Re: [Scottish] BBC iPlayer for Macintosh but not for linux, for a long time, if ever . . .

2008-02-11 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:45:44AM +, William Anderson wrote: > Also, iPlayer works great under Linux using the streaming service. How > zealous do we all want to be just to download massive video files and > keep them for 7 days? > I actually have a use case for it at the moment. I have f

Re: [Scottish] BBC iPlayer for Macintosh but not for linux, for a long time, if ever . . .

2008-02-10 Thread William Anderson
John Gordon Ollason wrote: The BBC has announced that the iPlayer will soon be available for Macs. So MS and Apple are catered for, but not Open Source. I don't know if the BBC's charter as a public broadcaster is broken by the decision to limit its output to equipment made only by particular s

[Scottish] BBC iPlayer for Macintosh but not for linux, for a long time, if ever . . .

2008-02-09 Thread John Gordon Ollason
The BBC has announced that the iPlayer will soon be available for Macs. So MS and Apple are catered for, but not Open Source. I don't know if the BBC's charter as a public broadcaster is broken by the decision to limit its output to equipment made only by particular suppliers, but if it is