Re: Open letter to ABC

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From: Peter Webb
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:13

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"Glenn Dowling" <glenn@nospam.com.au> wrote in message 
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> "Peter Webb" <webbfamily@DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> I would imagine that they have chosen a different encoding format and 
>> proprietary viewer to stop (or limit) other people from re-packaging and 
>> re-publishing ABC content as their own. Insofar as the ABC owns the 
>> content they are distributing for free, this seems quite reasonable. This 
>> cannot be done with mpeg or any non-proprietary video format that I know 
>> of, hence the need for a proprietary format.
>
> Except that using flash format does not provide this either. There are 
> programs out there to convert flash to other file formats (although they 
> do require flash to be on the system, so this is not a solution to 
> netvegetable's problem).
>

Flash isn't a video format. That's just the container app. Its probably used 
to implement the user interface and pull down the encrypted/propritary 
content.


> And when have you ever heard of people doing this with their existing 
> service anyway?

Checked out the number of ABC videos on You Tube?

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