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Hi peeps,
I've been wondering why the lack of posts [i know there has been an older iplayer thread] for the 'now working' BBCi Player on the Xperia?
Anyway, the BBCi Player now works in Opera flawlessly over Wifi with default browser settings.
Try it.
this has already been discussed in detail
that must make you very angry, my apologese
It doesn't work on my Opera, which is the default installation. Streaming Media is still launched instead of the video playing in the browser.
at45 said:
It doesn't work on my Opera, which is the default installation. Streaming Media is still launched instead of the video playing in the browser.
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Same here, the quality is really ****, it opens streaming media and the video is very low res in a tiny box in the middle of the screen. Any ideas?
jkr284 said:
...it opens streaming media and the video is very low res in a tiny box in the middle of the screen.
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Mine doesn't even do that. Streaming Media fails to connect to anything.
Mine opens up streaming media which works over O2's gprs (which breaks their T&Cs and blows the unlimited (200mb ) download limit, but won't connect over wifi.
All I get is "server or data time out; tap play to reconnect".
I've using jack's ROM, has anyone got any other experience using other ROMs?
ITV Player
Has anyone tried the ITV player yet, its like copy of BBCiplayer, but the clips you download not stream and some you have to pay for.
I only got this working today, I'd managed to uninstall the default Opera and the Beta is not supported by iplayer.
The video isn't great, but it works and is watchable. As it's not officially supported yet, I'm hoping the quality will improve soon.
I suprised at the lack of interest too though!
The X1 is semi-supported. They announced it in the blogs, but not on the actual site.
The quality of the files is pretty poor, but then I've had my phone buffer up a few times when watching a few shows, so thats only going to get worse when they up the quality.
@Mark, I'm sure the ITV version uses Silverlight, WM11 and DRM (unless you are on about a special mobile version) which didn't work last time I tried, but then there is nothing on ITV that I would want to watch.
compared my x1 against the iphone using iplayer, watched top gear on both and the iphone blew my x1 out if the weeds! why? is the file the same on both as the quality on the iphone very very good and very smooth.
The files are completly different between the iPhone/iTouch and the X1/N96
iPhone: H.264 483 x 272 400 kbps
X1: H.264 320 x 176 128 kbps
Unfortunatly the iPhone version only works (streamed) on the iPhone, due to a small bug which the beeb spotted and exploited.
What was this bug?
Have a read of this: http://beebhack.wikia.com/wiki/IPhone_H.264_version
bbciplayer is not even worth watching at that quality on the x1, i think its time for me to swap my x1 for an iphone, iphone seems to get much better software support.
Been wasting another day testing the iPlayer stuff.
Ideally I would love to get the iPhone version streamed into CorePlayer, but I'm still no closer.
However some test results:
X1 streamed version - plays in HTC Streamed Media - 320 x 176 128 kbps, very poor quality. Fine for spoken word programmes, any action is a big no no.
Portable Download - plays in Windows Media Player - 320 x 176 475 kbps, quality is better, but res is still small. Also requires a DRM license to be downloaded to the phone. File itself can only be downloaded from the PC as the iPlayer site keeps redirecting me to the mobile version.
MP4 iPlayer Downloader - plays in CorePlayer - 483 x 272 400 kbps, quality is the best available. At present this must be downloaded on the PC first. Have tried getting the Ruby files to run on the mobile but with no luck. Should be possible for someone to port this into a WM app to download the file straight to the phone, however even on my PC a 10 mins Doctor Who Confidential took 2.5 minutes, so expect times of at least 10 minutes for a normal 30 min show if straight to mobile.
Can anyone get 5 live as one of the radio stations on Xperia?
I get all the other stations but not the one I want - 5 live.
Please help..
There is a chance it won't work whilst the Football is on due to licensing issues, although they normally play a message instead of stopping the stream from working.
artesea said:
There is a chance it won't work whilst the Football is on due to licensing issues, although they normally play a message instead of stopping the stream from working.
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The only is it worked on my Diamond only a week ago. I just brought the xperia and it doesn't work on it.
Thanks for replying!
Just loaded the iPlayer page, both Five Live and Five Live Extra are missing due to the football. I have the streams bookmarked in CorePlayer and they announce that they can't broadcast the current show.
Will be the same on all phones and even your PC.
I think that everyone in this forum will agree that the quality of bbc iplayer on the HTC Touch HD is somewhat crap. absolutely rubbish quality. with a massive screen you get rubbish quality. that's not right man. So come on xda-developers do something about it and some how make the quality better or tell us how to make it better.
Help us xda-developers
Much appreciated
The HD is only displaying the feed that's provided by the BBC. If you want to rant then rant at the BBC and demand that they increase the quality. Nobody here will be able to do anything.
Edit: ...except perhaps fake something in the connection details so that the iPlayer displays a feed appropriate to a different machine. But that's a fudge, not a solution.
