On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dave Addey <[email protected]> wrote: >> As another alternative to Boxee and XBMC, you can always use Plex >> (http://www.plexapp.com/) and my Plex iPlayer plugin (downloadable from >> Plex's in-app plugin list). I'm using this on a Mac Mini hooked up to a >> projector, and it works great. >> >> I used to use a hacked AppleTV as a media centre, but its closed approach >> eventually led to my move over to the Mini. Would probably have stuck with >> the AppleTV if I'd had Tweed's iPlayer plugin at the time :) Plex gives a >> lot more plugin flexibility - definitely worth a look if you're considering >> a Mac-based media centre. > > Plex/Boxee/XBMC are nicely hackable, that's for sure. And Boxee on the > AppleTV is nice to try too, though I found it super sluggish to be > honest. > > But what with > http://jonathan.tweed.name/2010/02/09/bbc-iplayer-for-apple-tv-an-update/ > ... it seems these kinds of hacks aren't approved of. Jonathan reports > in that post that one of the reasons he was asked to take it down was: > > ... 'The plugin was also playing content rights cleared for PC, but > not set top box, usage.' > > Can anyone shed more light on this distinction? With the likes of > Boxee on the rise, it's hard to understand where PCs stop and 'set top > boxes' start. So if there are big legal/contractual distinctions > defined using these terms that affect future possibilities for iPlayer > embedding, it'd be nice to have some sense of where the limits might > be.
That seems really arbitrary. I'm running Boxee on a desktop OS but it only acts as a set top box. Is it a set top box because it's attached to my TV or is my TV merely a very large LCD monitor with a (largely unused TV tuner)? Boxee has an iPlayer app and AFAIK it works just by pretending to be one of the various games consoles that iPlayer works with and invoking the games console UI. Presumably this is OK as no one has said anything about that plugin. Even weirder, no one ever told us not to write scripts to download video off iPlayer, even unofficially. I'd have thought that was the first place they'd start if they were going to close down projects. Oh well. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
