[Gllug] Maybe a BBC iPlayer for Linux after all

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Thu Jul 26 10:25:38 UTC 2007


On Thu 26 Jul, Pete Stean wrote:
> The opensource video codec that the BBC have produced is called "dirac" but
> of course someone needs to adopt and use it if it's to become popular -
> which even they haven't done yet... they're still using crummy .rm streams
> as we all know
> 
> Pete
> 
   The fact that it was being developed by the R&D department staff does not
guarantee that it was welcomed by upper management when they were supposed
to be demonstrating that they could do relevant advanced R&D "on the cheap"
to satisfy disinterested finance departments.

-- 
Chris Bell

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