Tagged with: BBC iPlayer
Posts (80)
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Streaming Euro 2020 live at a record new scale
Pierre-Yves Bigourdan
Software Engineering Team Lead
During the 2018 World Cup quarter final our systems at the time became overwhelmed, leading to a major outage. How did we scale our live streaming architecture to stream the Euro 2020 final online to a new record of 7.1 million viewers?
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New look subtitles and playback for BBC iPlayer on TV
Andrew White
Product Manager, BBC iPlayer
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Building a WebAssembly Runtime for BBC iPlayer and enhanced audience experiences
Juliette Carter
Research Engineer, BBC R&D
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Mixing Audio Description for BBC iPlayer
Marcel Riederer
Software Engineer
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Visual seeking for BBC iPlayer
Daniel Pope, Gokhan Urgun and Andrew Wheat
Media Services, BBC Design + Engineering
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Restarting live BBC TV with the green button
Jennifer Richardson
Senior Product Manager, Interactive TV
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Continuing the BBC's experiments in UHD
Phil Layton
Head of Broadcast and Connected Systems, BBC R&D
The BBC has always been working to improve picture quality for audiences and lately we have been able to make some shows available in Ultra-High Definition (UHD). Now we’re taking the next step by streaming live UHD content.
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AWS re:Invent: creating iPlayer architecture and nanoservices architecture
Matthew Clark, Stephen Godwin
Technology Strategy & Architecture
Two of the BBC’s senior architects discuss the creation of the iPlayer architecture and how the BBC’s website and app handle millions of users.
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Making BBC iPlayer the best place to watch BBC TV
Dan Taylor-Watt
Director, Product & Systems, BBC Design & Engineering
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Testing times: Ensuring BBC App testing efficiency
Michael Blades
Senior Test Engineer, BBC TV & Radio
Our testers are encouraged to evolve with the industry along with our developers and we constantly experiment and iterate on ideas to improve our ways of working within an agile team. We focus on up-skilling, pairing and training to make sure our team are sharing knowledge and introducing new ideas.