Live TV not working

John Warburton john at johnwarburton.net
Tue Jun 2 08:09:55 PDT 2015


I don't want to increase developers' pain and suffering, but live TV
feeds seem to work no longer, also.

Asking for BBC News 24 live by index number (80002), PID or URL brings
up, toward the end of the debug output:

Matches:
80002:  BBC News - live

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
DEBUG: Using desktop user-agent string: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1;
rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0'
DEBUG: Using cookies.desktop user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1;
rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0'
DEBUG: Getting Metadata for bbc_news24:
INFO: iPlayer metadata URL = http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/bbc_news24
INFO: Getting page http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/bbc_news24
ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site

ERROR: Could not get version pid metadata
ERROR: Could not get programme metadata

...and running wget on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/bbc_news24 produces...

ERROR 403: Forbidden.

Hope this is of some use.
J



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