2008-03-15, 16:47
johnsto Wrote:I have no plans to add this, partly as a nod to the BBC's iPlayer guidelines and to honour their agreements with content providers.
I'm using it on my original, tiny HDD too!
Original HD...poor you :-) How do you coap with not being able to have a few million tracks or a few hundred movies on it? :-)
Why would not saving to samba shares be any worse for the BBC than downloading the MP4's in the first place? *scratches head*
Once we've got the files getting them off the Xbox can be done by samba or FTP anyway.....
Quote:It seems only the iPhone is capable of streaming MP4s from the BBC website - no one has had any luck streaming to VLC, mplayer or anything else. It's still being investigated.
Sounds interesting. Might try packet sniffing while my friend streams to his ipod touch (which can also do this) over our wireless network and see if it shows up anything. (though it's probably been tried by loads of people before ).me.
Quote:The workaround would be to download the MP4 in the background and hand off to XBMC once a few megs have been grabbed, but this throws up its own hurdles, and given that mplayer on my PC can't read a truncated iPlayer MP4, I'm not convinced this approach would work either.
This is an interesting conundrum.
Quote:Send me cake!
If you're near Edinburgh you're more than welcome to come and collect :-P
In the meantime I suppose I'll have to try and find the time to get to learning my python - eventually I'll get enough time off. It's been a hectic year.