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Guest Shadowfixeruk
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Hi - anyone know if the BBC iPlayer is available on WinMo?

I have had a look about and can't see anything....

Cheers

SF

Guest jontelfer
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Doesn't look like it yet - which is a shame. I read a few threads on the Wii/PS3 iplayer and it seems they are working on getting extra devices supported, just not quite quick enough for my liking I guess. If some egghead can get the PS3 to view content written for a wii, I wouldn't have thought it would be a big jump to weasel a WM6 client/bodge.

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Would the iPlayer be practical on WM devices? First you need quite a lot of storage to store the downloaded videos, a fast connection (the amount of traffic would rule even T-Mob W&W out) so this means most likely Wifi. Then you have the issue of battery life - lots of Wifi usage plus using the backlight watching what you have downloaded.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a way of using iPlayer on WM and would certainly have a play with it if it was possible. For now though, I just wow my friends playing back fullscreen YouTube on Coreplayer! :D

Guest Shadowfixeruk
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Would the iPlayer be practical on WM devices? First you need quite a lot of storage to store the downloaded videos, a fast connection (the amount of traffic would rule even T-Mob W&W out) so this means most likely Wifi. Then you have the issue of battery life - lots of Wifi usage plus using the backlight watching what you have downloaded.

Yeah - my thinking was download during the day (via wifi) - watch on the train etc...

Still think it would be cool - there are rumblings about making it available on the iphone but haven't seen anything about WM....

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Yeah - my thinking was download during the day (via wifi) - watch on the train etc...

Now that would be cool :D Anyone want to try fooling iPlayer into thinking your WM device is a Wii? :(

Guest WearTheFoxHat
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Yeah - my thinking was download during the day (via wifi) - watch on the train etc...

Still think it would be cool - there are rumblings about making it available on the iphone but haven't seen anything about WM....

It works fine on my iPod Touch, so no reason why it shouldn't be made to work on a WM device.

Guest pd.ryder
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BBC iPlayer isn't only downloads - it streams too. I have already emailed iPlayer's tech department about having provided iPhone player / software whilst ignoring us WM users. They haven't replied, so they must just not like WM users (or maybe its just me :D )

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Guest JonRushton
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Just a shot in the dark, but i browsed to http://m.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and there is a beta iplayer interface for mobile devices.

Looks great, but when you try to play a video, it tells you to switch to WiFi. Not had chance to play to see if its possible to stream over 3G yet though.

Jon

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Guest GordonTGopher
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Just a shot in the dark, but i browsed to http://m.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and there is a beta iplayer interface for mobile devices.

Looks great, but when you try to play a video, it tells you to switch to WiFi. Not had chance to play to see if its possible to stream over 3G yet though.

Jon

I understand it only works over WiFi. When I tried on my TP2 I got a "device not supported" error, but I saw this link in XDA http://blog.artesea.co.uk/2008/11/bbc-ipla...-touch-pro.html and all is good ;)

Gordon

Guest Lee Farrant
Posted

Yes it works over 3g as I have been watching BBC stuff for a few weeks now on OMNIA.

Lee

Just a shot in the dark, but i browsed to http://m.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and there is a beta iplayer interface for mobile devices.

Looks great, but when you try to play a video, it tells you to switch to WiFi. Not had chance to play to see if its possible to stream over 3G yet though.

Jon

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Guest Emexrulsier
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I have the Omnia and have been using iplayer for yonks it does work different to others and plays the content in the Omnia streaming player. I haven't been able to use 3G network it does tell you you must be on wifi so unsure as to the above post?

I use this in my kitchen allows me to watch BBC1/2/3 Live or ofc iplayer 7 days handy while cooking away :)

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