BBC Iplayer on Diamond

[edna.road]

Tip: Make BBC Iplayer work on your Windows Mobile phone (info found elsewhere)

The BBC’s iPlayer service has been rolling out and supporting more and more smartphones, but as they do it on a device by device basis that has left the varied ecosystem of Windows Mobile at a distinct disadvantage.

Fortunately we have more control than most over our devices, and the following hack will allow the video streaming service to work on any device.

You need to change the user agent in Opera Mobile to spoof the Samsung Omnia, the only supported Windows Mobile phone.

The instructions are as follow:

Run Opera
In the address bar enter opera:config (no http://)
Scroll down to User Prefs and click
Scroll down to Custom User-Agent and at the end of the pre-filled text add sgh-i900
Scroll down some more and press Save. You will get a prompt which suggests you may need to reset the phone, but for this you don’t.

Check you have HTC Streaming Media Installed - If you do point your browser to http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer/ and enjoy. The video opens in HTC Streaming Player on HTC smartphones.

[raines43]

Thanks a lot edna.road, just tried it and it works perfectly:)

[kaos_king]

I saw this aswell, here - http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=1794

Just flashed to Dutty's V4 so going to try it when i get it back on

[skilty]

Tried this before christmas, but I prefer watching Iplayer through Skyfire. The latest beta works just as good. You can watch any flv site through it such as youtube etc so

[GreenTurbo]

The iplayer now works with the HTC Touch HD and looks great, is that getting a higher quality stream than the version for the sgh-900i?

I have tried using the same user agent as the HD
‘HTC Touch HD T8282 Opera/9.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)' on my standard HTC Diamond but get the message device not supported.

How is the iplayer webpage seeing the difference between my Diamond and a HTC Touch HD?

[richardirv]

I have got the BBCi Player page to work in opera but when I click on a video it switches to streaming media then sits on buffering 0% then says can't find network!

This is on my work wifi though will try again when I am at home.

[grahamkdt]

It works fine for me, though only at home via WiFi. Can't get it working via 3G, but may be it's not designed to?

[richardirv]

Yeah If I have wifi turned off it asks to turn it on, but I only get GPRS or Edge at work, It may work On HSDPA

[kaos_king]

Tried this before christmas, but I prefer watching Iplayer through Skyfire. The latest beta works just as good. You can watch any flv site through it such as youtube etc so

You also mean redtube youporn etc etc?? lol

[ant611982]

I managed to change the setting in 'opera:config' and now the BBC iPlayer page loads fine; only problem nothing will play and every time I click a link I get this box *see attached img*

Any ideas ? ? ? ? ? ?

Thanks

[skilty]

you also mean redtube youporn etc etc?? Lol


lol exactly!

[dervish666]

I have got this to work with HSDPA, it streams pretty well.

Unfortunately the method is far from perfect.

After doing the above fix, connect to wifi and find the stream you want.

Start it playing and then pause, go back to comm manager, turn wifi off and phone on, it should continue streaming fine.

Not ideal though I know.

[Darth Andy]

This suggests that it's the beeb blocking it rather than the carrier. Hmmm.


("Hmmm" was just to make me sound wise - I have no fracking clue what to do next)

[Darth Andy]

Are there any WM phones where it's known to work over the air?

[xavierdemon]

BBC now reports native support HTC Touch HD, over wifi+3G. Does anyone have the User Agent for the HD, as would like to try it on my Diamond :)

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/about_iplayer/mobile_phone

[bugeyes]

hmmn still only wifi for us diamond users on orange it seems, this is taken from theabove link check paragraph 3:-

What each heading means

Download TV programmes over wifi to watch later without needing an internet connection. If you download a programme, you can watch or listen to it for 7 days. Devices that don't currently support the digital rights management (DRM) system that we use for BBC iPlayer cannot download programmes to watch or listen to later.
Watching TV programmes while connected to the internet over a wifi connection.
Watching TV programmes while connected to the internet over a 3G connection - *only available on 3 and Vodafone networks at present.
Radio - listen again or listen live to programmes while connected to the internet.
Sideload - transfer a programme from your PC to your mobile device to play without needing an internet connection.

[D8LOM]

Good tip but I'd prefer it to work through HSDPA.:rolleyes: Any chance of this happening soon?