Iplayer for Freesat

[Satsearching]

November will see beta testing of the BBC's iplayer on official Freesat boxes!

After the success of iplayer on Virgin Cable TV boxes and Games Consoles, the BBC hopes to start testing iplayer on capable Freesat boxes using the in-built broadband connection by the end of November.

Anyone who has used iplayer on virgin boxes, games consoles or the iplayer website may agree what a great service iplayer is!

Could this be ported to our linux boxes..........?

SS

[Echo]

Originally Posted by Satsearching

November will see beta testing of the BBC's iplayer on official Freesat boxes!

After the success of iplayer on Virgin Cable TV boxes and Games Consoles, the BBC hopes to start testing iplayer on capable Freesat boxes using the in-built broadband connection by the end of November.

Anyone who has used iplayer on virgin boxes, games consoles or the iplayer website may agree what a great service iplayer is!

Could this be ported to our linux boxes..........?

SS

If the shaky understanding I have of how d*boxes process the tuner stream is correct, then I don't see a reason why not.

Dreams would have no issue - they have the processing muscle.

Dbox2s might not have enough.

The biggest issue here though is DRM. If the stream is accessible & pretty much a clean MPEG2 stream you could feed that into the MPEG decoder of either platform. If it's MPEG4 - that's when the muscle comes in. If it is not accessible - only is fed in response to a talk-back or is broadcast on an inaccessible system (freesat), then we're stuck. But it is accessible as for regular Net players - but there it is DRMed unless the FOSS movement have managed to persuade the BBC to drop the DRM. Currently the only DRM free Net streams are for Apple Iphones/Ipod Touches & Atom based netbooks, which are similarly under muscled for DRM. The Apple BBC feeds are at lower resolutions though.

The other approach is to transcode the data into an easily digestible form for the d*boxes. But again, can this be done despite the DRM? But not everybody will want to have a server running too.

[pt-1]

BBC iPlayer does not use DRM, ITV does not either. Only channel 4 uses this.

You will need a server even for the Dream Box.

There was once a Webserver Plugin that would use You tube or BBC iPlayer via the VLC Plugin to the Dbox or Dreambox.

Just needs to be fixed, info in this forum

[Satsearching]

Originally Posted by Echo

If the shaky understanding I have of how d*boxes process the tuner stream is correct, then I don't see a reason why not.

Forget the tuner, iplayer on a satellite box will be via ethernet.

SS

[Echo]

Originally Posted by Satsearching

Forget the tuner, iplayer on a satellite box will be via ethernet.

SS

To try to clear-up what I was meaning -

I'm guessing that the tuner passes the signal to the demux & the demux has a linux device that allows that data to be streamed to either via a conditional access module or directly to the MPEG decoder. The tuner parts I was considering here were the feed into the MPEG decoder at the end of the usual tuner fed path. After all why waste PPC clocks decoding something that might be MPEG2 or another format that the hardware MPEG decoder can process? I doubt however that the iplayer or ITV streams are MPEG2.