iPlayer goes mobile

Friday, March 7. 2008

Tony Rose announced today that the iPlayer went Mobile:

Today was a big day for BBC iPlayer: it's the day that it first became available on a portable device. BBCiPlayer is now available on iPhone and iPod touch.

It was quite interesting how they did it:

we're not using the new Apple SDK, nor are we using the much-rumoured Flash for iPhone (no - we haven't seen it, either). Instead, we're creating 516Kbps streams (400Kbps H.264 video, 116Kbps AAC audio) that show off BBC programmes brilliantly on an iPhone.

I hope this stifles some of the "Microsoft pwns us" criticism the Beeb got.....but to me the most interesting observation was this:

We started with iPhone because it is the device most optimised for high quality video currently available. It displays the BBC iPlayer site and BBC programmes nicely. But - go on, speculate! - we're working on making BBCiPlayer available on many more browser-enabled devices over the coming months: stay tuned for details...

My kids' Nintendo DS's run Opera - any chance of that next ?

Posted by Alan Patrick in Mobile Web 2.0 & Multimedia at 21:29 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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