Adam wrote:
Hi,
Nokia have released the Nokia N900 phone based on their Maemo operating
system.
As it doesn't support S60 WRT that the current Nokia phones iPlayer app
is written in is there anyway i can access the iPlayer videos directly.
I can access the current videos and play them, but they are unwatchable
as the phone can't handle them. This might be due to the standard
streams using the VP6 codec, although i haven't been able to confirm this.
The specs are:
* Firefox Mobile browser
* Flash 9.4
* Maemo OS based on Debian with ARM processor
* User Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-GB; rv:1.9.2a1pre)
Gecko/20090928 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.4.1.21 RX-51 N900"
Is there a work around to get iPlayer working on this phone and videos
watchable?
I have been using the silly workaround of get_iplayer on my desktop,
then transcoding the files.
mplayer on the device will actually - just - cope with the flash - with
appropriate switches -
mplayer -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts skiploopfilt =all
Top_Gear_Series_14_-_Episode_1_b00p1lgb_default.flv
The 'proper' flash player is laughably slower though.
Flash slowness is pretty much my only annoyance with the device.
Other than the cheap gits only including one stylus.
You can of course run get_iplayer and transcode on the device itself,
but that's not very fast :)
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