BBC iPlayer

[beercz]

Anybody managed to listen music with bbc iplayer? I use firefox.
This is the only reason I keep the windows partition.
Help me get rid of it once and for all!

I don't listen to music on the bbci player, but I watch tv programs that I have missed using it, and I also listen to the radio (http://bbc.co.uk/fivelive) and watch the BBC News Channel live (available from http://news.bbc.co.uk) using the bbci player, all in firefox in ubuntu.

[AndyCooll]

Anybody managed to listen music with bbc iplayer? I use firefox.
This is the only reason I keep the windows partition.
Help me get rid of it once and for all!

Are you talking about programs in the "Music" category (e.g. Later with Jools Holland) or repeats of radio shows (e.g. Chris Moyles show)?

I've occasionally watched or listened to these via the BBC's iPlayer, and I use Firefox. I find I have mixed success/failure with the radio shows.

For instance, in the World Music section "World Routes" plays fine, but "Charlie Gilletts World of Music" doesn't.
I'm guessing it's a codec issues and that different shows are recorded in different formats ("Caschlar", which is on the same page for instance, wants me to install Real Player before it will play!)

[Sigur]

I have installed Real Player and through it I can listen to live programs on BBC stations through direct URL.
The problem is that i could never listen shows through the "listen again" buttons. I have tried installing firefox addons, but nothing has worked.
Which codec could I add?

[ww711]

iPlayer works fine for myself, running with Firefox; both tv and radio stream consistently.

[nothingspecial]

I listen to any BBC radio output using squeezebox and squeezecenter.

http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html

You don`t have to buy a squeezebox (although they`re brilliant) you can use softsqueeze on your pc.

http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/


Anyway, I can watch BBC programs on my linux computer so I`ve not a problem with that. I haven`t figured out how to use the ITV or Channel 4 players yet. That`s what bugs me.

[ww711]

Anyway, I can watch BBC programs on my linux computer so I`ve not a problem with that. I haven`t figured out how to use the ITV or Channel 4 players yet. That`s what bugs me.

ITV uses silverlight/windows media player, same for Channel4...


From the Channel 4 Catch-Up 'help site'.

When will Catch-Up be available to users on MAC OS, Linux or other Operating platforms?
At the moment, Catch-Up is unavailable to other operating systems, including Mac OS and Linux.

The reason for this is our content providers (e.g. the production companies who make our shows) insist on using a DRM licensing system to protect their programmes, and the sole DRM solution that matches the content owners' requirements is Windows DRM. However, we are looking at other solutions to allow Mac and Linux systems to access this content.

[getaboat]

It all worked OK on Fiesty - but it became very clunky on Hardy and I still have one Hardy PC where it does not work.

In FF I installed the media connectivity plug-in which seemed to help.

Thanks for the tip on Opera I'll give that a try - I quite like the latest Opera.

[Sigur]

Thanks guys. Now I can say that I don't need the Windows partition anymore!
I had to uninstall and reinstall the helix player and change the RTSP settings that I had changed few months ago trying to make it work.
Now BBC iplayer is working perfectly

[Andavane]

These days it "Just Plays"

[beercz]

Use it all the time - almost daily