Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

BBC Begins Open-Source Streaming Challenge

Posted by michael on from the fear-factor dept.

bus_stopper copies and pastes: "The BBC is quietly preparing a challenge to Microsoft and other companies jostling to reap revenues from video streams. It is developing code-decode (codec) software called Dirac in an open-source project aimed at providing a royalty-free way to distribute video. The sums at stake are potentially huge because the software industry insists on payment per viewer, per hour of encoded content. This contrasts with TV technology, for which viewers and broadcasters alike make a one-off royalties payment when they buy their equipment." We've mentioned this project before but this story goes into a bit more depth about the goals and motivations of the developers.

7 of 373 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Good old Auntie! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    uhm sure, whatever.

    ???

  2. Darwin Streaming Server / QTSS by Jeppe+Utzon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    AFAIR, isn't that free of any streaming fees? If you install Darwin SS on Darwin (or use QTSS on OS X Server) and stream with MPEG4, is that a one-time fee (for the QT Pro license needed to encode = 30 USD) and then free for ever and ever. Or do you also have to pay a pr. stream fee on top of that too for the codec? I can't find anything on Apple's site about it.

    http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streami ng/
    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/

  3. morons continue PostBlock censorship devise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mockerIE.

    whatever.

    from a PostBlocked post meant to be tietolled:

    googlers really not all that nice of guise, but don't ask robbIE about IT (as he has 'shares' too?)?

    raising to new fauxking lows, trying to steal .com(s) (froogles) from some disabled person(s). not surprising for the next big kludge of stock markup FraUD nazi billyonerrors?

    playboy? they should more likely be included in the ever-being-rescheduled va lairIE/robbIE answer yOUR questions interview?

  4. Re:Good old Auntie! by REBloomfield · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, Hell's Kitchen was very funny. Where on the BBC do you get to see Gordon Ramsey tell Ednwina Curry that she f*cked the Prime Minister, and now she's f*cking him?

  5. Out of context much? by Okonomiyaki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And Al Gore invented the internet, right?

  6. Re:The Future of Television by networkBoy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how on Gods green earth did this get modded up to anything? I was just being curious! I guess I shouldn't complain but why oh why did someone waste their mod points on my dumb-ass question?
    -nB
    P.S. if someone mods this tirade up then I'll have my positive re-enforcement proof that Slashdot's moderating system is wonkers.
    -nB

    --
    whois gawk date unzip strip find touch finger mount join nice man top fsck grep eject more yes exit umount sleep dump
  7. Re:The Future of Television by System.out.println() · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And so of course, they spend mod points to mod it...down. *doh*

    --
    I've got more mod points and GMail invi