[mythtv] BBC iPlayer Plugin release / MythStreams

Paul Harrison mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
Thu Mar 13 18:29:25 UTC 2008


Stuart Morgan wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2008 13:31:51 Richard Ablewhite wrote:
>   
>> Must still be a way around this, as long as there delivering content
>> using http we'll be able to liberate it
>>     
>
> No matter what method you use, they'll close the loophole as fast they can.
>
> The BBC have been pretty good to MythTV in the past and a few months ago in a 
> press interview a BBC technical bod mentioned creating a MythTV plugin for 
> iPlayer as part of their plans to support linux. BBC technical staff and 
> representatives are regulars at linux events and some of them are even MythTV 
> users who I've met in person when manning the MythTV stand at LinuxWorld/LRL.
>
> Any attempts to get around copy protection or any protection the BBC use on 
> iPlayer material is illegal and MythTV doesn't want anything to do with it. 
> Take this latest news as a sign that the BBC don't want you accessing their 
> material in this manner and leave it alone. Trust me when I say that the guys 
> behind the scenes are sympathetic but if MythTV is seen to be associating 
> with those attempting to break the rules then they may not remain that way.
>   

Unfortunately it could be a long wait.  The BBC has been saying it could 
be up to 2 years before an official Linux player will be available :-(.

Paul H.


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