bbc, so no reruns of fauwlty towers on my linux computer then.<br><br>no throttling, that sounds like a bit of an oversight, a few nat/qos rules on your linux firewall will do the trick.....<br><br>I wonder if it could run via wine, or something?<br><br>Laters,<br>Lee<br><br><br><br><b><i>Lee Turner <lvturner@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> To be honest - it's not even the lack of 'Linux' support that's the issue (face it, we are a pretty niche market..) it's the fact that the file format it's self is locked.<br><br>Why should we be forced to use DRM by the BBC? <br><br>(Also worthy of note - it uses P2P silently, and provides no throttling options - be nice when you go over your monthly bandwidth allowance and get capped)<br><br><br>DRM: Digitally Restricted Malevolence<br><br><div> <span class="gmail_quote">On 03/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arron M
Finnon</b> <<a href="mailto:afinnon@googlemail.com">afinnon@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> some of you may remember from a couple of meetings ago talking about<br>iPlayer the new bbc program that is used to play BBC down-loadable<br>content. however it only works on windows, using i.e and media player,<br>no release date as yet for when they would make it available for the <br>gnu/linux geezers and geezerettes<br><br>links as follows<br><br><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/02/fsf_bbc_protest/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/02/fsf_bbc_protest/</a><br><br><a href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/"> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/</a><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br><a
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