On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:39:25 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:

Agreed. Yes I recall it. The new 22+ channel hyper vector systems seem
to be rather over-re-inventing it!

I thought you might.

That raises the question of iplayer on the RPi. Will Chrome run on the
RPi distros? It would be hard for the BBC to ignore RPi given how many
are in use now.

Yes. All we really need from the BBC is a portable library (OSS or not,
but its easier to debug if it is) that can be built into whatever app
best suits the target system. This probably means that the NRDC library
should be written in C. If its binary, that would be a pain, but at least
it would keep the BBC PHBs, of which there are too many, more or less
happy. Provided, of course, that its APIs are properly documented!


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