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Using unblock-us. only 'BBC Parliament' live works, nothing else from some days.
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only bbc parliament is working in iPlayer>watch live. xbmc Eden final on atv2 and latest iPlayer version
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If you are outside of the UK, and are not using a VPN, don't expect the live channels to work. They are geolocked. unblock-us and other proxy stuff won't fix it.
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2012-04-26, 18:25
(This post was last modified: 2012-04-26, 18:25 by exobuzz.)
It's worth mentioning, I am not going to spend any time trying to help users work around the BBC's ip restrictions. unblock-us is a proxy system. xbmc will not use a proxy for the actual streams. you would need a vpn to stream via another address with xbmc.
if you manage to watch bbc tv outside of the uk, then well done. This is something you are going to have to work out yourself.
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Thanks, I'll sort it ASAP.
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2012-04-29, 17:53
(This post was last modified: 2012-04-29, 17:53 by bilbonvidia.)
This addon is ace.
Another vote here for a resume option so the stream can be started from where left off, eg if had to stop watching a programme halfway.
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Hi there
I am using this new version and it seems to work perfectly for anything in the library.
The previous version didn't seem to work or played a few minutes and then cut out. I can't get the live streams to work at all.
This is a great plugin and I thank the developer for providing it and making our lives a little bit better for it.
Or put another way thank you for making it easy for the wife to watch EastEnders.
Thank you and any tips on the live streams woud be much appreciated.
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Actually, looking at what's going on with live streams vs stored content is very interesting.
In the case of stored content, that content is spread over the world, but access to it is only given from a UK IP address hitting the initial server. If you do a quick netstat -a during playback, you'll likely notice that the RTMP stream is being served by a CDN cache very local to you. That is just as well - trying to stream content over an HTTP proxy would result in terrible quality.....
But, when you access live TV via a proxy, you are handed back a valid RTMP stream, but it appears that there is some geo-based ACL at work on the servers.
Many VPNs are rate-limited by ISPs (my local ISP uses deep-packet inspection to rate limit VPNs so I can't even get away with using an alternate port) so I hope that this situation with geographically-dispersed stored content carries on for some time.
Alternatively, I'd like the BBC to wake-up to the commercial potential of hundreds of ex-pats that would like to watch decent telly instead to the utter cr*p that is 258 channels here in the US !!!!
We've taken to watching the news on either TF-1 or the BBC as the news programmes here are just to utterly dire....