Linuxcentre » support https://linuxcentre.net   Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:26:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 BBC iPlayer HD 1280×720 now supported by get_iplayer https://linuxcentre.net/bbc-iplayer-hd-1280x720-now-supported-by-get_iplayer https://linuxcentre.net/bbc-iplayer-hd-1280x720-now-supported-by-get_iplayer#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:57:28 +0000 https://linuxcentre.net/?p=313

The BBC now provide HD 1280×720 resolution (720p) flash streams!!! And, OMG, the quality is awesome. get_iplayer also supports this as of now.

The even better news is that if the flash version determines that your broadband link is too slow for this HD content, get_iplayer will still record it for you to watch at your leisure on the player of your choice.

I’ve managed to get this working with get_iplayer on ‘Dr Who – Planet of the Dead’. (Thanks to Andrew who pointed this out)

  • Resolution: 1280 x 720 pixels
  • Video Codec: H.264
  • Audio Codec: AAC
  • Bitrate: 3200 kbps
For BBC HD content please use get_iplayer –vmode=flashhd … with get_iplayer v1.61 and rtmpdump v1.4. The fedora, ubuntu, MacOSX and Windows binaries on this site are already at v1.4.
Do be warned that a one hour programme will consume approximately 1.4GB.
Interestingly enough, my desktop PC suffers badly when trying to playback even the 640×360 programmes in flash player but using get_iplayer and mplayer to playback works perfectly even with 1280×720!
Update 20th April: It seems that the BBC were a little premature in their earlier announcement. They launched the HD iPlayer today properly.
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