And now you say we shouldn't use the streaming version either
on non-PC?
You do not need to port Flash to use the streaming iPlayer. Flash is a
convenient client tool but it is not the only one.
Any piece of software which can talk RTMP and play FLV files can use
iPlayer. So long it will run that software, the hardware is irrelevant.
RTMP is just a socket-based protocol so clients can be written in any
language. The playback is more restricted. Obviously you could use
mencoder to convert to xvid or whatever and reach a potentially wider
range of clients, but as Ian tells us, that's not allowed.
You can play
certain flash files using a bunch of other players. For example VLC,
Mplayer, FFMpeg, Gnash, etc will all play Flash 4 files. Gnash can even
render the animation and interaction of Flash 7 and 8 files.
What version is iPlayer's flash?
I think Flash 7 is required for the RTMP part (? need confirmation).
The mplayer that comes bundled with ubuntu seems to play the resulting
flv files fine.
Cheers,
Phil
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