On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 20:50, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > 2010/1/1 Tim Dobson <li...@tdobson.net>: >> it was suggested initially that GNU/Linux was pretty much irrelevant > > Only by ignorant assholes. :-)
Making it a “GNU/Linux” issue misses the point, really: the OS itself is fairly irrelevant, and there’s no proprietary magic which can be incanted in order to make things suddenly wonderful on all Linux devices (in part by definition). The key is of course relying on open standards rather than FLV-in-RTMP for iPlayer. ’course, when the web-based iPlayer was launched, browser support for <video /> was practically nonexistant. Now… not so much. This, in a roundabout way, renders the old argument of “we don’t want to require everyone to have an H.264 decoder installed” somewhat moot, as <video /> makes it pretty easy to serve H.264 to those who support it and fall back to Flash for those who don’t. Of course, the _real_ issue is that serving content using standards which are now years old in formats which are widely-supported doesn’t account for DRM, despite its worthlessness: all of the other issues are pretty much red herrings compared to this. M. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
