Re: World Service podcast bit rates

From: Vangelis forthnet Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 02:58 Thanks Vangelis for your helpful comments and explanations. Since 95% of BBC WS Radio content is "talk-radio", I find 96kbps to be more than adequate for the task... I don't disagree. We have survived with much lower bandwidths

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

Would you two please take this childish spat to private email and save the rest of us from terminal boredom. On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:20:10 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 04:57:30PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote: But, since you are obviously

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 04:57:30PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote: > But, since you are obviously spoiling for a fight, why should anyone listen > to someone who has confessed to being a part of putting all that massive > bloat in BBC web pages [citation needed] > presumably therefore you will

RE: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 04:16:33PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote: > > > as for arcane-ness of language and difficulty in reading > > it's about on a par with The Bible! > > That's what everyone thinks about languages that they are too damned > lazy to learn. Laziness doesn't

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 04:16:33PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote: > as for arcane-ness of language and difficulty in reading > it's about on a par with The Bible! That's what everyone thinks about languages that they are too damned lazy to learn. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in

RE: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

See reply below ... -- www.macfh.co.uk/MacFH.html > The first two google results for "perl regular expression" not good > enough for you :-) I'm sure they would have been, but that wasn't what I searched for. I searched for something more precise. > BTW, it's Perl or perl, not

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 03:06:51PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote: > Yes, I was aware of \b support in some languages, but RE support varies > across languages, and, knowing this but not being experienced in PERL, I > checked at least two online sources for PERL REs and could find no evidence > of

RE: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

More on REs ... -- www.macfh.co.uk/MacFH.html > > would we both agree with?: > > \b[bpw][0-9][a-z0-9]{7,13}\b > > I think it's > > \b[bpw]\d[b-df-hj-np-tv-z\d]{6,13}\b > > to cover the existing ones that are eight long, up to the 15-long > w172vg029mkl852 that

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

From: Jim web Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 09:58 I've not encountered any problem thus far, so currently am asking just for clarification. Have a look at World Service programmes from Friday onwards. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002w6r2/episodes/downloads

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

Hi C. E., > So, yielding to your superior knowledge of PERL, for the sake of > clarity for the benefit of those who may have had difficulty in > following the nuances of the argument, or been confused by the > multiple suggestions, would we both agree with?: > \b[bpw][0-9][a-z0-9]{7,13}\b

Re: New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters - "solved"

The discussion prompts some questions on my part: 1) I always used -pid to specify a programme rather than other methods. Does this *have* to have a validation check by regex? I'd assume it doesn't need to parse an entire url because it could just tack the value I give onto the standard parts.