2008-09-18, 12:18
johnsto Wrote:All platforms have access to the online Flash streaming client (Mac, Windows and Linux, plus others), and on mine this certainly works fine. It's only when I put the stream into XBMC it doesn't work (but that does require re-authentication, I can't just grab the same URL via sniffing as it expires.)
The iPhone does not do Flash so it accesses a different H.264 stream. It auto-redirects to http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer/index.html
Other hacks have been written to exploit this and download and save programmes in H.264 via this method. I am not suggesting that, merely that it might be another way to play them within XBMC.
It is also possible that since this method is using H.264 it might be the same as the 'high quality' version via Flash, early reports were that it was better than the standard flash version.
If you manage to get your plugin working again, I have a feature request, which would be to display the Channel logo next to each channel in the list of Channels.