Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

Chris Sizemore wrote: yes, i agree that TV-Anytime supplies some of the requirement (indeed, perhaps everything brian was suggesting... brian?) but does TVA, despite the URN (the crid, i.e. crid://my.id.creator/xxx88r; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crid), supply the "on the Web" part?

Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

Ben O'Neill wrote: Because a programme can be accessed in a number of different ways, which change over time. You might be satisfied with a single http URL, but someone without a net connection would find it distinctly useless. They'd find it no less useless than a CRID ... Not if you're d

Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

Ben O'Neill wrote: That's just a flaw in TV-Anytime that should be fixed. Why not switch it to use real URLs that actually go somewhere (as the Semantic Web is supposed to) and stop using CRIDs - integrate the two ideas :) A number of reasons. Because a programme can be accessed in a number

Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised

Brian Butterworth wrote: The BBC Trust has offered to meet with open source advocates who argue that the corporation has a duty to make the download service platform agnostic. ' Do they mean us? See also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/12/bbc_osc_meeting/ S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.c

Re: [backstage] Plain text or easy-to-parse news articles

Liam S Docherty wrote: the current format of news articles do not parse well at all, not to mention are rather difficult to extract from the surrounding mark-up code. The simplified version suffers from the same problem, so I was wondering are there any nice html versions or even plain text vers

Re: [backstage] iplayer reviewed on mashable.com

Simon Cobb wrote: p2p though? I thought it was straight downloads. Can anyone set me straight? Thanks. It's p2p - based on Kontiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontiki S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/20

Re: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

Phil Winstanley wrote: Any idea what time it’ll be available? This press release [1] says it’ll be available from here on the 27^th : - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer When I go to that link I see a "Find out more and register..." link that takes me through to the signup page. I'm connecting f

Re: [backstage] More iPlayer protesting

David Greaves wrote: Christopher Woods wrote: I mean, come on, hands up who here on the list uses Linux as their primary OS. Me. Linux is the only operating system installed on any of my computers. (I have a W2K VM that use on the rare occasions I need something to run in Windows natively

Re: [backstage] built with

Obligatory self-referential link: http://builtwith.com/default.aspx?http://builtwith.com/default.aspx S Simon Cobb wrote: Ok, so they may be over-selling it with their tagline, but it does show flash: http://builtwith.com/default.aspx?http://www.thefwa.com/ I guess they could rewrite taglin

Re: [backstage] TV Data Formats and Sources of Data

Ben Poor wrote: Incidentally, I'm intending to start a project on SourceForge for a Java API to marshall/unmarshall TVA data, inspired by some work that the BBC did some time ago [http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/projects/tv_anytime_api/]. We've done similar work before around the ETSI DAB EPG sta

[backstage] Interesting iPlayer news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/16/adobe.shtml S - 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/backsta

Re: [backstage] Interesting iPlayer news

Steve Jolly wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/16/adobe.shtml Also (and apologies for not noticing this before I sent the first email), interesting WiFi hotspot partnership news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007

Re: [backstage] Interesting iPlayer news

Dave Crossland wrote: On 16/10/2007, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Jolly wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/16/adobe.shtml I wonder if that means iPlayer is dropping the DRM to go YouTube style. Sadly the GNU/Linux &q

Re: [backstage] Wii News Channel

Davy Mitchell wrote: Anyone tried the DS Browser? Was considering it but the fact it loses cookies when powered off makes me wary :-) Yes - it's a nice little tool, elegantly implemented. It has the potential to be a really nice platform for little mobile applications - I think that a suite

Re: [backstage] Interesting iPlayer news

Steve Jolly wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/16/adobe.shtml And an even more interesting follow-up: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/130766/bbc-told-iplayer-must-be-multiplatform.html S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To

Re: [backstage] iPlayer usage

Matthew Cashmore wrote: We will all of course be very sad to stop using MajorDomo. Ha! S - 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/bac

Re: [backstage] iPlayer usage

Adam Lindsay wrote: I went back and noticed that the original poster's question wasn't answered: are there any plans to reveal statistics on iPlayer usage? http://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/ You could always ask directly... :-) S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, pl

Re: [backstage] iPhone Apple opens up iPhone to app developers

Brian Butterworth wrote: Why does it take four months to publish a SDK? Surely Apple must be using the SDK already to create their own applications? Steve Jobs gives a reasonable explanation in his announcement - that they want to implement a robust security model for third-party apps, som

Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

Andrew Bowden wrote: There's no technical reason - it's just the business model. Sky+ has been used to try and keep you subscribing - to reduce their churn. The idea that your PVR is about to stop working when you stop subscribing no doubt panics people. And of course TiVo did the same - £1

Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

Christopher Woods wrote: Here's a thought... On Sky, and on cable too (right?) there's no channels at each hundred's -00 (100, 200, 300 etc). Why not do some interactive service which shows realtime mosaics, just like like CanalSatellite and Astra do in Europe? That'd be smashing. I've emailed

Yet another argument about digital rights (was Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview)

Andy wrote: Copyright Infringement is NOT theft, theft is theft, copyright infringement is copyright infringement. They are covered by entirely separate laws, they are described differently in the law, and the actions themselves differ greatly. How can educated people confuse the two? I assume

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview

Michael Sparks wrote: Apologies if that's all a little random - and also, improvements on this summary (and on criterion) welcome. :-) Michael, your insistence on resorting to facts and reasoned argument risks torpedoing this entire prolonged exchange of rants. Keep it up. ;-) S - Sent via

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

Jonathan Tweed wrote: Don't forget to also drop at least u, otherwise you might end up with offensive short codes. You may have noticed that the programme ids don't have any vowels in them. This is deliberate ;-) Sounds like an interesting little algorithmic challenge - what shortcode gener

Re: [backstage] PlugLondon

Mr I Forrester wrote: Just in case you haven't already seen, the first pluglondon happens on 8th December at the Skype offices just off Tottenham Court Road. Its event which has very strong aims... 1. A place we can discuss, explore and showcase interoperability and evolution of platfor

Re: [backstage] What's going on with the News 24 live stream?

Brian Butterworth wrote: > Givem the original is at 25fps, why not encode at that in fact? 50fps. ;-) (Pedantic, but important...) S - 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 lis

Re: [backstage] What's going on with the News 24 live stream?

Martin Deutsch wrote: On Nov 18, 2007 11:43 PM, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Brian Butterworth wrote: > Givem the original is at 25fps, why not encode at that in fact? 50fps. ;-) (Pedantic, but important...) Surely that

Re: [backstage] What's going on with the News 24 live stream?

Christopher Woods wrote: Anyway, the cameras they were using had the holographic BBC logo plastered along the side of them, so things are looking up - unless they're just old skool SD cameras with a chavlike shopping list down the side of them! I wonder if the N24 cameras are similarly upgrad

Re: [backstage] What's going on with the News 24 live stream?

Brian Butterworth wrote: If you are going to be pedantic, at least be right! UKTV (and all in Europe) is 25 frames a second > > I suspect yuou don't understand what "interlaced" means. I think I detect an impending semantic argument, so let me try and avoid it. You're (I think) defining a fr

Re: [backstage] iPlayer under wine

David Greaves wrote: Stuart Ward wrote: I just found this project on sourceforge to sort out running the iPlayer under wine. http://bbciplayerlinux.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page At which point they can replace the DRM library calls with stubs and ... ... not be able to decode the cont

Re: [backstage] Broadcasters to launch joint VoD service

Brian Butterworth wrote: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/11/kangaroo_a_giant_leap_for_tele.html That second commenter seems rather familiar... :-) S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/m

Re: [backstage] Broadcasters to launch joint VoD service

Nick Reynolds-A&Mi wrote: You really need to be careful with your language Richard That was Andy, not Richard. :-) S - 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: ht

Re: [backstage] Broadcasters to launch joint VoD service

Andy wrote: Nice to see a complete lack of detail though, now where did I put my document on making an FOI request, (technically a written request here would most likely count, after all it's written, has a name and has an address.) IMO it might not count if it was unclear as to whether you wer

Re: [backstage] Broadcasters to launch joint VoD service

Nick Reynolds-A&Mi wrote: i have no idea what a "dat file" is so I wouldn't know how to send one anyway so it must have been someone else Nick - I think you're using Outlook as your email client. Have you got it configured to send Rich Text emails by default? I believe that can lead to every

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

Deirdre Harvey wrote: So can you give us any indication of when the technologists will have completed the prototype of the journalist that doesn't need food or shelter? Well, someone here at BBC R&D presented a (tongue-in-cheek) design for an android journalist at an internal new i

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

Billy Abbott wrote: In order to get the gatekeepers to offer that software they need to have an incentive to do so. Apart from idealistic ones who are doing it for the reason of wanting the software to be free, I don't currently see what the incentive is for the others. While I'd like to be abl

