florca wrote: > Feels like the end of a very long road for this plugin, which in its > various guises and with a phenomenal amount of work from you (and > originally Adrian / Triode) has formed the mainstay of my whole > familiy's Squeezebox listening over many years - so a massive thanks for > all that you've done here. Thank goodness the Sounds plugin is filling > the gap, at least pending any more unwelcome changes at the BBC end. > l
expectingtofly wrote: > I hope it's not the end of the iPlayer plugin. It really is/was a model > in how to provide rich functionality simply and directly, which i too > have used for many years. The Sounds plugin was never meant to > replace it, it was created to follow the BBC Sounds provision model, for > those that wanted to sign in and follow it (which I personally find > useful) . But I suppose inevitably, it may end up the only way to > access the on demand content. > Of course in many ways the iplayer plugin will live on, especially bpa's > work on the audio decoding that is the basis for dash/aac decoding in > the Youtube and BBC sounds plugins. That's the wonder of open source. I'll keep supporting BBCiPlayer & Extra as long as it is feasible but it is dependent on BBC. It is always good to have a backup. BBC Sounds is another natural evolutionary iteration of BBC on LMS. AlienBBC had screenscraping & RealAudio which was then replaceed by FlashAudio and a BBC "Listen Again" feed. Then BBCiPlayer with the same feeds but moved to HLS, Flash and MP3 and then to DASH. I took on maintenance of BBCiPlayer mainly for selfish reasons - I used it. "Listen Again" feed is now creaking and BBC have wanted to retire it for ages. BBC retired the other APIs BBCiPlayerExtra used hoping Nitro would work but I think tech overtook Nitro. RMS evolved and now seems stable and why I think it is a solid basis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113352 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
