[peel] Re: Tom R for Tom R

[Paul Webster]

BBC records / transcodes to a number of different formats. One of  
which is 128k MP3 - which is what the iPlayer Flash front-end plays.
The MP3 has been fiddled with to protect it from native MP3 players -  
but 3rd-parties have worked out how to return it to proper MP3.
BBC say that it is higher quality than their RealAudio copy.


Paul

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On 26 Feb 2009, at 00:16, Alasdair Macdonald <wewalkforonereason@... 
 > wrote:

> So get_iplayer transcodes to 128kbps mp3? I doubt the stream is mp3  
> format.
>
> Anyhoo, I'll pop up the full 2 hour Monday morning show sometime over
> the weekend. I'm experiencing some network peculiarities at the moment
>
> I guess I got confused about the start times of Tom Robinson's shows.
> I had the complete Sunday night / Monday morning show after all; the
> PC was busy on Saturday night and I don't have any of the Saturday
> night / Sunday night show.
>
> 2009/2/25 Andrew Dean <koogy@...>:
>> Alasdair Macdonald writes:
>>
>>> What is the bitrate of the RealMedia streams? I'll share what I have
>>> (160kbps DVB mp2) of Sunday nights programme if required;
>>
>> well, i use get_iplayer and ended up with a 128kbps mp3 for  
>> sunday's and a
>> dump of the raw ra stream for mondays (get_iplayer uses the ipod  
>> download
>> backdoor if it can - better than realtime downloads. if that fails  
>> it'll
>> record (and optionally transcode) the ra stream directly)
>>
>> file sizes
>> sun 112503k
>> mon  57050k
>>
>> so the ra stream is about 64kbps
>
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