Ummm...personally I have absolutely no idea, sorry.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian Butterworth Sent: Wed 11/21/2007 12:00 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music On 21/11/2007, Tristan Ferne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't actually remember where this started but I presume from the thread > title that it was something to do with our new music podcasts. Which we've > just written about here: Indeed... thanks for doing the article, very interesting. Just as an aside, I have a collection of BBC Sound Effects records on vinyl, can I use 30 second snippets of these on a future podcast? For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Sound_Effects_No._19_-_Doctor_Who_Sound_Effects http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/music_podcasts.shtml -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian Butterworth > Sent: Wed 11/21/2007 6:34 AM > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music > > On 21/11/2007, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 20/11/2007, Martin Belam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That is kind of the figures I was expecting. Just to be clear here, > > > the way I see it is that if the BBC stands up and says we believe in > > > "libre" not "gratis", so we don't want anything to do with software > > > or codecs that involve patents, pretty much at least 80%+ of the > > > people who own portable music players in the UK are going to turn > > > around and say "Chuffing hell, lads, why doesn't that work on my > > > machine? I mean, I *paid* for all this stuff to be made by the BBC. > > > Who are you to tell me which machines I should have to buy". > > > > I'm not suggesting that the BBC have the moral courage to take a stand > > on this issue like that; merely that they should not contribute to the > > problem by only using proprietary or patent-encumbered formats. > > > > > I mean, isn't that the argument for the BBC making the iPlayer work in > > > Linux - because a market is there and so the BBC should support it in > > > the interest of universal access? > > > > Universal access is the ideal, but the iPlayer attacks that ideal > > because it is proprietary and DRM. So if the BBC makes the current > > iPlayer work in GNU/Linux in the interest of universal access, that > > will be tragic. Promoting proprietary software and inflicting DRM on > > people is unethical. > > > > If the BBC doesn't make its iPlayer work on GNU/Linux, but just makes > > it with DRMless patentless media formats (like the one invented at the > > BBC, perhaps?) and documents its protocols, that would be enough - > > because the free software community would write a (probably > > crossplatform) iPlayer-like program from that, itself, without needing > > any license-fee money spent. > > > > > Or, they could just make 120+ radio programmes available free to > > > download, for nothing, for people to keep for as long as they like, > > > and re-encode into any format they want.... > > > > Reencoding them with.... patent encumbered software. Mmm. > > > And, more the point, you will get all the anti aliasing artifacts if you > don't encode from the original PCM WAV.. > > > -- > > Regards, > > Dave > > - > > 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > > > -- > Please email me back if you need any more help. > > Brian Butterworth > http://www.ukfree.tv > > > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
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