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The BBC launched an iPhone-specific version of the streaming iPlayer service in March 2008. As the iPhone does not support Flash video, this variant of the service uses browser sniffing to serve h.264 (‘MP4’) video to clients.

By pretending to be an iPhone, it’s possible to download the MP4 files for offline viewing.

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