Kerblam! by Christopher

Monday, July 11
Panorama Special: London Under Attack (video)

I've just encoded and uploaded a programme from last night's TV that people (especially non-UK people) might find quite interesting. The programme in question is a Panorama show, made throughout the past year, studying how Al Qaeda has adapted and evolved - after the London bombs, the programme was quickly revised to include this event and factor in and contextualise this.

The official programme description reads, "After a year long BBC investigation, Peter Taylor reports on how al Qaeda has evolved since 9/11, why the terrorists can elude detection and the threat to the United Kingdom."

To download this video, click here: Panorama Special - London Under Attack (46mins 08secs, 180Mb)

Notes on the video

I decided to encode this at a higher quality than my previous 7/7-related videos, as this is more than a short clip and has more detail in it - you won't be able to stream it without pauses unless you have a connection that's faster than 512kbps (1Mb recommended, as it peaks at more than 600kbps in parts; peak points of complexity have a higher bitrate than the rest of the file).

Due to its size, and (expected) popularity, I'll try and keep this video online for as long as I can, but I might have to encode it at a [much] lower bitrate (it's already half the resolution it was broadcast at, in an effort to keep the per-pixel quality up), so grab it while it's hot. It's in Windows Media 9 format, so all you need is a copy of Windows Media Player (if your system doesn't have the codecs, WMP will download them for you). I would publish this video in xvid/huffyuv or MP4, but the filesize would be prohibitively big (that's the one thing that WM9 does moderately well, small filesizes on lower bitrates), and MP4 isn't supported widely enough yet. In short: larger audience guaranteed compatibility with WM9. Sorry anti-Microsofties, I'm not too hot on this decision myself, but it's For The People. :)

Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted
into his blog at 7/11/2005 07:05:00 AM. Roughly.
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