Gov't (er, Taxpayer) funded Television and Proprietary Media Formats

Paul King sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org
Sat Jun 23 15:13:31 UTC 2007


Quirks and Quarks is also in Ogg Vorbis format. There are probably others. 
doing the same. As for streaming, you are right, either Windows Media or Real 
are the only two formats I am aware of.

Paul King

> yro.slashdot is running a story about the BBC getting into hot water,
> compliments of the UK's Open Source Consortium.
> 
> Apparently the row is about BBC's failure to support media formats
> other than Windows Media.
> 
> IIRC, there were comments - in the last year or so - that the Canadian
> Broadcasting Corporation wasn't much better.
> 
> I just made a quick check of CBC radio and TV online.  (Admittidly not
> very thorough).  Radio One says the stream is in Windows Media format,
> and Radio Two + TV (The National) says it's streamed in an mms://
> protocol.
> 
> So a couple questions:
> - Is mms:// an "open" protocol, or at least supported by open source
> applications (via the hard-working and rarely rewarded reverse
> engineering arm)?
> 
> - If not, is there anything we can do to get the CBC to open up?
> 
> Take care all,
> - Scott.
> 
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