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hillen51
09-02-2012
I have an I pad 2 and am becoming frustrated that I Can not play videos or movies from BBC sport or Blinkbox because apple do not support adobe flash. Can anyone suggest a solution to this to be able to watch videos on these formats.
Any help is appreciated.
mromega
09-02-2012
For Blinkbox, install the Blinkbox app.

For the BBC, some browser apps (ie, Skyfire) may allow you to view the videos. Probably about time though that the Beeb hosted their videos as HTML 5 compatible videos.
hillen51
09-02-2012
Thanks for advice. wIll do this.
TheBigM
09-02-2012
Is there no iPlayer app on iPad? I know on the phones, both Android and iPhone have access to iplayer - Android because they have flash and iphone because BBC specially caters to them by using Apple's technology HTTP Live Streaming (HLS).

So if iPhone can do it, surely iPad can?
Matt D
10-02-2012
Originally Posted by TheBigM:
“Is there no iPlayer app on iPad? I know on the phones, both Android and iPhone have access to iplayer - Android because they have flash and iphone because BBC specially caters to them by using Apple's technology HTTP Live Streaming (HLS).

So if iPhone can do it, surely iPad can?”

Yup.


There are apps for...

BBC iPlayer, BBC News, ITV Player, 4oD, Demand 5, Sky Go, Sky News, TVCatchup, Netflix, Lovefilm, Blinkbox, YouTube...

iPlayer, TVCatchup, and YouTube also work via the browser, thanks to HTML5.
TabletPCExpert
10-02-2012
Originally Posted by hillen51:
“I have an I pad 2 and am becoming frustrated that I Can not play videos or movies from BBC sport or Blinkbox because apple do not support adobe flash. Can anyone suggest a solution to this to be able to watch videos on these formats.
Any help is appreciated.”


Unfortunately flash still seems to be an issue with iPad and Apple is very strict about the crashing behavior of flash players. However, almost all important video sites and players are optimized their sites to play on the iPad or iPad.

In your case, BBC Sport videos could be watched on bbc.co.uk/iplayer and blinkbox videos can be watched via the blinkbox app from the iTunes store. I have used them personally and they perform extremely good. Netflix app is also available in the UK iTunes store.
ram jam
10-02-2012
Originally Posted by hillen51:
“I have an I pad 2 and am becoming frustrated that I Can not play videos or movies from BBC sport or Blinkbox because apple do not support adobe flash. Can anyone suggest a solution to this to be able to watch videos on these formats.
Any help is appreciated.”

buy iswifter http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/iswif...388857173?mt=8 and run bbc through that and it plays all flash videos
dontpannic
10-02-2012
It will be up to the content providers to start looking at alternatives since the next version of Android is also set to remove support for Adobe Flash.
Rich2k
10-02-2012
Originally Posted by TabletPCExpert:
“Unfortunately flash still seems to be an issue with iPad and Apple is very strict about the crashing behavior of flash players. However, almost all important video sites and players are optimized their sites to play on the iPad or iPad.

In your case, BBC Sport videos could be watched on bbc.co.uk/iplayer and blinkbox videos can be watched via the blinkbox app from the iTunes store. I have used them personally and they perform extremely good. Netflix app is also available in the UK iTunes store.”

Adobe has announced that their mobile version of Flash is dead, so expect it to die from all tablets before long (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...sh-mobile-dead)

As said above for the majority of the popular streaming services out there, there are native apps available for free.
alanwarwic
10-02-2012
Originally Posted by dontpannic:
“It will be up to the content providers to start looking at alternatives since the next version of Android is also set to remove support for Adobe Flash.”

Which version number is that?

I'm assuming 'Support' is an inserted superfluous word in that lots and lots of stuff will run unsupported.
jcm193
10-02-2012
Iswifter will not work for geoblocked content like BBC Iplayer Itv Player etc as there servers are US based




Originally Posted by ram jam:
“buy iswifter http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/iswif...388857173?mt=8 and run bbc through that and it plays all flash videos”

paulbrock
10-02-2012
Originally Posted by Rich2k:
“As said above for the majority of the popular streaming services out there, there are native apps available for free.”

I'm still not convinced by the 'app' model. Far too many of them appear to be substitutes for optimised mobile web pages. I don't want ot install an app for every website I view.
TheBigM
10-02-2012
Even Windows on ARM tablets won't have flash. So in mobile terms, only Android and x86 Windows PCs will have flash player. It's going to start circling the drain.
Matt D
10-02-2012
Originally Posted by jcm193:
“Iswifter will not work for geoblocked content like BBC Iplayer Itv Player etc as there servers are US based”

Which doesn't matter at all as there are apps for iPlayer, ITV Player, etc., plus iPlayer also works via the browser anyway... without Flash.
jcm193
10-02-2012
I was responding to the original post that suggested buying iswifter to use the bbc streams and the fact that it will not work I realise there are dedicated apps I was just trying save any potential unecessary outlay

Originally Posted by Matt D:
“Which doesn't matter at all as there are apps for iPlayer, ITV Player, etc., plus iPlayer also works via the browser anyway... without Flash.”

dontpannic
10-02-2012
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“Which version number is that?

I'm assuming 'Support' is an inserted superfluous word in that lots and lots of stuff will run unsupported.”

Android 5. As far as I know, it won't be on Android 5 or available in the market. You'll have to root to get it on there and even then it will be an experimental port. Pretty much like jail breaking an iPad.
alanwarwic
10-02-2012
Android is streamlining at ICS 4 to imminently go into the new Linux Kernel co-ordinated by Linus Torvalds

So 5 might well end up being a few years away.
I wonder if Linux gets many headlines next month?
DarthFader
10-02-2012
More and more of BBC news video clips are viewable on iPads now. I am sure the sport section will catch up soon.


PJ
alanwarwic
10-02-2012
Good to hear.

Some iPad users may be fed up being 'pioneers'.
Getting some decent APPS first was compensation.
ram jam
11-02-2012
Originally Posted by jcm193:
“Iswifter will not work for geoblocked content like BBC Iplayer Itv Player etc as there servers are US based”

Why would you want to play iplayer or itv player through I swifter when there are apps? I swifter is good to watch the odd sports clip off the bbcfootball pages or to play a flash game
lettice
11-02-2012
Are you talking BBC sport website? As a lot of the video on there is not allowed to be broadcast on mobiles/smartphones because of broadcasting rights and not necessartily flash restrictions.
BBC sport are using some non flash video and will be changing it all over for the future much as they do for BBC News etc.
This has been discussed in the BBC sport internet blog about the new bbc sport website.
alanwarwic
11-02-2012
Flash DRM is/was satisfactory/mandatory for many providers so once lost some stuff will never be shown.

The web needs a better cross platform DRM.
John259
11-02-2012
It might just be worth mentioning that as well as being used for streaming, there's a huge number of casual games written in Flash.
grumpyoldbat
11-02-2012
Originally Posted by John259:
“It might just be worth mentioning that as well as being used for streaming, there's a huge number of casual games written in Flash.”

There are, but again, a lot of them are being redone in HTML5 which Android, iOS already handles.
alanwarwic
11-02-2012
Nope,

with the development kit most are more likely to become APPS with the exported code and coded framework being in each APP.
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