[Gllug] Which architecture?

[Peter Corlett]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:17:56PM +0100, Juergen Schinker wrote:
[...]
> How hard is it to release the content in ogg vorbis?

Technically, not hard at all. The iPlayer backend can convert to any kind of
video. I'd not be surprised if there wasn't an Ogg version generated
internally as proof of concept.

However, the BBC don't have the rights to offer all of the content they
broadcast for unlimited download. Purchasing those rights would be insanely
expensive and make the TV License cost of the order of a grand a year.

So the FLV streaming is a compromise solution which satisfies the vast
majority of users without costing substantially more.

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