[RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - Printable Version +- Kodi Community Forum (https://forum.kodi.tv) +-- Forum: Support (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=33) +--- Forum: Add-on Support (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=27) +---- Forum: Video Add-ons (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=154) +---- Thread: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) (/showthread.php?tid=51322) Pages:
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RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - sqig - 2014-11-18 (2014-11-18, 03:18)exobuzz Wrote: iPlayer 2.6.5 is released Thank you for your work. Will this update be on Hitchers Repo ? RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - exobuzz - 2014-11-18 (2014-11-18, 15:52)castalla Wrote: A bit beyond me .... I'll just have to stick with the 'other' plugin, I guess. Pity. Does this work any better ? http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/iplayer-test.zip RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - exobuzz - 2014-11-18 note that the last release introduced a bug or two (script error with radio). ill push out a bugfix later. RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - castalla - 2014-11-18 (2014-11-18, 17:41)exobuzz Wrote:(2014-11-18, 15:52)castalla Wrote: A bit beyond me .... I'll just have to stick with the 'other' plugin, I guess. Pity. Almost! Get a stream playing but displays 'Loading' overlay on screen which takes a while to clear. But, good enough for me! Thanks. EDIT: severe buffering after about 2 mins at 923kb - seems stable at 501kb. Probably my crappy internet! RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - MikeKL - 2014-11-18 (2014-11-18, 17:41)exobuzz Wrote: Does this work any better ? http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/iplayer-test.zipJust tried the iplayer-test.zip on my Pi running openelec 4.2.1 (As was having same problems as castalla, unable to start live streams which did not improve with a switch to DVDplayer to attempt to play stream) Works very well and very good Quality Just need to check addon adjustable settings for a stable stream, as did notice some slight pausing, but no dropping of the stream RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - dlake02 - 2014-11-18 (2014-11-18, 11:02)wwortel Wrote:(2014-11-18, 01:17)dlake02 Wrote: So the .ts parts are pulled directly even though the processing of the main part of the app uses a proxy. Until I can find a way of using a proxy for the XBMC Player (the thing that actually renders the video), you cannot run the streams through a proxy. The answer is "it depends." For streams from the archive: these are geolocked for the metadata (i.e. to get to the source of the data) but the Beeb actually globally distribute on SOME of their CDN providers. So, once you have been able to access the metadata, you will probably be served from a Content Cache local to your actual location. This is true for both RTMP and HTTP (m3u8). For live streams, again, the metadata is geolocked, so you will need to access this through an HTTP proxy as before. But the RTMP and HTTP streams are ALSO geo-locked. So, RTMP you will need to access through a SOCKS proxy or VPN; HTTP likewise. An m3u8 file consists of a manifext and then a sucession of .ts files pulled over HTTP. The problem with both VPN and proxies is that it adds latency, sometimes to the point where streams break down. So, for ondemand, it is best to use an HTTP proxy for the metadata and then stream without a VPN or proxy from a local CDN (remember, we never designed the Internet to carry any of this type of traffic end-to-end !). For live streams, we have no choice but to go to the source. Now some of the DNS spoofing systems reply with themselves as the address, so traffic is routed via the DNS spoof and this does work with the live streams. The player and the Python logic in the apps are two totally separate items. What you set as a proxy in httpget is not connected in any way to the player code. RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - sqig - 2014-11-19 Its working very well for me using Overplay smart DNS. on Apple ATV2 Live and on Demand. Thank you. RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - exobuzz - 2014-11-19 I'm glad it's working for most. I will of course endeavour to fix all issues. Took some hours to try to integrate the new live streams in a relatively clean way. RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - streetsy - 2014-11-19 @exobuzz Thanks a million for all your hard work. I have regained all of the functionality that I originally had and enjoyed so much, Live streams and subtitles included All that still stands is the complaint regarding not knowing an adequate way to reward you for the time and effort you've spent on this to get things back to where they were prior to auntie's changes… FYI Using Gotham 13 RC 1, Android Arm, on an OUYA with updated librtmp THANKS! RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - exobuzz - 2014-11-19 Thanks streetsy. I would appreciate it if everyone could test this version - http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/iplayer-test.zip - including on demand tv/live tv/radio/subtitles etc. It should also solve the issue of playing from the information window. However I may have introduced other problems with the change in playback mechanism, so it would be good to get some testing before I push this out as a release. thanks. RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - MikeKL - 2014-11-20 (2014-11-19, 19:41)exobuzz Wrote: I would appreciate it if everyone could test this version - http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/iplayer-test.zip - including on demand tv/live tv/radio/subtitles etc. It should also solve the issue of playing from the information window. However I may have introduced other problems with the change in playback mechanism, so it would be good to get some testing before I push this out as a release. thanks.Thanks for all your and others efforts, to keep addon alive very much appreciated... OK To clarify further from my previous post when using iplayer-test.zip with live Video streams, streams play solidly and really well, however I could not get subtitles to work (settings - download and play option) With on demand Video streams, it seems to be a no go, I just get timer cycling in a repeating fashion in bottom right hand corner of interface...stripped a bit of code from xbmc.log which I believe end element ties up with when attempted to start stream of an on demand program. Code: 21:46:39 T:2709513296 SEVERE: plugin.video.iplayer: No heartbeat on destruction Hope information is helpful can test more on Pi and provide further feedback as required. RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - exobuzz - 2014-11-20 (2014-11-20, 00:03)MikeKL Wrote: Thanks for all your and others efforts, to keep addon alive very much appreciated... OK To clarify further from my previous post when using iplayer-test.zip with live Video streams, streams play solidly and really well, however I could not get subtitles to work (settings - download and play option) there are no subtitles for live tv if that's what you mean? That is correct. (2014-11-20, 00:03)MikeKL Wrote: With on demand Video streams, it seems to be a no go, I just get timer cycling in a repeating fashion in bottom right hand corner of interface...stripped a bit of code from xbmc.log which I believe end element ties up with when attempted to start stream of an on demand program. full debug logs via xbmclogs.com are more useful than fragments pasted into the forum. I appreciate the feedback though. ondemand works here, but I've not tried on my pi yet. RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - castalla - 2014-11-20 The only quibble I have is that the contrast/colour is very dark until the stream finally clears loading - then it lightens a bit, but the colour contrast is not the same as the iPlayer app on Samsung smart tv.which is much closer to the normal live broadcast. Such a difference was not apparent in the old iplayer plugin. Hey ho ... RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - exobuzz - 2014-11-20 http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/iplayer-test.zip is updated. I had a few errors in there regarding setresolvedurl functionality. Please can everyone test again. castalla: not much I can do about that. RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - MikeKL - 2014-11-20 (2014-11-20, 02:30)exobuzz Wrote: I had a few errors in there regarding setresolvedurl functionality. Please can everyone test again.OK tested with updated iplayertest.zip installed on my pi and tonight with latest version the ONDemand streams are now working fine and include subtitles. I believed live streams also supported subtitles for "live streaming but of pre-recorded programs" so thanks for information. Additionally here is link for uploaded logfile (after switching on xbmc debugging) on pastebin Again, many thanks, hope information even though no failures tonight is helpful can do more testing over weekend. (Did not get chance to try live again as wife wanted to watch something on a none beeb channel) |