2008-01-05, 16:05
Quote:cubicgarden: I'd love an excuse to have a meeting with the Beeb tech guys. No idea what I could tell them that they don't already know though. IMO the best thing that the Beeb could do right now is to create an open source RTMP library and submit it back the mplayer project so an open source iplayer could be created. I bet they've heard this multiple times from plenty of different groups though.
You will be surprised how little we sometimes hear. This is another reason why Backstage was setup. To go out and listen and participate in discussions which are going on outside the BBC about the BBC. I have the pleasure of then feeding back directly to the correct group or person. So in this case the head of the iplayer team Anthony Rose (who was also interviewed by backstage recently about iplayer - http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives...tervi.html)
About the library, maybe we could do something here. I'll speak to some people and see what could be done. Who knows maybe someone in our R&D team might have already done some work on mplayer before, and would be happy to work on this.
Quote:...or simpler and more likely just switch over to using FLV over HTTP (instead of RTMP), or even better standard MPEG-4 ASP (H.263) or MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) over HTTP, ...or even DivX (DivX, Inc.) if they want a commercial solution, as they are still so much more open source friendly than Adobe.
I don't think we'll be changing the flash streaming anytime soon, because it works so well for alot of people. If I go back and ask them to change the infrastructure, we will get no where.