iPlayer Update

If you've not seen it yet BBC iPlayer has been upgraded. The new navigation is a little confusing but when you're playing a programme it's significantly better in three ways:

The viewing area has increased
The scrollbar at the bottom works so you can skip forwards and backwards (this may have worked before on Windows but it didn't on my Linux boxes)
If you leave the programme part way through it remembers where you were when you come back. Apparently it remembers up to ten programmes that way

That last one in particular is really very cool.

The only downer is that full screen mode doesn't seem to work on Linux yet.

Oh yes, and there having to be something you actually want to watch on there ...

Tags: linux, tv

Written 05/07/08

Previous comments about this article:

On 17/07/08 at 4:53pm Simon Booth wrote:

Fullscreen mode works for me in Ubuntu - but since it won't do hardware acceleration on Linux yet you may need to play with xrandr to get decent results.

On 17/07/08 at 5:36pm Paul wrote:

Yeah, we seem to be in a transition time for full screen mode with flash on Linux. The latest FlowPlayer, which I use for videos here (like this one for example do a full screen mode, but I can't get iPlayer to do it. Still I'm upgrading from Dapper Drake to Hardy Heron soon, that may fix it.

On 30/08/08 at 8:27pm Paul wrote:

I forgot to say: it did.

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