On 20-Oct-2009, at 21:51, I wrote:
That said, it’s never entirely clear when people talk about “licensing
iPlayer” whether they mean the front-end, with its myriad per-platform
tweaks, clever Flash applet and AIR downloader, the back-end which
ingests content, hooks it up appropriately, and transcodes it into a
bunch of different formats, or both.
I guess this may answer that question:
Insiders said the proposal to commercially license the back
end of iPlayer to third parties had only ever existed to support
the “radical” iPlayer Federation, and that without the listings
page, there would be no reason for the BBC to enter another new
commercial market during a politically turbulent period.
“The rationale for licensing the iPlayer on a commercial basis
has gone. We are now of the view that this is something we won’t
proceed with,” said a source.
From
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/multi-platform/furious-bbc-to-give-up-on-open-iplayer/5007151.article
According to that, the plan was one of less of licensing the back-end,
and more consuming content from third-parties and feeding into the
transcoding/metadata platform which already exists.
I wonder how true it is :)
M.
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