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BBC iPlayer Comes To iPhone and iPod Touch
The BBC have today launched availability of iPlayer content on iPhone and iPod Touch, making the Apple hardware the first mobile devices to support the streaming TV service. The content is encoded as a 516Kbps stream so it will only play via WiFi on both devices as the EDGE connection of the iPhone is not fast enough to operate effectively.
The Web site access has not been optimised for the iPhone interface so to actually select the programme you require involves a fair amount of zooming and panning of the page. Hopefully this is a short term thing and the Beeb will improve the front end for easier navigation. What I can say though is that the video actually looks superb on with not stuttering or pixellation what so ever.
If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch head straight over to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer for preview. If you are interested in the technology behind this new service there is a blog article at the BBC Internet Blog that explains the approach being taken to encode and produce the iPlayer versions of BBC programmes that is also worth read.
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The iPlayer is sweet, have been using the streaming version on my mac since xmas and its a useful app.
Have you tried the RUby script that allows you to download the iPod videos as quicktime movies on your Mac/PC ?
I have and it works !
No where do you get that from? Scott you need to enable subscribe to comments - I almost missed this
Your wish is my command Pete !
Here you go.
Thanks for that info I’ve bookmarked it on my iphone.
I can say that the Beeb are working on a IPod/Phone interface, quite good so far.