[RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!)

ashlartowers Wrote:Works a treat! Great quality on my xbox. :-)

I have one query, dink. Would it be possible to change the interface to be more like
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/

or is that not technically possible with the current plugin framework?

Either way, this plugin (and the H264 support) is a great achievement.

Someone with more skinning experience may be able to correct me (and perhaps provide an appropriate skin) but as the the IPlayer script is implemented as a plugin all it can provide is a simple directory listing. You can changed how the directory is listed by changing the "View:" option.

Cheers
Dink

PantsOnFire Wrote:Loving the latest build of this plugin. (using the unnofficial build)

Currently have my internet vid cache set to 4096KB which is ideal for my connection speed when viewing HIGH quality AMT trailers.

It's also fine for iPlayer video content. However, using the iPlayer radio.. I am forced to wait for 4096kb to stream in before it starts to play. XBMC seems to recognise the audio stream as a video stream? Is this because I am launching the stream from within "My Videos"?

I would have presumed xbmc would see the iPlayer radio (set as MP3) is an audio stream and just buffered 256kb of cache before playing.

Anyone know whats up? It dampens the experience somewhat having to wait 10seconds (roughly) before the radio kicks in. (I have a 10meg line by the way).


-by the way is there a reason the radio stations (listen live) take so long to kick in?

It is to do with the protocols used by the various radio streams and how XBMC is able or unable to properly categorize them. Catchup uses rtmp:// for MP3 & AAC. RTMP has it's own cache setup so is quite quick to kick off. Catchup can also use rtsp:// (it's the last fallback as it's always available). Live radio uses a mixture of mms:// and rtsp:// . XBMC ususally uses "Cache unknown" for these so try modifing that if a progress bar with a large cache value pops up.

Cheers
Dink

exactley what dink said.

i set my unknown internet cache to 256kb and then the radio streams buffer as quick as any other audio stream like shoutcast.

Nice idea, I already tried setting unknown cache to 256kb but for me, more often than not the mp3 radio streams on iplayer don't come under that category. And thus continue to cache 4MB before they start. If I set my internet vid cache to 2MB that helps, but it's still not really ideal.

Thanks to all involved.

mrtickle Wrote:What we're waiting for is the fix (r20463, see http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/20463) to be merged from SVN across into the xbox branch. So you search for r20463 in trac:
http://trac.xbmc.org/search?q=r20463&noq...on&wiki=on

right now I can see:
[20580]: merged: r20463 from linuxport
but this refers to a different build.

When you see an xbox build (say from t3ch) which contains in the changelog something like this line:
(some number) [XBOX] Merged: Linuxport revisions ..... 20463....
then that build will include the fix.

...and I see that 20810 merged it to the XB0X branch. Great info MrTickle, and thanks also to the others, inc Stacked and Dink for the XB0X builds and plugin.

I, for one, didn't know until now that nightly XB0X builds are available (here: http://www.sshcs.com/xbmc/?mode=BX), so thanks also for that.

Indeed - excellent news. Actually my search link above won't find it because I included the "r" - but this does:
http://trac.xbmc.org/search?q=20463&noqu...on&wiki=on
and there in all its glory, it is!

t3ch has build "T3CH XBMC 2009-06-01 9.04.1-FIXED-Babylon" available to download (t3ch updater script doesn't pick it up) - but manual download and ftp to xbox and then let the updater pick it up after rename of rar (to T3CH XBMC YYYY-MM-DD SVN rev99999.rar) works a treat.

Watching high quality stream H264 (the lowest quality of 3) now and looks brilliant and perfect, much improved over flash.

Just need to watch my download cap now!!

Cheers to Dink, t3ch, Johnsto, BigBellyBilly and all the XBMC team (oh and the BBC ;-)

I'm afraid I still have the problem with the Loading window appearing on top of the settings window. This is with a fresh install of the T3ch 9.04.1-FIXED-Babylon build.

mrtickle Wrote:I'm afraid I still have the problem with the Loading window appearing on top of the settings window. This is with a fresh install of the T3ch 9.04.1-FIXED-Babylon build.

That is a weird one. I tried but couldn't duplicate. I would think it is something odd about your install and would really need to see a debug log to try and figure out what is going on.

What skin are you using. If not PM3 then switch to that and try again.

Does your xbox show any other symptoms or in the past did an install corrupt? If so an install into a clean dir rather than an upgrade might help.

Cheers
Dink