ITV Catch Up through the browser on a Mac

smsm1986 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:42:00 +0000

Today was the first time that I looked at the ITV site for a while, as I had heard on Virgin Radio that the next series of Heartbeat was starting tonight.

ITV are now using Microsoft’s Silverlight to allow cross-platform multimedia support. This is different from the BBC’s iPlayer, as the BBC iPlayer uses Adobe’s Flash player.

It now means that I no longer run Mac OS X without Microsoft software installed on it.

BBC’s iPlayer now compatible with Mac OS X

smsm1986 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:34:00 +0000

After reading a macnn article. I have now found out that the BBC’s Player is now supported on Mac OS X. It is great that I can now watch BBC content from within Safari. The player only has a short buffer, though you can jump to any part of the video and it will start playing from there with very little delay. You have to remember that I have an internet connection of about 7Mbit downstream and around 0.8Mbit upstream. Therefore I don’t know how people on slower connections will manage.

Some video items come up with:

” is not available to play here.”

with no explanation as to why. Maybe some videos are not updated to the adobe flash video type.

Now I’d like to get an improvement to Space, that will allow me to make a window in any application to be front most and move between space as required. That way when I’m playing a video the window will always show. Another problem that I have found with spaces is that when switching apps with command+tab or clicking the icon in the dock, a random window usually comes forward.

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ITV Catch Up through the browser on a Mac

BBC’s iPlayer now compatible with Mac OS X