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

Noah Slater wrote: On 06/12/2007, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In fact isn't the bulk of this thread concerned with the way in which "Perl On Rails" will be non proprietary. Not really, proprietry is the wrong word to use here. The word "free" is much more descriptive. It is perfectly possi

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

Matt Lee wrote: Steve Jolly wrote: To eliminate confusion, I propose that we in future refer to the FSF definition of "free" as GNU/Free. I thank you. Or you could say 'free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation', which is more accurate and doesn't f

Re: [backstage] Interview with Anthony Rose - Podcast

Matthew Cashmore wrote: Well it’s podcast time again and yesterday I got the opportunity to speak to Anthony Rose - head of all things iPlayer here at the beeb. Anthony also gave a pretty interesting talk at the IET's IPTV conference today - it's also on the web, albeit only (afaik) at the IET

Re: [backstage] New BBC customisable homepage

Noah Slater wrote: I would disagree with this, a standard that is ignored is still a standard, it's just an ignored one. The word "standard" doesn't mean something that's commonly used it means something that is on a standards track specification. What does that make a "de-facto standard"? S

Re: [backstage] iPlayer search problem

Adam Leach wrote: My point was that this top gear episode (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008gzy6) is signed, yet there is no way on knowing that until you start watching it. If i had downloaded this via the p2p client i would have been a bit disappointed, but then again its available so it

Re: [backstage] BBC News : site feedback.... [Fwd: RE: Feedback [NewsWatch]]

David Greaves wrote: I think someone missed the point here... Or am I wrong? If I explain that all the stories on the BBC news website are barely more than static HTML, would that explain why adding watermarks to them all would be difficult? If the site was backed by some kind of new-fangl

Re: [backstage] BBC News : site feedback.... [Fwd: RE: Feedback [NewsWatch]]

David Greaves wrote: Fair enough - but this is The BBC News So getting it right (and not misleading) should trump the mere impossible :) > IIRC some time ago (months/years) there was something vaguely fraudulent/misleading/prankish that was backed by an out-of-context but genuine BBC story wh

Re: [backstage] 403 Forbidden on http://www.bbc.co.uk/technology/

Sean DALY wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/technology/ is showing 403 Forbidden. Mmmm, sweet forbidden technology. (Not to be confused with http://www.forbidden.co.uk/). S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/200

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

Dave Crossland wrote: On 09/01/2008, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Production client-side code really shouldn't have documentation in. If the BBC is serious about supporting innovation around the iPlayer, it ought to leave it in here. I believe Ian said that there's a proper AP

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer bursts through user target

Graeme Mulvaney wrote: It would be good if you could provide 'bookmarks' into some of the current affairs/magazine style programming - e.g. you could jump to a particular report in 'the culture show' or skip to the sudden death round of 'the weakest link', etc. Segmented content, huh? Yes, tha

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

Brian Butterworth wrote: It seems incredible to me that the BBC is DELIBERATELY providing me (via Microsoft) with inaccurate information. If you were to start by assuming that inaccuracies in the EPG data provided by the BBC were there for reasons other than to screw over Windows Media Cente

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

Brian Butterworth wrote: I'm not trying to BLAME anyone here, I'm trying to find out where the EPG information gets nobbled and make an attempt to get some to "acknowledge mistakes" and provide "accuracy" in the data. Accuracy is impractical. Locking the start time of programmes to a second

Re: [backstage] Dirac Pro v1.0.0, SMPTE VC-2

Sean DALY wrote: 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

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

Brian Butterworth wrote: The system I wrote for ITV over 15 years ago worked down to the FRAME - that's 1/25 of a second. That is how channels are scheduled. Scheduling systems may be accurate to 1/25 of a second, but that doesn't necessarily imply that they are equally precise. The ability

Re: [backstage] Last.fm for television

Peter Bowyer wrote: On 28/01/2008, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I presume that a TV version of last.fm would be last.uhf? last.am would be more consistent, if slightly confusing. last.dssc? :-) last.cofdm perhaps, now that we're rapidly heading for digital switchover... S -

Re: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

Richard P Edwards wrote: I would love to know who it was that decided to make the two systems incompatible.. once again, if that hadn't have happened HD-DVD could have still lost, but without the public's purchases becoming pretty much obsolete, and the hardware would still have a market.

