On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Anthony McKale wrote:
It's proably the h264 decoder of the flash player, it's quite buggy and a
bit of a cpu hog,
The real bug is that the BBC discriminate between:
a) Devices the BBC approves of and whose vendors the BBC likes to
work with, on a discretionary basis.
b) All other devices
Devices in b the BBC tries to restrict access to iPlayer to be via
Flash, for which there is essentially 0 competition in
implementation.
Devices in class a get access to a standards-based interface with
many competing, optimised interpreters/renderers available. This
allows, for the same set of compute resources, significantly
higher-quality video to be played than is possible with Flash.
Devices in class a are thus granted a competitive advantage over
those in class b, by the BBC.
regards,
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