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  1. Digital distribution: How on demand content reaches audiences

    Federico Benedetto

    Product Manager

    Digital distribution: How on demand content reaches audiences

    One of the biggest technical challenges that we have to solve as a content provider is delivering video and audio streams to a geographically spread out audience. At peak times, many hundreds of gigabits per second of data have to be transferred across the internet.

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  2. Video Factory: Updating the creation and distribution systems for on demand video

    Kiran Patel

    Executive Product Manager

    Video Factory: Updating the creation and distribution systems for on demand video

    One of our original goals for Video Factory was to review and refresh the transcode profiles for the video we create, as well as changing our distribution architecture to become more efficient with storage, more flexible when making changes and more resilient by using multiple distribution partners.

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  3. Using IP technology to broadcast

    Alex Rawcliffe

    Engineer, Ö÷²¥´óÐã R&D

    Using IP technology to broadcast

    We believe that the adoption of IP-based broadcast systems can make broadcasting more efficient, and enable new forms of content.

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  4. College of Technology round up: lean UX, codecs, file delivery

    Frederick Botham

    Researcher

    A source of near-constant frustration for internet users seems to be non-functioning or otherwise absent codecs. Media found online can often prompt a dreaded error message when put through our playback devices.

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  5. Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer App on Android: Update

    David Berlin

    Senior Product Manager

    Today we have an Android development team that is almost 3 times the size of the iOS team

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  6. Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sport: A weekend of digital coverage

    Ben Gallop

    Head of Sport Interactive

    It's hard to believe it's nearly a year since London 2012. After that incredible summer of sport, and what was generally regarded as the first true ‘digital Olympics’, we've been busy working on how we can roll out elements of that offer to the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's coverage of other sports.

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  7. Building the Knowledge & Learning beta

    Robert Lee

    Technical Architect

    The technical work we've undertaken so far, some of which you can see in our new beta release.

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  8. iBroadcast: An easy way to publish AV content for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã

    Matthew Browning

    Executive Product Manager

    I'm Matthew Browning and among other things I'm executive product manager for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Future Media's Media Tools group. Among the millions of daily visitors to bbc.co.uk how many stop to consider where the programmes, news and live coverage they are enjoying actually come from? This is where my tea...

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  9. Reporting Hurricane Sandy: Technology from The Edge Group

    Tim Harness

    Product Lead

    Hi, I’m Tim Harness the project lead working on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Edge Group. The Edge is a forum within the Ö÷²¥´óÐã for programme makers, journalists, engineers and technologists who want to find new, different, innovative and/or low-cost ways of getting audio and video...

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  10. Android: An update

    Dave Price

    Head of Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer

    The Ö÷²¥´óÐã launched the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Media Player for Android nearly three months ago. Since then it has been downloaded to more than one million Android phones and tablets. In this short period of time we've witnessed a dramatic change in the Android platform and in Ö÷²¥´óÐã usage on the platform. When we l...

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