The Newsroom

Saif Al Islam Gadaffi Captured

Rolling Coverage (January 2011)

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
DA
David
thegeek posted:
David posted:
How are the pictures arriving in London? Could someone else pick them up if they had a satellite dish pointed in the right direction or would they be encrypted?
They're probably using BGAN or similar - it'll be a laptop-sized satellite antenna, a bit like this.
It'll give them a ~500kbps data pipe, maybe even via the internet from Inmarsat to Sky - and they'll then use a video codec of some sort to squeeze the output of their (possibly HD) camera down the very narrow IP pipe


Sometimes when the picture is lost we see a testcard with streambox on it. I guess this is the device that does the video encoding.
GE
thegeek Founding member
David posted:
Sometimes when the picture is lost we see a testcard with streambox on it. I guess this is the device that does the video encoding.


that'll be the one!
http://www.streambox.com/live/industries/broadcast.html
DV
DVB Cornwall
Matthew Price now out of Libya ...

Back in Tunisia after getting out of #Rixos #Tripoli #Libya Now that was a little bit hairy. Sorry for radio silence. Internet went off.
from ……..

MATTHEWWPRICE on TWITTER
25-Aug-2011 @ 18:44
WA
watchingtv
Matthew Price was explaining his situation on BBC News at 6 last night just before the weather but the feed was lost and we moved straight over to the weather without returning, has he appeared since and gone through it again, it was very interesting to listen to.
JO
Johnnie
This is brilliant! Very Happy

NE
Newsroom
Is it me, or does Orla Guerin always sound like the GRIM REAPER, the authority on doom and gloom.

She is always posted to places of gloom. She always files her reports on a low.

"We found them starving for their lives, as if life could not go on.."

"Rachid wasn't laughing when we found him, he'd lost several limbs as the war rages on"

"This little girl lost her mother, we found her clinging to her body when we arrived"

She needs to sort out her tone, it's quite disturbing, quite depressing. I always know when there is something awful coming up as soon as someone announces Orla Guerin reports from......
IT
itsrobert Founding member
I know what you mean, but I don't think there's much she can do about it. The BBC always give her very weighty international material to work with, so she can hardly be jolly when she's amidst warfare, starvation and tragedy. I suspect if she was moved to become an Arts Correspondent she'd be completely different altogether.
PE
Pete Founding member
Newsroom posted:
Is it me, or does Orla Guerin always sound like the GRIM REAPER, the authority on doom and gloom.


Dead Ringers used to refer to her as "The BBC's Misery Correspondent" and have her read stories about balloons and bouncy castles whilst still making them depressing
IS
Inspector Sands
thegeek posted:
It'll give them a ~500kbps data pipe, maybe even via the internet from Inmarsat to Sky - and they'll then use a video codec of some sort to squeeze the output of their (possibly HD) camera down the very narrow IP pipe.

If it was an HD camera they probably wouldn't have been feeding an HD output into the encoder and then onto the BGAN. The video quality coming out of those things isn't even SD.
IS
Inspector Sands
David posted:
Sometimes when the picture is lost we see a testcard with streambox on it. I guess this is the device that does the video encoding.

Yes as I explained a few pages back, Streambox is the system they use to stream video back to base. Like similar systems such as Quicklink it can either stream back live video or high quality video clips slower than real time, known as 'store and forward'. Normally it'll be installed on a laptop with edit software on it so you edit and send back all on the same machine.

As it's IP based it can either be used down a normal internet connection or, more commonly now a satellite internet connection like BGAN which uses Imarsat satellites - these were originally for communication from ships, hence the 'mar' in it's name: International Maritime Satellite.


Most items from far flung areas you see on news programmes will be sent back on a system like this, it's far cheaper and more flexible than using a traditional video feed via satellite
BL
bloblet
So - the BBC are gradually getting a much larger team in place, does this mean they'll start to overtake Sky, simply because they have so many more reporters, and can be in so many more places?

Feel free to expand this list if you know of any more BBC correspondents:
Rana Jawad - Tripoli
Daniel Sandford - Tripoli
Lyse Doucett - Tripoli
Orla Guerin - Tripoli
John Simpson - Tripoli
Wyre Davies - Tripoli
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes - Tripoli
Jon Leyne - Benghazi
Paul Wood - near Sirte
Jonathan Head - Misrata

Matthew Price no longer in Libya...
NE
Newsroom
Pete posted:
Newsroom posted:
Is it me, or does Orla Guerin always sound like the GRIM REAPER, the authority on doom and gloom.


Dead Ringers used to refer to her as "The BBC's Misery Correspondent" and have her read stories about balloons and bouncy castles whilst still making them depressing


LOL! WIll look that up!

Newer posts