[_] BBC is threatened with reporting to the EC
Amias Channer
underscore at amias.org.uk
Wed Jun 27 14:11:47 BST 2007
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:15 +0100, Mark Chitty wrote:
> 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 saw a demo of it a while back , it works and its very impressive.
You can find it on sourceforge.
> 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.
yep thats what the ORG are saying . I haven't understood why auntie
can't just re-write her contracts to include online distribution .
She's are big and prestigious (for now) enough to get away with it .
Isn't it fairly normal for content distributors to give themselves far
reaching distribution rights ? e.g. the known universe on whatever
medium.
> the only problem is that it would cost a fortune to develop and they
> don't have the expertise . . .
not since they sold of the R&D department that was developing it .
It would be facinating to know how much the microsoft solution is
costing us^^the BBC.
Toodle-pip
Amias