bpa wrote: > 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 than 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. > > > 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. > > > 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/
I must say from a technical viewpoint I think DASH and HDS have advantages over HLS. While HLS is very simple, it seems to be missing very useful information at the 'manifest/master-playlist' level. Like telling if this is on-demand or not, and what the duration is. That means you actually need to load a playlist potentially listing zillions of chunks to work out that information. And the playlist information isn't very accurate (at least not in the version that the BBC are using). That means that to properly determine the duration of a chunk you actually need to look at the timing info in the MPEG2 ts data. The sooner the BBC move on to DASH the better! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
