[ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

[Harry Rickards]

On 3 May 2009, at 21:35, Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists at googlemail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Harry Rickards  
> <hrickards at l33tmyst.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3 May 2009, at 21:18, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was watching the BBC News 24 TV programme "Click" broadcast this
>>> weekend. When they were testing a 100 Mbit/s broadband connection,
>>> they
>>> used it to download two copies of Ubuntu 9.04 simultaneously. A good
>>> advert for Ubuntu.
>>
>> Just out of interest, how long did it take?
>
> It showed only a short segment of the download, demonstrating that
> the download speed was about 77Mbps. It appeared that the issue of  
> choosing
> the Ubuntu ISO had to do with the availability of a fast distribution
> server, so one can
> put together a simple benchmark. Still, this was good.
>
> If you get 'get_iplayer' (http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer), then you
> can download the episode
> with
>
> get_iplayer --get 128               (expires on the 10th May)
>
> Simos
>

What format does this download in, and will ffmpeg convert it to ogg  
theora + vorbis okay (I assume it's some proprietary format with DRM  
on)? I only ask as I refuse to watch non FLOSS codec video when I'm on  
a device that can handle it.

Many thanks
Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst)