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Off topic I know but, at the same time as the BBC Iplayer add-on stopped working, my ITV Player no longer works with catch up TV. Live channels are fine. I'm using OpenElec 4.2.1 (XBMC 13.2). Is this coincidence or has anyone else got the same problem?
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flekz
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I just set up OE 4.2.1 as well and I found no problem with catch up on ITV player.
Why is BBC iPlayer not working?
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- HTPC: Intel NUC N2830, 2.4ghz, 4GB RAM, SSD, Win 7 & OpenElec (dual boot) / Kodi 15.2
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get_iplayer is now working as they are scraping programme information from the website rather than using the feeds. if the iplayer addon was converted to do this it would likely work again. just requires someone with the free time - I am happy to push out a new release if someone provides a patchset to fix this.
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zag
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I'd suggest getting it up on Github first so people can start looking at the code in a collaborative way.
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2014-11-03, 20:03
(This post was last modified: 2014-11-03, 20:09 by stammie.)
I'm guessing its a rare occurrence that a BBC blog post has received so many replies,
from the times I used to have to go to Television Centre on occasion for work before it closed down I can imagine several committee meetings going on right now.
The first will have several layers of management analysing the replies, the second will be suggesting ways in which the BBC can respond, the third will analyse those responses etc etc and eventually probably around the time the BBC opens up their API to non employees we'll get an official answer saying Kodi is a non sanctioned platform and there's nothing they can do.
I wouldn't trust or touch the previously mentioned working addon with a barge pole so I hope an enterprising dev here can come up with their own code to scrape the Iplayer website, I don't even care about metadata or program info, if I could get the shows I want to watch working through XBMC/Kodi I'll be happy.
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I wouldn't wish in any way to give the government another stick to bash the BBC with but the current government has done a reasonable job with its open access policies. Even though it may seem like a fringe techie angle it could easily been spun into the BBC denying legitimate license fee paying members of public access to content, who just so happen to run the range of tech from enthusiasts to professionals, who are the sort of people who you want to support when you want to grow the "digital economy".