Re: [backstage] Internet TV standard

Christopher Woods wrote: Hat-tip also to the marvellously geeky bod at the Beeb for the inclusion of the Archimedes reference on the BBC Internet blog. Took me back to when I first got my A3000 :) There was one on my BBC Micro too, IIRC... :-) S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion gr

Re: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:56 +, Brian Butterworth wrote: Why don't you just write it to a BR disc for yourself? You bought it, after all -- surely you have a right to _use_ it? It is the same MPEG4 format anyway. Is it? I thought HD-DVD used WMV^W VC-1 -- I thought

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

Dave Crossland wrote: You are mistaking the kind of freedom we are talking about; software freedom is tightly defined - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html - and is not about those things. But for what its worth, I do all those things. Please consider using the phrase "GNU/software freed

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what is wrong is to forbid people from being to help people regardless of the circumstances, for example by sharing with them, even if they want to. This is what proprietary software does. It's also what happens when railways require photocards for season tickets,

Re: [backstage] Is it just me, or is some stereo audio on BBC chans (Freeview) out of phase?

Christopher Woods wrote: Not used my USB Freeview receiver for a while, hooked it up because I dug out an amplified aerial and thought 'heck, why not.' In essense, audio seems to be varying degrees out of phase - measurably 90 degrees out of phase on BBC Three and N24. I observed this phenomeno

Re: [backstage] Is it just me, or is some stereo audio on BBC chans (Freeview) out of phase?

Christopher Woods wrote: Can you give an exact channel, date and time when you observed the phenomenon? (03:59 GMT last night on N24, perhaps?) Definitely. Observable on BBC2 last night/this morning (05/03/2008) during the intro for "Spin" (03:44am). Also observable during the 60second countdo

Re: [backstage] Is it just me, or is some stereo audio on BBC chans (Freeview) out of phase?

Martin Deutsch wrote: I've suggested that Christopher tries another reciever, or moves the aerial to somewhere with better signal strength. (I don't know that much about how the decoding process works, but perhaps someone more fluent in DVB will know - is it possible that error correction and rec

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

Dave Crossland wrote: On 12/03/2008, Phil Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW I still can't get the mp4 to stream rather than download. Anyone? My guess is that the proprietary player on the iPhone just buffers part of the HTTP GET data and starts playing away? :-) That's how the iPhone

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

Iain Wallace wrote: That's how the iPhone is doing it (and the Flash player, and all the other network media players that support progressive downloads), yes. Obviously progressive downloads and streaming are very different things, but in the domain of Internet video, the former seem to be me

[backstage] Guardian article about iPhone iPlayer

Thought that people might find this interesting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/13/digitalvideo.television S - 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] iPlayer DRM is over?

Ian Partridge wrote: One thing I've always found unconvincing is the way the BBC bleats "but the production companies won't let us distribute the content DRM-free!". The BBC has major clout - it could say "from now on, all production contracts we sign HAVE to allow DRM-free redistribution". It co

Re: [backstage] Guardian article about iPhone iPlayer

vijay chopra wrote: I like the way that the article suggests I'm suddenly a 1337 h4x0r because I can chnge the user agent on my browser. See? I knew people would appreciate it. :-) S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] Guardian article about iPhone iPlayer

vijay chopra wrote: The BBC response article is only marginally better, again referring to "hackers" for no apparent reason though they at least have a motive to mislead: propaganda. Though I probably shouldn't attribute to malice what's adequately explained by stupidity. Personally, I can th

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

Dave Crossland wrote: When the BBC limits the MP4 stream to Apple hardware devices, it is implementing DRM Sorry, not convinced. IANAL of course, but personally I don't see how the concept of restricting access to a particular client implies the concept of preventing copying. S - Sent via

Re: [backstage] Guardian article about iPhone iPlayer

vijay chopra wrote: I'm sorry I just despair for the journalists in this country. In theory they should be a paragon of virtue, holding authority to account, uncovering misdeeds and campaigning on behalf of the citizenry. Instead we get dumbing down and catering to the lowest common denominator

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

Iain Wallace wrote: Aside from the Big Lebowski reference: What? I believe it's an analogy. S - 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: http://www.mail-archive.co

Re: [backstage] DVB-H finally gets formal adoption by the EC (oh and vista SP1!)

David Greaves wrote: Anyhow, personally I'm stuck until I can get a non-DRM HD signal into my Linux Myth PVR. I assume satellite isn't an option for you? S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_li

Re: [backstage] DVB-H finally gets formal adoption by the EC (oh and vista SP1!)

