James Dalley wrote: > > > Chris Rowson wrote: > > > On 13/07/07, Josh Blacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> You may all be interested in this article: > > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6897050.stm "BBC to hear > > >> open source concerns" > > >> > > > > > > Oooh very good - 'tis a pity that someone has to threaten the BBC > > > with litigation before they'll listen though! > > > > Optimism! I hope also that although they will have a meeting that they > > will actually 'listen'. > > Listening is also fairly low cost. Action requires a little more > > commitment > > > > -- > > alan cocks > > Kubuntu user#10391 > > > > I got this reply from them, but as you can see it's the usual... > Probably automated.. > > Dear Mr Dalley > > Thank you for your e-mail. > > The BBC has a responsibility to distribute it's content to as many license > fee payers as possible, but we must seek a cost effective way to do this - > especially whilst there is no single audio-visual standard. At present the > cost of providing multiple formats is prohibitively high. > > We currently feel Real Player is the most appropriate solution, since it is > freely available on the internet and can be installed on most operating > systems. We also have a large archive of real format material and a resilient > technical infrastructure necessary to support it. > > However, the BBC is actively assessing new ways to distribute audio-visual > material across the internet. We have initiated a number of trials and we are > planning a new technical infrastructure which in the future will increase > flexibility of our output. For instance, you can now listen live to all of > our major national networks in Windows Media Audio format > > Thank you once again for contacting us. > > Regards >
No mention of OGG format then. It's a shame that the community can't redistribute the streams in OGG format on behalf of these media companies. Doesn't take much to do it, I manage to distribute streaming internet radio around my network by downloading the stream in mplayer and piping it to Ices which streams it out in OGG format so I can listen on any computer on my network without using double the internet bandwidth. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
