I can't figure the BBC here - they are not using heavy weight DRM, but they don't appear to want to make native mp3 listen again streams available. So the native iPlayer uses mp3 streamed to a flash client. In this case I suspect it is like the iPhone video playback - its actually a standard stream but the server is checking that the device looks like an iPhone before it sends the stream. (presumably its possible to pretend to be an iPhone to get to the stream)
At the same time one of the BBC's own people is posting on their Radiolabs blog about a hack which essentially extracts the mp3 stream from the flash player (and then pipes it into iTunes). See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/09/things_to_do_with_programmes_4.shtml What we all want is a native mp3 stream so that listen again could work natively with a Slim player... Is it time to start lobbying for mp3 to Slim players? -- Triode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52967 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
