Mo McRoberts wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 20:50, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2010/1/1 Tim Dobson <[email protected]>: >>> it was suggested initially that GNU/Linux was pretty much irrelevant >> Only by ignorant assholes. :-) > > Making it a “GNU/Linux” issue misses the point, really: the OS itself > is fairly irrelevant, and there’s no proprietary magic which can be > incanted in order to make things suddenly wonderful on all Linux > devices (in part by definition). > > The key is of course relying on open standards rather than FLV-in-RTMP > for iPlayer. > > ’course, when the web-based iPlayer was launched, browser support for > <video /> was practically nonexistant. Now… not so much. This, in a > roundabout way, renders the old argument of “we don’t want to require > everyone to have an H.264 decoder installed” somewhat moot, as <video > /> makes it pretty easy to serve H.264 to those who support it and > fall back to Flash for those who don’t. > > Of course, the _real_ issue is that serving content using standards > which are now years old in formats which are widely-supported doesn’t > account for DRM, despite its worthlessness: all of the other issues > are pretty much red herrings compared to this.
Good points. Yes, I think you are right actually, I was sightly missing the point, you, however, have cleared it up quite nicely. :) The default Maemo browser is essentially Firefox 3.5+ which supports <video /> (not natively H.264 though, but that's a different debate). With regards to DRM, well, I think some people are generally coming round to the idea that it may not be the be all and end all. We'll have to see what happens, but it wouldn't surprise me if 2010 was the year video DRM got dropped as DRM for audio and in music has been in the last year or two... Time will tell, but hear is to hoping. :) Have a good new year everyone! Tim - 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]/
