News
Tuesday 21 September 2021, 14:38
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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Thursday 02 September 2021, 17:04
Oli Freke
Executive Product Manager
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.
Wednesday 16 December 2020, 12:15
Lloyd Wallis
Senior Architect, Online Technology Group
An update on changes to the BBC's live radio streams.
Tuesday 20 August 2019, 14:09
Marcel Riederer
Software Engineer
How more Audio Described content has been made available to stream.
Friday 22 February 2019, 10:56
Daniel Pope, Gokhan Urgun and Andrew Wheat
Media Services, BBC Design + Engineering
The Media Services team explain the steps taken to create visual seeking functionality.
Thursday 04 October 2018, 16:33
Pierre-Yves Bigourdan and Sam Lukes
Software engineers, D+E Platform
A light-hearted of some experiences with Java 11.
Thursday 19 July 2018, 11:00
Jim Simmons
Senior Product Manager
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.
Friday 22 June 2018, 10:52
Lloyd Wallis from Media Services explains some of the challenges behind creating UHD workflows for the World Cup.
Friday 11 May 2018, 11:03
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.
Monday 23 April 2018, 12:31
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.
