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0 pointskozukumi10y ago0 comments

Indeed. Frustrates the HELL out of me even more because all their videos are available in web-friendly MP4 for the mobile services and you can get to them if you spoof the user agent. I wish they would just let me toggle a "beta" feature or something.

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k-mcgrady10y ago

I'm 99% sure they introduced a non-flash service in beta recently.

Edit: Yeah, you can opt-in with a button on the right column here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/html5

ZeroGravitas10y ago

Only for iPlayer, not for example on BBC News video clips, and not even 100% of iPlayer content yet. Still progress I suppose.

k-mcgrady10y ago

True. Hopefully this is a test and once they get it working they'll roll it out across the BBC sites.

kozukumiOP10y ago

Yes I was aware of the iPlayer HTML5 opt-in which is what I was hoping to see for the rest of the site. Given that they have all the content in HTML5-friendly video anyway it shouldn't be all that painful.

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k-mcgrady10y ago

I'm 99% sure they introduced a non-flash service in beta recently.

Edit: Yeah, you can opt-in with a button on the right column here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/html5

ZeroGravitas10y ago

Only for iPlayer, not for example on BBC News video clips, and not even 100% of iPlayer content yet. Still progress I suppose.

k-mcgrady10y ago

True. Hopefully this is a test and once they get it working they'll roll it out across the BBC sites.

kozukumiOP10y ago

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