I’ve had a LOT of email from people asking me to try the Nokia N900 out with the BBC iPlayer. My expectations were high… but wait ’til you see the experience in the browser. It’s bad news.
I think we’ll need to hope the BBC release a stand-alone app for the N900  that’ll work perfectly fine I’m sure.
Either http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/ or http://po-ru.com/projects/iplayer-downloader/ should be able to run on the N900. They're command line tools which will download the MP4 versions suitable for iPhone playback.
I'd assume the media player has the codecs & horsepower needed to display the vids once downloaded.
Not ideal, but a good stopgap.
Nice one Terence I'll try that out!
Could you also try tvcatchup.com and iphone.tvcatchup.com? It'd be interesting to see if live UK TV can be streamed.
Matt, iphone.tvcatchup.com doesn't work because the system (I assume) doesn't detect an iPhone/iPod Touch as a browser.
The main tvcatchup.com site works — badly. The N900 can't cope with the desktop UI… the sound is brilliant, it's the picture that suffers. You get roughly one frame every 2-3 seconds. If they made a Maemo app, it'd be fine I'm sure.
hi there..
do you know what version of flash player u need for the bbc iplayer to play properly??
as the n900 is limited to the flash player 9.02?! maybe there are some probs with the versions.
how does the n900 perform with a high def video played from the internal storage?
greetings from germany
sebastian
I'll check this out Sebastian
I'll check this out Sebastian