We’ve now got something that represents a usable media player. When the episode page loads, hit ‘X’ or enter and then ‘R3′ to zoom full screen. Pressing ‘Down’ pauses the stream, ‘Up’ resumes playback, ‘Left’ rewinds and ‘Right’ to fast-forward. When you’re finished, hit ‘O’ (circle) to return focus to the browser and ‘R3′ to zoom out (don’t worry, the player now provides a help screen). I’ve also got the radio recordings working (no live streams unfortunately) and parental guidance protected programmes are now also accessible. Still left to do: recently-played programmes.
Monthly Archive for June, 2008
We’re back up and running and with the bonus of using iPlayer 2.0 too! As suspected the PS3 doesn’t like the BBC’s latest embedded flash media player, so until this can be resolved, I’ve created very simple temporary alternative. There’s no volume or playback controls at the moment, but I’ll probably add those soon.
A quick update on what’s happening regarding the current playback problems. The BBC are in the process of rolling out the beta of iPlayer 2.0 which should be available at some point today. Once it’s publicly available, and if required, I’ll attempt to update this site to get the new version running on the PS3.
My apologies for the current unavailability of all programmes. It looks like the current version (2.3.3460) of the BBC embedded player is not compatable with the PS3, either that or the server now checks the User-Agent name of the Flash environment. I’ll keep digging to see what’s going on, so please check back soon.
Unfortunately, I’m not going to make it to Mashed (Hackday 2008) – so instead, here’s a video of a fun iPlayer-related project I’ve been working on. Excuse the stuttering at the start of the videos, it’s due to me turning down the amount of pre-buffering so I could cut down the time for the streams to begin playing for the purpose of this video.