Following recent comments from a BBC blog, the BBC iPlayer is now available for iPhone and iPod touch users.

The service is currently in Beta and for this reason the majority of content is now able to be viewed on the iPhone. The only working content that I could find was the “Whistleblower” documentary.

[Update] The BBC has announced that the iPhone iPlayer Beta officially. Additionally the BBC Blog describes how the iPlayer works on the iPhone:

Back to BBC iPlayer on iPhone implementation: we’re not using the new Apple SDK, nor are we using the much-rumoured Flash for iPhone (no – we haven’t seen it, either). Instead, we’re creating 516Kbps streams (400Kbps H.264 video, 116Kbps AAC audio) that show off BBC programmes brilliantly on an iPhone.