Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2017-01-03 Thread RS
From: RS Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 17:22 The 2014 TOTP shows were never made available as 720p encodes on iPlayer; the 2015 ones suddenly became available on the iPlayer site as HD versions on the afternoon of Monday Jan 11th 2016 (i.e. 17 days after the Christmas edition was

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-12-29 Thread RS
From: Owen Smith Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 11:43 Freeview HD uses AAC sound, either in stereo or 5.1 (sometimes with another AAC stream for audio described). It is never in AC3 aka Dolby Digital. Many >set top boxes (including mine) transcode the AAC to Dolby Digital so that amps

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-12-29 Thread Owen Smith
Freeview HD uses AAC sound, either in stereo or 5.1 (sometimes with another AAC stream for audio described). It is never in AC3 aka Dolby Digital. Many set top boxes (including mine) transcode the AAC to Dolby Digital so that amps can play it, this leads to confusion on what format is being

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-12-29 Thread RS
From: Vangelis forthnet Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 01:50 Last January, I started the following list thread: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2016-January/008577.html I can't comment on TOTP since last time I watched it songs were accompanied by dance routines by

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-12-29 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 29-Dec-16 09:50, Vangelis forthnet wrote: Happy Holidays to one and all! Happy holidays to you my friend! I think the subject of this post could be described as "English consistency at its... worst!" Strictly speaking, it's "British inconsistency"... as it's the British Broadcasting

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-01-12 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Mon Jan 11 18:41:53 GMT 2016, Christopher Woods wrote: I see the intro to the TOTP New Year show is in HD. Going to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06t4pq8/top-of-the-pops-new-year , I see the "Watch in HD" button below the video player. I had the following iPlayer URL

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-01-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:42:27PM +0200, Vangelis forthnet wrote: > On Sun Jan 10 18:18:13 GMT 2016, CJB wrote: > > >I guess that the HD torrent versions were capped > >'live' / off-air using HD digital recorders. > > The issue here, Chris, is not how Torrent Release Groups do it > (probably by

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-01-11 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Sun Jan 10 21:46:00 GMT 2016, CW wrote: ... Many thanks Christopher for your most informative post You'd also be surprised that HD transport streams don't require that much horsepower, if your graphics card can decode H.264 it's offloaded to that and the rest is just probably MP2 or AAC

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-01-11 Thread Roger Rarebit
A Raspberry Pi zero £4 can play 1080p60fps. Roger ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

[OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-01-10 Thread Vangelis forthnet
Hello... Does any of you have a clue as to why both "Top of the Pops" TV shows, Xmas 2015: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06tlczm/top-of-the-pops-christmas-2015 New Year's Day 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06t4pq8/top-of-the-pops-new-year are not being available as HD on

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-01-10 Thread CJB
I guess that the HD torrent versions were capped 'live' / off-air using HD digital recorders. Why the Beeb isn't offering HD via iPlayer though is a moot point. But if they were old'ish programmes then they might not even be sourced in HD!! Huh - they might even have been originally in 625 lines

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-01-10 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Sun Jan 10 18:18:13 GMT 2016, CJB wrote: I guess that the HD torrent versions were capped 'live' / off-air using HD digital recorders. The issue here, Chris, is not how Torrent Release Groups do it (probably by intercepting relay land/satellite Live TV feeds, for which they possess leaked

Re: [OT] TOTPs not offered in HD (720p)

2016-01-10 Thread CW
On 2016-01-10 20:42, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Sun Jan 10 18:18:13 GMT 2016, CJB wrote: I guess that the HD torrent versions were capped 'live' / off-air using HD digital recorders. The issue here, Chris, is not how Torrent Release Groups do it (probably by intercepting relay