BBC iPlayer on Nintendo Wii

"larkim" wrote in message
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On Apr 14, 9:43 am, "David" wrote:
"David" wrote in message

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Have Wii stopped communicating with us via the internet?
I'm registered with them, but last thing I got was about the new web
site
being open.
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Have Wii stopped communicating with us via the internet?
I'm registered with them, but last thing I got was about the new web site
being open.
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PS
I'm not seeing how to get onto the Internet with mu Wii to try this
iplayer
out.
Regards,
David

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Have you got Wii Connect 24 turned on? If so, your "on" light on the
front of the Wii would be yellow when in standby, if not it will be
red in standby. I haven't had many messages recently, but I do get
them from time to time.

Ref. how to get onto the internet - you need to buy Opera via the Wii
Shop (it costs about 500 points, or £3.50 or so). Then once you've
got Opera installed (they call it "internet") you then navigate to
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and it will just work. Its only the streaming
version of iPlayer of course, as the downloads would require the Wii
to have a disk in place (which it doesn't), though I suppose with an
SD card its feasible that they might allow downloads (and therefore
better video streaming).

Apparently at some later point iPlayer will become a "channel" in its
own right, so you wouldn't need Opera to make it work.


Yes standby is yellow.
Thanks on how to get the iplayer now, is it known when the update you
mention is coming?
Will it store the BBC programme on CD/DVD disc or an SD card? If SD I
guess the one supplied will be limited.

I rather like this idea of using the Wii as it will enable the programme
from the iplayer to be seen on the lounge TV set.

Another thought when all the Wii s begin to use the iplayer for downloading
will it effect everyones broadband speeds?

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Regards,
David

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Ian wrote:
In message , Cork Soaker
writes

: My (perhape naive) interpretation is that iPlayer on the PC
downloads the
: program to your PC for viewing, and is at a somewhat higher bit rate
that
: Wii iPlayer, which simply streams the video in "real time".
:
: I also have a Hauppage "Freeview" card in my PC.
:
: To compa
:
: Recording of Doctor Who last night is 1.89GB for total 54 minutes @
: broadcast quality = 35 MB / minute
:
: Download of Doctor Who from PC iPlayer is 600MB ofr a claimed 60
minutes
(?)
: = 10MB / minute
:
: Viewing streaming Doctor Who on a Wii = 800 kbits/sec ~= 6MB/Minute

Supposedly the reason is the Wii uses an old version of Flash, and the
bandwidth should actually be higher to compensate.

We'll see what happens when the Wii Channel is launched properly. Maybe
Nintendo will release updated firmware/OS to do things better. Don't
hold
your breath.


Is it possible, when watching TV on the Wii, to use the Nunchuck to give
somebody a slap?

Only if they are in the same room as you. But then the TV is irrelevant.

On Apr 14, 5:44*pm, "David" wrote:
Yes standby is yellow.
Thanks on how to get the iplayer now, is it known when the update you
mention is coming?
Will it store the BBC programme on CD/DVD disc or an SD card? * *If SD I
guess the one supplied will be limited.


There certainly won't be a storage on CD / DVD option as the Wii
doesn't include a write-ing drive. The SD storage is just my
conjecture, but given the typical size of a downloaded iPlayer file on
PCs (similar to DivX file sizes) I'd reckon about 10mb per minute, so
a 2Gb SD card might be capable of storing about 3-4 hours of video.

I rather like this idea of using the Wii as it will enable the programme
from the iplayer to be seen on the lounge TV set.

Agreed, this feels like a really good convergence of TV and internet.


Another thought when all the Wii s begin to use the iplayer for downloading
will it effect everyones broadband speeds?

I don't think Wii users alone will make much difference. But
certainly ISPs are moaning at the moment at the amount of extra data
that they are having to carry as a result of iPlayer. To my mind that
is unwarranted moaning wrt to the streamed programmes - how can they
complain that the content on the internet is too appealing to people
(when their sales pitch is usually around how the internet is great
for watching and downloading video and music)?

Ref the downloading version of iPlayer, I have some additional
sympathy - BBC has launched a media distribution service which it
doesn't have to fund the distribution of, as individuals are doing the
distribution via p2p / torrent style downloads (I believe the software
is called Kontiki). But again, the ISPs have no right to complain
about this as it just means that users will be using the bandwidth
that they've paid their ISPs to supply. If the ISPs have
underestimated the excess capacity that individuals buy, then that is
a commercial problem for them to solve.

Matt