"jbrave" wrote:
I was trying a few weeks ago using a URL grabber, and also the Activity Monitor in Safari to figure out how the ESPN3 stream works... I haven't yet figured out what the URL is for the actual FLV file, so I can't tell the format of the video, if it is H.264 or not.
Nothing in this reply is real nor intended to be because I do not know. As I am watching a movie, I am just thinking out loud and you should think of it as a good bedtime story-star wars style.
E3 worked with their Media consultant {MM} for "hours" and dizzed the other M network as other sport content owners did. In the current year, E3 snuggled up good with MM to introduce a new and owned-built player for the World Cup in Soccer with Great features using the flash platform. E is good good at getting steams from other providers which MM will re-encode for E3's users.
The E3 player in the browser talks to the FMS beast to discover the content and find the stream on a load balanced server network through the bigger M brother's network after finger-printing you, your browser, and ISP. This finger-print allows access to the event that you may have clicked on. They will give a Smile xml to E3 and everyone is happy.
R2D2 lives...
