Re: [backstage] RE: BBC Flash video and deinterlacing - is this really the best we can get?

2010-03-08 Thread Kieran Kunhya
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 that one solution to the problem might be to

Re: [backstage] RE: BBC Flash video and deinterlacing - is this really the best we can get?

2010-03-08 Thread Stephen Jolly
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

Re: [backstage] RE: BBC Flash video and deinterlacing - is this really the best we can get?

2010-03-08 Thread Kieran Kunhya
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 every channel I doubt slower speeds will be

Re: [backstage] RE: BBC Flash video and deinterlacing - is this really the best we can get?

2010-03-08 Thread Stephen Jolly
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

RE: [backstage] RE: BBC Flash video and deinterlacing - is this really the best we can get?

2010-03-08 Thread Christopher Woods
Who said we were deinterlacing to 25p? :-) Looks like 12p for sports programming ;) - 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:

Re: [backstage] RE: BBC Flash video and deinterlacing - is this really the best we can get?

2010-03-08 Thread Brian Butterworth
Or, of course, you could have pages of text that crossfade - have no scroll at all. They would be much better in that format anyway, because if you ever want to look at the credits, you are going to be using iPlayer or a PVR anyway and the freeze frame would be highly legible. On 8 March 2010

[backstage] User Agent/Referrer Verification

2010-03-08 Thread Mo McRoberts
Learned Backstage types, I have invented an algorithm for checking that when a client C accesses a resource M on server S, it can only do so if it also has access to a referring resource R and defines its HTTP User-Agent to be one of a pre-defined list of permitted agents. When C makes the

[backstage] Re: User Agent/Referrer Verification

2010-03-08 Thread Mo McRoberts
On 8-Mar-2010, at 22:55, Mo McRoberts wrote: Learned Backstage types, [snip] I’ve written it up here: http://nevali.net/post/435363058/user-agent-referrer-verification It’s been pointed out to me that the write-up would be better in the e-mail, so here it is: This is a snippet of code