Watching clips from the BBC site

Post by **faceless** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:29 pm

I'm just wondering if anyone outside the UK can watch the interviews and clips that are on the official BBC Eastenders site?

SpursFan1902 · Post by **SpursFan1902** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:48 pm

I have in the past but haven't done so in a while.

Post by **Skylace** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:49 am

I have as well Face. I haven't in the last week or so though.

Post by **eefanincan** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:58 am

I just tried to watch the clip from yesterday and it worked... player's a bit small, but other than that was fine.

Post by **faceless** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:07 am

ok, cool

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:22 am

Is everyone now using the new BBC viewer ? One of the reasons I think it was brought in was to reduce the chance of people copying the material (though clearly hasn't stopped people).

I am behind the times on this, but recall there was a big fuss that the viewer (based on Microsoft technology I believe) was anti-competitive since it didn't support the Mac.

In the back of my mind, I believe I read a long time ago (= last year) that the BBC drops the resolution for overseas viewers. I imagine for some licensed shows (e.g. from the states) they might be forbidden from streaming it overseas.

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:57 pm

Just announced :

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7233252.stm
"The BBC will launch a download version of its iPlayer online video service for Apple Mac users by the end of 2008."

So that answers my Mac question

Interesting is

The BBC's iPlayer comes in two versions - a program which allows users to download programmes to their Windows PC and a streaming version on the web available to all users.

I wonder if the downloaded programs are "locked" for editing, and/or they have other DRM restrictions.

Post by **faceless** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:00 pm

none of the clips that I'm talking about are on the iPlayer as far as I know.