Quick post following up on our R&DTV experiment. So far we've had some useful feedback and fixed a couple of bloopers. Ooops.
The 5 minute Ogg file was a slightly old pre-final-edit version, where around 30 seconds of video were obscured. We've updated that now. It's in the - if you downloaded it previously, you might want to get it again. Or not, it's up to you.
All the other versions are fine. The versions up on the torrent sites seem to be the 30 mins version, so they're all good too.
, we're on , , currently on , and of the lists seem to like what we're up to.
This'll be on archive.org soon and is on some of the torrent trackers I've seen.
Follow or on Twitter for live-ish updates. Watching the for updates is fun for us as we see this spread.
Some of the commentators delve into questions that are most certainly not for us to answer - however, questions about codecs, next steps, etc, definitely are, so send them in to rdtv@bbc.co.uk and we'll try and answer in between eating chocolate bunnies.
Today we launch a new trial aimed at exploring new ways to create, edit and distribute online video. It's called R&DTV. We've done this in collaboration with colleagues in , part of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ R&D.
It's a pilot show, designed to be sharable, remixable and redistributable. It's released under a Creative Commons Attribution (Non-Commercial) licence, and looks at interesting tech stories inside and outside the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ. The first episode features Nicholas Negroponte (talking about the OLPC project), Kevin Rose from digg.com, Graham Thomas from ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Research and Ant Miller / George Auckland from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ discussing the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Micro. Hemmy Cho and Rain Ashford were the producers.
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RAD's really pleased to announce that we've released some recent work as free/open source software. It's a project called . The code was produced in collaboration with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ by an indie startup called who pitched the idea to us some time ago. We've been working on this together over the last few months and are delighted that it can now be shared. The reference code release bundle is available at . It's important to note that since our reference release, there's been a lot of progress on new features (mentioned below) and development of that is taking place over at  - so go there for the full-fat code experience.
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