{"id":1330,"date":"2009-01-06T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/the-bbcs-iplayer-finally-catches-up.htm"},"modified":"2009-01-06T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T09:00:27","slug":"the-bbcs-iplayer-finally-catches-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/the-bbcs-iplayer-finally-catches-up.htm","title":{"rendered":"The BBC&#8217;s iPlayer finally catches up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/bbc-iplayer-seems-to-work-well-on-windows-xp-but-what-about-the-rest-of-us.htm\">The BBC&#8217;s iPlayer TV and radio catch up service is great in many ways but it only runs on XP and has a ridiculously short period before the DRM kicks in and snatches a programme away from your computer<\/a>.  Now things are taking a step forward and, over the Christmas period, I&#8217;ve been using a beta of the BBC&#8217;s new cross-platform iPlayer Desktop.<\/p>\n<p>No longer limiting itself to a single platform and an old version of Windows, the BBC has dropped Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Media DRM in favour of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/air\/\">Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)<\/a> application and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H.264\">H.264<\/a>.  For those who are not familiar with this technology:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>H.264 is a video encoding algorithm intended to providing good video quality at substantially lower bit rates than previous standards and is used by Apple iTunes, YouTube and other prominent content distribution platforms.<\/li>\n<li>AIR is Adobe&#8217;s platform for writing rich Internet applications that can run on the desktop. Basically, AIR is the opposite to <a href=\"http:\/\/silverlight.net\/\">Microsoft Silverlight<\/a> (which takes the .NET Framework into a browser) and it can bring Flash, Flex, HTML or AJAX to the desktop, further blurring the lines between web and desktop applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because AIR is supported on so many platforms, the new iPlayer system requirements list Linux (Fedora Core 8, Ubuntu 7.10, Open Suse 10.3); Mac (Intel only); Windows XP and Windows Vista as supported operating systems.  Although they are not listed in the system requirements, it should also run on other platforms that are not listed &#8211; for example other Linux distributions and Windows 7.  <\/p>\n<p>The application itself seems straightforward enough &#8211; if you&#8217;ve seen the previous iPlayer Download Manager then the new iPlayer Desktop will be instantly familiar.  As should be expected with a beta application though, there are still some issues to iron out: all three machines that I installed the application on set the allocated hard disk space to something ridiculously small; but, critically, if your computer is connected to a low-resolution screen (say, on a netbook, or a standard definition television), then parts of the interface (like the tabs to switch between downloads, now playing and settings) are not accessible &#8211; as shown in the screen shot below (a VNC connection to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/a-living-room-pc-at-last.htm\"> the Mac Mini that I have hooked up to my old Sony TV<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline\" alt=\"iPlayer Desktop too big for the display\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/iplayer-desktop-on-sd-tv-display.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sadly I&#8217;m not aware of any changes to the content restrictions that mean <a href=\"http:\/\/iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk\/help\/finding_programmes\/how_long\">programmes are only available for a (very) limited number of days after broadcast<\/a> (I imagine that, just as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/freeing-digital-downloads-from-the-shackles-of-the-bbc-iplayer.htm\">Windows Media DRM was easily circumvented<\/a>, the DRM on this new platform will be cracked too).  But there is some light at the end of the tunnel &#8211; the AIR-based system may just be a stepping stone in the development of the BBC&#8217;s content delivery platform &#8211; at Microsoft&#8217;s 2008 Professional Developers&#8217; Conference, the Head of Online Media for BBC iPlayer, Anthony Rhodes, spoke of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/pc-phone-and-web-how-microsoft-plans-to-build-the-next-generation-of-user-experiences.htm\">moving from an Internet catchup (broadcast 1.0) service to a model where the Internet replaces television (broadcast 2.0)<\/a> using Live Mesh and a local Silverlight application to share content between users and across devices.<\/p>\n<p>So, how can you get the new iPlayer Desktop? Simply agree to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/labs\">BBC iPlayer Labs<\/a> tester and then download a programme from the iPlayer website.  At this point you should be prompted to install the iPlayer Desktop (and Adobe AIR) &#8211; just follow the prompts and within a few minutes you should be in business.  <\/p>\n<p>After testing the new platform on my systems over Christmas, the iPlayer Desktop seems like a major step forward to me.  If you run Linux, Mac OS X, or a modern version of Windows (<a href=\"http:\/\/iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk\/help\/download_programmes\/outsideuk\">and if you have a UK-based IP address<\/a>), then it&#8217;s definitely worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC&#8217;s iPlayer TV and radio catch up service is great in many ways but it only runs on XP and has a ridiculously short period before the DRM kicks in and snatches a programme away from your computer. Now things are taking a step forward and, over the Christmas period, I&#8217;ve been using a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/the-bbcs-iplayer-finally-catches-up.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The BBC&#8217;s iPlayer finally catches up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[183,169,184,74],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-air","tag-media","tag-silverlight","tag-tv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The BBC&#039;s iPlayer finally catches up - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/the-bbcs-iplayer-finally-catches-up.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The BBC&#039;s iPlayer finally catches up - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The BBC&#8217;s iPlayer TV and radio catch up service is great in many ways but it only runs on XP and has a ridiculously short period before the DRM kicks in and snatches a programme away from your computer. 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