(for some reason Andy's reply didn't make it to my mail client, but I've read it online
here: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg07375.html - I'd really
appreciate it if the Backstage page about the mailing list would link to the HTML archive!)
Apache has the power to serve files over HTTP. You should check it out
http://www.apache.org/ . Stick a file in a location it can access and
clients can stream from it.
As far as I know, Apache cannot stream files.
Red5 ..
VLC
Even if these were OK, do they work on the massive scale required by the BBC? According to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7187967.stm they'd need to be support streaming
250,000 programmes a day. I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest that neither of these
servers are capable of handling this load as-is.
I can't answer all your other questions because I don't know all the answers, but here are
a few:
"Does this mean an RTMP
client needs to have a full interpreter for some programming language"
An RTMP client needs to have an execution environment.
<questions about dates>
See the JavaScript Date documentation for your favourite implementation, such as
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Global_Objects:Date
<acceptable characters in PID and Token>
These are generated by the BBC, so you probably don't need to know, other than ensuring
you encode as UTF-8 to make sure you can handle a broad character set. Java encodes String
objects to UTF-8 internally by default.
I would hope that most of your other questions become redundant if an API appears, as has
been suggested.
Cheers,
Phil
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