Adobe Adopts HTTP Live Streaming For iOS 97
unassimilatible writes "Ars Technica reports that Adobe has capitulated in the iOS-Flash war, and has adopted HTTP live streaming for iOS. HTTP Live Streaming is a protocol that Apple developed to stream live and recorded video using standard HTTP connections instead of the more difficult to optimize RTSP. It uses H.264-encoded video and AAC or MP3 audio packaged into discrete chunks of an MPEG-2 transport stream, along with a .m3u playlist to catalog the files that make up the individual chunks of the stream. QuickTime on both Mac OS X and iOS can play back this format, and it is the only streaming format compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch."
Re:More difficult to optimize? (Score:4, Insightful)
One issue is some networks block RTSP, but not HTTP.
Re:More difficult to optimize? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm certainly not up on the details of live media streaming; but I've never seen a clear breakdown of why RTMP is obviously fucked compared to the alternatives.
Re:Not all optimization is technical in nature. (Score:4, Insightful)
There Goes My Undeserving Superiority (Score:3, Insightful)
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