autopilot;335590 Wrote: > Yeah, i realised it was the Recieva chipset, but i did not realise (or > ever think about it that hard) that it used the same scrapping > techniques as AlienBBC. Thats very interesting, i was having a > conversation elsewhere about this and someone was arguing that Receiva > chipset based units were a safer bet for future proofing BBC support.
Reciva (spelling correct) were one of the vendors who were talking directly with the BBC media team to try to get something official in place. In theory ... they do not have access to anything beyond that available to others, including AlienBBC maintainers. Now for a bunch of speculation ... If BBC does turn off the RealAudio (live stream and listen again) and only provide the Flash access to the encrypted MP3 (live stream and "listen again") but then only uses AAC+ for the live stream then it would make life difficult (no access to "listen again"). If that were to happen then I could imagine that they would enter into agreements with manufacturers/developers who wanted to provide access to the "listen again" content but would need something to try to prevent the audio content from being easily copied. Similar to the back-end integration done for parts of SqueezeCenter/SqueezeNetwork today - without open source. -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://www.lastfm.com/user/BondJamesBond ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51829 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
