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Re: [Swprograms] Changes to BBC Radio streaming, future impact on World Service formats?

It is technically possible, and some devices do, to support HDS streaming without supporting Flash. Ironically one of the explanations the BBC has given is that they want to avoid "proprietary standards".  Of course, that is precisely what Apple HLS and Adobe HDS are. 

You're right Rich, most podcasts are MP3 so it's very unclear what will happen with BBC podcasts when MP3 streaming is turned off.  Will they only offer them on iTunes? Will they convert them to MP3?

The part I fear is that if the BBC sticks with this, how many other broadcasters will play follow the leader?
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-Rob 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Cuff [mailto:rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 4:27 PM
To: Rob de Santos; Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Changes to BBC Radio streaming, future impact on World Service formats?

But mobile devices, as a class, don't support Flash -- because Adobe doesn't support Flash for mobile devices!

And, almost by definition, aren't podcasts nearly all MP3 files?

What are these folks thinking?

RC

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Rob de Santos <rdesantos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The BBC has decided that HLS/HDS/DASH are all they want to support in 
> the future. MP3 streams at 128k will be provided for some unannounced 
> short time frame (probably less than a year) and it will also be shut off.

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