[Gllug] BBC News 24 at higher quality

[Simon Stewart]

On Saturday, Mar 22, 2003, at 23:20 Europe/London, Dylan wrote:

> Do you think we could make a concerted effort to explain the problems 
> to the
> BBC?

Now, RealPlayer is an awful bit of software, but currently it's the 
most widely available (reasonably slim) format that's officially 
available for linux --- I wouldn't trust the windows media codecs to 
continue working with mplayer for too long, especially when MS start 
promoting, and third parties start using, the DRM features. So what 
exactly are you proposing? The encouragement of Yet Another Monopoly? 
Or is there some Open Source alternative that you'd like to promote?

Not meaning to troll --- I'd be thrilled if Xiph's open streaming video 
format was up to scatch, and I hear good things about XVid too (though 
I've not used it) but I get the feeling that Auntie takes the view that 
there are only two formats worth thinking of.

Simon


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