BBC to move to HTML5/DASH video

[J K.Eason]

> *From:* tellyaddict <tellyaddict21 at gmx.co.uk>
> 
> The BBC have been saying for a while that RTMP streams will be 
> going from iPlayer soon and once they have gone, RTMPDump will no 
> longer be needed. However, GiP is not able to handle MPEG-DASH 
> streams so when this change does happen the only option left 
> available will be to use HLS streams which is an Apple delivery 
> method. The options to download these streams are already available 
> in the current version of GiP. To download HLS you will need to 
> have FFMPEG installed which will take over from RTMPDump.

This is the BBC announcement about the beta player:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/html5

Regards
       John