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iPlayer for Linux wins approval of open sourcers
News The Open Source Consortium has welcomed the BBC's move to make its iPlayer online on-demand TV service available for streaming on operating systems other than Microsoft Windows. The OSC was one of the groups critical of the BBC's decision to...
[December 18, 2007, 7:51]
iPlayer for Other Platforms
Talkback How long will it take the BBC to develop iPlayer for these platforms? I use Ubuntu Linux and Windows 2000 to access the internet.
[August 21, 2007, 13:10]
iPlayer download version reaches Mac and Linux
News The download version of BBC iPlayer is now available for Mac and Linux users. The beta version is now available to members of the BBC iPlayer Labs testing group with a full rollout expected early next year.
[December 22, 2008, 7:47]
iPlayer traffic soars over festive period
News The BBC's iPlayer website saw a 14-fold increase in traffic during the festive period. Since its launch, iPlayer has attracted criticism as the download version was only available on Microsoft's Windows XP.
[January 11, 2008, 8:31]
iPlayer on my E71... Win?
Blog Today's the day the BBC iPlayer launched on Series 60 - well, on certain Nokia handsets only. One of the few annoyances on the E71 is the fiddly methods you have to employ in order to force it onto Wi-Fi rather than the cellular network (the...
[October 2, 2008, 16:33]
BBC: iPlayer download version coming to Macs
News The download version of the BBC's iPlayer will be available for Mac users by the end of the year, according to director general Mark Thompson. Thompson made the commitment in a blog posting responding to questions about the BBC's approach to...
[February 11, 2008, 7:24]
iPlayer enjoys 'wonderful start' to 2008
News More than 3.5 million BBC programmes have been watched using the BBC's online, on-demand iPlayer TV service during the fortnight after Christmas Day. The programmes were watched by more than one million visitors using the iPlayer during the same...
[January 16, 2008, 11:06]
The true cost to the BBC of iPlayer...
Blog Over on CNet, Nate Lanxon has delivered a stonking piece on the technical background to the BBC's iPlayer servers. I'm trying to work out how much more - or less - it costs the BBC to deliver a TV programme over iPlayer than it does to transmit it...
[May 8, 2009, 15:08]
Report: BBC, Google discussing international iPlayer
News It seems an international version of iPlayer could be on the cards. While the two organisations have had a partnership since early 2007 when official BBC clips were first uploaded to Google's video-sharing site YouTube, both the BBC and Google...
[June 1, 2009, 9:39]
BBC iPlayer goes high definition
News Selected programmes will soon be available on the BBC's iPlayer online on-demand TV service in high-definition (HD) form. The new HD format will initially appear on the online version of iPlayer but will soon be available to Virgin Media cable...
[April 20, 2009, 11:53]
BBC says iPlayer criticism unfair
News The BBC has hit back at criticisms from the Mac and open-source communities over the iPlayer only being available for Microsoft's Windows XP platform. The BBC launched the iPlayer in July this year for the Windows XP platform, leading to criticism...
[October 31, 2007, 8:23]
Ex-iPlayer boss made Microsoft UK consumer chief
News Highfield, who, as the BBC's new media and technology chief, was responsible for leading much of the development of the iPlayer digital video platform, has, since April, been heading up Project Kangaroo, a version of the iPlayer that will...
[November 10, 2008, 17:11]
Hacked iPlayer for Symbian Series 60 in action
News The BBC's iPlayer video-on-demand widget was released on Wednesday for certain Symbian Series 60 handsets, such as the Nokia N96. The E71 is not officially supported and the application is only supposed to run over Wi-Fi, so as not to strain...
[October 3, 2008, 16:44]
Pro iPlayer storm
Talkback Going to Google News this morning gives you 50+ articles about how iPlayer has been launched problem free (Telegraph) and cautiously welcome (BBC News). This is in stark contrast to protests over the past month and the widespread belief that...
[July 30, 2007, 14:38]
One million iPlayer requests per day in November
News The BBC iPlayer online, on-demand TV service saw its programme requests top more than a million per day last month. Total requests for views on iPlayer since its launch in June 2007 hit 237 million by the end of November 2008, with another 61...
[December 5, 2008, 9:47]
So if the BBC is committed to providing a Linux version of iPlayer...
Talkback Personally, I think the BBC's arguments for DRM are dead in the water ever since the BBC decided to go ahead with the iPlayer launch despite the fact that the DRM has been cracked. But regardless, yes, if I were using iPlayer then I would be...
[July 26, 2007, 13:05]
Make iPlayer a pay service
Talkback Auntie should do this with iPlayer. There are many websites where people can watch and/or download videos which they have to pay for, normally by buying credits.
[May 22, 2009, 10:37]
BBC launches iPlayer 2.0 beta
News The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed to make it more appealing and easier to use. There is also a TV schedule to help people plan their viewing by listing which programmes will be available on iPlayer and...
[June 26, 2008, 8:49]
Fixed BBC iPlayer hacked again
News Just hours after the BBC said it had fixed the iPlayer streamed TV service to prevent DRM-free file downloads, a London-based programmer has bypassed the new protection. Paul Battley, a developer for crowd-sourced reviews site Reevoo, wrote on his...
[March 14, 2008, 16:00]
BBC hops over cross-channel iPlayer antitrust
Blog The BBC, the BBC informs us, is thinking of sharing its iPlayer technology with its soon-to-be-extraterrestrial rivals, ITV and Channel 4. Project Kangaroo was, er, a version of the iPlayer to be shared between the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
[December 11, 2008, 16:55]
