2011-03-06, 01:21
exobuzz - Thanks so much for your excellent work.
I'm an expat and I really wanted to get iPlayer working seamlessly in XBMC (with the help of tor), but wasn't able to do so. I was resorting to dropping out of XBMC and using Firefox (not too much of a chore I know), but at peak times the streams would just stutter along and, because of BBC's auto-stream selection, end up at the lowest quality.
With your proxy additions and the ability to choose the stream provider and quality, iPlayer is working more reliably in XBMC than it ever has done in a browser.
I hope in the future XBMC is able to view online videos much more like Youtube, where you can see the video cache on the OSD timeline and you can pause the video so that enough buffer is built up to watch without rebuffering.
I'm an expat and I really wanted to get iPlayer working seamlessly in XBMC (with the help of tor), but wasn't able to do so. I was resorting to dropping out of XBMC and using Firefox (not too much of a chore I know), but at peak times the streams would just stutter along and, because of BBC's auto-stream selection, end up at the lowest quality.
With your proxy additions and the ability to choose the stream provider and quality, iPlayer is working more reliably in XBMC than it ever has done in a browser.
I hope in the future XBMC is able to view online videos much more like Youtube, where you can see the video cache on the OSD timeline and you can pause the video so that enough buffer is built up to watch without rebuffering.