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That's a really interesting point that, although trying to work out the workflow of it at this hour is making my head hurt. PC iPlayer HD is not offered in 1440x1080 so content has to be deinterlaced before resizing, however if SD 704x576 was offered on any platform then the interlacing could be left in. This would leave only a single deinterlace and scaling pass (if required) in the viewers playback software, monitor or set top box video chipset. Which would not only sort out the motion, but should give you a sharper picture because the video is only scaled once at the most.
IIRC the plan was for a dedicated iPlayer channel on the Wii, with the current Opera arrangement being a bit of a fudge until the channel was ready. Not heard anyhting about it recently though.
Which is a shame in many ways, as it could have given other broadcasters an easy way to get their content across multiple mobile, console and set-top box platforms easily - as the BBC had done all the work for them.
I guess they could run 352x288 MPEG2 for SD boxes and 704x576 H264 for HD boxes? Let's hope they finally properly support interlaced content natively as well. (Even the HD PC iPlayer is permanently 25p - so 50i stuff like Strictly looks jerky)
That's a really interesting point that, although trying to work out the workflow of it at this hour is making my head hurt. PC iPlayer HD is not offered in 1440x1080 so content has to be deinterlaced before resizing, however if SD 704x576 was offered on any platform then the interlacing could be left in. This would leave only a single deinterlace and scaling pass (if required) in the viewers playback software, monitor or set top box video chipset. Which would not only sort out the motion, but should give you a sharper picture because the video is only scaled once at the most.
Unfortunately for Wii owners, the iPlayer stopped working last month after Nintendo upgraded their Opera powered browser.
IIRC the plan was for a dedicated iPlayer channel on the Wii, with the current Opera arrangement being a bit of a fudge until the channel was ready. Not heard anyhting about it recently though.
I think Brekkie was taking a shot at the BBC Trust and their odd decision over Open iPlayer the other week.
Which is a shame in many ways, as it could have given other broadcasters an easy way to get their content across multiple mobile, console and set-top box platforms easily - as the BBC had done all the work for them.