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Is there anywhere I can view a changelog for the newer iplayerv2 plugin changes. Can't seem to find them on google code page. I am wondering if the pause resume has been fixed? Great work guys. Thanks
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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.
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Thanks, exobuzz - help much appreciated. Will make sure I post debug logs next time!
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Pausing is an XBMC problem and I'd try to avoid skipping too much as well.
Try lowering the stream quality because it will now get the best available even if you haven't specifically selected the HD channels.
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2011-03-09, 10:09
(This post was last modified: 2011-03-09, 10:11 by CloudDweller.)
I'll avoid skipping and pausing which has never really worked but I was hoping that the updates may have fixed that.
With regards to quality I've tried 3200 which is very unstable, 1500 which buffers a lot and the one down from that (sorry I can't remember the bitrate) which buffered a few times. The thing is my bandwidth is more than enough for HD plus I cam stream trailers in HD and if I try HD in Safari via the iPlayer website that works fine so I'm pretty sure its a XBMC/Addon issue.
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2011-03-09, 11:13
(This post was last modified: 2011-03-09, 11:16 by CloudDweller.)
I'm using a wired connection to my router so I don't think its a network issue but I could be wrong. What I find strange is that I'm used to seeing a buffering dialogue if an add-on is have trouble keeping up such as Apple Movie Trailers Lite or YouTube, but what I've never experienced until recently is the stream simply dropping off and kicking me back to the menu.
Did my debug log suggest anything out of the ordinary?
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Sometimes disconnections happen from the cdn. you could try forcing it to akamai or level 3 (hd only afair) and see if that helps. The debug log needs debugging switched on - but it will just show that no data came in and then a disconnection I should think.
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I had debug turned on in the add-on but do I also need to have it enabled in XBMC? Also sorry if this is a dumb questions, but what's a cdn?
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yes please. then it shows debug output from the rtmp library.
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I'll try it when I'm next in front of my XBMC and I'll post you my log. I appreciate you looking into this for me as at the moment, its very difficult to watch anything.