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And an arrogant three legged donkey with one eye playing the piano
while wearing shades?
A hoity toity honky tonky plinky plonky winky wonky.
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Not even, I saw a South African perfume advert featuring the Hoity
Toity girl ;-)
http://www.biz-community.com/Article.aspx?c=11&l=196&ai=5210
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Unoffi
I have a first-generation one, and when it works, it tells us the
local weather at breakfast time and blinks meaningfully (e.g.
consecutive blue dots=rain AND wind).
I say "when" it works, because their server reliability is awful, even
for the clock which is often off the hour or is not announced
I'm not sure I understand why one should have more "freedom" to twist
Mr. Stallman's words than the protection under copyright to reuse and
change traditional BBC articles.
Mr. Stallman can be demanding (I have interviewed him twice, a
daunting experience) but I think his message is very important
Google "starting from scratch" with its own browser, Chrome
Posted by Rafe Needleman
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10029914-2.html
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not seen anyone post about this yet: (Google Browser)
>
> http://blogoscoped.com/archive/20
http://www.google.com/chrome
The URL is live, but the download link seems to refer back to the homepage...
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Christopher Woods
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Chrome is using Webkit, so assuming you already count Safari
>> as one of your three (*) existing major brow
They have also placed the link on their main homepage...
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.google.com/chrome
>
> The URL is live, but the download link seems to refer back to the homepage...
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at
http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/welcome-to-chromium_02.html
In this first blog post Ben Goodger mentions that the code is released
under a BSD-style licence.
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Graeme Mulvaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's pretty spiffy - very fast compared to IE7 on Vista.
>
s.bbc.co.uk
>> Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 9:11 PM
>> The link is working fine, I've just read your mail in
>> Gmail, in Chrome!First
>> impressions are that the new JavaScript engine V8 is very
>> quick indeed.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> 20
I use Google News often and this happens all the time.
PR Newswire is particularly vulnerable, as they don't add the year to
their datelines. Here's one in the top ten search results for two big
companies:
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=126607
No year! Note that the copyright no
Adobe AIR for Linux beta
http://blogs.adobe.com/ashutosh/2008/09/adobe_air_for_linux_beta_is_ou_1.html
no DRM support :-)
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Frances Berriman
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May I recommend ffmpeg2theora?
for example:
./ffmpeg2theora rawfootage.dv -x 352 -y 288 -v 2 -S 0 -K 128 -c 1 -H
32000 –artist 'Dave Crossland' –title 'Free as in Profit' -date
'September 16, 2008' –location 'Manchester Digital Development Agency
(MDDA)' –organization 'Manchester Free Software
(ht
Well, licensing refers to law, which governs the legal system, which
is still mostly effective in protecting privacy, determining
ownership, setting wrongs right, etc.
I'm not at all sure I would want a unique identifier, even biometric,
on any of my documents in this age of Google (which as far a
Indeed I had been under the impression there was progress when Ashley
Highfield told me last November that long-term, DRM should be open
source or better yet, work should be done with rights holders to do
away with DRM.
In my conversations with people from PACT I got the distinct
impression that t
This is very encouraging. Some commenters were (overly?) quick to
criticize but I hope the guys won't get discouraged over that...
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to get the guys behind this to do a full piece on backstage about
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Aleem, are you aware of the difficulties the BBC has encountered in
the iPlayer project after choosing Microsoft DRM to satisfy content
rights owners?
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Aleem B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BBC is a public service so the issues don't really translate to
> Microsof
Aleem - The answer is yes, the question is so confounding that a quick
response won't suffice. Take a look at the backstage list archive, you
will drink deeply from that fountain.
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Aleem B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> Aleem, are you aware of the difficulties t
Could you please explain foot-candles?
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Brian Butterworth
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> A little nerdy Friday amusement...
> I saw an article about "Mystery of dolphins' speed solved" on BBC News.
> There was a small error - the measure of force was quoted in "kil
It is said (
http://blogs.msdn.com/ukgovernment/archive/2008/12/17/windows-for-submarinestm.aspx
also
http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/topstories/3982380.Submarine_job_wrapped_up_in_time_for_Christmas/
) that
The [Microsoft Windows] system, which has been installed on all seven
Trafalgar class
I saw that. The top of the line version is a steal at under $10,000!
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Ian Forrester wrote:
> Oh I love this, sending around the office now! :)
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Digital Restrictions Management is a dead end. Consumers don't want
it. Hollywood's head-in-sandism on this is beyond pitiful.
DECE is chaired by the very exec who imposed the Sony BMG hidden
Windows rootkit on the Amerie record on my shelf, and which
fortunately for me was not "interoperable" wit
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