casper27 | # 51 | 2010-01-23, 19:50 | Report

Sometime this year. Flash 10 has already been demonstrated by Adobe on the N900 so it can't be far away.

arajantie | # 52 | 2010-01-23, 23:04 | Report

Live streams of BBC TV channels are available at these URLs:
BBC1: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...bbc_one_london
BBC2: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...bc_two_england
BBC3: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...e_id=bbc_three
BBC4: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...ce_id=bbc_four
CBBC: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...ervice_id=cbbc
Cbeebies: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...ce_id=cbeebies
BBC News 24: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/farm/rmliv..._id=bbc_news24

Click the link and it should open in the Media player. However, sometimes it stops (and apparently switches to audio mode) soon after starting. To avoid that, click the "+" button on the screen when it is still connecting. Then you can create a "video bookmark" in Media player's Video folder, and that does not seem to have the same problem.

These are the streams used by http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/live/tv/. The resolution is poor, but the streams work well even over the mobile network (at least Vodafone).

Of course, you need a TV licence to watch these, and probably also to be in the UK.

casper27 | # 53 | 2010-02-01, 18:47 | Report

Thanks for the links works perfect

Fargus | # 54 | 2010-02-08, 15:12 | Report

I don't suppose you can post the details that you used to write to them so others can ask as well to maybe highlight that a lot of people would like to be able to use this device? If they have a debian basic version then it might be a fairly simple port over to get at least a version working.

Rob1n | # 55 | 2010-02-08, 15:15 | Report

Unfortunately the desktop version (Windows and Linux) is powered by Adobe Air, so you'd need an ARM port of that first (which doesn't look to be available).

speculatrix | # 56 | 2010-02-08, 15:54 | Report

I tried to contact the beeb about providing n800 compatible streams or even an iplayer page (they could have based it on the wii or ps3 page and used lower-quality flash streams), and didn't get a response. I suspect they rely on a member of staff to have a example device for testing if the beeb don't see a big user base for it.

speculatrix | # 57 | 2010-02-08, 16:01 | Report

p.s. the bbc killed off their radio streams and it's all in flash now
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.u...ive_real_media

octavius | # 58 | 2010-02-12, 22:39 | Report

I love BBC Radio and I have been searching for the url address' for the radio streams since I got my N900. I only got it last week, so it has not been that long a search :-). Anyway I found this site which is aimed at iPhones:

http://bbcstreams.com/

I have added the links on there to mplayer and they have been working perfectly. I should point out that I have installed the extra codecs and so they may be needed, or maybe not. I'm sure a clever person here could confirm.

Cheers

berty | # 59 | 2010-02-13, 08:59 | Report

Tried them links, my player says can't connect to server for some reason.

octavius | # 60 | 2010-02-13, 12:43 | Report

Hi Berty, sorry your having a problem.

I have been listening to radio 2 most of the morning and even tried roaming between my 2 WiFi networks. On the whole it has been good and apart from some buffering as it changes networks. At one point Mplayer stopped responding, not sure why, and I had to reboot to clear. All has been finr since.

I have also tried streaming on Vodafone and that worked fine.

Have you got the extra-decoders installed? I am still unsure as to weather or not they are required, but they maybe worth a try if you do not have them. Maybe you could try a different network connection if you have not already done so.

Good luck

Cheers