BBC iPlayer Plugin (1 Viewer)

metropolis

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Hi, anybody looking at developing a BBC iPlayer Plugin for MediaPortal?

Regards.
 

cheetah05

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I think they (the bbc) have found a way to stop the streaming of the higher quality mp4 encoded streams to anything other than an ipod.

But, it is however possible to scrap the bbc iplayer page and get the streams from there, but these are lower quality and it would be a "dirty" hack.
 

cheetah05

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See the attached application to show roughly how iPlayer would work if it was integrated to MP, it has to scrap from the bbc iplayer website and it very hacky (getting to fullscreen etc). The only way to get out of fullscreen (with a remote), if integrated into MP, would be to press the media center button.

Over at XBMC, they have managed to get to the higher quality iPod Streams (i think - someone correct me if i am wrong), but they are unable to stream them and have to download them fully before being able to watch.

The trouble is, finding a way to download the bits, join them together and play them (stream it basically), without having to have a server->client setup (server downloads and streams). If anyone has any ideas how you would do this, then give me a shout and I'll have a look at creating a script for it.
 

cheetah05

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Any chance you could make the source to this available? :)

To be honest, there isn't really any functions that i have created.....I am simply using the internet explorer control.

If you still think you need it, then i will post the project files up later.
 

mrfunks

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i Player

PLEASE can one of you clever chaps get this to work PLEASE!
 

adam_purkis

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i know it seems like this can't be done, but just to put another request on it if it ever becomes possible i'd use it!! thx
 

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