Re: flashlow: I noticed this a few mins ago. Good news - dl'd bbc views play in stock player! W-Hoooo! Just tried flicking around with KMPlayer - for the flashstd stream, the sound goes out of sync with video; if anyone knows how to resolve this without O/C'ing - please post here.

Re: using the N900 to visit the iplayer site - you need to change the User Agent string; even then, the player prevents users with flash < 10.1 to view content, all the same, it's useful for searching and viewing the programme info.
Even Android users can't use iplayer on 3G and the absence of a Maemo5 client that takes into account our h/w and s/w capabilities is pretty much out of the question. So, we must use a web interface and some crafty hacks!
The workaround to view the iplayer site, without changing your UA, is to use the BigScreen version, which is designed for consoles (Wii etc.), which have flash 7(!!). The BigScreen version is fine for radio playback but because it's not very good at detecting speed, you have to use the 128kbps stream, thus chewing through the data if you're using 3G. BigScreen video streams are 800kbps so, unfortunately, too high for our little devices .

Very joyful that the 400kbps stream is back!

Edit: Does anyone have a work around or well-worked rtmpdump flags for other channels' OD services?