Hi! [...] > The BBC have got a media player for playing recently-broadcast > programmes, but unfortunately because of the way the programmes are then > passed over to BBC Worldwide to be "commercialised", the player is > DRM'ed to the hilt and actively destroys downloaded media after 7 days, > from what I've heard. I don't know which compression algorithms they're > using in the player, it /could/ be Dirac...
Sadly it was using WMP, and it didn't seem to be p2p in the end either. They did a deal with another company to provide the service, I forget which. The time limit was apparently coded in local JavaScript BTW! Re-Dirac, they only had reference implementations last time I looked, and we need more than 2fps for it to be usable. They should re-write the codec in optimal C and have an option for multi-threaded decode. The BBC research guys said it was intended for HD content, so maybe something post-FreeView in 2015 or so.. I speculate... Cheers Jon _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