Gareth Davis wrote: I'll warn you that a lot of processing power is required to decode the H264 profile in real time. When the BBC were doing the HD DVB-T trials across London I had a go at trying to pick it up, and found that my 3Ghz P4 machine could only managed about 14 fps. At the risk of p

Re: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

Brian Butterworth wrote: Is it true that the new BBC/ITV Freesat service (starting 5th May) will be "HD only"? The Freesat website implies that HD programming will be broadcast in addition to SD. http://www.freesat.co.uk/what_is_it.php S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.

Re: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

Brian Butterworth wrote: On 26/03/2008, *Andrew Bowden* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Each region however has its own, permanent, dedicated video stream which broadcasts 24/7. I can't think of any channel on Sky which reconfigures its video configuration on the fly (e.g.

Re: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

Brian Butterworth wrote: I think you are confusing Freeview with Freesat. On Freesat the multiple services are statmuxed together, on Freeview BBC ONE is in 4.9Mb/s, apart from Scotland, Wales and NI where the extra two radio channels mean the whole of mux 1 is statmuxed. I might be wrong, b

Re: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

Brian Butterworth wrote: On 26/03/2008, *Steve Jolly* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I think you're underestimating the difficulties. And ignoring the costs. :-) Bear in mind that you can't make any changes that would break the millions

Re: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

Brian Butterworth wrote: Let's assume that there is going to be a single transponder used for BBC HD. Instead of just having a single stream of BBC HD, it has six streams that usually occupy 3Mb/s each, leaving plenty for one of the streams to be in HD at full bitrate. To take just this para

Re: [backstage] Embracing the torrent of online video

James Ockenden wrote: In Hong Kong, all ATV, TVB, CableTV, CCTV & Phoenix TV output is is all originally recorded on Beta tapes... Yeah nobody uses VHS here anymore. But Beta STILL LIVES! (at least "backstage") Probably it will work out the same for web video technology. Whatever the producers e

Re: [backstage] Embracing the torrent of online video

Matt Barber wrote: Yeah I saw some stuff about tapeless production when I read about Dirac last year, is it true that it is in use internally to shift some content around the BBC? Some teams are using tapeless production techniques, yes. I suspect that most radio production is already tapeles

Re: [backstage] Runners needed for Over the Air

Brian^H^H^H^H^HMatthew Cashmore wrote: Hi Brian - received :-) Brian makes a lot of posts to this list, but that doesn't imply that all posters to the list are called Brian, Matt... ;-) S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bb

Re: [backstage] The Future of DTT

Andrew Bowden wrote: Incidentally, this is the proposed change in diagramatic form http://www.ofcom.org.uk/images/nr/multiplexes I love the spin they put on it by drawing the current arrangement as all jumbled up, whilst the new arrangement is all neatly regimented and organised :) It's intere

Re: [backstage] DAB rollout...

Christopher Woods wrote: Three years after the BBC's digital radio rollout was first started with 6Music, the WorldDMB decided to specify the inclusion of HE-AAC in the spec - yet, AAC had been standardised in 1997. Foresight never came into the equation? BBC R&D were testing AAC too back in t

Re: [backstage] BBC tells ISPs to get stuffed

Andy wrote: The BBC forgot to mention it's actually blocking ISPs from caching the streams. As has already been pointed out, caching the streams wouldn't help ISPs because it's not their upstream bandwidth costs that are concerning them. Leaving aside the practicality of caching content serv

Re: [backstage] BBC tells ISPs to get stuffed

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the ISPs have a point ... the ADSL network is (currently) like a collection of country roads (narrow and fairly slow) which the BBC is trying to drive it's supersize juggernauts down. Think the ISPs should use some form of traffic shaping for iPlayer traffic an

Re: [backstage] Adding Subtitles/transcripts to /programmes pages

Tom Jacobs wrote: i think it would be really useful if the BBC made available the subtitles for their TV shows via the /programmes pages (or any other accessible, searchable API). Yes, it would be nice. You can get access to them via a DVB card in your PC, of course, but because they're broad

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

Tim Dobson wrote: In other news, Microsoft and Adobe employees are been encouraged to send the BBC their CVs. ;) I joke, I joke< /me hides http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/14/bbc.digitalmedia1 (registration possibly required) S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group

Re: [backstage] iPlayer and the ISPs - a solution

Andy wrote: Brian Butterworth wrote: 1. so the great evil here is probably the BT wholesale provision which seems to be behaving somewhat monopolisticly, which is a tendency that I know BT has. Abuse of dominant position is prohibited under Section 18 of the Competition Act 1998[1]. If BT are

