[LINK] ABC i view changes

[Andrew Thornton]

             I don't know if this matters or not. IT seems strange that 
adobe flash player is regarded by the ABC as being secure at all.

Author 	*ABC (Moderator)*
Date/Time 	*02 Jul 2013 6:10:51pm*
Subject 	*Change To Minimum Requirements*

>From time to time the ABC makes updates to iview's video streaming 
platform to take advantage of new technology and standards. Most 
recently, changes were undertaken to make iview's streaming platform 
compatible with HDS, Adobe's new standard for video streaming.

This will improve iview's access to Australians on local networks who 
have previously experienced issues with RTMP streaming, and in future 
will mean we can unmeter iview's traffic to more Australians on a 
greater range of devices.

For the last five years the ABC has endeavoured to make iview available 
to all audiences, on as many platforms and operating system versions as 
possible. This has been dependant on the technology our content delivery 
system has been able to support.

It is the ABC's view that the Adobe Flash Player is currently the best 
technical solution for streaming to desktop users, both in terms of wide 
access to as many Australians as possible, quality user experience and 
the capability to protect our content from unauthorised download. 
Studios and other content suppliers insist on this protection in order 
to stream their programs online, otherwise we cannot secure the rights 
to a large proportion of the content made available on iview.

Unfortunately, we have recently identified unresolved technical issues 
with older versions of the Adobe Flash Player which are incompatible 
with our streaming platform. In summary, Adobe Flash Player 10.2 and 
below do not correctly support streaming with our security features enabled.

Regrettably, the minimum requirements for iview will now change - iview 
will require Adobe Flash Player version 11.7. We have identified two 
types of audience members who will be directly affected by this. Apple 
Mac computers will need OSX 10.6 or above in order to install Adobe 
Flash Player 11.7. Adobe has discontinued development of the Linux Flash 
Player as of version 11.2, but Linux users will have access to iview via 
the Adobe Flash Player (version 11.7) that comes bundled with the Google 
Chrome browser. We hesitate to encourage users towards using a 
particular web browser, but in this case we don't have any other option 
due to Adobe's discontinued support of that platform.

We make all reasonable efforts to ensure we can continue serve the 
audience on their platform of choice, but while we are dependent on 
Adobe Flash Player for delivering video we cannot control the roadmap of 
Adobe to adequately support various platforms. We are constantly 
evaluating new streaming technologies and if a more suitable or reliable 
alternative becomes available that will make our content available to 
more Australians then we will adapt as necessary.

Thanks,
the iview team


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