{"id":981,"date":"2008-10-14T17:29:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/981-bbc-adopting-adobe-air-for-platform-neutral-iplayer-downloads.html"},"modified":"2008-10-14T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T16:29:55","slug":"bbc-adopting-adobe-air-for-platform-neutral-iplayer-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/981-bbc-adopting-adobe-air-for-platform-neutral-iplayer-downloads.html","title":{"rendered":"BBC adopting Adobe AIR for platform-neutral iPlayer downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just noticed that the BBC is adopting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/air\/\">Adobe AIR<\/a> to create a platform-neutral download client for iPlayer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/bbcinternet\/2008\/10\/digital_media_anywhere.html\">Erik Huggers says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today, we are announcing that in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/aboutadobe\/\">Adobe<\/a> we are building a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbctrust\/consult\/closed_consultations\/platform_neutrality.html\">platform-neutral<\/a> download client. <\/p>\n<p>Using Adobe Integrated Runtime (<a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/downloads\/air.html\">AIR<\/a>), we intend to make BBC iPlayer download functionality available on Mac, Linux and Windows for the first time later this year. Whatever platform you use, you&#8217;ll now be able to download TV programmes from the BBC to watch later.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This follows much criticism of the BBC for its original Windows-only iPlayer. <\/p>\n<p>Looks like Adobe has the BBC in its grip, technology wise, having ousted Microsoft from iPlayer completely \u2013 though I believe it is still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio1\/bigweekend\/2008\/zoom\/\">experimenting<\/a> with Silverlight\u2019s Deep Zoom.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:131561c6-ecdc-46c0-927a-ce20ac6f1bea\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/adobe\" rel=\"tag\">adobe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/bbc\" rel=\"tag\">bbc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/air\" rel=\"tag\">air<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/iplayer\" rel=\"tag\">iplayer<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just noticed that the BBC is adopting Adobe AIR to create a platform-neutral download client for iPlayer. Erik Huggers says: Today, we are announcing that in partnership with Adobe we are building a platform-neutral download client. Using Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), we intend to make BBC iPlayer download functionality available on Mac, Linux and Windows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/981-bbc-adopting-adobe-air-for-platform-neutral-iplayer-downloads.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BBC adopting Adobe AIR for platform-neutral iPlayer downloads<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,55,58,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-bbc","category-microsoft","category-multimedia","category-silverlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}