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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 07:55 AM
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Following a post in here linking to bbc news, I was shocked to find the video played on my apple device.

Since when was this change made?
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 11:28 AM
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A lot of BBC content is Apple compatible, it is only some of the BBC news vids I found that didn't work, but then I guess you have a better hit rate if you use the BBC News App
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 11:41 AM
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I dont have Adobe Flash installed on my laptop and I cant see the BBC News Videos so presume its all on flash as it says "You do not have the correct version of the flash player"
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 11:44 AM
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What link was it dave do i can compare?
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 02:07 PM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

Any of the Watch/Listen links in the top right corner, nothing works video wise. Only just realised Youtube works without flash though
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 02:11 PM
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Nope it definetly does now! Must have a broader detecter in the script to detect ios as tried two of the videos in the top left box and it worked

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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 02:38 PM
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Flash will stop being used in the future, HTML 5 is a lot better.
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Zeldar
Flash will stop being used in the future, HTML 5 is a lot better.


Flash and HTML5 are not comparable technologies. one is a dynamic web development tool that facilitates video, audio and interactivity via a plugin... the other is a set of web standards!

The BBC maybe outputting different formats depending on the platform or they maybe using an MP4 encode that plays in Flash and other players thereby extending across nearly all devices.

If I could be ar5ed I'd stick a trace on and find out, but I can't.
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan


Flash and HTML5 are not comparable technologies. one is a dynamic web development tool that facilitates video, audio and interactivity via a plugin... the other is a set of web standards!

The BBC maybe outputting different formats depending on the platform or they maybe using an MP4 encode that plays in Flash and other players thereby extending across nearly all devices.

If I could be ar5ed I'd stick a trace on and find out, but I can't.
Well that's what I was always told. Maybe it's time I got rid of this Iphone then.
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan


Flash and HTML5 are not comparable technologies. one is a dynamic web development tool that facilitates video, audio and interactivity via a plugin... the other is a set of web standards!

The BBC maybe outputting different formats depending on the platform or they maybe using an MP4 encode that plays in Flash and other players thereby extending across nearly all devices.

If I could be ar5ed I'd stick a trace on and find out, but I can't.
Not seen you on here criticising apple for a while, where you been?
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