bbc iplayer on android

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is it comeing to android ? i think i read somewhere is was like 2 weeks ago cant remember exactly where is this true?

and is there any tv sreaming apps for android?

Search Marketplace for "Beebplayer"

Works well over WiFi - No download and its not offical.

Has anyone got this working on 3G in the UK? Or anywhere for that matter?

I keep getting "Cannot play this video" which apparently means the carrier does not support iPlayer (?)

Does this mean that T-Mobile UK block the iplayer ports? Could we get this to work with an ssh tunnel or something?

It doesnt seem to be in the market anymore????

Anyone have the apk?


Cheers

Originally Posted by estecman

It doesnt seem to be in the market anymore????

Anyone have the apk?


Cheers

It is still in the market, just a bit hard to find. You need to search for 'beebplayer'

Attached the apk (zipped) anyway.

Cheers for the zip!!!

Thats totally weird I did of course carefully search for beebplayer and I never got a hit?!

Anyway I'll try the apk, thanks.

for any who can't get it to work, it needs 1.5 firmware.

This is an impressive implementation, and the only choice to hand, however as the owner of both an iPhone 3g and a white G1 i have to say the the comparison between the two shows up just how much better the iPhone h.264 streams are to the mobile streams used via the mobile iPlayer portals.
It's a shame these streams can't be utilised by the developer, but I imagine the G1 just doesn't have good enough graphics acceleration to cope with it

Originally Posted by leoni1980

This is an impressive implementation, and the only choice to hand, however as the owner of both an iPhone 3g and a white G1 i have to say the the comparison between the two shows up just how much better the iPhone h.264 streams are to the mobile streams used via the mobile iPlayer portals.

Getting the iPhone streams on there was my first choice - in fact all the code to resolve the streams is in beebPlayer but unused. The problem is that the G1 can't play the iPhone streams.

Originally Posted by leoni1980

It's a shame these streams can't be utilised by the developer, but I imagine the G1 just doesn't have good enough graphics acceleration to cope with it

Actually, the G1 is more than powerful enough. The problem is that the iPhone streams are in a .MOV container that the G1 video player can't decode. It's annoying - it's SO close to being MP4 which would be perfect, but of course Apple had to ruin the party!

Does that mean if the streams weren't in a .mov container we'd be able to use the direct iPhone iplayer page using the Steel browser and the iPhone user agent spoof option?

That would be pretty cool.

Impressed as I am with this app the mobile streams are just too poor for me.