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From: | Chris Wareham |
Subject: | Re: [Gnash] Gnash Video Codecs? |
Date: | Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:00:55 +0000 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Macintosh/20061025) |
Dave Crossland said on 9/12/06 10:45:
Hi Guys, A blog post about how the "BBC doesn't get web video" and should start using Flash to stream video on the web attracted this comment: "Gnash stuff is a nonstarter… if you read their lists, they're talking about which other codecs they should use (that don't match the world's content), and whether FFMpeg might help them (Adobe staff contributed to FFMpeg and know it won't)" - John Dowdell, Macromedia, http://aralbalkan.com/795#comment-8121 What's the status of these comments? :-)
Slightly tangential to Gnash, but I take deep issue with someone suggesting the BBC should use Flash as its preferred web video format. The BBC is funded by a license that is levied on all owners of a television in the UK and has a charter to provide the widest access to its programmes. To prefer a format that is limited to a few platforms and, with all respect to the potential of the Gnash project, in the hands of a single vendor is contrary to the charter. This is partly why the BBC has worked on its own video format - although I wonder where that work stands now that the Blair government has encouraged a virtual privatisation of the BBC. I think I'll get off my soap box and have a lie down now. Chris
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