Rupert Brun wrote:
We can't deliver over normal broadcast channels because we don't have
the bandwidth and there would be very significant costs for a small
audience.
We are using MPEG DASH because it handles surround sound well and can
be decoded entirely within the browser without any third party
software and this will become important as more and more consumer
devices such as TVs and set top boxes have web browsers built in. It
is also rapidly becoming the standard for audio and visual content
delivery over the web and we need to explore how it works.
There are more detailed explanations in the blogs from the first
experiment using this technology.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3/posts/Radio-3-in-40
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2014/03/media-source-extensions
Please ask any further questions via the blog or twitter using
#BBCProms4 not through this list, so the questions and answers can
reach a wider audience as I don't want to have to answer the same
questions twice if possible.
OK, no more questions, just grumbling :-)
Thanks for the explanation and links above are interesting and informative.
From one of them
"People expect to be able to consume BBC content on any platform"
Yep :-) I do, and this is unique content that I can't consume. There's
nothing wrong with trialling this, but given that you know browser
support is limited you could have easily provided an additional "old
style" stream.
_______________________________________________
Sursound mailing list
Sursound@music.vt.edu
https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit
account or options, view archives and so on.
