Use a natively uncluttered hardware-accelerated player, no ads or annoyances. Also, easily downloadable videos.
< Spätná väzba na HTML5 player for BBC News
It's broken unfortunately, it seems the BBC has changed something, although my sctipting knowledge is very basic, so I could be misinterpreting. The media URL the script generates currently seems to return the following;
{"disclaimer":"This code and data form part of the BBC iPlayer content protection system. Tampering with, removal of, misuse of, or unauthorised use of this code or data constitutes circumvention of the BBC's content protection measures and may result in legal action. BBC (C) 2016.","result":"selectionunavailable"}
They have probably removed the MP4 sources and went full fragmented HLS (Apple's .m3u8 format), something that browsers like Firefox don't want to support for no reason.
Everything sucks here. The only place where they still supported this format (full, unfragmented videos) was in the 'journalism' variant, and that covered a small part of the videos in their iPlayer system.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258080 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577084
Pair that with selective geoblocking and you have a pretty explosive combination. It's like they don't want us to see their content.
Both content providers and browser vendors make things artificially hard.
Does this still work??
Doesnt seem to work for me :( any clues?? script is enabled OK!