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# That's not what I said.
It uses the flash plug-in as a wrapper to leverage Real Media streams.
and I should bloody know, I was on the initial development team at BBCW.

*double raspberry trifles!*
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Mon 24 Nov 2008, 15:37, archived)
# I'm intrigued
That says it's not using it, and is using Flash purely with a VP6 (or H264) codec.

I know for local stuff it's still mostly RealPlayer, but is streaming iPlayer stuff really RealPlayer*

*I'm not questioning your knowledge, I'm just trying to clarify
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Mon 24 Nov 2008, 15:43, archived)
# My apologies..
Not trying to be arsey at all, it really is the most pig-awful lash-up in the history of anything.
The Beeb couldn't dump all their legacy stream-creation workflow, so they mangled the whole lot together into this abomination.
It was all born out of the abortive Real-based BBC.com (note the .com, hence commerical) News Service, that one had to pay for.
It's a disgrace, much as Joe S already pointed out.

That's why you get this awful degrade from H 264 codec, due it being delivered by one system, deployed to the browser via another.
And don't even get me started on the Mac support.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Mon 24 Nov 2008, 15:47, archived)