Reading the post by Anthony Rose on the availability of the BBC iPlayer for the iPhone it would be safe to assume that it will be made available for the Nokia N95 soon.
Anthony describes the basic concept behind the scenes which would allow the BBC iPlayer to be made available to various other platforms and devices. The solution would be to divide devices into two different categories; those that include a web browser and those that don't. Obviously the Nokia N95 would fall into the former category, which then would require to simply load the BBC iPlayer website and enjoy. Simple or is it?
Firstly the problem would be how to get the content onto the N95 and other N Series devices. The iPlayer works by streaming content using a flash player, which currently is supported only by the Nokia N95 8GB running on the latest firmware and the N Series Tablets from Nokia.
Loading up the player on any of the other devices would not give you access to the player nor the content. The simple solution would be to optimise the iPlayer and the content to stream in MP4, a video format supported by a majority of the devices.
So can we expect an optimised version of the BBC iPlayer for the N Series and streaming H.264 content soon? Why not? Seems like a very positive yes from Anthony Rose.
via Nokia Creative
9 Mar 2008
BBC iPlayer Heading To N95 And NSeries Soon?
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