2008 March 7 by Adam
Apple released it’s SDK yesterday, including a full development implementation of the iPhone platform, with mobile safari using exactly the same rendering engine (not a webkit wrapper of a local safari install).
We tested it on the iPlayer development site, but as Aspen uses a different user agent to the iPhone (Mozilla/5.0 (Aspen Simulator; U; Aspen 1_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Mobile/5A147p Safari/5525.7) we had to alter a few browser checks server-side to accommodate the simulator;
Checkout the movie preview of the iPhone and BBC iPlayer in action; http://codepress.co.uk/screencasts/iphone-simulator.mov
NB: There is currently a problem with quicktime implementation (no visuals, only sound).
UPDATE: The Aspen Simulator is bundled in the iPhone SDK; http://developer.apple.com/iphone/
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2007 December 12 by Adam
BBC iPlayer quitely introduced streaming content today, allowing mac users to catch-up on the last 30 days of TV programmes. The service is expected to be heavily marketed during the Christmas period [1]. With around 400 hours of TV shows from the last 7 days, it aims to revolutionise the way UK users watch Television.
The best bit; it’s free and easily accessible to those who live in the UK. Some previews below;
Streaming content
A TV show being streamed directly from the site;
Fullscreen streaming
In fullscreen mode. Requires Adobe flash 9
Downloading TV shows to the ‘Download Manager’
Stores programmes for upto 30 days
A TV show playing in the console
Higher quality than streaming
BBC iPlayer
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