2012-11-03, 23:16
Does the addon read directly from the iplayer site or is there an intermediary process? If so how often is this updated, how long for a program just gone onto iplayer to appear in the addon?
(2012-11-10, 17:52)epatrickt Wrote: Six months on and still don't have a working iplayer addon, sadly. UK resident, can see the live stream, fails on "playing stream". Have posted debug reports but unfortunately no replies. Have seen something about making sure that the libraries are up-to-date. I think I have the latest XBMC and xx.17 of iplayer. Is there anything else I can check/do to make the addon kick into life?
Thanks
(2012-11-10, 17:52)epatrickt Wrote: Six months on and still don't have a working iplayer addon, sadly. UK resident, can see the live stream, fails on "playing stream". Have posted debug reports but unfortunately no replies. Have seen something about making sure that the libraries are up-to-date. I think I have the latest XBMC and xx.17 of iplayer. Is there anything else I can check/do to make the addon kick into life?I had a few similar issues with nvidia cards that meant the plugin needed to be installed and run at least once before adding the nvidia card to the system.
Thanks
CALSADirectSound::GetSpace - get space failed. err: -32 (Broken pipe)
CRenderManager::FlipPage - timeout waiting for flip to complete
(2012-10-17, 18:43)exobuzz Wrote: the plugin just provides urls for xbmc to play. so anything regarding seeking / refresh / playback glitches is down to xbmc.
(2012-11-17, 13:45)zackpliskin Wrote: I don't see how it is XBMC's fault in this case. Almost every other video I throw at it can adjust the sync rate of the display device to match the video content immediately before playing a file, or a few seconds after the video has started playing. With the iPlayer plugin it will adjust the sync rate as with other videos but for some reason this causes the video to play too fast and with stuttering, then the buffer empties, then iPlayer hangs and takes XBMC down with it.
As noted, the workaround is to put XBMC into windowed mode before playing, selecting the iPlayer program you want to play, waiting for it to make XBMC jump to fullscreen video, then putting XBMC itself into true fullscreen mode. Whereupon it goes full screen, adjusts the refresh rate to the correct 50Hz and the stream works as normal.
Two other addons, YouTube and TVCatchup, have no problem adjusting the refresh rate of the display to match the videos - they don't completely crash XBMC. This leads me to believe the issue is with BBC iPlayer which is the only thing which exhibits this program-breaking bug, so the code needs looking at. Presumably it'd need looking at due to changes within XBMC for the pending Frodo release anyway?
(2012-11-21, 18:35)cami Wrote: Works ok for me but no HD. Go to the stuff in HD and it just plays them at the regular res.
EDIT: Never had this problem before. But haven't tried it in a while.
BBC HD used to get 1280x720 res streams, now only 800x400-ish