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Firefox iPlayer now downloads
Posted by: eusty on Friday, February 01, 2008 - 07:16 PM
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The BBC has now made the iPlayer download player compatible with Firefox
after months of only an being available for Internet Explorer users.
While it's good news for Windows XP users those using a Mac or Linux as an
operating system have been told that they could wait up to two years for it to
be ported across to other platforms. In the meantime they will have to rely on
the streaming
version which is proving more popular than the download version, with over
eight times more viewers using this version.
"It's good because it's the first real non-Microsoft thing we've
been able to do with the download iPlayer."
"I was surprised that Kontiki [the Verisign P2P platform that distributes
video for the download client] has a strange Internet Explorer plug-in to
support Firefox support, and there were problems with that. What we did was to
write our own Firefox plug-in instead." |
| Anthony Rose iPlayer development chief |
While the streaming version was hastily rolled out it seems that it will be
the main way to view it's online files, with the P2P download version as a
compliment or as the method for
HD delivery which the BBC hopes to roll out.
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