Andrew L.Weekes wrote: ...
I personally feel that the AlienBBC functionality could be a big marketing plus to Slim Devices, especially in the UK. Maybe it should become more of a core part of Slimserver? It would be a total killer app if the ability to record the stream could be integrated too (hint!).
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It'd be great alright, but the legality of mplayer and a Real codec has been seriously questionable in the USA thanks to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Individual users aren't worth hunting down and suing, but Slim Devices, Inc. is a bigger target.
Add to that the fact that it would increase the support workload by quite a bit, and leaving it as a plugin makes more sense. I'm leaving installation issues out of that support workload too, mplayer and the Real codec just have issues in my personal experience.
Anyway, I'd watch SqueezeNetwork, because if they ever get it worked out there, that would possibly telegraph that the technical and legal issues were defanged enough to be supportable.
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