Ian Forrester wrote: > Hi All, > > So in aid to try and change the negative thread in to something positive. I > was talking to some people today about iPlayer and what's happened. Anyway, > the person asked what would you do different if you were working on iPlayer > 2.0?
Hi Ian, From what I understand of the development of iPlayer to date, you guys have been doing pretty much everything The Right Way. Most of the activity has been setting up the infrastructure driving everything behind the scenes -- large data storage clusters for digital media, clusters of transcoding servers for translation between formats, building sensible, feature-complete metadata structures for representing series / episode / clip structures -- and minting Cool URIs to represent each of these. All of this is good. The only real criticism that I could reasonably level at the current iPlayer project would be the streaming / download interfaces exposed to the general public. Because of the DRM requirement, you necessarily find yourself in the impossible position of trying deliver uncopyable digital content -- which, to quote Schneier, is like trying to make water not wet. The only rational strategy is to try to get the DRM requirement dropped. How you do that is up to you guys.. Cheers, David -- David McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
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