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

Mr I Forrester wrote: Peter Bowyer wrote: http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/04/15/who-should-be-the-next-web-guru-of-the-bbc-vote-now/ So I highly recommend everyone goes there and votes for the guy at the end of the list ;-) Mr Cridland is getting far too much support, we need to put him back in

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

Matthew Cashmore wrote: lol! How on earth did Ian and I get on the list!!! Now that would be funny - can you imagine us running FM&T! There would be lots more beanbags, for one thing. S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

Mr I Forrester wrote: No no, Redbull on tap... That would boost productivity :) Cridland, i'm hot on your heels I think that more senior management positions should be filled by popular vote. S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backst

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

Michael Sparks wrote: On Wednesday 16 April 2008 14:32, Mr I Forrester wrote: Although we laugh about this stuff, Google's policy on free food is actually well reasoned. But I don't think it would apply to the BBC, as we're publicly funded and rightly so should pay for food. I am however going t

Re: [backstage] Anyone got a Eee PC 2G Surf/Linux CD?

Richard Lockwood wrote: If I desperately need a laptop (RSI beckoning), I reckon I can get one for about the same price, with a massively higher spec than an E. Apart from being fashionable, why would I want one? Why not leave them for the original target market? Size/weight. S - S

Re: [backstage] Moved to Manchester...

Brian Butterworth wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I believe that most teams at the BBC have their own internal mailing lists. S - 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 archiv

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer, loved by millions, disliked by a single US citizen

Thom Shannon wrote: He does have a point though that the BBC is anti competitive. I personally think the bbc is great for consumers, and that the quality of bbc news is the only thing stopping uk tv news turning into something like american "news", but any of that could change, since the bbc is

Re: [backstage] Open Flash

Dan Brickley wrote: On top of that, things are set up for an equally classic "you've tried the rest now try the best" argument. If you've committed to Flash, best to use the real thing eh? Users have a choice now: they can get an implementation from the leaders or from the followers. (not my vi

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer, loved by millions, disliked by a single US citizen

Andy wrote: Brian Butterworth wrote: There is quite a reasonable argument that the TV License, which is used to fund BBC television and radio, is a regressive tax, so someone on benefits pays the same as a millionaire. Or to put it another way "The less you earn, the more you pay as a percentag

Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

Christopher Woods wrote: Personally I'd rather have naff analogue with continuous audio where I can gist the few words I miss, rather than have a lossy (moreso than analogue, arguably) digital signal with squelchy audio and dropouts every so often. I put up with it on my PC's freeview receiver, b

[backstage] Re: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] Re: Is it OK for BT Vision to charge £3 per month for the iPlayer?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If BT can, why can’t you or anyone else? In the absence of a contract with the broadcaster(s), I would suggest that copyright law might be a hindrance. S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/a

Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

Tom Hannen wrote: I guess all the consituent parts exist already - I was thinking more of an app that would make it easy for you to skip items whilst cooking, or washing up, or in the car etc. If you have a CD player in the kitchen, it is very easy to skip to the next track - you stop what you'r

Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

Andy wrote: 2. Flash streaming "just works" for most people, and as the TV iPlayer has shown, a tremendously popular way of consuming content. Not on mobiles. How about an Ogg stream with Cortado[1] for mobiles (or other people who dislike Flash). Cortado looks like a J2SE applet, not a J2ME m

Re: [backstage] Cool Accessibilty Hacks and Subtitles using BBC Redux @ Mashed

Christopher Woods wrote: Blimey that sounds like a golden opportunity for some to really go a bit leftfield with their concepts... Is it all* of the BBC's digitised archive, or just a handpicked selection? Everything broadcast in the last year. S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion g

[backstage] Mashed TV

Simon Thompson wrote: We'll also be radiating a DVB-T (aka "Freeview") signal for you guys to hack around with. We've got some USB DVB-T sticks, some software links and a talk on how to hack DVB-T and MHEG interactive stuff. Just to clarify - this won't be a rebroadcast of one of the existing

Re: [backstage] BBC begins DVB-T2 test transmissions in preparation for HD on Freeview

Gareth Davis wrote: I'm sure someone down at KW will know chapter and verse on this, but AFAIK there are no IDTVs currently on the market that will be compatible with the test transmissions. Correct. There are no receivers currently available that are compatible with DVB-T2, be they STBs, ID

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