As far as I understand it, it was more a case of the BBC (and
ITV) trialing broadcasting via the multicast infrastructure -
moreso than it was a trial of consumers actually watching the
content. I was on a ja.net provider for an entire year and
not once could I actually watch the
Has there EVER been a multicast system that's worked well? I tried it on a
large BT network some years ago and when it worked it was a network
management nightmare. Thankfully it worked badly or not-at-all
Brian Butterworth
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I used the multicast streams when Easynet were on an old trial. Worked a
treat.
Also, I believe the multicast streams were opened up to all ISPs for a
few days when the BBC was experiencing high traffic after the 7/7 London
bombings, which was useful.
J
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Hi Brian,
Thanks as ever for your comments and questions - but I wonder if the BBC's
developer community mailing list is the place for this question? You may
have better luck, with a more informed response, by putting the question to
the relevant arm of the BBC - for the moment I'm not sure who
I've let the head of New Media at BBC Worldwide Magazines know about
this, by the way.
Kim
However, as people probably realise the data isn't being
updated anymore.
Does anyone have a clue?
Just had a boilerplate response from them - seems unlikely my
email reached a human, let
The feeds appear to be back up and being updated, so thanks to all who
may have helped!
Cheers,
Rich.
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I've let the head of New Media at BBC Worldwide Magazines know about
this, by the way.
Kim
However, as people probably realise the
Multicast with Zen.co.uk worked sporadically. When it worked, it worked
well. When it didn't, it didn't show anything other than a blank video
screen.
Just curious and apologies for being off topic, but have noticed, post Vista
launch, that quite a lot of people seem to be switching from Windows
I've recently 'switched' [1] (damn you Apple marketing dept!) from an XP
desktop to a Macbook as my main computer. Its been almost flawless
(unlike all the Vista problems we keep hearing about), and a bit of
revelation after being a complete Windowsite since 3.0.
I've met 3 people that have
Jason Cartwright wrote:
I've recently 'switched' [1] (damn you Apple marketing dept!) from an XP
desktop to a Macbook as my main computer. Its been almost flawless
(unlike all the Vista problems we keep hearing about), and a bit of
revelation after being a complete Windowsite since 3.0.
Sorry,
I could add quite a few to that anecdotal tally: people who have switched to
Macs (Mac Book Pros, especially) and people who say they will switch once
Leopard is released. Know a lot of people who last year were planning on
switching to Vista - some did and have already gone back to XP or changed
I used Solaris on a workstation for many years until OS X was
released on the mac. I have two generations of laptops with OS X
(one personal, one work) and when I change jobs in a couple of months
I will get a new Macbook Pro. For me it is perfect as all of my work
is done on farms
Oh right
I thought that as there were quite a few BBC development people on here,
someone might know... It is a system being developed by the BBC... I've
tried lots of other approaches and I've had a stonewall for the last 18
months...
Brian Butterworth
www.ukfree.tv
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Kim Plowright wrote:
I've let the head of New Media at BBC Worldwide Magazines know about
this, by the way.
Kim
Thanks Kim, much appreciated :)
For information I sent an email off to Nick on another list (about Myth TV -
an opensource PVR) saying:
It would be interesting to know if
Hi Brian - let's take this off-list now please.
m
On 10/4/07 13:55, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh right
I thought that as there were quite a few BBC development people on here,
someone might know... It is a system being developed by the BBC... I've
tried lots of other
Seems like a lot of Mac growth in a single month..
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Subject: RE: [backstage] OS choice, assume= ass u me
Isn't the first,
But Brian - you've assumed in turn that the user community represented
by those two figures 6 months apart is the same people. Only then are
these hard evidence.
What adjustment would need to be made to take account of a change in
virginradio's demographic, nature of any promotions running,
I realised the error after sending the message ;-(
Still, a significant rise for the Macs and a further indication that the OS
ground does appear to be shifting. Would be interesting to know if that is
reflected in stats for other companies.
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Hi All,
i posted this a week or so to the backstage site but it hasn't been posted
so I thought i'd send it here.
In the absence of any GeoRss support to the backstage travel data feeds I've
produced my own from the tpeg files.
see http://bbc.blueghost.co.uk/about_geoRss.html, includes details
You're waiting too eh? :-)
Davy
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What you say is correct, I was merely illustrating that real data is far
more important than I've done this so I'm assuming that everyone else is...
Brian Butterworth (the only person on Earth that likes Windows Vista)
www.ukfree.tv
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Yes, but you can always get a massive percentage increase from something
when it starts out at 1.75% of the market.
Brian Butterworth
www.ukfree.tv
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Sent: 10 April 2007 14:47
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Michael,
This is excellent!
The only minor point is the too much data you get from Google when you
start the 'all areas' link.
Any chance you could split Sussex into it's two parts? It's been that way
since 1189...
I might have to use your code to plot all the TV transmitters with
Pfft. I'm rather dismissive of numbers and comparisons such as these,
particularly when over 74.3% of all statistics are made up anyway.
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From: Brian Butterworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 April 2007 16:53
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE:
Michael - this is fantastic - I love the way this works.
We're having a few problems with the current backstage site as most of you know
- it's kinda held together with spit, hope and sticky back plastic (the old
stuff Blue Peter don't want). But we're well on the way to having our new
sparkly
I didn't realise it was so easy to do this with Google maps... I kind of
switched to maps.live.com because there are maps of Brighton on them.
Anyway, I've done another version for the BBC transmitter engineering
information. Not quite as useful as traffic information, but here it is:
thanks for all the comments,
i'll do my best to work on these comments when i get some free time
On 10/04/07, mapperz . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael, Excellent work, have tracked your blueghost projects and like the
mapping integration with the new services from Google Maps KML/KMZ and
At 09:51 +0100 10/4/07, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Has there EVER been a multicast system that's worked well? I tried it on a
large BT network some years ago and when it worked it was a network
management nightmare. Thankfully it worked badly or not-at-all
Brian Butterworth
Janet and
... That are totally reliant on the willingness of each individual higher
education institution to implement multicast on their own internal networks
to enable the functionality of the wider ja.net network as a whole.
I think the whole situation boils down to the simple fact that it's just not
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