Thread: Changing the User Agent on the N9/N950. Simple(ish) downloads to change to Andoird 2.3.7 or iOS 5
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2012-01-04 , 17:41
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Originally Posted by legoman666 View Post
I saw a how-to in the sticky that sounded like we could push MIME file types to the browser. Someone with more knowledge of this than me could probably say whether or not this could be used to pass the BBC iPlayer play click to the N9 media player. My feeling is that it is possible. I'll poke around when I have some free time but I've never done anything like this before.
After examaning the iPlayer with Chrome dev with a iOS5 UA and a UK proxy, I found this:
Code:
<video id="html5-media-player" preload="none" poster="http://node1.bbcimg.co.uk/iplayer/images/episode/b0192pyj_314_176.jpg" height="288" width="512"> <source src="https://securegate.iplayer.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/vpid/b0192pxf/media/iplayer_streaming_http_mp4/proto/https" type="video/mp4"> </video>
Which says to me that it's just a mp4 video stream. So try this from root terminal:
Code:
echo "video/mp4=videosuiteinterface.desktop" >> /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
And then attempting to play something on the bbc iplayer. I'm messing with it in the US through a proxy, but it's slow and I think the video itself is https, which my proxy doesn't support. Let me know.
Last edited by legoman666; 2012-01-04 at 17:45.
 

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