On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:19:17AM +0100, Phil Lewis wrote: > 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!
Okay I shouldn't have said it was DRM, but it is a higher barrier than HTML 5's <video> tag. I think it'd be a lot easier to implement HTML 5's <video> tag than RTMP. > 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. ? Adobe have published the RTMP specifications.[0] According to Wikipedia, this happened 3 days ago.[1] 0. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp/ 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Messaging_Protocol -- Tom - 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]/
