On 15/02/2024 12:27, Jim web wrote:
Is the idea/aim that *only* a 'BBC app' will work? If so, why impose that on License Fee payers? Some of whom may simply not have a 'device'. (I don't.)
It's currently the case that only a BBC app is supported. Web downloads aren't raw mp4 files, they're handled by the offline iPlayer software supplied for Windows and OSX. You have to have that installed to download programmes via the web, you can't just save them to your device as normal files.
What's happening is that they're ending support for the Windows and OSX offline software. The stated reason is that usage is too low to justify the cost of maintaining them. Which I think is probably true. Offline viewing will, in future, only be supported on Android and iOS.
Streaming (as opposed to downloading) will still work via the web on any platform, as well as the Android and iOS apps.
As others have said, I don't think this will affect get_iplayer. Gip has always used the streams, not the downloads, as the source, and the streams will remain available.
(FWIW, I suspect that, behind the scenes, the official download apps are doing exactly what gip is doing, and converting the stream source into offline files. It would be unnecessary duplication storing everything twice, once as a stream and once as a download, when you can easily convert on the fly between them).
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