Mark McIntyre wrote:
On 7 Apr 2006 02:07:11 -0700, in uk.sci.astronomy , "Weatherlawyer"
wrote:

Mark McIntyre wrote:

The BBC transmit all their stuff using Realplayer. You can capture the
RM stream then convert it to AVI via a variety of fairly complex
methods, but really, why not just install the BBC-ised version of Realplayer?

Is that a version that won't take over all your settings from other
players, report home every 5 minutes and insist on setting spam
attractors from other sources as well as dumping your DivX codecs when
you finally get fed up with the damned thing?

I've no idea what piece of s/w you're talking about but if it manages
to report home at all, and set spam attractors through my firewall, it
deserves a medal. The "bbc player" that I have in Firefox doesn't do
any of that stuff, it just displays the AV item that I clicked on.
Maybe its a microsoft thingy.

That would be nice.

Frankly, RM stinks, but its the company the Beeb did a deal with so..

I wonder if there is any payola involved.

Give it a couple of years and news about the loans involved will be
headline news ontheeerrmmm.. [itv..?]

RealNetworks rep to Linux: DRM or die!

4/10/2006 3:57:00 PM, by Anders Bylund

A RealNetworks vice president voiced a few inflammatory opinions during
LinuxWorld Boston last Tuesday. The RealNetworks rep in question, Jeff
Ayars, said that Linux as a consumer platform would be dead unless DRM
capabilities are built into the OS itself.

"The consequences of Linux not supporting DRM would be that
fixed-purpose consumer electronics and Windows PCs would be the sole
entertainment platforms available," Ayers said. "Linux would be further
relegated to use in servers and business computers, since it would not
be providing the multimedia technologies demanded by consumers."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060410-6569.html