Streaming video requires access to a streaming media server.
When a video streams, it is being sent via UDP protocol to a player on the end users compter. The user will have the ability to fast forward or rewind the video.
video isn't being downloaded to the end users computer so it is less likely that the content will be stolen
The biggest disadvantage of streaming over progressive download is if the user watches the same video over and over you will pay for the delivery of it each time. Videos are also streamed at what ever bit rate they are encoded at. Keep this in mind when creating HD quality video. 8Mbps video may sound and look great, but most homes can't sustain an 8Mbps connection. If you have really high bit rate video, consider delivering via HTTP.
Most web hosting providers or Content Delivery Networks (CDN) will have streaming media servers available to use. Historically, Flash video was more expensive to deliver than other forms. Recently prices have compressed and you will find that it costs about the same to deliver Flash or Windows Media files. In the past I would have said if your video is more than 10 minutes in length deliver it via Stream and less do progressive. Since prices
iPlayer V2 hosting platform was also designed to scale across multiple platforms
Actual Availability,
scaling to 1.5 million users,
15 million page views delivering over 1.1 billion(!) minutes of video each month
Two years ago when we launched iPlayer our goals and challenges were largely technical - scalability, reliability, video encoding
next set of challenges was not so much technical as social
"As people begin moving from television to the web, what happens to the role of the linear TV scheduler as the tastemaker
platform capable
the scheduler is the leading tastemaker.
iPlayer does a fine job of satisfying the time-shifted desires
BBC schedulers create the desire to watch a programme; iPlayer lets you see it at a time that's convenient to you
what if you no longer watched linear TV? Who becomes the tastemaker then?
largely theoretical problem
iPlayer home page that feels almost more like an application than a traditional web site
in the world of YouTube where there is no master scheduler who can shape demand.
clear evidence that linear TV created the demand while iPlayer satisfied it.
wanted it to become a driver of demand, s
The question then is, in a world which cannot be driven by schedulers
if schedulers are going to be augmented by your friends as drivers of consumption in the future, the challenge for the team was to integrate friends and social into the iPlayer
delights both early adopters and the mainstream audience.
folded your personal experience into the fabric of the main site
o integrate with Facebook and other social networks
make the recommendations and social graph visible within iPlayer,
addition of course to any external activity.
solution we came up with was to create a BBC login - known as BBC iD
can then connect with Facebook, Twitter
expandable Favourites zone
designed Favourites to be like your mail Inbox, showing the total number of items, how many are newly arrived,
rely on Favourites to give me a constant stream of things to watch
ll your favourites and other settings can roam across all the devices on which you use iPlayer.
So now if I'm bored sitting in a train on the way home, I can look for new programmes to watch, add them to my Favourites,
Personalised iPlayer home page
default view that everyone sees to something that's, well, just for you.
iPlayer traffic is doubling each year, it still only accounts for 2-3% of linear TV viewing.
Featured and Most Popular
For You and Friends:
iPlayer homepage into the tastemaker of your choice
connect iPlayer to your Facebook and/or Twitter social graph
Player home page to meet the needs of a mainstream audience looking for editorialised
My Categories
he iPlayer server will keep a lookout for any new content in your selected categories
big increase in live TV viewing in iPlayer - and with the upcoming World Cup being a huge driver of live online viewing
new Live Viewing page
fuel for the Friends drawer on the iPlayer home page
something that for some will be the killer feature of the new site
sync your iPlayer with theirs
Shout button - a
shouts only go to your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now
Watch with Friends is being added to the site in the next few weeks - stay tuned!
adaptive bitrate system
ch automatically adjusts
Adobe's upcoming Flash 10.1 release with H.264 hardware acceleratio
New iPlayer Desktop
Series Downloads and live radio & TV.
favourite programmes already downloaded to your computer ready to view when you're offline
Player Desktop will now automatically download every future episode for you
new feature in iPlayer Desktop for live TV
BBC's 17 network and national radio stations..
I am moving on to become CTO of Project Canvas, and this is the last major piece of work
Sky Store brings 1000+ on-demand movies to Sky Anytime+
8 Mar 2012
Sky has expanded its pay-per-view movie offering for customers with Sky Anytime+. The new Sky Store replaces Sky Box Office and has over 1000 films available to watch on-demand.
SD movies start at just 99p, rising to £3.99 for blockbuster new movies in HD.
Sky also confirmed that Sky Anytime+ will be available to all Sky customers from Easter - a Sky Broadband subscription will no longer be required.
Sky Anytime+ delivers a wide range of on-demand content for free as well as offering pay-per-view films.
Sky is at pains to point out that its pay-per-view movies, via the new Sky Store if you're an Anytime+ customer, are cheaper than iTunes and Lovefilm in many instances.
New releases are £3.49, library movies are £1.99 and special offers are 99p. HD films rather than SD will cost 50p more.
