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BBC Testing Ogg Vorbis Streaming

Posted by timothy on from the stream-baby-stream dept.

jregel writes: "Credit must go to AirLance who posted a comment on Slashdot that the BBC are currently testing Ogg Vorbis streaming. As the comment says, users should email the BBC and show support. It would certainly suggest that someone at the BBC is quietly pushing open source. Is this the first major media outlet to use the format?" I hope someone from NPR is reading this, too :)

3 of 256 comments (clear)

  1. Yeah, Ditch Real.Com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Any thing that will stop the BBC from using an encoder from those bastards at Real.Com has got
    to be good.

    Real sucks ass.

    - Penguin Kicka

  2. Made in the UK by leastsquares · · Score: 3, Funny

    The great thing about my beloved BBC is that they aren't scared to experiment. They had a fully functional website long before most American broadcasters knew what the web was.

    Unfortunately somethings don't change, and BBC America is showing the Queen's Christmas speech in 5 minutes. Arrgh, run, hide.

  3. Re:Nothing New by nihilogos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gosh, it looks like the Windows Media test ends on Jan 2, while the Ogg test continues until Jan 2002.

    Yes, and while they have half a dozen PCs being using in the Ogg Vorbis trial there's only 6 being used in the Media player one.

    --
    :wq