PasTim wrote: > The puzzle to me is why they had to withdraw LA RTMP from Internet > Radios, but still use it for PCs. HLS is supported on all tablets and phones. Chrome on Android supports HLS - Chrome does not support HLS on other OS.
RTMP and HDS is supported on all PC via Flash. Flash (i.e. RTMP) support on tablets / smartphones was withdrawn by Adobe a few years ago so BBC cannot expect Flash players to be available on newer version or Android/iOS. One of the reasons Youtube moved to HTML5 Flash is also a greater security risk because of its SWF players whereas chunked HTTP is less complex and fewer security issues. Flash is more complex for the server delivering content as it has its own protocol RTMP which is two way compared to HTTP making it harder to deliver content to large number of users (i.e. many more mobile users vs PC users) utgg wrote: > I'd be interested if anyone knows if HDS has actually been used for the > BBC's own flash/brower based iPlayer Listen Again. I've been looking > regularly, and seen no evidence of that happening, but I may have missed > it. > > There are so many curiosities with what they are doing at the moment. The BBC are also looking into DASH over http/2 see http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015/01/initial-results-from-the-adaptive-media-streaming-over-http-2-trial On the blog page you can follow links to BBC DASH test streams such as tones. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
