BBC iPlayer Desktop now supports Mac and Linux OS
By: Peter Chubb | December 19, 2008
For those of you use Mac and Linux OS, you will now be able to use the BBC iPlayer Desktop, as there is now support for it. The BBC has also developed a child-friendly CBBC iPlayer spin-off, which is just in time for the Christmas period.
If you are one of those that sign up to the new iPlayer Labs, you will also get to try out the cross-platform Adobe AIR system. The BBC iPlayer has proved very popular this year, but it is the lack of support for non-Windows users that have hurt the iPlayer becoming even more popular.
The reason for the BBC iPlayer being late to the Mac and Linux OS party is down to the DRM, this is with the BBC Trust’s conditions for allowing programs to broadcast programs over the Internet, so the BBC has had to come up with a suitable engine.
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