BBC live streaming stopped working

[JCA]

> It used to work here in the US using UKiVPN. At the time, I could
> stream both at the browser and with get_iplayer when I had the UKiVPN
> tunnel enabled. Now neither works. Using the Unblock-Us service I can
> stream at the browser without any problems, but get_iplayer fails as
> described. It would seem that I have a problem with UKiVPN and also
> with get_iplayer. Or, at the very least, get_iplayer does not seem to
> play nicely with the Unblock-Us service. I was just wondering if
> anybody in this forum would have any experience trying to get
> get_iplayer to work with the Unblock-Us framework?

An update: I have been able to stream again from my browser, using the
UKiVPN. The performance is a bit choppy, but it works. However,
get_iplayer is still systematically failing, be it with the UKiVPN
tunnel or the Unblock-Us service. Suggestions from experienced
get_iplayer users or developers will be most welcome.


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:08 AM, JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It used to work here in the US using UKiVPN. At the time, I could
> stream both at the browser and with get_iplayer when I had the UKiVPN
> tunnel enabled. Now neither works. Using the Unblock-Us service I can
> stream at the browser without any problems, but get_iplayer fails as
> described. It would seem that I have a problem with UKiVPN and also
> with get_iplayer. Or, at the very least, get_iplayer does not seem to
> play nicely with the Unblock-Us service. I was just wondering if
> anybody in this forum would have any experience trying to get
> get_iplayer to work with the Unblock-Us framework?
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:46 AM, ross <the.ross.bradley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:42:08 -0700
>> JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am using the following incantation to stream BBC News to my Linux
>>> system:
>>>
>>> get_iplayer --stream --modes=flashvhigh2,flashhigh2,flashstd2
>>> --nopurge --type=livetv "BBC News" --player="mplayer -vo xv -cache 128
>>> -fs -stop-xscreensaver -zoom -"
>>>
>>> This used to work until recently (a few weeks ago) but it now fails
>>> systematically.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Without being any kind of expert re DNS and most of get_iplayer. The
>> best I can offer is that livestreaming is working fine this end. Using
>> the following;
>>
>> ./get_iplayer --stream --modes=flashvhigh2,flashhigh2,flashstd2
>> --type=livetv "BBC News" --player="cvlc - &> /dev/null" --rtmpport 443
>>
>>
>> Also just to clear some stuff up....
>>
>>>"This used to work until recently (a few weeks ago) but it now fails
>>>systematically."
>>
>>>"Now I am doing this from a system in the US, with the help of
>>>Unblock-Us."
>>
>> It used to work whilst you were in the UK and now your in the US it
>> doesn't? but does via your browser if using the unblock-Us service?
>> Sounds like you need to utilise the proxy settings in get_iplayer
>>
>> get_iplayer --help-long | grep "proxy"
>>
>> After looking into proxy's perhaps its worth setting the --verbose tag
>> getting the output in a paste then posting a link to that here for
>> further investigation.
>>
>> Just a note i'v never used the proxy settings of GIP, rather setup ssh
>> tunnels to the uk then used GIP as normal
>>
>> Ross.
>>
>>
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