Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2010-01-01 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 20:50, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: 2010/1/1 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net: it was suggested initially that GNU/Linux was pretty much irrelevant Only by ignorant assholes. :-) Making it a “GNU/Linux” issue misses the point, really: the OS itself is fairly

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2010-01-01 Thread Tim Dobson
Mo McRoberts wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 20:50, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: 2010/1/1 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net: it was suggested initially that GNU/Linux was pretty much irrelevant Only by ignorant assholes. :-) Making it a “GNU/Linux” issue misses the point, really: the OS

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2010-01-01 Thread Scot McSweeney-Roberts
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 13:19, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote: We'll have to see what happens, but it wouldn't surprise me if 2010 was the year video DRM got dropped as DRM for audio and in music has been in the last year or two... I'm not that hopeful. I think the biggest driver behind

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2010-01-01 Thread David Greaves
Tim Dobson wrote: The default Maemo browser is essentially Firefox 3.5+ which supports video / (not natively H.264 though, but that's a different debate). With regards to DRM, well, I think some people are generally coming round to the idea that it may not be the be all and end all. We'll

[backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2009-12-31 Thread Adam
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

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2009-12-31 Thread Ian Stirling
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,

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2009-12-31 Thread Tim Dobson
Adam wrote: 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

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer and the Nokia N900

2009-12-31 Thread Dave Crossland
2010/1/1 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net: it was suggested initially that GNU/Linux was pretty much irrelevant Only by ignorant assholes. :-) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.