Beebplayer Removed from Market

[Guest LUTRAM]

Noticed beebplayer had vanished from Market as FROYO will support flash and hence no more need for the beebplayer,

Well until we get FROYO here is a quick QR CODE link for beebplayer

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&...roid.beebplayer

[Guest Mikey242]

Good idea, will try it later thanks.

[Guest 42turkeys]

Noticed beebplayer had vanished from Market as FROYO will support flash and hence no more need for the beebplayer,

Well until we get FROYO here is a quick QR CODE link for beebplayer

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&...roid.beebplayer

Lifesaver :)

[Guest samac92]

is that really the reason??

i have froyo with flash player and iPlayer (any internet video in fact) hardly works at all.

you can't get the video to play full screen, the framerate is about 3fps and the audio lags a few seconds behind the picture.

also adobe says you'll get up to 3 hours with only flash running.

i know its only beta, but who knows when flash will be actually usable?

[Guest LUTRAM]

may be of interest

http://davejohnston.posterous.com/

[Guest dreamdealer]

may be of interest

http://davejohnston.posterous.com/

is it me or by reading that, gives you a sense of 2.2 coming on our devices very soon, close to the rumour, of the 23rd been flying about.

[Guest pampyre]

is it me or by reading that, gives you a sense of 2.2 coming on our devices very soon, close to the rumour, of the 23rd been flying about.

I could be missing something but, no, it doesn't even seem to mention the desire. Imo it's possible but highly unlikely the 23rd is an accurate date.

I'd also add that, on this 'test' Froyo I'm currently running, with flash beta, there's just no way you're going to watch iplayer and be happy with the result unless stuff changes quite dramatically.

Unfortunately for me, beebplayer nor the iplayer site/beta flash work well enough to use currently :)

[Guest ChikkenSoop]

Unfortunately having installed Froyo and played with iPlayer, I want beebplayer back! Even with the iPlayer streams at their lowest and my phone overclocked to 1.2ghz its still more of a slideshow than television. Obviously a Desire specific Froyo will be better than a quickly hacked together rom but I don't hold out much hope unless the BBC changes their streams.

Saying that though I am looking forward to whatever tvcatchup.com are rumoured to be releasing before the World Cup :)

Edited June 7, 2010 by ChikkenSoop

[Guest battletank]

I read the following on a LinkedIn contact's profile (name removed for fear of getting him/her in trouble):

Software Engineer

BBC

Public Company; BBC; Broadcast Media industry

September 2008 – Present (1 year 10 months)

Responsible for the presentation layer architecture of the BBC's new personalised mobile homepage and the technical management of externally commissioned projects. Also the design and development of the BBC’s prototype iPlayer application for Android, providing video browsing, download, playback and management.

[Guest IIIIkoolaidIIII]

Aweseom, couldn't find a backup of it. Missed having it.

[Guest HearThatVoiceAgain]

may be of interest

http://davejohnston.posterous.com/

See the Third (at time of posting) item down.

beebPlayer discontinued

I'm sorry to announce that I have removed beebPlayer from the Android Market and ceased all further development of this application.

[Guest DaBeeeenster]

Sorry for being dim, but why can't the Desire use the iPhone version of the site? Does the desire not play h264?

[Guest pampyre]

Could just be me (flashed a new rom and checking sites etc) but it seems BBC iPlayer site now defaults to the (new/beta) mobile version for Android/Desire? Doesn't seem to work though (I get a neverending 'loading icon').

Anyone else getting this or have it working? I have the latest flash beta (for Froyo).

[Guest ChikkenSoop]

Sorry for being dim, but why can't the Desire use the iPhone version of the site? Does the desire not play h264?

Having downloaded some of the iphone format content and trying to play them, you get video but no audio so I'm guessing they use a strange form of aac audio that the desire doesnt support out of the box.

[Guest acolwill]

Try myPlayer. It has an utterly s*** UI and finding stuff to watch is a pain in the arse, but it's able to stream current content and even play live TV.