On 6 Jun 2011, at 16:34, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Yes, that doesn't actually answer the question of why?
I don't know, but probably because it's a non-trivial job to port the UI to a
tablet screen size, and the team has plenty of other things to be getting on
with. Also, I find that the BBC
On 27 Nov 2010, at 19:58, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
much of the BBC's online production has been released in flash (JAM) and
other proprietary mediums.
IE9 will implement SVG along with Mozilla, Safari-Webkit, Google-Chrome,
Opera and other standards-compliant web browsers.
Given the
On 30 Sep 2010, at 16:41, Iain Wallace wrote:
Open Source gets a mention under meetings with Technology, Piracy and
Enforcement ticked in the header of the minutes.
If you can suggest a way of facilitating the former without facilitating the
things that rights-holders want to prevent, that
On 29 Sep 2010, at 12:23, Mo McRoberts wrote:
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
On 20 Sep 2010, at 14:37, Alex Cockell wrote:
It's more the you will not attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile... Etc
etc bit.
Link?
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On 20 Sep 2010, at 15:45, Alex Cockell 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.
IANAL and I don't work for Youview,
On 13 Sep 2010, at 19:38, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
Why would a manufacturer
make a Canvas box instead of something that they can sell in most of
the world (or even all of the world with the right components)?
Why would a manufacturer make a Freesat box instead of something that they can
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/08/mpeg-la-counters-google-webm-with-permanent-royalty-moratorium.ars
Seems like an interesting move.
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On 19 Jul 2010, at 14:25, blueBill Mobile wrote:
As I've later succesfully subscribed to this mailing list and posted a
message - if there's still somebody listening here (as it seems since
you answered), probably you could just remove the submission form and
invite people to send an email
On 20 Jul 2010, at 14:13, blueBill Mobile wrote:
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 receive direct comments) have an effect on some other part of the
web ;-)
Assuming you're
On 4 Jul 2010, at 12:35, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
Not sure whether I an is back at work, or well enough to respond,
Ian is up and about, and came into the office briefly last week to say hello to
everyone, but he's not back at work yet.
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On 15 Jun 2010, at 09:53, Mo McRoberts wrote:
either way, they'd just get reverse-engineered again. they could push
out new tables every week, but they went to lengths to explain how the
one they have was specially-generated to be wonderfully optimised (in
order to qualify as being some kind
On 3 Jun 2010, at 15:23, David Woodhouse wrote:
I reported this a few weeks ago, on a different story. It never got
fixed, and the problem keeps happening.
Generally when I've reported stuff it's been fixed. Occasionally, I've even
received a nice thank-you email from the sub who's corrected
On 12 Apr 2010, at 09:12, Brian Butterworth wrote:
I'm looking forward to Madonna or Disney explaining why they are cutting off
school children from their primary learning source. A few months of no
proper internet will clearly harm a child ... even if they were not the
actual illegal
How did the flashmob go, out of interest?
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On 6 Apr 2010, at 11:38, Christopher Woods wrote:
For all interested parties: the ORG is also encouraging people to phone
their MPs today, and there's ads appearing in the Grauniad and the Times
(funded by donors to their last rush fundraising
On 10 Mar 2010, at 16:36, Mo McRoberts wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 16:36, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
(Off-list, just to keep Ian Forrester’s job safe)
Wow. That was an _epic_ fail.
:-)
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On 8 Mar 2010, at 09:04, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
From: Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv
Subject: Re: [backstage] RE: BBC Flash video and deinterlacing - is this
really the best we can get?
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Date: Sunday, 7 March, 2010, 19:15
It occurred to me the other day
On 8 Mar 2010, at 11:31, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
Clearly you need a motion-compensated deinterlacer. ;-)
It's still not going to be as good in 25p as it will in 50i in my opinion
unless the scroll speed is reduced. Though judging by recent attempts to
destroy end credits on virtually
On 4 Mar 2010, at 15:04, Nick Reynolds-FMT wrote:
Why would you want to do that - just clutters up an inbox...
if $h_Sender: matches owner-([a-zA-Z-.]*)@ and not delivered
then
save $home/mail/lists/$1
endif
Exim filter files are great.
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On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:04, Ian Forrester wrote:
Alright alright! I hear you all...
So what's the first steps to make this happen?
You could walk down to my end of the office and ask me about it? :-)
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I thought a few people on this list might be interested in this article (and
video) about BBC RD moving out of their Surrey home.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8506128.stm
I worked at that site for five years, and it was a pretty special place.
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On 9 Feb 2010, at 11:42, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
There are plenty of free pixel-adaptive deinterlacers out there though such
as Yadif or a decomb filter could be used. There are even some painfully slow
motion compensated ones that would be probably be in the same league as
expensive snell and
On 2 Feb 2010, at 22:14, Jonathan Tweed wrote:
Thanks, it's been a fun project.
Do feel free to fork and improve :)
Nifty! At last, a use for the Apple TV? ;-)
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On 1 Feb 2010, at 08:42, Mo McRoberts wrote:
...of course, if you're like me and thought yesterday was the 1st Feb,
you've probably already submitted it. D'oh.
Better a day early than a day late. :-)
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On 1 Feb 2010, at 13:30, Ant Miller wrote:
Possibly- the specific file formats we need to encode to to upload to iplayer
are pretty standard, but the way we make these films is using a 3rd party
editor (he's great by the way). Delivering finished films from his home edit
suite to us is
On 1 Feb 2010, at 13:43, Ian Forrester wrote:
Hardly ever crashes.
