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Listed below are comments made by BeardedChimp between Wednesday, 22nd April 2009 and Tuesday, 23rd June 2009.

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By way of an introduction: Open Post, Monday 22 June 2009 12:04pm on 23 Jun 2009 Ughargh, I wrote quite a long post here yesterday but after clicking post comment the page somehow got itself stuck and just sat greyed out. It wouldn't even let me select it so I could save my writing :( Ahh I just worked out why it died, I wrote video inside tags.

So in short, do you have any information on the status of dirac as diracvideo.org is very quiet, and the internet blog hasn't mentioned it in donkeys. It's important because a lot of discussion is taking place on the future of the video tag in html5 and theora is being pushed because its opensource and patent free nature are beneficial to an open web. Dirac also fits this bill but but BBC seems to be ignoring it these days which seems sad.
BBC HD: Joining the BBC iPlayer family 11:58am on 22 Apr 2009 I'm blown away at the bit rate you are firing this out at, out of interest what sort of bandwidth does the BBC have to work with, and how much does it cost the BBC to send that sort of data? I've worked with streaming quite a bit in the past and those bandwidth costs would bankrupt me (though that's not difficult).

Unfortunately since I run 64bit ubuntu running on an AMD 3500 (oldish but can still handle 720p very comfortably natively) there's no way to run those HD streams. The flash 64bit implementation (and generally the linux version) is oh so slow; I'm getting about 1 frame every 10 seconds on the HD streams, and the SD streams already stutter badly (unwatchable). So I was interested how progress is going regarding dirac and the totem plugin in ubuntu. I know there used to be a test stream using dirac but I can no longer find it, only radio. If iplayer content started going through dirac it'd make me a happy man. I love what you are doing regarding opening up patent free standards, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when I think of the BBC.

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