Deprecated features to be removed in next release (2.97)

[Owen Smith]

I think that's the point.

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Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net>
Cambridge, UK

> On 8 Sep 2016, at 03:31, artisticforge . <artisticforge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> hello Vagelis
> 
> that is not going to leave much code left.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Vangelis forthnet
> <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
>> On Wed Aug 31 00:28:27 BST 2016, I wrote:
>>> 
>>> The flash (RTMP) on-demand modes
>>> (Radio+TV) will be axed in 2.98:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/milestone/8
>> 
>> 
>> ... Apparently, the maintainer has had a change of heart; FLASH modes have
>> been rescheduled to be terminated in the next release, 2.97, too, along with
>> the rest of the deprecated options...
>> 
>> A real shame, if you ask me, since the flashmodes are the only ones that
>> support resuming (via rtmpdump) in the case of time-outs, due to
>> fickle/flakey connections...
>> We'll be left with DASH/HLS (radio) or HLS (video) segmented modes only,
>> which abort and re-fetch from the start when the connection, for whatever
>> random reason, drops out...
>> 
>> OTOH, the RTMP support code, the backbone of GiP up until a few versions
>> back (2.94 and earlier), constitutes  a major part of the existing code and
>> I kind of understand the logic behind the coder's intent to do away with it;
>> what I fail to justify is the haste to get rid of it while it's still
>> working very reliably... Dum spiro, spero...
>> 
>> Regards, V.
>> 
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