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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. 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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