Friday, June 20, 2008

BBC Radio Usage

Interesting numbers from a very large webcaster. BBC Radio has committed to releasing monthly figures detailing the performance of its online sites and services.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/siteusage/
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Real Ripper

Interesting follow up article about this questionable feature introduced in RealPlayer a year ago.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/06/16/1420233.shtml
[...]its real impact will be not on piracy but on the perceived legitimacy of ripping programs.
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Codecs vs. Container Formats

I'm fed up with people mixing up the concepts of codec and container format. I've seen that mistake so many times and not just from newbies. Whitepapers written by large companies (names intentionally omitted here) carry that confusion.

For example, VP6, VC-1 and H.264 are codecs.
MP4, MOV, AVI, ASF and FLV are examples of container formats.

I will gladly help anyone who needs a hand trying to use those terms correctly.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

nextMEDIA, Banff, June 6-8, 2008

This weekend I had the chance to attend the nextMEDIA conference in the magnificent Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel.

So on my way to a session room on Sunday morning I walk across Leila Boujnane, CEO, Idée Inc..
Phil : Leila!
Leila (intrigued) : Yes?
P : You went to the Milia in Cannes a while back?
L : I believe so but it was a long time ago.
P : Indeed. 10 years ago, my masters' thesis won the Milia's Young Talent contest and they invited me to present it in Cannes. I was a broke grad student having the time of his life. You and I met there and you bought me a sandwich.

I know I'm not the only delegate at the nextMEDIA who was extremely impressed by the technology your company develops.
Thank you Leila.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

VLC Port to Neuros Linux

I'm eager to see what this device will be capable of. 
[...]porting will be carried out in phases, from basic multimedia platform bring up, to full playback and full recording support, with complete system integration done in Q3 of 2008[...]

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Monday, June 2, 2008

HE-AAC Perceived quality

[…] Scientific testing by the European Broadcasting Union has indicated that HE-AAC at 48 kbit/s was ranked as "Excellent" quality using the MUSHRA scale. MP3 in the same testing received a score less than half that of HE-AAC and was ranked "Poor" using the MUSHRA scale. Data from this testing also indicated that some individuals confused 48 kbit/s encoded material with an uncompressed original.[…]
EBU subjective listening test on low-bit rate audio codecs
(Figure 8, page 15/45)
Results for 48 kbit/s stereo
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