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RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - VanZan - 2013-08-01

That's what I suspected...cheers mate!


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - Infostocksy - 2013-08-02

So I changed from 2.4.18 back to 2.4.17 - BUT I don't know how to change / edit the .SWF thingy , couldn't find the addon directory - Im a Raspberry Pi user and not a LINUX uber god and recommend RASPBMC to people new to R_Pi, but this makes it look techy again Sad

Can someone advise or is there an updated package coming 2.4.19

Thanks in advance


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - dlake02 - 2013-08-04

I have added a potential fix for the "Resume" issue on

http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-iplayerv2/issues/detail?id=115&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Summary

This has worked well for me over the last few days - none of the nasty lock-ups at all.

D


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - privado - 2013-08-04

thanks dlake02, will give it a try


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - robertpi - 2013-08-04

Hello,

I'm just getting started with my raspbmc and I've installed iplayer plug in. It seems it was able to play a program correctly, but 90% of the time it fails. When I look in the logs I see an error like:
16:43:38 T:3041370752 NOTICE: COMXPlayer: Opening: rtmp://bbcmedia.fcod.llnwd.net:1935/ ...
16:43:38 T:3041370752 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):Tongueut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
16:43:38 T:2820695104 NOTICE: Thread COMXPlayer start, auto delete: false
16:43:38 T:2820695104 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
16:43:38 T:2820695104 ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
16:43:38 T:2820695104 ERROR: COMXPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [rtmp://bbcmedia.fcod.llnwd.net:1935/ ...
16:43:38 T:2820695104 NOTICE: COMXPlayer::OnExit()
16:43:38 T:2820695104 NOTICE: COMXPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream

The full log file is available here: http://pastebin.com/CDfACegT

Any clue to how this might be resolved would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,
Robert


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - frumpy_uk - 2013-08-09

(2013-08-04, 01:43)dlake02 Wrote: I have added a potential fix for the "Resume" issue on

http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-iplayerv2/issues/detail?id=115&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Summary

This has worked well for me over the last few days - none of the nasty lock-ups at all.

D

Hi dlake. For those of us not clever enough to use a diff, is it correct that the code which appears in the diff is to be inserted as new lines at line 1074 into iplayer2.py in the lib folder of the plugin?

thanks

(2013-08-04, 19:18)robertpi Wrote: Hello,

I'm just getting started with my raspbmc and I've installed iplayer plug in. It seems it was able to play a program correctly, but 90% of the time it fails. When I look in the logs I see an error like:
16:43:38 T:3041370752 NOTICE: COMXPlayer: Opening: rtmp://bbcmedia.fcod.llnwd.net:1935/ ...
16:43:38 T:3041370752 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):Tongueut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
16:43:38 T:2820695104 NOTICE: Thread COMXPlayer start, auto delete: false
16:43:38 T:2820695104 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
16:43:38 T:2820695104 ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
16:43:38 T:2820695104 ERROR: COMXPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [rtmp://bbcmedia.fcod.llnwd.net:1935/ ...
16:43:38 T:2820695104 NOTICE: COMXPlayer::OnExit()
16:43:38 T:2820695104 NOTICE: COMXPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream

The full log file is available here: http://pastebin.com/CDfACegT

Any clue to how this might be resolved would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,
Robert

You are using 2.4.17. Try the latest version. You'll experience a new error (resume lock) which is fixable - look back through the last couple of pages in this thread. You need to go to plugn settings and click the force release lock button. Good luck!


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - dlake02 - 2013-08-09

(2013-08-09, 21:42)frumpy_uk Wrote: Hi dlake. For those of us not clever enough to use a diff, is it correct that the code which appears in the diff is to be inserted as new lines at line 1074 into iplayer2.py in the lib folder of the plugin?

thanks

No - insert into default.py at line 1077.

Take out the top line and the "<" and make sure that the tabulation is correct. Python is horribly sensitive to where things are placed....

D


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - djpc123 - 2013-08-10

(2013-07-02, 22:05)Russty Wrote: I have just installed the iPlayer add-on for the first time (v 2.4.18 on xbmc 12.2 on Win7) and it has one strange problem. Whatever i choose to watch works fine except for a message box in the middle of the screen saying "iPlayer 80%" and "Opening Stream".
The programme continues to play fine but the box never disappears.
If i click the cancelbutton i get a message that the stream failed to play and when i then click OK everything stops and i am back to the iplayer menu.
Tried changing to poer 80 - that just broke everything.

any clues anyone?

