[peel] Re: Tom R for Tom R

[Alasdair Macdonald]

Thanks for the info. I didn't expect the audio format to be mp3, since
presumably there is a cost involved. Happy to be corrected.

2009/2/26 Paul Webster <paul@...>:
> 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
>
> --
> Sent from my phone
>
> 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