Hi Ant, Thanks for the update. I'm not sure I 100% follow, but it's good to know that this kind of stuff is being thought about and constantly improved upon at the BBC.
It's amazing how BBC iPlayer has become so well known and so taken-for-granted now, that I feel compelled to complain about it not being considered from script stage onwards... :-) Next I'll be suggesting that directors cut down on fast pans and low-contrast shots, in order to minimise compression-related problems... (although these affect DTV too) Frankie 2009/9/10 Ant Miller <ant.mil...@gmail.com> > Ok, so some of you have noticed iPlayer for the iPhone is a bit > different- this 'I think' is via an Off Air system (or was at one > point). Radio has a system called Coyopa that takes original content > from the networks between the studios and final terestrial and digital > playout, but is part ofthe same chain. Most iPlayer stuff I think > comes from the same chain as playout, but not the very end. Basically > very very little is ingested seperately from the normal playout, but > the point of 'branching' varies from network to network, and between > the versions of iPlayer. > > Complicated, but we do our best. And importantly it's ALWAYS evolving. > Sometims I wish it did so a bit more publicly. > > a > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Phil Lewis <backst...@linuxcentre.net> > wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 17:48 +0100, Frankie Roberto wrote: > > snip... > >> you could even do things like cut down the amount of "trailing ahead" > >> - which surely is less required on iPlayer where people have chosen to > >> watch something specific and are in less danger of changing channel... > >> (You could probably shave a good few minutes off from Dragons Den in > >> this way, which trails ahead constantly in a really annoying way). > > > > Surely a bad idea, that would just make the 'BBC News at Six' just 10 > > minutes long ;-) > > > > > > > > - > > 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/ > > > > > > -- > Ant Miller > > tel: 07709 265961 > email: ant.mil...@gmail.com > > - > 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/ > -- Frankie Roberto Experience Designer, Rattle 0114 2706977 http://www.rattlecentral.com
