In article , Martin Gregorie
wrote:
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!

Moving sldeways back to the 4.0 stream. I'm told that the BBC are trying to
ensure that the stream conforms with the open HTML5 standards. So their
view is that *any* browser developers can support and handle the streams if
they wish. They *don't* want this to be limited to Chrome or any other one
or two browsers, or OSs. But are approaching this by way of the standards.

That makes sense to me. By default its what I'd want them to do. However I
have a recollection that the FF people said they weren't going to support
some part of this (DASH?). If so, the ball may be in the court of FF
developers, and those of other browsers.

I've asked the BBC what codec they are using given the comment that a
Chrome codec is closed.

BTW Again this morning I found the iplayer wasn't co-operating for
normal 'listen again' radio. Almost everything during recent days
was 'not available'.

Jim

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