I have the exact same issue as this but on linux. I tried downgrading to .17 and doing the SWF change but now it wont even play anymore with no debug info. Anyone have a solution?


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - frumpy_uk - 2013-08-11

(2013-08-09, 23:33)dlake02 Wrote: No - insert into default.py at line 1077.

Take out the top line and the "<" and make sure that the tabulation is correct. Python is horribly sensitive to where things are placed....

D

Yes. Worked for me. Thanks dlake :-)


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - BigTaff - 2013-08-13

I have an issue where iPlayer opens within XBMC and I can watch live TV using it no problem but any programme listed under any of the channels, although there by name, once opened shows no episodes to choose from. For example, Top Gear shows 5 episodes on the main page but when I then select Top Gear to open the actual list where the details of each episode would be there is just a "--" symbol, no 5 episodes to choose from. I've tried restarting, I've tried resume lock release and I have made no changes to the XBMC system itself. This was working perfectly so thought maybe BBC had made some change or other but I see I am the only one with the issue, on here at least!


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - yazooo - 2013-08-13

Thanks for the great addon.

Works great using OpenELEC. I have an issue where when I play something for the first time it then disappears from the any of the lists. Didn't know if this was a plugin setting issue or something to do with OpenELEC? Any suggestions?


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - doveman2 - 2013-08-16

Is there any way to put a volume attenuation in the plugin, as iPlayer is much louder than LiveTV and so I have to reduce the volume from around -25 to -45 when switching between the two (I'm using <ac3downmixgain>24.0</ac3downmixgain> to get the overall volume up to nearer my other sources), which is no fun, especially as auto-repeat doesn't work on the volume buttons (OS issue apparently) so that I have to press them 15-20 times to get it where it needs to be?

Also, I'm finding that despite having it set to open on "Main Menu" it tends to open where it last was, such as TV - Popular.


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - nickswims - 2013-08-19

(2013-08-10, 20:05)djpc123 Wrote:
(2013-07-02, 22:05)Russty Wrote: I have just installed the iPlayer add-on for the first time (v 2.4.18 on xbmc 12.2 on Win7) and it has one strange problem. Whatever i choose to watch works fine except for a message box in the middle of the screen saying "iPlayer 80%" and "Opening Stream".
The programme continues to play fine but the box never disappears.
If i click the cancelbutton i get a message that the stream failed to play and when i then click OK everything stops and i am back to the iplayer menu.
Tried changing to poer 80 - that just broke everything.

any clues anyone?

I have the exact same issue as this but on linux. I tried downgrading to .17 and doing the SWF change but now it wont even play anymore with no debug info. Anyone have a solution?

I'm having the same problem. Using iPlayer addon version 2.4.18 in openelec 3.1.15. The any show plays but with a dialogue box on top saying "iplayer 80%" "opening stream". I've tried downgrading to 2.4.17 without success. Any ideas how I can fix this?


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - dt030 - 2013-08-19

(2013-07-17, 22:55)supasparky Wrote: i just installed 2.4.18 on my eden build and most of the time with on demand i gets to 80% and looks like it will play....and nothing plays, but if i check the "now playing" it shows the stream as playing. using the force resume lock doesnt help.....
live TV doesnt seem to work at all.

do i need to roll back to 2.4.17 and then add in the new swf line in that iplayer2 file?


Hi,
I'm not an expert so maybe someone else will give you a better fix eventually, but i had this problem and i've managed to get it working. Go to the add on settings, click on the advanced tab, set the number of days to keep resume points to 0. Hopefully this will work for you.
DT


RE: [RELEASE] iPlayer - BBC Video and Music Plugin (UK only!) - timwilde - 2013-08-21

Hi

I am running Iplayer v 2.4.17 on a new Raspberry Pi, OpenElec v 3.6.11

It runs fine for a period but the video hangs periodically (not every time). I cannot fast forward etc, eventually it may drop the video all together and return me to the last iplayer menu. Sometimes the video just stops and I need to stop I and start again

I have changed the following Iplayer video config to see if I can fix it but still have the same problem. All other settings are as default

Video stream ti use = H.264@800Kbs
Socket timeout to none (0)
Disable http cache = yes
Enable debug output = “yes”

I am running via a smartdns server which appears to be OK on laptops etc and I have a 2mb ADSL connection

I have tried 2.4.18 with the same problems and Itv player is fine

Any help would be appreciated



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