experiences with BBC iPlayer streaming

[adastoy]

just tried it,work really well,last time i gave it a go over a month ago it didn't work aswell but it could be cos its still early....

[solid]

Tried it yesterday, and it worked very well. Could easily use it as my main BBC viewing!

[Robert Parker]

Originally Posted by Ricksta7

I know there is alot of threads on BBC iPlayer so I didn't want to make another lol, Has anyone tried the new version on the Wii and seen if it works any better?

BBC launches new iPlayer - Computer Business Review

That'll be

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayerbeta

until 7th July when the old interface is retired

[ace_dynamo]

Tried watching a couple of programs on the wii, but they all came up saying 'program is not available'

[Ricksta7]

I will be giving this ago tonight if I remember Still haven't got round to it hehe!

I hope it does work faster than before, It was not worth watching the last time I tried.

[sean.aaron]

Has the resolution better? That's the main barrier to acceptance in my house. Speed is good, but it looks crap compared with the computer; I don't see why BBC can't do a better job with the compression.

[Robert Parker]

Originally Posted by ace_dynamo

Tried watching a couple of programs on the wii, but they all came up saying 'program is not available'

Looks like the iplayerbeta is not serving the correct format of flash (or is not correctly detecting the Wii browser); the same programmes that are available on the old iplayer show up as 'not available' on the beta.

Also, providing access to the radio programmes through the iplayerbeta interface is no use for the Wii (needs realmedia player).

[Ricksta7]

I had a try of this today, and can't understand why it's so slow?? Infact it barely got going

[MaxPing]

IPlayer works fine for me no stuttering at all, I'm with IDNet who do not have a fair user policy and do not throttle P2P for those not in the know IPlayer uses Kontiki a P2P client so anyone suffering slow speeds will probably find its their ISP that is causing it.

[Ricksta7]

Ok, Thats me off to another company