Sky Box Office will continue as the place for non-Sky Anytime+ customers to choose from a more limited range of the latest movies on the live channels from £3.49 per title.
All Sky TV customers meanwhile can rent movies on a pay-per-view basis from the new Sky Store on laptops via the Sky Go application, which already has a Sky Movies application, too.
How is this tracking collar prototype different from the current tracking technology in use today? It differs greatly because it will remain an open source technology, making it free and easily accessible to the public. This has the effect that if the technology is used by the large community of researchers in Kenya (i.e. lion, elephant or climate researchers) they would be able to share valuable data in real time, rather than delaying the process with incompatible technologies. This would save these foundations large amounts of time and mon
he only time it will switch to 50Hz is when playing upscaled SD DVD (Blu-ray is at either 60Hz (59.94 to be precise) or 1080p24 (23.976Hz)) or if you set the XMB to 576p.
What is 1MB of data?
1MB* on average is:
Browsing - using the internet on your O2 mobile
O2 Active
40 pages approx
Mobile internet sites outside of O2 (typically 3rd party websites not controlled by O2):
2-10 full web pages (depending on graphics, images, amount of text)
10-20 mobile web pages
Sending and receiving E-mail from your O2 mobile
200 emails without attachment
10 emails with simple one page attachment
Satellite Navigation
15 hours of Satellite navigation traffic alert service. Please note: Using GPS Sat Nav without the traffic alert service does not incur data charges.
Important information
The following services when provided by a 3rd party may consume large amounts of data and maybe subject to separate charge. We recommend you take a Browsing Bolt On if you use these services regularly:
Downloading video clips from 3rd party: typically between 1MB and 5MB depending on the length and quality of the clip, plus the cost of the video
Note - Downloading video clips/music/games from O2 costs the price of the content only with no additional data charges.
Downloading high quality music tracks from 3rd party: typically between 1MB and 5MB per track depending on the length and quality of the track, plus the cost of the track
Downloading games from 3rd party: typically 300KB, plus the cost of the game
We recommend that you avoid the following on your mobile:
Using VOIP** uses 1 MB of data every 3-4 minutes.
Downloading full-length movies as this may use in excess of 1,000MB.
Using video/ audio streaming devices (e.g. 'Sling box'), which connect your mobile device to your TV, also consume large amounts of data. Watching 15 minutes of TV on your mobile using these devices uses around 25MB.
* These figures are based on typical usage. Actual data usage will depend on the content of web pages viewed and the length of emails sent/received.
** Typical VOIP usage is around 5KB per second but will depend on a number of variables including codec and voice sample t
regulator has asked Arqiva to work out what it would charge someone to broadcast TV in the space
band isn't very valuable for anything else, as there's no international harmonisation
no economies of scale.
working out how much it would cost to broadcast a national TV multiplex
Ofcom wants to auction it off,
regulator can't do that until the upper part of the Digital Dividend is mapped out (if not auctioned off) and the potential value of the 600MHz band is well understood
provide indicative pricing in case anyone fancies launching some TV channels at 600MH
quandary of trading physical dollars for digital dimes
negatively to TheTimes.co.uk’s paywall: “We are just not advertising on it. If there’s no traffic on there
counter print circulation decline, publishers have added 20 percent more pages in the last decade, allowing the quality dailies to drive up cover prices by 112 percent
inflating the paper will no longer work: deflation is now the agenda,
f you are the one owning the accesspoint or if the proxy is after the AP then you could install a router software on your PC and tell the Wii to route the trafic thru your computer.
Wii <---> Wireless device <---> Windowsbox <---> VPN <---> Internet
one with the widest possible selection, better service, and more respect for people’s ideas and lives.”
Amoeba Musi
huge chain stores were mercilessly swallowing up independent store
depriving communities across the country of a personal relationship with their musi
HMV chief executive Simon Fox reported that CDs currently account for about a quarter of HMV’s business
If HMV merely maintains its share of the shrinking CD pie over the next three years, the company projects its annual revenues from CDs to fall to £120 million
the entire CD market in the UK would be worth just £300 million in three years’ time
£145m of turnover that has to be replaced by “digital entertainment devices”.
1 million subscribers in Europe already pay the monthly premium subscription fee, while more than 10 million users go the free route.
Billboard reported that Spotify in just three weeks amassed at least 1 million total US users, and 70,000 paid subscribers in the first week
Spotify’s partnership with Facebook
ny labels or musicians who want to make money from CDs better wow buyers with unforgettable packaging
consumers have demonstrated that they’re willing to sacrifice sound quality for convenience and portability.
enough audiophiles – and videophiles for that matter – to sustain an entertainment ecosystem to cater to their needs?
Not having actual possession of a digital file is the premise of ‘cloud’-based computing, a
The Death of Bunny Munro, w
transmedia storytelling’ is a technique of telling stories
mass media to develop media franchises
type of thing that CD-ROM started doing in the 1990s