Getting Ready for BBC iPlayer....

Just wondering - do they track your IP address, so if you're outside of the UK, it will block you from downloading programs?

Yes, it will....

I currently am staying at states for business, so sure enough, when I tried to sign up, I was blocked. But once I get back home in UK, I will go ahead and sign up for the trial and download some programme

of course it will. if you're running XP on your mac you're running XP.

I doubt it'll run on the iPod/Phone unless apple have a sudden change of heart with FairPlay

I'm getting mildly urinated off about the slowness of the system. IMO there's too much bloat and eye candy on the player itself, and the awkward installation process annoyed me - WHY ON EARTH should you need two sign-ons? I mean, what is the point? What is the bloody point?

The fact I had to install IETab added to my woes, and in the ten minutes it's been on the machine, it's only managed to download 6mB of Top Gear . And I want to get Twentieth Century Battlefields before it expires tomorrow. I'm in for a long night...

I am mildly impressed, however, that when it's running in the system tray the app doesn't seem to affect the system's performance too much. But the naming of the processes as 'Khost.exe' and 'KPlayer.exe' quite amuses me - we've gone from impersonating Apple to impersonating KDE?

The reason for this is that the iPlayer delivery infrastructure is based on middleware from Kontiki, a subsidiary of VeriSign. Kontiki also supplies a similar infrastructure to Channel 4 for its 4OD service, and indeed to Sky for its Sky Anytime internet service.

so they can run the walled garden beta. the first login is temporary

But why is it so difficult for the walled garden to use the password database from the BBC SSO system?

Having a look round the Music4 website, it appears that the iPlayer will be getting some sort of audio imaging, probably to promote it...

http://www.music4.com/iplayer/

Signed up 2pm Friday, got my registration at half five today.

Seems ok but the amount of content (or lack of) doesn't blow me away. Why couldn't the whole thing be done like 4OD in one program rather than using your browser then switching to your Library program?

I'm running on Vista so don't know if it was because of this but my first download stayed on 0%. I paused it, exited and fired it up a couple of hours later and it was 29%. I guess that's down to KService which seemed to continually be using my bandwidth even after I'd closed the program down? That'll annoy people.

As soon as I stopped the service nothing more was sent or received.

Remember that the software is peer to peer, so its going to use your bandwidth to upload to other people.

I think that explains why sometimes, it is slow to download content and othertimes its much quicker.

As soon as they have some form of Series Link feature and maybe a better page to find content (i.e. cleaner, more efficient interface - I think that I'll find myself using it a lot).

Got my invite today as well. Running on the Windows machine, obviously - the quality is good but I think ITV.com is going to have the edge because it's so simple.

Not sure though. Time will tell.

Running on XP SP2 and can't download programmes! every time i click download it gives me a error and then the page changes to a BBC 403!

Anyone know how to rectify this problem?

http://aycu22.webshots.com/image/24101/2004747624454992854_rs.jpg

(The error message and the 403)