TheLastMan wrote: > In which case Google shot themselves in the foot by supporting HLS on > Android. With its dominance on mobile and tablet devices HLS and Apple > seem to have stolen a march on the rest of the market for now. > To win a war you lose a few battles. HLS is old this battle was done a few years ago when Android had a smaller market share and IOS and was missing key media apps
Without HLS support - lose Android sales to Apple. No HLS is a reason NOT to buy Android. With HLS support - more Android sales because HLS stream and associated apps can be played. > However if Windows browsers continue to shun HLS then, from what you are > saying, the BBC will be doomed to continue supporting RTMP and Flash > unless they are prepared to abandon BBC iPlayer on Windows. For the moment all is OK. BBC could buy a Flash player and play HDS streams but I tink BBC want to skip a step and go to DASH and at least get Android and PCs on one systems. > Can you envisage there ever being a single system that would work on > iOS, OSX, Android and Windows? (oh and Linux as well of course) Technical is not the issue, what is best is not the issue, there is commercial strategic decision to be made by Apple. Note who is missing from Dash Industry Forum http://dashif.org/members/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
