Archive Projects

The following BBC projects have been made available under a variety of open source licenses. These projects are no longer maintained by software teams and are presented for legacy purposes.

AAF Edit Pack

This project provides a set of Delphi components that provide easy access to Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) files.

cpan modules

These are projects we have released the following distributions to CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)

dirac

Dirac is a state of the art video codec that provides general-purpose video compression and decompression tools. It is cross-platform and written in ANSI standard C++.

Glow

Glow is a JavaScript library designed to simplify the development of richly interactive websites in a manner compliant with BBC Standards & Guidelines.

ID3v2 Chapter Tool

ID3v2ChapterTool is an application which allows you to author and embed chapter information in your audio files.

Kamaelia

Kamaelia is designed as a testbed for network experimentation using a component architecture designed to simplify creation and testing of new protocols for large scale media delivery systems.

A reference implementation of the Pro-MPEG Media Dispatch Group's Media Dispatch Protocol. This software allows large media files and their metadata to be exchanged by organisations according to an agreed standard.

Media Lounge

A C++ application, based on the "Crystal Space 3D" game engine SDK. It displays an interactive, shared virtual world, in which the content author can embed audio and video sequences.

MHEG+

MHEG+ is a programming language developed by the TV Platforms Group at the BBC.

mod rest cache

to provide a mechanism to store content in a local disk cache that has been retrieved from another web server (or 2nd tier), and to provide a REST-like HTTP interface to remove specific items from that cache.