Wow thanks guys.
I don't want to get into a discussion about the footage per-se because that's
not the important thing.
So to answer the points about the packaging. I didn't know Tar was just a way
to pack together files with no compression. Now tar.gz makes sense to me :)
The reason why we w
Hey Ian - just stick it on a terabyte USB external hard drive, invest
in some bubble wrap and a strong cardboard box, and organise a mailing
loop... Then folk can copy what they want and post it onto the next
user
Bit lo-tech, I know, but given broadband speeds in some parts of the
country, proba
2009/1/20 Ian Forrester :
> Seems BitTorrent, P2Pnext (tribler) and the internet archive are the best
> solutions by a long way. I did speak to people about how we pass footage
> around internally and the answer was via hard drives. There was some thought
> in the past about having drop off poin
2009/1/20 Ian Forrester :
>
> The reason why we would like to Tar the files together is because of things
> like subtitles, artwork, cuts of music,
> other metadata pieces, etc. We're not just talking a collection of video
> files.
What does Tar add to the ability to organise files in a set into
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Ian Forrester wrote:
> Licensing,
>
> I think we'll use something like CC-BY-NC (although I totally understand the
> arguments against NC, Dave) CC-BY-NC-SA is tempting due to the nature of the
> content.
Could you explain the nature of the content and why NC i
Dave Crossland wrote at 16:50 on 2009-01-20:
> 2009/1/20 Ian Forrester :
> >
> > The reason why we would like to Tar the files together is because of things
> > like subtitles, artwork, cuts of music,
> > other metadata pieces, etc. We're not just talking a collection of video
> > files.
>
> W
I didn't know Tar was just a way to pack together files with no compression.
Now tar.gz makes sense to me :)
You know that zip has an option to not compress which would make it work
in the same way as a tar file.
While I prefer tar (and agree with other comments that tar/zip'ing stops
you
2009/1/20 Steffan Davies :
> Dave Crossland wrote at 16:50 on 2009-01-20:
>
>> 2009/1/20 Ian Forrester :
>> >
>> > The reason why we would like to Tar the files together is because of
>> > things like subtitles, artwork, cuts of music,
>> > other metadata pieces, etc. We're not just talking a col
Nice coverage people, great stuff
Oh,I'll explain if you do not live on planet earth, we have a new president
of the world
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Ian Forrester wrote:
> I've been a little qui
Andrew Bowden wrote:
>> I've just got Freesat HD, and it's amazing to see the best
>> picture quality that the BBC broadcast. But then they go and
>> spoil it with a DOG in the corner. It's almost worth
>> reverting to watching the program on BBC 1.
>> If they must have a logo, do it with MHEG a
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
>
> Congratulations on not putting a DOG on BBC HD during the presidential
> inauguration, even though there was one (saying LIVE Washington) on BBC
> One! An unusual but welcome reversal.
>
> It was a bit strange that at the end, when t
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Ian Forrester wrote:
> The reason why we would like to Tar the files together is because of things
> like subtitles, artwork, cuts of music, other metadata pieces, etc. We're
> not just talking a collection of video files. I guess we're also thinking
> about the 5
Ian Forrester wrote:
Say, we had a ton of media assets from a BBC programme which we owned all the
rights to and wanted to distribute widely. Not just video, but images, sound,
subtitles, metadata about the programme scripts, etc.
How would you
1. Package it?
Artists and techies will probabl
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