RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-26 Thread Christopher Woods
gt; [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Kieran Kunhya > Sent: 26 March 2010 00:59 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? > > >And now the H.264/AAC workflow is > >in place... How about bumping the audio up to

RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-25 Thread Kieran Kunhya
>And now the H.264/AAC workflow is >in place... How about bumping the audio up to AAC+? AAC at 128kbps should be transparent provided the encoder is up to scratch. Making it AAC+ would probably keep the audio the same quality or perhaps reduce it slightly in my opinion because the algorithms it

RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher Woods
.co.uk] On Behalf Of John O'Donovan Sent: 25 March 2010 18:35 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? The stream has always been 368Kbps with 320K video and 48K audio. We recently upgraded all news & sport encoders to h.264 video and

RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-25 Thread John O'Donovan
[mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 24 March 2010 12:12 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? It could be because the News stream gets a lot of views on Budget day? On 24 March 2010 12:05, Christopher

RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Woods
It's been like it for a few days now... _ From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 24 March 2010 12:12 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? It cou

RE: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Woods
Sent: 24 March 2010 11:18 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop? There's another version of the BBC News channel at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_news24/ On 24 March 2010 11:01, Christopher Woods wrote: Noticed in the past

Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-24 Thread Brian Butterworth
elow. (Difference is currently ~132kbps) > > -- > *From:* owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto: > owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] *On Behalf Of *Brian Butterworth > *Sent:* 24 March 2010 11:18 > *To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > *Subject:* Re:

Re: [backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-24 Thread Brian Butterworth
There's another version of the BBC News channel at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_news24/ On 24 March 2010 11:01, Christopher Woods wrote: > Noticed in the past week there's only a 384kbps stream of BBC News via the > web site - it looks rubbish, jerky video and low quality audio. B

[backstage] BBC News online stream quality drop?

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Woods
Noticed in the past week there's only a 384kbps stream of BBC News via the web site - it looks rubbish, jerky video and low quality audio. Better quality on TVCatchup. Does anybody know if this downgrade is permanent? - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please v