Apple requiring the HTTP live stream protocol for iPhone apps

Just had an App rejected that streamed 'video'.

Apparently if the clip is over either 10 minutes in length or 5mb in size then this protocol needs to be followed.

I also think "HTTP Live Stream Technology Required for Live TV Streaming" on their developer site - the key phrase is "Live TV Streaming" to me.

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I wonder if this is why the Orb Live app was unceremoniously pulled from the app store over the weekend.

dear sling,

please do this.

with regards,

your customers

@Joachim

Reading further into it, they use different language in other places suggesting all video streaming should be using the new HTTP format; I'm very interested to see if they really mean that, because there's no proper way to stream video from one iPhone to another iPhone using HTTP streaming (as there's no access to a h264 encoder or decoder asides through Apple's own video player).

I get the impression they mean streaming in the sense of a server to an iPhone. Again, ambiguous.

I may be wrong, but Apple merely states "HTTP Live Stream Technology Required for Live TV Streaming" on their developer site - the key phrase is "Live TV Streaming" to me; it doesn't seem like they're precluding other apps from using other streaming methods?

Then again, Apple is the master of ambiguity.

In the Swiss iTunes Store is a App that allows you to watch TV over 3G since about one week.