Jim Simmons
Senior Product Manager
Blog posts in total 7
Posts
Broadcasting the World Cup and Wimbledon in UHD - the full story
Jim Simmons from D+E Platform Media Services, discusses our experience of delivering live Ultra High Definition at scale for the World Cup and Wimbledon on a round-by-round basis.
Normalising our loudness
Product manager Jim Simmons writes about applying consistent loudness normalisation levels on BBC audio clips and podcasts.
Audio Factory update: the BBC's audio streaming system one year on
Audio Factory has enabled a lot of new features for listeners since its release in February 2015. As the first anniversary approaches, this blog updates on what has been happening and what the plans are for the future.
Audio Factory: BBC Radio 3 HD Sound on Shoutcast
We are still talking to manufacturers and many are confident that they will be able to provide their users with access to all 57 of our HLS AAC streams at 320kb/s within a few weeks or months.
Audio Factory: update
We have been communicating our plans to manufacturers and aggregators for the last 12 months but we are aware that some devices will not be able to receive these new formats .
Start times on BBC Radio on demand programmes
Let’s start with two simple questions. What time does Woman’s Hour on Radio 4 start and how long is it? The answers are of course, that it starts at 10:00:00, 10:02:00 and 10:02:07 and its duration is 1 hour, 58 minutes, 57 minutes, 56’ 53”, 45 minutes, 43 minutes and 42’57”.
Audio Factory: BBC Radio to stop supporting Windows Media on December 31st
Radio will stop supporting Windows Media on December 31st. This will have an effect on some online listeners, as we know that some devices cannot support the new http streaming methods or the AAC codec.
