[opendtv] Re: Flash Gone from Android
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:48:13 -0500
At 4:41 AM -0500 2/17/12, Albert Manfredi wrote:
So, to support all those non-conforming receivers out there, the
*Flash Media Server* used by the online streaming service will
figure out that the receiver is an oddball, and the *server* will
use the receiver's favorite wrapper. This is not about H.264
compression, as you keep repeating. It's instead more about how to
transmit streams over HTTP, Craig.
Good to see Kon back in the mix again...
Obviously there are a number of issues in play here:
1. streaming protocol
2. codec (including hardware acceleration)
3. Flash versus HTML5 support for local graphic compositions
With respect hardware codec acceleration, this IS a big deal for
mobile devices and power consumption. Before this whole dust up
started, most of the Flash video content on the Internet used Adobe's
proprietary codecs; there is very little hardware acceleration
available for these codecs, and they place huge demands on some
platforms (the players for some OSes were better optimized than on
other OSes).
There is nothing oddball about a Flash server (or any other streaming
server) connecting to an iOS device; in fact these devices make up
the majority of mobile web usage, although Android is catching up
rapidly.
So, just another great opportunity for CE companies that are so
inclined to make a nuisance of themselves. For OTA broadcast media,
there isn't enough spectrum to be throwing around to play such games.
Did you see the story about ATSC 2.0?
This is real convergence Bert; if broadcasters use the new standard
they will be able to provide services to all of the mobile platforms.
Borrowing a phrase from another century, when "we" predicted and
explained what was going to happen, Broadcasters will become another
lane of the Information Super Highway.
By the way, how about that MPEG-2 TS container used by your favorite
ecosystem, even when over the Internet? Not that I would mind, but I
find this strangely ironic! Did you know that the iPad depends on
the same transport as ATSC?
Yes.
MPEG-2 TS is the most valuable "jewel" in the MPEG LA collection of
standards. MPEG-2 video and audio are now legacy standards; H.264 is
everywhere "except" the broadcast and cable ecosystem controlled by
the media oligopoly - even the DBS systems are now deploying h.264.
Regards
Craig
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