320kbps radio audio available via MPEG-DASH

[Jim web]

In article <56848C79.2030303 at jls-radio.com>, James Scholes
<james at jls-radio.com> wrote:

> I've been investigating the BBC's offerings that they're making
> available via MPEG-DASH today, specifically for radio content.  It
> appears that audio is available in 320kbps AAC for most radio programs
> (possibly all but I wouldn't want to claim such).  The files aren't
> DRM-protected, can be grabbed over HTTP, and joined together using
> ffmpeg.

May be worth my adding:

When I was talking to some people at the BBC months ago to write about the
then-new "Audio Factory" changes they told me that the end-aim was to
provide 320k aac streams for all the 'UK' radio stations - i.e. radios
1,2,3,4, etc. Thus ending the situation where radio 3 got special
treatment. ('Local' and 'Regional' stations may remain at at lower standard
as they are handled slightly differently.)

>From what you say it looks like that has come to fruition. :-)

So if gip can exploit ffmpeg and mpeg-dash as suggested it may be a very
useful development that I'd certainly welcome.

Jim

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