Urestrict BBC Radio iPlayer
As long as I can remember, the BBC's online music streaming service has restricted the control you have on playback streams, restricting the embedded realplayer controls to allow you pause, skip 5 minutes or skip 15 and change the volume. I can understand the legal obligations they may have, but from a piracy perspective stopping people skipping tracks is irrelevant, its only use is as a measure to stop people re-listening to the same track without having to go back to the start each time.
The controls on Mac OS X are less restrictive, but still restrict you to pause, fast forward or stop, however some simple javascript manipulation of the page can enable the regular RealPlayer controls, complete with a seek-bar.
Bookmark either download the source file or view the bookmarklet source. Unfortunately blogger won't let me create an actual bookmarklet link, so you will manually have to save the bookmarklet into a bookmark in your browser.
Labels: hack, internet, javascript, music, programming, web
posted by Marcus at
13:35
2 Comments:
Or... presuming you're listening via RealPlayer, it seems possible to right-click over the player controls and select "Play in RealPlayer" and voila!, full transport control over what part of the show you want to listen to is joyously open to you. :-)
Heh, good point, that would be a simpler solution :P
I remember seeing that option before, but I can't remember if that was only on windows.
I'd check but my Mac is in for repair at the moment :(
You have a point though, and I've found myself listening through RealPlayer lately, as the browser plug-in has crashed on me a few times.
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