BBC iPlayer Now iPhone Compatible

The encoding server was only turned on yesterday, so the only content that's up is stuff from last night and today rather than the six days before that.

Obviously over the next few days that'll cease to be an issue. I doubt there'll be going back to re-encode stuff from before yesterday though.

ATG said:
Does this mean we can download and use the h.264 after the 7 days by faking the user agent?
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I dunno, but I'd suggest that significant use of something like that is likely to result in it being withdrawn so I'm tempted to say I hope not.

UltraNurd said:
Maybe a dumb question... but why can't international users pay some fee to access the content (something like the fee people pay in the UK, with possible extra to cover that we're not paying any taxes that help subsidize the programming)?
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You will be able to in late summer, though it won't be everything for third party rights reasons.

Phazer
 
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This is awesome for those in the UK. I'm sure more content is just around the corner.
 
Awesome Quality!!

Granted, there seems to be very little available at this very first day, but I am just checking Spartacus as I write this, and it is AMAZING on the iPhone display.
Awesome news!

I don't even have a regular Telly :-D Guess now I do ;-)

Way to go BBC, thanks!
 
Wow! A first that outside US gets something for the iPhone before the US does! Now I know how you all feel!

I miss the BBC, specifically the People's Book of Records.
 
Brilliant British Content

Watching excellent 'Are We Alone?' Horizon episode at work as I type.

Lovely moment ... the potential of this device just keeps growing.

Roll on more SDK apps...
 
dafttom said:
As I mentioned on the other thread, it also supports TV Out.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=5115274&posted=1#post5115274
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Oh My God! (I don't usually choose this phrase), but TV out on the iPlayer solves a long-standing debacle for me. Now I can use my iPhone to watch BBC content on demand on my TV. That's a better deal than even Windows users are getting! All very exciting.

Its funny that in a round-about way, I've now got a better setup than if I had an Apple TV or a Windows PC :eek:

My setup is outlined here:
http://octumo.com/apple-tv-like-setup-for-50-bucks/
 
Sorry was a bit vague. Was referring to the actual iPlayer itself (i.e. download a few programs so you can watch them later where you might have no internet access).
 
Loving this development - BBC first on iPhone.

Makes me proud to be British.

'And did those feet in ancient times...'

Gulp...
 
Using the old iPod AV cable and the old iPod Universal Dock i got the iPlayer for iPhone stream showing on my TV, it wasn't brilliant quality but more than adequate.
 
Quality is excellent, although most things not currently available...

Hopefully as new episodes are shown they will be added in h264 versions too.

A note to UK users 'The Cloud' WiFi hotspots allow access to the BBC site for free, including iPlayer stuff as far as I remember. As the BBC signed a deal with them.
 
UltraNurd said:
Maybe a dumb question... but why can't international users pay some fee to access the content (something like the fee people pay in the UK, with possible extra to cover that we're not paying any taxes that help subsidize the programming)?
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Same reason UK users can't watch Lost on ABC's website: Licensing issues.

For a more detailed answer from the BBC read here:

http://iplayersupport.external.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/bbciplayer.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=28
 
UltraNurd said:
Maybe a dumb question... but why can't international users pay some fee to access the content (something like the fee people pay in the UK, with possible extra to cover that we're not paying any taxes that help subsidize the programming)?
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you think you have it bad. Why can't we access movie download through itunes?

and yes i know the technical answer already
 
Oh my God! Some news of a service that the British Mac users CAN'T bitch about not being released over by them first! This IS big!!!
 
Very impressed. I feared the worst when I first selected a programme to watch as it looked like I'd have to just zoom the screen to fit, but then the QT file popped in to live and sized itself to the iPhone screen. Very good quality indeed.
 
I cant get the programmes to start.I have tried all the programmes that people have said are working.It gets to the first still of the programme but then there is no way of getting the programme to run.

I am using an ipod touch with the updated software.Anyone been able to get the programmes running on the touch
 
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