Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2010-01-01 Thread David Greaves
Tim Dobson wrote: > The default Maemo browser is essentially Firefox 3.5+ which supports > (not natively H.264 though, but that's a different debate). > > With regards to DRM, well, I think some people are generally coming > round to the idea that it may not be the be all and end all. > > We'll

Re: [backstage] What is TV?

2010-01-01 Thread Kieran Kunhya
> On which platforms? As I said, I’m not talking about > Windows *at all* here. It uses an appropriate renderer for the platform, which by default would be GPU accelerated. (I don't feel like looking up the names for each one right now though...) > …yes. It does it backwards. Given a focus on r

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2010-01-01 Thread Scot McSweeney-Roberts
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 13:19, Tim Dobson wrote: > > We'll have to see what happens, but it wouldn't surprise me if 2010 was > the year video DRM got dropped as DRM for audio and in music has been in > the last year or two... > > I'm not that hopeful. I think the biggest driver behind the dropping

Re: [backstage] What is TV?

2010-01-01 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 13:19, Kieran Kunhya wrote: >> a) VLC, when _not_ using the GPU, doesn’t struggle >> remotely as much as Flash >> b) VLC also overlays text and graphics over video > > Again using the GPU for compositing. On which platforms? As I said, I’m not talking about Windows *at all*

Re: [backstage] What is TV?

2010-01-01 Thread Kieran Kunhya
> a) VLC, when _not_ using the GPU, doesn’t struggle > remotely as much as Flash > b) VLC also overlays text and graphics over video Again using the GPU for compositing. > c) YV12->RGB _can_ be tightly optimised if you’re > crazy enough to do > things that way around > > The key there is that th

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2010-01-01 Thread Tim Dobson
Mo McRoberts wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 20:50, Dave Crossland wrote: >> 2010/1/1 Tim Dobson : >>> 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 irre

Re: [backstage] What is TV?

2010-01-01 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 13:25, Kieran Kunhya wrote: >> > This is windows-only right now (presumably because >> Apple won't give Adobe access to the necessary APIs). >> >> Er, what? Where did that presumption come from? >> >> Nothing else on the Mac or Linux has a problem with video >> compositing.

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2010-01-01 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 20:50, Dave Crossland wrote: > 2010/1/1 Tim Dobson : >> 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 propri