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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 :)

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  1. Re:NPR? by redcliffe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I dunno about that, but it just seems damn boring when I listen to it from here in Australia. "All Things Considered" would have to be the worlds most boring radio program, with the worlds dullest presenters. Australian public radio stations are much more interesting.

  2. Re:NPR? by aka-ed · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    For a Public Radio station, everytime I listen to them, they sure to seem to be left leaning

    "Public" radio wouldn't exist if conservative Republicans were to decide the issue, they like "private sector" solutions. So why be surprised that the government-employed workers at public stations display a bias toward the concept that governments have social obligations (the "left-Demo" view)?

    Similarly, a "conservative" public radio wouldn't be streaming ogg vorbis. You'd more likely get a nice, corporate-friendly wma stream, or some other closed, proprietary standard (a helping hand to the "private sector").

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  3. Gross. by Eric+E.+Coe · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This is the best argument I have ever seen for outright deletion of comments. -1 is too good for this highly offensive crap.

    And it's just at 0. Where are you, moderators?

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  4. They also use apache by fanatic · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    # lynx -head -dump http://news.bbc.co.uk
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:31:05 GMT
    Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix)

    # lynx -head -dump http://www.bbc.co.uk
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:31:25 GMT
    Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix)

    Someone over there may be a big open source advocate.

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  5. Re:Suck on it, geek! by metrix007 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you think your so cool? ur just a fag man, look at your homepage!!! give me your ip gay little windows user and ill fuck u up real good

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