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I've just got in, avoided the F1 result, and put iPlayer on the wii to watch it, it's not on there despite programs on after it already appearing. Disgruntled, I go for a surf and on my pc it's there in iplayer. Checked back on the wii, still not.

Can someone confirm whether the F1 appears on wii at all? They've got the pre-race stuff on there so I'd assume so. Is it maybe a case of them using a different server for wii and being shit at keeping it up to date?

It has to go through a few extra hoops to be on the Wii, but it will be there.

Thought so, cheers. Will watch it on the netbook then. Funny that the shows on after it have been through their hoops

Just checked on mine and it's there. I went TV>Categories>Sport>Formula One and it's listed. Shame I don't like Formula One, really.

Which shows? Pre-recorded shows are pre-delivered. Live shows obviously have to be transcoded. The F1 will be a fast transcode, but sometimes problems occur with one or more of the bitrates.

Not on shift today, so can't (and probabl shouldn't!) be more specific, I'm afraid.

Andrew Marr and that.

Hmm odd then (AM's live isn't it?). I can only guess the fast transcode had problems for the Wii.

It was pretty entertaining on the PC as well - the F1 was in two parts, bbc 1 then bbc 2 coverage. On my 23" tv a laptop could display part 1 almost well enough to read the on-screen info, lap times etc when in fullscreen. Part 2 started looking better than actual tv, then ten minutes in went haywire, jumped forward to the defining moment of the race and spannering the tension for me, then settled into a resolution that made it look like the whole thing was being displayed by a ZX Spectrum. You couldn't tell which Ferrari you were looking at. Odd.

I've just turned the Wii back on as I knew it had the football league show and I'm getting error messages for that now, so I've concluded that you are the reason iPlayer works and are not allowed any more days off.