Re: SliMP3 and the BBC

["Simon Rafferty" <simonr@xxxxxxx>]

I, as have many people, emailed the BBC, THe SoS for Arts and Media (Tessa
Jowell) and her government office (department for culture, media and sport)
 asking why a National public broadcasting service is using a propriatary
method for streaming media across the internet and not an open standard
such as MP3, to date myself and about 3,000 other people have had no reply.
Frankly I find this quite disgusting that neither of the 3  people /
organisations were prepared to even acknowledge that this is an issue. If
you feel strongly about the BBC using real audio, and not providing an
alternate mp3 stream, I suggest that you also lobby Tessa Jowell or the BBC
about this issue.

Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Hawkins
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:29 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] SliMP3 and the BBC




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Fuller [mailto:neil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 April 2004 21:06
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] SliMP3 and the BBC
>
> Having just got around to getting my SliMP3 from Kens last
> BB up and running, I'm very impressed!
>
> There's a few niggles such as why does it lock up after a
> lack of attention for a couple of hours?

It shouldn't do this - I assume you're running the latest released server
code - Have you updated the player firmware too ??
>
> However, the thing I can't work out is how to get Internet
> radio stations to stream on to the Slimpy.

Pop them in a playlist

>
> In particular, how can I get BBC R2 thru 4 on to the
> Slimpy? Looks to me like BBC stream  in RealMedia format
> and I really don't want to install RealPlayer on my
> server, besides, it looks like the Slim server doesn't
> support RealMedia anyway????

The BBC use Real audio which as you say the SliMP3 does not support - in
fact I am not sure which hardware players do.  You can get around this with
a bit of realtime transcoding but it is not very satisfactory (there are
some posts on the Slim list re this). There are also some overseas
streaming
sources of some BBC content that are in mp3 or wma.  A high quality route
can be had using a Psion Wavefinder and streaming the BBC digital MUX
output
to the SliMP3, but that needs a bit more hardware.

K



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