< ![CDATA[The BBC will be launching a new variant of their DIRAC Codec at IBC 2007 in September.
The BBC have had some very obvious and high profile problems with their use of proprietary and Windows only DRM for their iPlayer. It seems very interesting that they have expended a lot of effort on their own open source codec – something that is fundamentally better served by more standardised and easily available codecs such as MPEG4/H.264AVC. Would it be too easy a criticism that the BBC would have been better served with producing a universal platform open source (if you can have one) DRM solution for their iPlayer?]]>
