[SWLUG] S4C use of wmv

[Tony Pursell]

On 6 Jan 2008 at 21:37, Neil Jones wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 19:52 +0000, Philip Barnes wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 13:02 +0000, Tony Pursell wrote:
> > > I just wish the same would happen with BBC iPlayer ... but 
> > > that's a completely different story and has all to do with DRM, 
> > > etc.
> > The BBC iPlayer does now work on linux, go to
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
> > 
> > The DRM ridden download service has been replaced by a youtube style
> > flash player based solution. 
> > 
> > Its amazing how quickly they were able to do what they should have done
> > in the first place instead of wasting time and money on the broken DRM
> > download service. It didn't work on XP, I do have XP Pro running on a VM
> > under linux, mostly to run Tracklogs and TomTom Home, but the old
> > iPlayer just gave me the sound with a series of stills.
> > 
> > Phil
> 
> 
> It is great and works well. I watched a programme about the Snow Leopard
> on there that I had missed. I only realised it now worked with Linux
> today.
> 
> Hopefully this is another example of where Digital Restrictions
> Management has been shown to be unworkable and unnecessary.
> A real nail in its coffin I hope. I don't know why they didn't do this
> to start with.
> 
> Neil

It was partly right. You cannot *download* programs on linux.  
You can only get them by *streaming* (with the latest version of 
Flash) and BBC admit that some programs are not available for 
streaming due to 'technical problems'.

Tony Pursell