bbc iplayer
Can the bbc IPlayer be veiwed with connected
In a word, no. There was talk of this some time ago with regard to a plug-in but nothing ever came to fruition.
I'm not sure if there are any other plug-in developers left out there, or if anyone from DivX reads this forum any more, but...
Now that there's a "big screen" version of the BBC iPlayer available for consoles and other devices, I gave it a try as a plug-in and found that it oh-so-nearly worked:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<plug-in>
<title>TEST: BBC iPlayer</title>
<page-descriptor>
<type>HTML</type>
<source-url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/</source-url>
</page-descriptor>
</plug-in>
The menu loads and you can scroll the items using the arrow buttons, but there's no way to actually select anything; the same is true of the individual programme pages.
So, I was wondering whether it's possible to map one of the remote buttons to the TAB key, how we could go about "clicking" on things or (most hopefully of all) create a virtual mouse cursor using DCTK?
To quote Richard III: A cursor! A cursor! My kingdom for a cursor!
Ok i'm a complete beginer but got a prog on iplayer to play using
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<plug-in>
<title>TEST: BBC iPlayer</title>
<page-descriptor>
<type>HTML</type>
<source-url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/playback/b00s89td</source-url>
</page-descriptor>
</plug-in>
i got that link from lines 91-96 in the source on <"http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/tv/episode/b00s89td/">
As i said i'm a beginner so would need someone to continue and help out from here, the picture didnt quite fit and the sound came out of my laptop and not the dsm but this must me fixable...
The only thing you can do is download the file from bbciplayer to your PC and then use a DRM remover to strip the protection. You can then play it with Connected. Obviously this option is not for everyone. A plugin would be so much better.