On Fri 01 Apr 2016 at 11:39:29 (+0100), Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 27 Jun 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > > > > > > 1. Using iplayer with flash involves downloading a file. > > > > > > > > > > 2. Wouldn't it be nice if the file could be downloaded, preferably > > > > > using a program which is in a package in the Debian archives? > > > > > > > > > > 3. Such a package has been mentioned in this thread. It is extensively > > > > > documented at the program's home page and in its manual. > > > > > > > > > > 4. The file being downloaded is a .flv. While it is being downloaded > > > > > it > > > > > is being stored on disk so it can be accessed and viewed. vlc is > > > > > one > > > > > player which can view .flv files. > > > [snip] > > I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth mentioning > that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer > web page it says you can access the programs using HTML5. You just have > to install a cookie to do this. It's still in beta but it works for me, > at least with recent versions of Firefox and Chromium.
I don't think I've ever installed a cookie. How would I do this? Is it one cookie to make the browser entirely HTML5, or is it a different cookie for every site? Would I know that a movie was being played with HTML5 as opposed to flash? When flash streams a movie, a copy is downloaded somewhere on my disk. One beneficial effect of this is that if I click the slider to an earlier point in the movie, the player plays instantly from that point, without a wait for buffering. Is that the same with HTML5, or is it truly streaming (with no local copy on the disk)? Is it easy to revert to flash if I don't like HTML5? Cheers, David.
