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

Hmm, even stranger. If I select a programme it plays for a split seconds then stops. If I go out of the menus and long click on 'iplayer' to bring up the menu that including settings, I have the option of 'now playing'. If I select that I can watch the programme I just kicked out of?

xdoktor Wrote:hi all!
Wanted to ask if there is build of iplayer xbmc plugin that also includes streaming of other channels eg. C4, ITV etc...like the iplayer website can?

no. and the iplayer website doesnt stream other channels - it links off to them

torch1 Wrote:Hmm, even stranger. If I select a programme it plays for a split seconds then stops. If I go out of the menus and long click on 'iplayer' to bring up the menu that including settings, I have the option of 'now playing'. If I select that I can watch the programme I just kicked out of?

i've seen this behaviour with iplayer, 4od and tvcatchup since eden beta releases... i'm using RC2 at the moment, but it is so random i always forget to get a log! d'oh!!

but as it's across multiple add-ons it is either an xbmc issue or the add-ons are missing somethign for eden.

I'm getting an issue where when I choose an episode to play the loading wheel spins then stops and I then hear the audio but the UI has frozen and the only thing I can do is restart X.
The UI is completely unresponsive to any button presses.

Here's a dump of the log from when I started iPlayer.
https://raw.github.com/gist/ba6527c20705...tfile1.txt

I'm using Eden B1 at the moment on Gentoo, this worked fine in ver 10.

Any ideas?

**UPDATE**
After disabling VDPAU and setting render mode to Software it plays now without issue.
I'm using the 295.20 nVidia drivers

System Info:
Win7 Ultimate, AMD system with onboard video (HD3300 - 12.2 drivers), 2GB RAM, DVI - monitor out.


I noticed this in the xbmc.log file. Is there something I can patch to update python?

Quote:00:42:15 T:4540 ERROR: C:\Users\House\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.iplayer\lib\iplayer2.py:​8: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
import md5
00:42:16 T:4540 ERROR: C:\Users\House\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.video.iplayer\lib\iplayer_sear​ch.py:5: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
from sets import Set

How can I singin iplayer as I do at there website iplayer?

Plugin giving structure error on latest Eden xbmc.

Hi everyone,
First of all let me congratulate the developers for this brilliant plugin.

I am having a slight problem that I have been unsuccessfully trying to solve for a while now.
I am using XBMC from the git repository on Linux and I have several rules on the playercorefactory.xml to allow me to use mplayer as my default player.

The weird problem I am having is that, while the rules I set up work just fine for all the catch up stuff, I can't manage to set it up so the live streams work the same way.
Even thought MPlayer is correctly selected as the default player for the link, when I try to play it always uses the internal player (DVDPlayer) instead.

The problem also occurs if I use the official Eden release instead of building from source.

You wont be able to use an external mplayer with the iplayer plugin, unless you modified the plugin to call a local rtmpdump and then pipe to mplayer or something.

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(2012-03-27 19:42)ykhehra1 Wrote:  Plugin giving structure error on latest Eden xbmc.

ok.

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(2012-03-23 02:03)ykhehra1 Wrote:  How can I singin iplayer as I do at there website iplayer?

I don't know what this means.

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(2012-03-15 16:59)TheMonkeyKing Wrote:  System Info:
Win7 Ultimate, AMD system with onboard video (HD3300 - 12.2 drivers), 2GB RAM, DVI - monitor out.


I noticed this in the xbmc.log file. Is there something I can patch to update python?

it's just a warning. it means the plugin is using some stuff that needs to be changed for newer python. but it still works so just ignore it.

Thanks for your reply,

I have compiled mplayer with rtmp support, so you can just send it the stream details and it will work.
By looking at the log files, I can see the live rtmp stream information going to DVDPlayer, so I just copy pasted that and used it just fine with mplayer.

The only problem here is not whether mplayer supports it (because it does) but how to keep the iplayer plugin (or xbmc in case it is not a plugin problem) from ignoring the player configuration that is set up.
Again, I should note that the problem only occurs with the live feeds as the on demand ones work just fine.