It's tricky too - but it must be possible (I assume that the HD should be fast enough to decode the iPhone feed). The BBC appear keep adding and removing things to break current downloaders.
See here for some details, if anyone is interested in writing an application to access the iPhone feed.
Hmm, just for reference, I downloaded an iPhone stream and Coreplayer benchmarked under 90% for it
Still, it looked much nicer than the video that we currently get.
Video: H.264, 480x472, 25fps
Audio: AAC, 48KHz, 2 channel
@arghness
you should try to view the stream via HTC Album/Win Media Player
I learned today that CorePlayer can't use the Touch HD's hardware-acceleration so far!
HTC Album can play the local file (if I rename it from .mov to .mp4) but I can't get it to play an HTTP stream though - when I pass an HTTP URL on the command line, it just shows the album. It looks like it doesn't support that.
WMPlayer makes the HTTP connection but it doesn't appear to support the format ("The file is either corrupted or the Player does not support the format you are trying to play").
Do we know if the HTC streaming app can accelerate?
I have a T-Mobile TP2 and have installed MyPlayer (pocket TV streaming program). I am able to use the MyPlayer aspect of the program in which it provides all of the feeds/streams to the TV broadcasts, but when MyPlayer redirects me to CorePlayer for the stream it is always choppy.
I have CorePlayer version 1.3.5 and had attempted to fix this by reducing/ increasing the video/audio buffer, using DirectDraw instead of QTV mode, and many other options. Has anyone had luck in having CorePlayer use the streams from MyPlayer? It has hundreds of channels but are pretty much useless when it is this choppy. I notice also when I disable sound completely the stuttering goes away, but that is pretty useless as well
Have you tried using the onboard streaming media player instead?
Good idea, I thought that Coreplayer was required for this, and it is for some of the channels, but not for the majority of them. I used Windows media player instead an it no longer stutters, but picture quality wise it does not quite look as good.
Another question here, does anyone know where the HTC brander player is located in the file directory? The same one used for the HTC Album. I hear that it works really well, but I cant find it. Thanks again!
Hi there,
I was looking at how the iphone streams the channels on tvcatchup, the video format used is m3u8. I found a player for windows mobile that says it can play m3u8 video format, called 'Pocket Player'. Messing about with the setting i've managed to get it directly open the video from clicking the link on the website but my problem, ive got is that it only stays as 'connecting' and wont play it. Im not too sure how to get it working, but maybe its just a thing that wont work but any ideas would be great.
Thanks
Ryan_G
Skyfire will play tvcatchup within it's own window. however, yamgo.mobi will use the WM streaming app to play live tv.
jarvisjulian said:
Skyfire will play tvcatchup within it's own window. however, yamgo.mobi will use the WM streaming app to play live tv.
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ok thanks, i'll have a look at yamgo.mobi.
You can used tvcatchup via m.tvcatchup.com works very nice via the streaming app.
Or just use the MyPlayer application available on this forum and you get all the live streaming channels you want.
m.tvcatchup works great !!! thanks v.much
htc hd2 uk tmob stock..
SteveI said:
Or just use the MyPlayer application available on this forum and you get all the live streaming channels you want.
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Yep, myPlayer gets my vote as it has more streams and 3 different levels of quality. High quality is better than the tvc high quality imo.
s4ndSt0rm said:
Yep, myPlayer gets my vote as it has more streams and 3 different levels of quality. High quality is better than the tvc high quality imo.
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+1 my player gets my vote too.. it's a quality program and the quality is definately better than tvcatchup
Just wondering what people are using for a media player primarily a video player?
I am using RockPlayer and to be honest it is faultless. Plays everyting I throw at it including h/x264 and ac3 sound.
There is one small issue and that is with configuration. I wouldn't mind a few more features like volume boosters etc.
I commute so tend to just drop videos on the phone to watch. Amazingly smoother and faster than winmo.
i personally use and like DoubleTwist. i havent' used RockPlayer yet.. but i have heard many good things about it.
Doubletwist is nice but seems to be okay with h264 but not xvid
Is there any app out there that lets you change the song in the middle of doing something like using gamedroid? Kinda like the home button on the ipod touch when you tap twice it brings up the media player?
i use mixzing for song playback. and i use mvideoplayer for video files (doesn't play divx but offers nice playback control and stuff)
Just so you guys know, there are Android general forums that might get you more replies and ideas.
Android General forums and Android Apps subforurm.
The only reason why i used rockplayer is cuz it plays rmvb and rm files (a MUST have for hardcore chinese drama lovers =P)
if anyone knows of another that can play realmedia files, please let me know cuz i'm also looking into other options
+1 for doubleTwist here
I use one called simply 'Music Player' (it was the top hit on the apps store). Excellent, fond my music straight away with no configuration, small footprint, instant start with no lag and a great FF/REW function. Unlike Windows Media Player :0)