Bear with me on this, if you can! This is a sheer matter of curiosity, but I’m a fairly curious chap.
I’ve a had a bit of to and ’fro with James Mockett (on the iPlayer team) via Twitter, and it seems we disagree (although neither of us actually *knows*) about the back-end of iPlayer. Hopefully, somebody on here will know for sure, or knows who to ask and wouldn’t mind doing the honours. James believes that Red Bee handles all of the transcoding, and pointed me at their case studies page (http://www.redbeemedia.com/html/iptv.html) which talks of iPlayer, and also this BBC Internet Blog post from Anthony Rose (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc_iplayer_on_iphone_behind_t.html). My understanding was that although the content was shipped in by Red Bee, the actual transcoding was done by Redux, which tallies with this other Internet Blog post (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/10/history_of_the_bbc_redux_proje.html) on the history of Redux. This is bolstered a bit by this recent article (which James posted a link to, and prompted this discussion) which talks about the encoding farm used — http://www.cxo.eu.com/news/john-linwood-iplayer/. This seems to tally with the “History of the BBC Redux Project” post, and also this presentation from Tom Bird at UKNOF13 — http://uknof.com/uknof13/Bird-Redux.pdf So, which of us (either, neither?) is right? (This’ll teach me to drop in a mild query about whether OpenSolaris+ZFS is still used for it all…) Cheers! Mo. -- mo mcroberts http://nevali.net iChat: mo.mcrobe...@me.com Jabber/GTalk: m...@ilaven.net Twitter: @nevali Run Leopard or Snow Leopard? Set Quick Look free with DropLook - http://labs.jazzio.com/DropLook/ - 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/
