- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:24:00 +0100
Henri Sivonen wrote: > In that case, an entire alternative soundtrack encoded using a > general-purpose codec would be called for. Is it reasonable to expect > content providers to take the bandwidth hit? Or should we expect content > providers to provide an entire alternative video file? Just for comparative purposes, the BBC iPlayer apparently uses three downloads: 1. Standard. 2. BSL. 3. Audio described (almost twice the size of Standard). All three have closed-captioning. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/access20/2007/05/audio_description_on_the_iplay.shtml -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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