You wait ages for a useful feature and two come along at once. PS3iPlayer.com has been updated to support the last night’s 2.53 firmware update. If you’re running version 2.53 or greater you should get the high quality H.264 streams (when available) and when playback begins, the player will automatically fill the screen. As before, press the circle button to get back to the webpage (as feared, no other buttons work in full-screen mode.)
The framerate isn’t as smooth as I’d like, so I might try and implement the BBC’s high/normal quality switch so users can decide between image quality or framerate.
Update: It didn’t take long for me to have enough of the choppy playback. I’ve gone ahead and implemented the BBC’s high/normal quality switch. As with the BBC’s iPlayer on the PC, the default quality is ‘normal’ and if you click ‘Play high quality’, it will play the H.264 stream. You can tell which version it’s going to play as it appears in parentheses after the ‘Press X to play’ message.
Does standard iplayer.com have the high quality streams, or only PS3iPlayer?
Using http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen forces VP6 (i.e. normal quality). Until Sony fixes the performance problem with the high-quality streams though, normal quality is probably the best choice.
Thank you for the hard work – I wish the BBC site was as usable as yours (for PS3)
I don’t like the BigScreen interface they have
Nice one Chris and it shows that the PS3 can play them, although as you’ve said it’s probably best at normal quality currently as there appear to be lip-sync issues too. Odd how such a powerful machine is made to appear to struggle with flash video in a browser – it happens with other sites too.
By the way, Sackbook’s good too, really must upload a level!
Sadly PS3player if not working since the BBC announced Mac and Linux versions. That is how it seems anyway!
Or am I doing something wrong
Good work
Well blow me down. PS3iplayer.com don’t work m’lud but bbc.co.uk goes into the high res version, well sort of.