Originally Posted by legoman666

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.