[REQUEST] BBC iPlayer (Video) Plugin or Script?

kangarolf Wrote:I thought it had worked when I changed the cache size but it was still buffering I just didnt watch it long enough.

I was trying to watch the Wales v Scotland game, I watched it all the way through on the web embedded iplayer from the site without any issues straight after.

I have tried various programmes from various folders and they all have the same issue though the time between buffering changes.

Thanks
Rolf

Is XBMC running on the PC/Mac you did the web browsing on? Is your home network wireless?

Dink

iPlayer/xbmc is running on the XBOX using the latest atlantis build. Its a wired network through a BT box. My laptop is wireless and runs the bbc iplayer fine botht hrough wireless and wired.

Thanks
Rolf

kangarolf Wrote:iPlayer/xbmc is running on the XBOX using the latest atlantis build. Its a wired network through a BT box. My laptop is wireless and runs the bbc iplayer fine botht hrough wireless and wired.

Thanks
Rolf

Network congestion (at the ISP) can be a issue and one that can strike only when the network is particularly busy such at 5:30pm . So can you confirm that at the same time as the problem is occurring on the xbox it is not an issue on the PC. It would be useful if you had XBMC on your PC to test as the embedded flash iplayer has access to a much larger cache that could be taking up the slack on a network with periodic congestion. One other thing to check - use the ethernet connection to your XBOX on your PC.

Sorry if this sounds a bit tedious but the trick is an xbox with a recent build is a fairly standard piece of kit that no one else has reported as have this type of issue on. Which is why the advice given is around querying and testing your network in various ways.

Cheers
Dink

The iPlayer plugin is accessing the Flash streams provided by the BBC (originally intended for the iPhone and Mac), ITV's equivalent service uses (bleh!) Microsoft Silverlight so probably not possible to integrate in the same way, Channel 4 use (even more bleh!) Windows Media and DRM. However Channel 5 are now use Flash streams. It would therefore seem potentially possible to now add support for Channel 5 (and sister stations) along with catchup and live streams.

On a different topic, I recently tried the latest version and the 'search' capability and no matter what I typed, the result was that the plugin merely returned to the category list instead of returning a list of results (I was search for "The Sky at Night").

The onyl times I have had the plugin misbehave was when my net connection was down.

It'd be great if it reported an error if it receive a blank file rather than valid results?

jelockwood Wrote:The iPlayer plugin is accessing the Flash streams provided by the BBC (originally intended for the iPhone and Mac), ITV's equivalent service uses (bleh!) Microsoft Silverlight so probably not possible to integrate in the same way, Channel 4 use (even more bleh!) Windows Media and DRM. However Channel 5 are now use Flash streams. It would therefore seem potentially possible to now add support for Channel 5 (and sister stations) along with catchup and live streams.

Support for Five would be something for a different plugin. Much like support for ITV as it uses a completely different server setup. The xml for each episode is available but much more problematic though is that five seems to use encrypted rtmpe:// streams.

Quote:On a different topic, I recently tried the latest version and the 'search' capability and no matter what I typed, the result was that the plugin merely returned to the category list instead of returning a list of results (I was search for "The Sky at Night").

Oops my bad. Now fixed
See http://drop.io/iaeutil

Additionally this minor release has a couple of other small fixes
- moves temporary and cache dirs out of the plugin directory
- simplifies subtitles plugin settings

Cheers
Dink

for itv use my best of itv plugin in the svn -xbox only until the new builds cover asx files properly

matt! Wrote:The onyl times I have had the plugin misbehave was when my net connection was down.

It'd be great if it reported an error if it receive a blank file rather than valid results?

Done. A dialog will now popup during directory navigation if the plugin fails to load XML from the BBC.
http://drop.io/iaeutil

cool
anything to reduce user confusion is good
(i have some users who get very confused..

Is anyone having any issues with the iplayer at the moment? I'm using XBMC on Ubuntu (whatever the latest release from the ppa archives, not the svn ppa) and the latest SVN iplayer plugin.

Whenever I navigate to a menu item that would logically give me a list of programs (like TV->BBC2->Popular), xbmc crashes, and a line near the end of the iplayer.log is something like:


A more complete extract is at http://pastebin.com/m1e2d3565 - any idea what's going on here?