jimton Wrote:Would just like to say a big thanks to al the devs involved in this. Just installed this on my Dharma XBMC running off a ATV2, and it works great.

Only issue is every few seconds while watching something the audio and picture stutter for like a mill-second. Ive tried it on various programes and its the same. Now I thought it was probably down to my rubbish internet connection. But I watched a LIVE broadcast and it was perfect!

So maybe my internet connection is quick enough, the issue is with the addon itself. Does anyone else have this issue?

gjlp Wrote:I've discovered expat shield that allows me to use iPlayer from the U.S. -- However, after about 5 seconds the 'Watch Live' feeds quit. Any ideas how to resolve this... the live streams work fine when viewed in a browser so it appears to be an XBMC/iPlayer issue rather than a region lock issue.

Uh -- just noticed it's not just the live streams -- the recorded content is behaving the same way. Grrrr!

higgsboson Wrote:Don't use port 80, that's all.

gjlp Wrote:Aha - that fixes the recorded content but the live feeds don't work at all now -- they work fine when using iPlayer in a browser. Any thoughts?

sevenofone Wrote:I downloaded this 3 or 4 days ago . The menu system looks really good, comes up with prog list etc, but whenever I try to select a catchup prog or a stream it hangs xbmc into a not responding status where I have to kill it. Any ideas?

Over the last week I've looked at various solutions to a problem we have here in Cyprus with UK TV via satellite. We are a group of five British ex-pats who all have 3m dishes to get SKY TV to get the UK channels, but over the last year reception has been getting worse with some channels now only being available half the day as we are on the cusp of the satellite coverage area.

So, I've been looking at an IPTV solution that will work for us. A couple of us are running our laptops to the TV with a VPN connection and can access the BBC, ITV etc online, but it's a pain really using the browser/mouse so I've been looking at various interfaces we can use via a remote control that will work on a dedicated home theater PC. I've looked at Media Portal, Boxee Windows version, and the milliesoft Windows media center plugin. They all work with various degrees of success but all have issues. If we had all of the features in one piece of software that worked in the various apps then we would be laughing.

Basically what we want is:

1.Live streaming of: BBC1,2,3,4 ITV 1,2,3,4 Channel 5, 5US and Channel 4, More 4 etc. Oh, and Sky News as well..

Catchup services of iPlayer, 5 On demand, 4 On demand, ITV catchup.

The tvcatchup add-on looked good until they banned VPN access to their servers

yossisynett Wrote:I'm trying to play iPlayer live streams using a local SOCKS proxy on port 1234.

exobuzz Wrote:I assume you were using the plugin proxy settings anyway. you pasted such a short chunk of log, lots of useful information is missing. next time please post a link to a full debug log (hosting it on pastebin or similar).

yossisynett Wrote:Playback fails immediately. Debug log can be found at http://pastebin.com/LGk127zC.

exobuzz Wrote:to add, for http streams, you could try xbmc proxy support. not sure it does socks4/5 and never tried it. for rtmp you cant proxy it. technically rtmpt could be proxied but librtmp doesnt have proxy support.

Quote:Network Parameters

These options define how to connect to the media server.
socks=host:port
Use the specified SOCKS4 proxy.

exobuzz Wrote:maybe it does have socks support. my memory said it didn't ill check that out. a brief look now tells me it has socks4 support and no authentication, so may not be much help depending.

exobuzz Wrote:in regards to the browser, as i said the stream you were using was http not rtmp anyway, and that can be proxied of course - and i guess rtmp can be procies, just not by the plugin itself. it can be proxied via xbmc, and xbmc has proxy support not just http proxy not socks afaik.