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Adobe Adopts HTTP Live Streaming For iOS

Posted by timothy on from the enough-is-enough dept.

unassimilatible writes "Ars Technica reports that Adobe has capitulated in the iOS-Flash war, and has adopted HTTP live streaming for iOS. HTTP Live Streaming is a protocol that Apple developed to stream live and recorded video using standard HTTP connections instead of the more difficult to optimize RTSP. It uses H.264-encoded video and AAC or MP3 audio packaged into discrete chunks of an MPEG-2 transport stream, along with a .m3u playlist to catalog the files that make up the individual chunks of the stream. QuickTime on both Mac OS X and iOS can play back this format, and it is the only streaming format compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch."

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  1. Borg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, are we going to get a Steve Jobs Borg icon soon?

    Or a generic borg in a black faux turtleneck and jeans?

    Just any old borg with the Apple logo on it?

    Resistance is futile. You will abandon Flash.

    Sign me up. Gimme my implants!

  2. Re:IOS by Nethead · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember back in the late 90s when we had hubs, not switches, someone came up with a perl script to monitor the wire looking for .gif and .jpg files and would then tile them on a display screen with the IP of the host viewing them. The sales department at that ISP sure got in trouble that day!

    --
    -- I have a private email server in my basement.
  3. Re:Not the first concession for adobe. by spud603 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Syntax Error: unmatched "(" in nested parenthetical near line 1.

  4. Re:Not the first concession for adobe. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can' t argue with your correctness(or my error). I can suggest that you really should study for that Turing test a bit...