Notices

Sometime this year. Flash 10 has already been demonstrated by Adobe on the N900 so it can't be far away.

Live streams of BBC TV channels are available at these URLs:
BBC1: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...bbc_one_london
BBC2: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...bc_two_england
BBC3: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...e_id=bbc_three
BBC4: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...ce_id=bbc_four
CBBC: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...ervice_id=cbbc
Cbeebies: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/bbc-rbs/rm...ce_id=cbeebies
BBC News 24: rtsp://212.58.251.101:554/farm/rmliv..._id=bbc_news24

Click the link and it should open in the Media player. However, sometimes it stops (and apparently switches to audio mode) soon after starting. To avoid that, click the "+" button on the screen when it is still connecting. Then you can create a "video bookmark" in Media player's Video folder, and that does not seem to have the same problem.

These are the streams used by http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/live/tv/. The resolution is poor, but the streams work well even over the mobile network (at least Vodafone).

Of course, you need a TV licence to watch these, and probably also to be in the UK.

Thanks for the links works perfect

I don't suppose you can post the details that you used to write to them so others can ask as well to maybe highlight that a lot of people would like to be able to use this device? If they have a debian basic version then it might be a fairly simple port over to get at least a version working.

Unfortunately the desktop version (Windows and Linux) is powered by Adobe Air, so you'd need an ARM port of that first (which doesn't look to be available).

I tried to contact the beeb about providing n800 compatible streams or even an iplayer page (they could have based it on the wii or ps3 page and used lower-quality flash streams), and didn't get a response. I suspect they rely on a member of staff to have a example device for testing if the beeb don't see a big user base for it.

p.s. the bbc killed off their radio streams and it's all in flash now
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.u...ive_real_media

I love BBC Radio and I have been searching for the url address' for the radio streams since I got my N900. I only got it last week, so it has not been that long a search :-). Anyway I found this site which is aimed at iPhones:

http://bbcstreams.com/

I have added the links on there to mplayer and they have been working perfectly. I should point out that I have installed the extra codecs and so they may be needed, or maybe not. I'm sure a clever person here could confirm.

Cheers

Tried them links, my player says can't connect to server for some reason.

Hi Berty, sorry your having a problem.

I have been listening to radio 2 most of the morning and even tried roaming between my 2 WiFi networks. On the whole it has been good and apart from some buffering as it changes networks. At one point Mplayer stopped responding, not sure why, and I had to reboot to clear. All has been finr since.

I have also tried streaming on Vodafone and that worked fine.

Have you got the extra-decoders installed? I am still unsure as to weather or not they are required, but they maybe worth a try if you do not have them. Maybe you could try a different network connection if you have not already done so.

Good luck

Cheers