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

pt-1 Wrote:This has been asked over and over again and a simple search in this topic or just going back a few pages would provide you with an answer.

This Plugin Enbales to watch BBC iPlayer!
This plugin has nothing to do with any proxys!
If you would like to bypass the BBC's prevention method to not show UK content outside the UK please use a Proxy!!!

I am trying but when I enter in the proxy info from five posts up - it still doesn't work )-:

w3__ Wrote:is there a reason that iPlayer is not available via the SVN Repo installer?

Only historical ones I suppose. I've have a look at getting it put there if I can come up with a good mechanism for letting folk know it's UK only upfront.

Cheers
Dink

captcod Wrote:...when i try to view Ashes to Ashes it goes busy for a long time then returns with an error message. Not sure if it a script problem or XBOX build problem.

I'm using XBOX hardware, svn rev 19757 (nightly builds) & iplayer-2009-04-27.zip

http://pastebin.com/m119ace51

dink Wrote:I can confirm the issue for this series on windows SVN19768 and a few other recent builds. Looks like these 2 streams are running up against a XBMC streaming or decoding issue. I'll look to punt this on up the chain.

This looks like http://xbmc.org/ticket/6366 due to these log lines where it's lost it's place in the packets and is no longer reading them correctly.
ffmpeg: [flv] skipping flv packet: type random num, size random size

frosty Wrote:This looks like http://xbmc.org/ticket/6366 due to these log lines where it's lost it's place in the packets and is no longer reading them correctly.
ffmpeg: [flv] skipping flv packet: type random num, size random size

Nice one Frosty I've tried a build with http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/19783 and it deals with this problem.

Cheers
Dink

Hi, Could someone just confirm, is Live Radio working? I have the latest version of the plugin and svn 19778 of xbmc?

If its not working and a known bug then I will keep an eye out for a fix, if its working and its just me any advice would be gratefully received!

Thanks

lewis Wrote:Hi, Could someone just confirm, is Live Radio working? I have the latest version of the plugin and svn 19778 of xbmc?

If its not working and a known bug then I will keep an eye out for a fix, if its working and its just me any advice would be gratefully received!

Thanks

You didn't think there would be a third option, but there is. It is working for some streams e.g. BBC 1 , 2, 3 ... The national radio streams use wmv which XBMC at least on Windows SVN19783 can play. The regional stations almost all use Real (rtsp://) which XBMC on Windows and Linux can't handle.

So going forward. I suggest that if you can't listen to Radio 1 -> 7 then get a build SVN19783 or newer. On the problem with the rest of the stations I'm looking to see if using an external player is a viable solution/hack (with the current version of the plugin it isn't as the list of live stations use urls which point back to the plugin). Watch this space.

Cheers
Dink

dink Wrote:You didn't think there would be a third option, but there is. It is working for some streams e.g. BBC 1 , 2, 3 ... The national radio streams use wmv which XBMC at least on Windows SVN19783 can play. The regional stations almost all use Real (rtsp://) which XBMC on Windows and Linux can't handle.

So going forward. I suggest that if you can't listen to Radio 1 -> 7 then get a build SVN19783 or newer. On the problem with the rest of the stations I'm looking to see if using an external player is a viable solution/hack (with the current version of the plugin it isn't as the list of live stations use urls which point back to the plugin). Watch this space.

Cheers
Dink

Ah of course the infamous 'Option 3'
Will get 19783 once its out for windows, as I am unable to play Radio 1->7 although I thought they were RTSP as well? I know they use RealPlayer (well RealAlternative as I am never installing Real Player!) when I visit them in a browser?

Thanks

lewis Wrote:Ah of course the infamous 'Option 3'
Will get 19783 once its out for windows, as I am unable to play Radio 1->7 although I thought they were RTSP as well? I know they use RealPlayer (well RealAlternative as I am never installing Real Player!) when I visit them in a browser?

Thanks

Ok I have a work around for Windows and Linux users that want to use Real media Listen Live streams. I have uploaded a new version which changes the nature of the Listen Live list. It now contain URLs which point directly to the streams rather than back to a plugin location. What this allows you to do is for a station select the context menu and then select "Play using". If you have defined an external player such as mplayer then you can select that and the stream will play using that external player.

This method doesn't work for catchup and can't really be made to. It takes too long to look up a list of catchup stream URLs.

It's ugly I know but it works. The External Player thread is here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=43511

Cheers
Dink

An example advancedsettings.xml file
<advancedsettings>
<externalplayer>
<filename>c:\applications\mplayer\mplayer.exe</filename>
<args></args>
<forceontop>true</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</externalplayer>
</advancedsettings>

dink Wrote:Ok I have a work around for Windows and Linux users that want to use Real media Listen Live streams. I have uploaded a new version which changes the nature of the Listen Live list. It now contain URLs which point directly to the streams rather than back to a plugin location. What this allows you to do is for a station select the context menu and then select "Play using". If you have defined an external player such as mplayer then you can select that and the stream will play using that external player.

This method doesn't work for catchup and can't really be made to. It takes too long to look up a list of catchup stream URLs.

It's ugly I know but it works. The External Player thread is here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=43511

Cheers
Dink

An example advancedsettings.xml file
<advancedsettings>
<externalplayer>
<filename>c:\applications\mplayer\mplayer.exe</filename>
<args></args>
<forceontop>true</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<hidecursor>false</hidecursor>
</externalplayer>
</advancedsettings>

Can confirm that works, as you said kinda ugly as you cant control the external player, fingers crossed that the new SVN will enable us to play in XBMC
Thanks for all the hard work Dink

lewis Wrote:Can confirm that works, as you said kinda ugly as you cant control the external player, fingers crossed that the new SVN will enable us to play in XBMC
Thanks for all the hard work Dink

You could try the mplayer GUI or VLC which should work as well and provide a GUI
Cheers
Dink