On 3 May 2009, at 21:35, Simos Xenitellis <simos.li...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Harry Rickards > <hricka...@l33tmyst.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 3 May 2009, at 21:18, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: >> >>> I was watching the BBC News 24 TV programme "Click" broadcast this >>> weekend. When they were testing a 100 Mbit/s broadband connection, >>> they >>> used it to download two copies of Ubuntu 9.04 simultaneously. A good >>> advert for Ubuntu. >> >> Just out of interest, how long did it take? > > It showed only a short segment of the download, demonstrating that > the download speed was about 77Mbps. It appeared that the issue of > choosing > the Ubuntu ISO had to do with the availability of a fast distribution > server, so one can > put together a simple benchmark. Still, this was good. > > If you get 'get_iplayer' (http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer), then you > can download the episode > with > > get_iplayer --get 128 (expires on the 10th May) > > Simos > What format does this download in, and will ffmpeg convert it to ogg theora + vorbis okay (I assume it's some proprietary format with DRM on)? I only ask as I refuse to watch non FLOSS codec video when I'm on a device that can handle it. Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/