PasTim wrote: > The RTMP streams were not syndicated (made available to third parties). > We did not support anyone using those except our own applications. The > fact that people were using them is because they had been reverse > engineered which is against the terms under which we provide our streams > and metadata. The fact that they were switched off without notice was > simply because we did not expect anyone to be using them.
The RTMP programs were in the XML feed which I interpret to mean they were syndicated. They were only removed from the XML feed this year. When the RTMP programs were first in the XML feed, Flash was proprietary and only by reverse engineering Flash could RTMP be played. However shortly after the RTMP program in the XML feed became available, Adobe published the RTMP protocol and so implementation of Flash could be written which were not reverse engineered. To play an RTMP feed, a number of additional BBC specific parameters are needed. So although BBC offered the RTMP programs in the XML feeds, the BBC may be claiming only BBC had right to use the BBC specific parameters necessary to play the programs but it could be argued that the only way to play the offered syndicated programs was to use the additional parameters. This may have resulted in plugin appearing to be a BBC player in BBC usage stats. The BBCiPlayer plugin did not save or download the programs and was not commercial, so it could be said the plugin complied with the spirit of BBC restrictions. There is little point in arguing these issues with BBC any further as it is best to keep relationship amicable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103311 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
