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Nov 4, 2009, 5:35 AM

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iPlayer on Freesat - MHEG 5

This just popped up in my RSS Reader from The Register:

"The BBC's iPlayer will be coming to Freesat later this month, finally
giving free-to-air satellite television set-top boxes' Ethernet ports
something to do." (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/04/bbc_iplayer_on_freesat/
)

Anyone know if MythTV's MHEG implementation will handle this?
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Nov 4, 2009, 6:03 AM

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Re: iPlayer on Freesat - MHEG 5 [In reply to]

2009/11/4 Ben Lancaster <mail[at]benlancaster.co.uk>:
> This just popped up in my RSS Reader from The Register:
>
> "The BBC's iPlayer will be coming to Freesat later this month, finally
> giving free-to-air satellite television set-top boxes' Ethernet ports
> something to do."
> (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/04/bbc_iplayer_on_freesat/)
>
> Anyone know if MythTV's MHEG implementation will handle this?
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How's this going to work?

The feed won't be coming off the satellite surely, how could your
connection to the satellite be selective?
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RobertCL at iname

Nov 4, 2009, 6:32 AM

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Re: iPlayer on Freesat - MHEG 5 [In reply to]

On Wed, November 4, 2009 2:03 pm, Another Sillyname wrote:
> 2009/11/4 Ben Lancaster <mail[at]benlancaster.co.uk>:
>> This just popped up in my RSS Reader from The Register:
>>
>> "The BBC's iPlayer will be coming to Freesat later this month, finally
>> giving free-to-air satellite television set-top boxes' Ethernet ports
>> something to do."
>> (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/04/bbc_iplayer_on_freesat/)
>>
>> Anyone know if MythTV's MHEG implementation will handle this?
>
> How's this going to work?
>
> The feed won't be coming off the satellite surely, how could your
> connection to the satellite be selective?

Presumably it means that there will be MHEG menus and when you select a
program to watch it will use your internet connection (connected to
ethernet port on your freesat box) to stream the content from the iPlayer.

Clever. This will be excellent if it works in Myth! Save me shelling out
to firefox anyway :-)

Robert.

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nick.rout at gmail

Nov 4, 2009, 7:25 PM

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Re: iPlayer on Freesat - MHEG 5 [In reply to]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Another Sillyname
<anothersname[at]googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/4 Ben Lancaster <mail[at]benlancaster.co.uk>:
>> This just popped up in my RSS Reader from The Register:
>>
>> "The BBC's iPlayer will be coming to Freesat later this month, finally
>> giving free-to-air satellite television set-top boxes' Ethernet ports
>> something to do."
>> (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/04/bbc_iplayer_on_freesat/)
>>
>> Anyone know if MythTV's MHEG implementation will handle this?
>> _______________________________________________
>> mythtv-users mailing list
>> mythtv-users[at]mythtv.org
>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>>
>
> How's this going to work?
>
> The feed won't be coming off the satellite surely, how could your
> connection to the satellite be selective?

RTFA :-) it says:

"The Freesat-friendly version of iPlayer uses the MHEG 5 interactive
TV standard to select and present internet-sourced iPlayer video
streams."

So the menus for selecting programmes to watch comes off the
satellite, the stream itself comes off the internet.
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mail at benlancaster

Nov 25, 2009, 5:46 AM

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Re: iPlayer on Freesat - MHEG 5 [In reply to]

> This just popped up in my RSS Reader from The Register:
>
> "The BBC's iPlayer will be coming to Freesat later this month, finally
> giving free-to-air satellite television set-top boxes' Ethernet ports
> something to do."
> (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/04/bbc_iplayer_on_freesat/)
>
> Anyone know if MythTV's MHEG implementation will handle this?

Looks like ITV will be doing the same:

"Just a quick post to announce that ITV Player will launch on Freesat
in the first half of 2010. A statement release from Freesat confirmed
this today;

ITV and freesat are working to launch ITV Player onto freesat in the
first half of 2010.

More information to follow as soon as we have it�"

From: http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/index.php/itv-player-to-launch-on-freesat
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