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I have often thought that vlan was a prime candidate for the beeb to develop
an open source standalone/embedded player on top of. They even looked into
developing their own codec (called Dirac IIRC) but I haven't heard anything
about it for ages.

I would say (due to the unique way in which they are funded, haha) the beeb
should be leading the way on a whole open source, p2p, content delivery
platform with some open source DRM rolled in for good measure.

the only problem is that it would cost a fortune to develop and they don't
have the expertise . . .

oh well . . .

mark

On 6/27/07, Neil Smith <Neil.Smith at coull.biz> wrote:
>
>
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:58:29 +0100
> > From: Matthew Wilkes <matt at matthewwilkes.name>
> > Message-ID: <8E958EA7-BE45-4A8A-8AAC-82C4774B3E53 at matthewwilkes.name>
> >
> > > Hmm, that's not really true dude - you coulda used the
> > VideoLAN plugin
> > > for your browser to access any WMA / ASF streams :
> > > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html an you can slap
> > that plugin
> > > into firefox on the Mac.
> >
> > But are they official, or something a friendly hacker has
> > made because he was fed up of ASF?  As far as I'm concerned,
> > the BBC should be providing their content in open formats,
> > and not relying on people having to write clients to accommodate them.
>
>
> I'm not really sure what you mean by official here ?
> You mean the BBC mandated using that player ? For sure, No.
>
> As a viewer, if I want to access a stream which happens to be in a
> format which one media player doesn't support (or have a plugin for), I
> would look around for another which does.
>
> The open source VLC project has been rattling about for several years,
> it makes a half-decent streaming proxy for emergency use, though
> principally it's a media player which supports most common and lot of
> oddball formats. Plus it's available on all platforms you can think of.
> OK perhaps not ZX81 but hey ;-)
>
>
> Cheers - Neil Smith
> MVP Digital Media 2003-2007
>
>
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