A quick check of the BBC iPlayer beta for iPhone shows there is content. Although the standard controls show at the bottom of the player window, a bigger, easier to hit, blue play button also appears. Hit that and the programme plays full screen a la YouTube rather than in the small window as it first shows! Excellent quality-very impressed!
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BBC iPlayer iPhone content now live
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It still does not work for me -- simply states that the program is not availableWhich program did you tried?
Whistleblower also works.
Looks like the encoding server is still a bit patchy, but hopefully will have ramped up to everything in the next day or two.
Phazer
Brilliant...jumping to different places in the program is very quick..I'm really impressed with the quality, hopefully they have enough capacity for when the system gets popular.
Jonathan Ross is available as well (not my fav but..)
Gavin and Stacey.
Jonathan Ross is available as well (not my fav but..)
Gavin and Stacey.
Was just watching some of the Horizon episode, very good picture quality (over wifi), looks like the BBC have done a great job, looking forward to more content!
looking great! watching Jonathan Ross on my iPhone now!
Have to say, lots of progs aren't on iPlayer, wheres Family Guy!!!
Have to say, lots of progs aren't on iPlayer, wheres Family Guy!!!
Family Guy will never be on it, its for BBC created content only, they don't have a license to distribute other studios shows.
Well, that's dependent on the studio. Though for US imports it's normally true, though Damages is on the streaming iPlayer (it's not on the download one as Apple themselves have exclusive UK download distribution rights for the programme via the iTunes store).
Phazer
By Radio do you mean the podcast beta? That's been going a few weeks now it's great. Nice simple interface.
I tell you what, I am loving this iPlayer. It seems so much sharper on the little iPhone screen than it does on my desktop mac!
Ok, scratch this. I've got it working now, although the only thing that I could watch was Whistleblower. It's neat, but they could do with streamlining the site a bit so it displays better on the small screen.
Yep, content is very limited right now. As for the site, give them a break, it only started today!
im sure it will improve over time.I tried loading over EDGE earlier and it does not work. An error message states that you must be using Wi-Fi.
Could you use the line out to watch this on your TV? That would actually be a very elegant solution to watching the iPlayer for a lot of people.
Phazer
Phazer
I wondered about this. I read somewhere that Safari does not output to TV, but I'm not sure the player runs in Safari or is just invoked by it? It looks like if YouTube works to TV output, then this will too-but I don't know if YouTube does or not!!!
I suspect it plays in Safari as far as the iPhone is concerned. If you can't view Safari on the line out I guess it wouldn't work. Any UK'ers able to test?
Phazer
yeah, i had a quick blast of whisteblower before i came to work (no wifi at work) and was very impressed by the streaming quality..
can't wait for more shows to be added.. this looks very promising indeed.. and also bodes well for content on apple tv too..
can't wait for more shows to be added.. this looks very promising indeed.. and also bodes well for content on apple tv too..
I'll wait for someone to confirm if the TV out works or not before I run out and buy the £35 cable!
This is a H.264 file streaming from a site. It is actually played by the iPhone video player (same controls etc). If you go to www.apple.com/trailers, you will see the same technique used by apple for playing trailers on an iPhone.
So I am 99% sure it will work with TV Out, as this is a straight forward implementation used since day 1.