The BBC create the Web pages from the schedule info and so the assigned program id are usually known when Web page are available so AlienBBC knows a program id even before the program is broadcast and so it can start playing it as soon as the program file has been created. BBCiPlayer uses the XML feed which is only updated a few times a days (I feel it is about every 3 hrs).
The issue is not RealAudio vs Flash/AAC etc. but the source of program id. AlienBBC could use the id to get the Flash/AAC or WMA streams instead of RealAudio. AlienBBC is slower to display menus (i.e. uses more CPU and more network GETs) and from a maintenance point of view needs more effort to keep up to date as the web pages changes often. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69588 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
