BBC iPlayer on Xbox Media Centre (XBMC)
Want iPlayer on your telly but don’t have a Wii? Check out this very useful script for the Xbox Media Centre. The script allows you to download programs from the BBC iPlayer service to an old Xbox (or Linux or Windows PC) with XBMC installed, and watch them at your convenience.
Quality isn’t great as the script uses the old ‘I’m pretending to be an iPhone’ trick to grab an MP4 file, but it’s still fairly watchable until a better quality stream becomes available.
Because this hack is using an iPhone masquerade trick (oh, and in case you were wondering, the authors overcome the BBC’s first attempts to thwart this kind of hack), the upside is that there is no DRM on the files you download. You can grab the script from Google Code.
I suppose it just goes to prove, there’s life in the old Xbox yet!
Here are a couple of screenies for your enjoyment.
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