For example I left it running on a spare laptop from Wednesday Today
encoding RDTV into a number of different formats and there was no problems.
Even when editing it was all good, except I couldn't always get sound out due
On 1 Feb 2010, at 15:14, Christopher Woods wrote:
But seriously, how old is the Mac? I noticed some older Macs at my old Uni
had problems with a couple of my USB sticks, although they were USB2.0 and
everything-else-compatible. Just seemingly refused to work.
On the basis of no information
On 1 Feb 2010, at 16:01, Brian Butterworth wrote:
NTFS has been around since ... 1993, it would have to be a very, very old
Mac, surely not to have NTFS support? You can mount NTFS formatted hard
drives onto Macs.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=663637
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On 27 Jan 2010, at 08:31, Mo McRoberts wrote:
that's a good point: I wonder how much of the broadcast output *is*
encoded in real-time? all of it?
I believe so.
after all, live programming is in the minority on BBC1-4, and assuming
things sit on sensible boundaries and are pre-packetised,
On 27 Jan 2010, at 11:59, Christopher Woods wrote:
On 27 Jan 2010, at 08:31, Mo McRoberts wrote:
that's a good point: I wonder how much of the broadcast output *is*
encoded in real-time? all of it?
I believe so.
Not unless they've changed their previous policy of ingesting popular /
On 25 Jan 2010, at 14:27, Mo McRoberts wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:43, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
I agree but there was no clear idea what we should do except maybe move the
whole thing to Mailman?
There was a consensus for Mailman, although I don't think anybody
On 25 Jan 2010, at 18:59, Barry Carlyon wrote:
(have they finished the HTML 5 Spec yet?)
The definitive answer to this common question is here:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/#sched
The short answer is no. But that doesn't stop people from implementing bits
of it in browsers of course, despite
On 26 Jan 2010, at 13:15, Mo McRoberts wrote:
Last I looked, AAC was the successor to MP3 :)
Yeah, or MP3Pro. There are no shortage of wannabe successors...
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On 26 Jan 2010, at 16:22, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Surely there is a point, because Moore's Law is exponential where it just
becomes too much hassle to do the encoding and decoding because storing and
carrying the data raw will have reached free.
Yeah, but OTOH the processing power to do the
On 21 Jan 2010, at 12:37, Tim Dobson wrote:
http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/ (Flash runtime in javascript) seems
almost a bit of a let down now having seen that!
I love the concept - but wake me up when it's a full implementation of Flash
10. ;-)
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On 15 Dec 2009, at 10:33, Simon Thompson wrote:
Also, it's very easy to demodulate the Ethernet traffic radiated from your
house wiring from one of these systems - it's not very secure!
I think the Homeplug AV standard uses 128-bit AES traffic encryption, which
should be enough to foil the
On 2 Dec 2009, at 13:15, Ian Forrester wrote:
So during the rest of the discussion and reading this -
http://orchard.co.uk/Blog/Google-Wave-much-maligned-but-missunderstood-128.aspx,
I'm wondered if Google had putout wave too early for consumers?
I can't say I agree with Andy Chesters -
On 1 Dec 2009, at 11:20, Ant Miller wrote:
It's impossible to set t the outset what the distribution of a wave
should be (you have to assume that they WILL be public- dangerous
unless you live in a world without lawyers or Daily Mail journos!)
It's impossible to actively manage what waves YOU
On 14 Oct 2009, at 11:47, Mo McRoberts wrote:
Thus creating an (effective) two-tier system: those who work go the
whole hog within Canvas, or those who adhere to all of the
_technical_ specifications but need to come to separate arrangements
in order to deliver them, and can’t (of course),
On 14 Oct 2009, at 12:23, Mo McRoberts wrote:
I think the document I linked to implies a more flexible picture
than that.
It doesn’t.
There's stuff in section 2.7 that talks about the flexibility
manufacturers would have to change the appearance of the core UI (up
to a point), which to
On 12 Oct 2009, at 22:47, Mo McRoberts wrote:
That was all written before the exec clarified the proposition and the
consultation was extended.
I was all for Canvas until it became clear what it *actually* was.
Do share. :-)
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On 6 Oct 2009, at 11:34, Brian Butterworth wrote:
There was always the luck for Macromedia (now Adobe) that when they
launched Flash there was no competitor. Even Microsoft used Flash 2
on the old Microsoft Network.
When I first heard that Macromedia were going to add a video player
to
On 16 Sep 2009, at 18:53, Tim Dobson wrote:
What do people think?
Reminds me of when some of the Windows 2000 code was leaked - if
anything the leak was worse than useless, since the open-source
projects that could have benefited from it obviously couldn't look at
it without becoming
On 4 Aug 2009, at 23:07, Dave Crossland wrote:
Why should economics trump freedom?
Would you scrap free elections if it was better for the economy? China
is proving that free elections are not needed for a efficient
capitalist market system.
Well, freedom's great, but you can't eat it.
On 4 Aug 2009, at 12:23, Deirdre Harvey wrote:
My 90+ year old Grandmother (also non-geeky) also doesn't
seem to have issues with Debian + Kmail.
Did they set those machines up all by themselves or did you help
them a
little bit? Do they call you if they need a bit of help?
Having a
On 4 Aug 2009, at 12:23, Deirdre Harvey wrote:
My 90+ year old Grandmother (also non-geeky) also doesn't
seem to have issues with Debian + Kmail.
Did they set those machines up all by themselves or did you help
them a
little bit? Do they call you if they need a bit of help?
Having a
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