iPad & iPlayer - working for anyone?
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From: Graeme on 27 Jul 2010 10:31 In message <8b7qqqFe7sU1(a)mid.individual.net> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-07-27 10:44:46 +0100, Graeme said: > > > In message <eac84e3d51%Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> > > Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> In message <8b7jl5F1tkU1(a)mid.individual.net> > >> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On 2010-07-27 09:19:12 +0100, Graeme said: > >>> > >>>> Ah, the downloader is intel only so I haven't played with it (G4 MDD > >>>> here). > >>> > >>> That's a pity, as under the hood it just calls a Ruby script that's > >>> pretty independent of CPU architecture :-( > >> > >> Looked at it again and it says intel /reccomended/ so I've installed > >> iplayer desktop and it's now downloading Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails, > >> trouble is it appears to download in real time so I'll let you know if it > >> works in an hour or so :-( > >> > > > > OK 50 minutes later I've got an MP4 hidden deep in an iplayer folder > > structure in Movies, now transferring to the iPad. > > > > <whistles tunelessly while iPad syncs...> > > > > Hmm, I've tried adding the Movie to iTunes Library but nothing seems to > > happen. > > > > Nope, no luck, ah well. > > The download doesn't normally happen in real time, maybe something else > is wrong. I use iPlayer Grabber FWIW, and it has taken about 2 minutes > to download Sunday's Top Gear. It was about 45 minutes in the end for a 1 hour programme. But having downloaded it to the G4 I can't get it on the iPad. I get a folder in Movies labelled BBC iPlayer, the repository which contains 2 folders b00drtmd and cache. The former has the following files: b00drtmd b00drtmd_hi_165044410.mp4 (I assume this is the actual programme) b00drtpj_640_360.jpg (this is the pic used in the list of programmes) bbc_four (this appears to be the DRM code that expires the programme) pl_b00drtmd (playlist information) cache has 1 file bbc_four.mp4 (BBC four 'library' ident - plays perfectly in QT) Note, trying to run the programme itself in Quicktime brings up an error message: An invalid sample description was found in the movie. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Ian McCall on 27 Jul 2010 14:28 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Depending on who your ISP is that might have been more down to their > traffic management. Virgin, but we're on the 50Mb service which is allegedly unthrottled (and has been fine for us so far). Cheers, Ian
From: Danny T on 27 Jul 2010 16:36
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote: > 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. iPlayer usually works fine here on iPad, iPhone and iMac despite a slow rural broadband connection. Last night however we had the same problems as you with the iPad. We also had difficulties connecting to the BBC news website. There were quite a few people on Twitter complaining of similar experiences. -- Danny T |