Chris, Can't speak for my colleagues elsewhere in radio, but WS doesn't transcode between codecs anywhere in our longform workflow and never has done.
Cheers, -- Gareth Davis | Production Systems Specialist World Service Digital Delivery Team - Part of BBC Future Media & Technology * 500NE Bush House, Strand, London, WC2B 4PH * bbcworldservice.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk > [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of > Christopher Woods > Sent: 21 February 2011 17:24 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] Problems with iPlayer video - how to report? > > > > Chris, > > You can find links to service status and a contact form from here: > > http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/using_bbc_iplayer/t > > ech_report > > > > Comments about World Service content do get through to me, > so filling > > in the form does work. > > Super :> > > Whilst I have your eye as such, are the MP3 versions of > iPlayer radio content still transcodes from AAC or are they > encoded from the source feed in parallel? I always noticed in > the past whenever I used get_iplayer to grab some radio shows > for my DAP the MP3 versions (via flashaudio etc) were > noticeably poorer quality than the original raw AACs; warbly, > burbly sound, what sounded like transcoding artefacts and > distortion of the stereo imaging. Has the MP3 encoding > workflow for radio programmes changed at all since last year? > > - > 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/ > - 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/
