Hi Stony
I'm not sure the question is using open-source products or not, but rather open standards or not. Ok, there are lots of open source products implementing the standards... but also commercial, closed, products implementing them, with support, with free wellness weekends and so on. The thing is that because it uses standards, you can compose your solution with bricks from different vendors.
For example, if you take VLC, either client or server, it is really not stable enough to be used in production environment (and some 3play providers tested it without success). But "proprietary" DVB to IP or Whatever to IP mpeg streaming stable solutions exist.
Greg
Viktor Steinmann wrote:
Great article.
I've been wondering for a long time, why Swisscom would rather go with MS than with an open-source based solution. There's plenty of great open-source projects in the video-streaming and media-center sector. The cost to hire a few capable developers to create a consumer-friendly package from these OSS would probably be a lot less, than the licences for Microsoft software alone...
Ah, who cares about money at Swisscom anyway...
Cheers, Viktor (Xbox Media Center and VideoLAN user)
Zitat von Andre Oppermann oppermann@networx.ch:
Very interesting article about Micro$soft's half-baked IPTV solution.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/01/ms_iptv_strategy_in_tatters/
Explains in clear technical words why Swisscom's attempt at IPTV is broken and delayed yet another year, if it will ever fly.
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