Sorry for the duplicate post.
Kieran Kunhya wrote:
> What is so important about the content/metadata ingest and delivery
> system that is the iPlayer that it needs to be licenced as opposed to
> being developed in-house at a broadcaster?
Standardisation, as Mo indicated, why reinvent the wheel, have several
variations on a theme, or have several clients on the users desktop.
Is this the same as the STB project (i.e was Open iPlayer also
specifying the STB) ?
It seems to me that with a separate business unit, commercial tie-ups,
DRM the BBC is/was in danger of acting like a private company, while
leaveraging it's public service position, in a way that was not in the
public interest. This is a problem with BBC external revenue generation.
Is it not in the public interest for the BBC to make the iPlayer
technology available, to other public service broadcasters, or even all
broadcasters, or just make H264/ACC, MPEG2, content directly available
in several resolutions (avoiding the Flash wrapper).
Why not make iPlayer Free Software (GPL v2), allowing others to
contribute to it's enhancement, and allow it free deployment on any
hardware meeting the requirements. This could work equally well for the
backend, which I suspect already uses some open source software.
Even if iPlayer is just details of the tweaks, the software stack, and
how to implement iPlayer in Flash. This could be made publicly available
in an updateable online (moderated) format.
The work has already been undertaken to develop iPlayer, however it
should be stripped of DRM. The signal is broadcast unencrypted, and this
principle should be carried over to the internet.
A simple fair, non-commercial basis, creating a standard public platform
for the delivery of Free To Air, on demand video, open to all.
Also Channel 4 are now on you tube, another possible approach.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/youtube_channel_4_content_deal/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video
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