Submitted by brochard on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 17:30.
Since July 17, France 24 news content is available through an Iphone. You can access the service on the following website: iphone.france24.com.
Our channel has opted to privilege simplicity and speed of browsing by offering three rubrics, each providing a comprehensive view of the news:
- The “Headlines”, comprising the three leading stories followed by the first article from each major subject area.
- “Real-time newswires”, as provided by France24.com
- The “latest videos”: featuring the latest news bulletin, business bulletin and weather forecast.
The entire service is available in three languages : French, English and Arabic - you'll need to download an arabic fonts pack to see the site corectly. Special emphasis was placed on the video functions. In order to speed-up and simplify the loading process, the service provides sequences in low-speed quicktime connection (270kbs) (an optimal quality for progressive downloading on Iphone). Web developments are provided by Michel Levy Provençal’s team. Within the team, Elbou Elbechir was in charge of coding the website dedicated to the Iphone.
France24 videos are broadcast on the Iphone by means of an automatic VOD-creating system. The project is managed in-house by Francisco Simon Hernandez.
Technical details :
Web : Drupal
Video : H264 / MPEG4 in movie format at 270kb/s
