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  1. 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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  2. Refreshed interface, extra features: new BBC Media Player launched for web browsers

    Oli Freke

    Executive Product Manager

    Refreshed interface, extra features: new BBC Media Player launched for web browsers

    Creating a new player for BBC audio and video content has allowed us to drop the old code, rebuild a player in a more efficient way and be able to add up-to-date features and technologies to the player in the future.

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  3. Update on ICY streams for manufacturers

    Lloyd Wallis

    Senior Architect, Online Technology Group

    An update on changes to the BBC's live radio streams.

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  4. Mixing Audio Description for BBC iPlayer

    Marcel Riederer

    Software Engineer

    Mixing Audio Description for BBC iPlayer

    How more Audio Described content has been made available to stream.

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  5. Visual seeking for BBC iPlayer

    Daniel Pope, Gokhan Urgun and Andrew Wheat

    Media Services, BBC Design + Engineering

    Visual seeking for BBC iPlayer

    The Media Services team explain the steps taken to create visual seeking functionality.

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  6. Grinding Java 11 beans into production

    Pierre-Yves Bigourdan and Sam Lukes

    Software engineers, D+E Platform

    A light-hearted account of some experiences with Java 11.

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  7. Broadcasting the World Cup and Wimbledon in UHD - the full story

    Jim Simmons

    Senior Product Manager

    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.

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  8. Inside our UHD workflow

    Lloyd Wallis

    Senior Architect, Online Technology Group

    Inside our UHD workflow

    Lloyd Wallis from Media Services explains some of the challenges behind creating UHD workflows for the World Cup.

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  9. The road to an IP future

    Matthew Postgate

    Chief Technology and Product Officer, BBC D&E

    BBC D&E Chief Technology and Product Officer Matthew Postgate summarises his speech to the DTG on an IP future.

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  10. 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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