iplayer for HTC Wildfire

buglawton

So this is one area where any iPhone is still better than a Wildfire S - iThings can access BBC iPlayer via a website BBC specially created (NO FLASH NEEDED!) for the purpose. Pity, it looks like a deal breaker regarding the Wildfire S I was thinking of getting. My ancient iPod Touch II handles iPlayer lovely on WiFi and I was kind of assuming a Wildfire S would do the at least the same (even if only for radio part of iPlayer that I use).

T_T_2

roaima wrote: »

Standard browser supplied on the HTC Wildfire.

Please note that this thread is pretty much irrelevant unless you're using a Wildfire - the other (higher powered) Androids can all use the iPlayer app anyway.

Chris

Not true, there quite a few android phones out there running on ARMv6 processors at <600MHz which means then cannot support the flash environment. This includes the popular Orange San Francisco.

redcab

hi all. I've managed to get iplayer working on a HTC wildfire. you need to download version 4 of skyfire and also the video licence. just Google them. its a bit fiddly to use, but you can watch anything that doesn't need you to tick the age confirmation. for some reason the pop up controls are in the way. this works with radio also. although I use an internet radio program for that. it didn't like 4of though. haven't tried itv yet. this has taken me ages to work around, hope it helps.

roaima

Do you mean to say that you've somehow found iPlayer on the Android Market, or that instead of downloading iPlayer one needs to load this Skyfire thing? (I cannot see either iPlayer or Skyfire itself in the Market - although I can see the Skyfire video licence that enhances the Skyfire application.)

Cheers
Chris

chinkostu

roaima wrote: »

Do you mean to say that you've somehow found iPlayer on the Android Market, or that instead of downloading iPlayer one needs to load this Skyfire thing? (I cannot see either iPlayer or Skyfire itself in the Market - although I can see the Skyfire video licence that enhances the Skyfire application.)

Cheers
Chris

Skyfire is a web browser that allows non 2.2 phones to run flash videos and apps, albeit not amazingly. if you are desperate to watch them it works, but i wasn't fond of how it works.

i think beebplayer and myplayer no longer working is due to the iplayer app being released so the bbc got on their cases about it.

on another note, even on my android (dell streak) iplayer video quality isn't amazing.

buglawton

Nice how Apple lobbied the the BBC to help make the Apple ios platform indispensable!