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From: Mark on 27 Jul 2010 03:36
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:25:09 +0100, Chris Ridd wrote
(in article <8b7fulFckqU1(a)mid.individual.net>):

> On 2010-07-27 07:56:20 +0100, Graeme said:
>
>> In message <1jm9eg5.1qdcrjz1ojnaxaN%italiancar(a)gmail.com>
>> italiancar(a)gmail.com (SteveH) wrote:
>>
>>> Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In message <8b69mnF9jdU1(a)mid.individual.net>
>>>> Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Caz's birthday saw her become the owner of a shiny new WiFI 64Gb iPad.
>>>>> She's very much a fan, but BBC iPlayer doesn't seem to work.
>>>>>
>>>>> We've tried Doctor Who and Top Gear, but all that happens is that the
>>>>> thumbnail comes up but then a 'sorry, this is unavailable' and no play
>>>>> button appears. This seems to be for every programme we try.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone else having any luck?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You've not seen all the discussions about the iPad not supporting flash?
>>>
>>> There's a non-flash version of the iPlayer site.
>>
>> There is? hadn't noticed that. All I can find on the site is a blanket
>> statement that iPlayer requires the lastest version of Flash.
>
> Yes and no. The back-end SD programs are just H.264 streams. They *do*
> require the latest, or at least quite recent, version of Flash to play
> *but* they can also be accessed as H.264-encoded MPEG files that will
> play on other things like iPhones, iPads. Same video content, different
> wrapper format. The iPlayer downloader type apps fool the iPlayer
> website into letting them access the MPEG files...
>
> The HD programs on iPlayer are different.
>
So is there a way to play BBC iPlayer content on something else other than
the BBC iPlayer (on the iPad/iPhone)? A different application or URL you can
get the H.264-encoded MPEG files to play from?

Mark

From: Jim on 27 Jul 2010 03:51
On 2010-07-27, Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
> Matthew Sylvester <matthew.sylvester(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone else having any luck?
>>
>> Just tried Sherlock - seems fine. Try going to
>> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/>
>
> Hmm. That's where we were going. I'll ask Caz to try Sherlock and see
> what happens, but we couldn't get a single thing to play last night.

Depending on who your ISP is that might have been more down to their
traffic management.

Jim
--
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Terry Pratchett
From: Woody on 27 Jul 2010 03:53
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
> Caz's birthday saw her become the owner of a shiny new WiFI 64Gb iPad.
> She's very much a fan, but BBC iPlayer doesn't seem to work.
>
> We've tried Doctor Who and Top Gear, but all that happens is that the
> thumbnail comes up but then a 'sorry, this is unavailable' and no play
> button appears. This seems to be for every programme we try.
>
> Anyone else having any luck?

Just tried it here, and it worked fine in both icab and safari. Not
something I generally use (ie, I have used it once) but just went there
and looked at the start of the piece about wainwright (my daughter is in
the lake district) and it played fine. 32g iPad with 3 mifi

--
Woody
From: Chris Ridd on 27 Jul 2010 04:02
On 2010-07-27 08:36:17 +0100, Mark said:

> So is there a way to play BBC iPlayer content on something else other than
> the BBC iPlayer (on the iPad/iPhone)? A different application or URL you can
> get the H.264-encoded MPEG files to play from?

Not directly AFAIK. A common technique is to use iPlayer downloader (et
al) to download the video file to your Mac, then drag the video into
iTunes and sync it to your iPhone.

--
Chris

From: Graeme on 27 Jul 2010 04:19
In message <8b7fulFckqU1(a)mid.individual.net>
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> On 2010-07-27 07:56:20 +0100, Graeme said:
>
> > In message <1jm9eg5.1qdcrjz1ojnaxaN%italiancar(a)gmail.com>
> > italiancar(a)gmail.com (SteveH) wrote:
> >
> >> Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> In message <8b69mnF9jdU1(a)mid.individual.net>
> >>> Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Caz's birthday saw her become the owner of a shiny new WiFI 64Gb iPad.
> >>>> She's very much a fan, but BBC iPlayer doesn't seem to work.
> >>>>
> >>>> We've tried Doctor Who and Top Gear, but all that happens is that the
> >>>> thumbnail comes up but then a 'sorry, this is unavailable' and no play
> >>>> button appears. This seems to be for every programme we try.
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyone else having any luck?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> You've not seen all the discussions about the iPad not supporting flash?
> >>
> >> There's a non-flash version of the iPlayer site.
> >
> > There is? hadn't noticed that. All I can find on the site is a blanket
> > statement that iPlayer requires the lastest version of Flash.
>
> Yes and no. The back-end SD programs are just H.264 streams. They *do*
> require the latest, or at least quite recent, version of Flash to play
> *but* they can also be accessed as H.264-encoded MPEG files that will
> play on other things like iPhones, iPads. Same video content, different
> wrapper format. The iPlayer downloader type apps fool the iPlayer
> website into letting them access the MPEG files...

Ah, the downloader is intel only so I haven't played with it (G4 MDD here).


--
Graeme Wall

My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
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