On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:27:58 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 05/02/2012 11:05 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I see.  So the BBC offers really crap quality to those who pay the
>> licensing fee in the UK, but offers really good quality to those who
>> don't?
> 
> Hmm!
> I use get_iplayer to download progs and the blurb on the site says:
> 
> The iPhone H.264 feeds from the BBC are higher quality than in the Flash
> iPlayer (normal quality). See the beebhack wiki for a comparison. They
> are intended for the Apple iPhone and are consequently difficult to
> download for any other OS. The same goes for the iPhone MP3 radio
> streams. get_iplayer also allows recording of the high-quality (even HD
> 720p) flash based content using rtmpdump. None of the above content is
> ‘protected’ by DRM. get_iplayer cannot remove DRM.

That's the same software I use.  :)

It does seem odd, though, that they don't do HD streaming for iPlayer 
itself.  I thought I saw a switch for that (but then again, iPlayer video 
isn't something I can get my hands on easily without using get_iplayer 
and a UK-based proxy).

> http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html
> 
> BTW Just a minute starts its 62nd series on Monday. Happy 45th Birthday,
> Just A Minute!
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01blgp6

:)

Jim

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