They released the specs earlier this week. :) http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp/
2009/6/18 Phil Lewis <[email protected]> > On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 10:29 +0100, David Johnston wrote: > > 2009/6/18 Phil Lewis <[email protected]> > > > > This shouldn't be a problem from a rights perspective AFAIK. > > Currently > > all web based iPlayer content (including the 3200 kbps HD > > streams) is > > delivered without any DRM. RTMP is not DRM or content > > protection. > > > > RTMP may not be DRM, but I it's close enough to serve that purpose, > > and it does so rather well! > > IMHO, RTMP is not DRM at all. With RTMP there is no rights management, > encryption, crypto signing, registration of players, conditional access, > etc. OK, it is 'Digital' but that is about as close as it gets! > > The only purpose it seems to serve is its proprietary nature making it > harder to interoperate with unless you are adobe who have not yet > published the specs. However, adobe have aanounced in January that they > will be releasing the RTMP specs this year some time. Maybe they are > just running scared after all this HTML5/canvas threat to their > dominance of the video streaming market. Maybe they see it as a threat > also to their wanting to also dominate the digital TV market with flash > et. al. ? > > > Embedded ogg would lower that barrier quite significantly, something I > > imagine the rights-holders would not be best pleased with. > > The same rights holders probably didn't like VCRs either - or digital > terrestrial tv broadcasting. > > :Phil > > > > -dave > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
