Alan Cox wrote: > Actually they hired a former microsoft senior exec from the microsoft > windows media people. That aside the BBC does usually go to some lengths > to try and keep good cross platform support as befits its state funding > and constitution. > > >From the UK (the BBC site non UK is somewhat different as they have to > keep some of the video content UK only to keep the owners happy, or so > they can sell it to you ;)) it seems to just work for me both with > realplayer and the realvideo feeds and with mplayer and the windows media > stuff. > Like many others, I can watch BBC News videos with my F7 64-bit desktop. However, there apparently *is* a difference btw. UK and non-UK customers in that earlier (2 weeks ago) only low-quality (~34 kb/s) video streams were available for my location (in Finland). Connecting to BBC News with FF-32 and a stand-alone RealPlayer 10, I was now offered a choice btw. 'broadband' and 'standard'. Choosing broadband I got a better-quality (224 kb/s) picture, but there were many 'freezes' even in the one-minute World News video - just like watching someone on a satellite videophone. These freezes were apparent on other videos as well. This is beside the point, however. BBC News videos *can* be watched with Fedora 7, Firefox-32 and RP 10 also outside the UK. Antti
