Sony Bravia iPlayer stream

[tim lane]

Russ

On the new (2010) Sony Bravia TV's you can access a load of online
content through a service called "Sony Internet TV" (see
http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/tv-home-entertainment/sony-internet-tv). You
can also get this on Sony BD players and the PS3. Other tv
manufacturers (Samsung for example) have similar services which you
can also use to watch iPlayer.

Through this interface, you can watch 'normal' or 'high' quality
streams, and the high quality one looks (at least to my eyes) like it
is somewhere between the flashvhigh and flashhd version available
through get_iplayer. Annoyingly, you cannot get iPlayer radio through
this interface - I have to use my Wii if I want to stream this
directly to my home cinema setup in the living room.

If I understand it correctly (and I am just an end user, with
absolutely NO programming knowledge) get_iplayer can spoof the BEEB
into thinking it is any number of devices - iphone, web browser, n95
etc. Could it be made to grab the Bravia stream?

Cheers

Tim

On 24 April 2011 09:12, Russell Baldwin <russ at shoesforindustry.net> wrote:
> Tim, I maybe missing something here but I'm not sure where your Bravia is getting this superior HD stream?
> Is it actually from iPlayer or a cable/satellite box or something else?
>
> Sorry, I realised the BeebHack stuff was out of date, but I thought the stuff on flashvhigh v's flashhd specs might have been helpful.
>
> Russ
>
> On 23 Apr 2011, at 00:13, tim lane wrote:
>
>> Russell - As HD mode is not always available, my question was: Is
>> there a way to get the 'High' quality Bravia stream from get_iplayer
>> for shows where no HD version is available, as the Bravia high quality
>> streams appears to be better than the flashvhigh one. I'm sure that
>> the high quality Bravia stream is NOT the same as flashhd mode. The
>> information given at
>> "http://beebhack.wikia.com/wiki/IPlayer_TV#Comparison_Table" does not
>> look like it has been updated for some time and is based on a
>> broadcast from 2008.
>
>