On 23-Feb-2010, at 23:45, Tim Dobson wrote: > A few people seem to be getting a bit peeved by Some iPlayer developments > designed to prevent them watching iPlayer via their XMBC media centre... > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbiplayer/F7331806?thread=7320127 > > Does this affect anyone here?
Are they really “designed” to prevent them watching iPlayer via XMBC? :) The streaming servers have enabled SWF Verification, which makes absolutely no sense (beyond some minor inconvenience). See: http://nevali.net/post/405581340/adobe-swf-verification Google for “Genuine Adobe Flash Player hmac” if you want the gory details on how it works (or rather, doesn’t in this deployment scenario). XMBC will very likely catch up. SWF Verification is designed to prevent leeching streams where (for example) the player SWF is behind a paywall or similar (i.e., you don’t have access to it in order to hash its content); given that this doesn’t apply to iPlayer users within the UK, there’s no real reason why support can’t be patched in pretty easily. M. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
