I'd be interested to hear what experiences people have had streaming programmes from the BBC iPlayer (
BBC iPlayer - Home) through the Internet Channel.
Since early April 2008, the BBC have been encoding their programmes to be compatable with Flash 7 so that the programmes can be viewed in the Wii Opera browser. They are continuing to encode using the more advanced flash 9 as well, so presumably the BBC website detects the browser type before streaming.
I've seen some comments on news announcement sites (around 9th / 10th April) saying that it works ok, other postings have said the flash streaming stutters very badly. These news announcement pages have since been closed to postings and I havent found further comments since early April.
My experience is that the streaming stutters so badly that it is effectively unusable. The need to manually centre the play window and the poor quality video doesnt bother me too much but the pauses in the stream every 2 or 3 seconds render it useless. BBC say they will be working to improve the quality and maybe even a dedicated iPlayer Wii channel but no firm commitments.
speedtest.net reports my broadband to be 3.2Mbps and the iPlayer streams perfectly ok to a wireless PC at any time of day, so what's the problem with streaming to the Wii? is it that the flash 7 encoding does not compress sufficiently or is it the actual processing power of the Wii?
Has anyone got the streaming of iPlayer to their Wii working satisfactorily? and if so how? (wired connection? time of day?)
Thanks,
Robert