Problems downloading Springwatch

Alan Milewczyk alan at soulman1949.com
Sat Apr 4 02:38:12 PDT 2015


On 04/04/2015 03:38, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> On Sat Apr 4 02:42:45 BST 2015, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
>
>> Having problems downloading last night's episode of Springwatch.
>> Whether I try to load by the programme name "Springwatch",
>> PID or URL, I get the following message:
>> (snip)
>> WARNING: The 'default' programme version could not be determined
>> WARNING: No programme versions found
>
> Hello...
> Always try to verify if the offendind programme does play
> in a browser on the iPlayer site:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05ps37q/springwatch-springwatch-at-easter 
>
>
> After the BBC Two ident (with the swan), you get:
> "This content doesn't seem to be working. Please try again later".
>
Doh! I should have known better!
> GiP can't fetch a non-existing (yet?) stream...
> For PID=b05ps37q => vPID=b05ps37j , but:
>
> http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/pc/vpid/b05ps37j 
>
>
> returns:
> <mediaSelection><error id="selectionunavailable"/></mediaSelection>
>
> Better report this to BBC to expedite rectification (avenues of doing 
> this
> were discussed some weeks ago in the list - Twitter being the best...) -
> I wouldn't expect much before the Easter holidays are over, though...
>
I've reported via the online form. Anyone know the right twitter account 
to use?

Thanks

Alan



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