BBC-plugin not working properly anymore

Good morning!

Today I cannot download some BBC programs, but others work fine.
When trying these I get: "ERROR":
[www.bbc.co.uk]
[www.bbc.co.uk]
Other programs download just fine.

While trying these BBC Radio 3 program, I get the podcasts-versions instead of the real program:
[www.bbc.co.uk]
[www.bbc.co.uk]

For a moment I thought the new FDR-version was causing this, but probable the BBC did some changes again .....

I am using FDR 0.9u4 and BBC-plugin 1.1.9
Would you please look into this?

@ other users:
If you do or don't have the same problem, please let it know, so I know the problem is not on my side.

p.vanderwal Wrote:
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> Good morning!
>
> Today I cannot download some BBC programs, but
> others work fine.
> When trying these I get: "ERROR":
> [www.bbc.co.uk]
> ley-spencer-the-colours-of-the-clyde
> [www.bbc.co.uk]
> n-episode-6
> Other programs download just fine.

As mentioned in this post, current plugin is downloading from limelight, sometimes it gets stuck at certain RTMP command. In the future plugin release, it may also download from akamai for UK users.

> While trying these BBC Radio 3 program, I get the
> podcasts-versions instead of the real program:
> [www.bbc.co.uk]
> [www.bbc.co.uk]

What is the real program? They are radio program aren't they? I got audio only flv, the same thing when I opened the URLs and played them in browser.

Thanks for your repley.
If I understand you well, I cannot download these TV-programs anymore. I tried over and over again and ever more programs are not downloading, even some I could download this morning...... strange.

Concerning the radio programs: yesterday I could listen to these in flv @ 326 Kbps and download @ 326. Now I can only listen to them @ 128 and only download these 50Kbps. What is going on? Is the BBC changing things, or am I doing something wrong?

That's why I said limelight produces strange behaviour. It'll get fixed by downloading from akamai for UK users in the next plugin release.

And yeah I can reproduce the radio programs issue, I got different files. I can't analyze the issue right now, firefox keeps crashing when I open the programs URLs, and there is something wrong with my OS. I'll check it tomorrow.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/20/2014 03:33PM by tong2shot.

Thanks, I can wait ...

p.vanderwal wrote:
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> @ other users:
> If you do or don't have the same problem, please
> let it know, so I know the problem is not on my
> side.

Hi
Kindly read this

> I cannot download these TV-programs anymore.

If not in the UK, try to set a UK http proxy inside FRD;
this will override tor plugin, that seems to be malfunctioning
(at least for me) since Monday afternoon...
I can download Caman - Episode 6
via a UK proxy (see attachment b0192tjt_UKproxy.jpg)

> yesterday I could listen to these in flv @ 326 Kbps and download @ 326.
> Now I can only listen to them @ 128 and only download these 50Kbps.
> What is going on?

Sample BBC Radio 3 link:

COTW: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643): From Mantua to Venice

If you load the link in a browser and you have a UK IP,
by pressing the PLAY button you'll get what Radio 3 dubs as
HD Audio, i.e. AAC LC @320kbpsABR - the right click
context menu on the embedded flash player may report:

128kbps | RTMP (limelight) |

but that is a known bug of the iplayer radio software...
the audio is indeed @ 320+ kbps.

However, with a non-UK IP you only get a much, much lower
audio quality, HE-AACv2 @ 48kbpsABR - in that case,
context menu reports the correct value:

48kbps | RTMP (limelight) |

If you are not physically in the UK, then FRD will - due to a
current problem in tor plugin - download only the international
LQ version of the programme (ca. 21 MB ).
If you are after the UK HQ version, then again (as in the video
file above) configure FRD to use a UK http proxy; this way
you'll get a 136 MB file instead (see attachment b043pmd0_UKproxy.jpg)

This is proposed as an interim solution, until a more permanent (hopefully)
fix is realized by the devs...

Regards

Thanks for explaining and for actually helping out. I configured a UK proxy in FRD and all is downloading well now. Thanks again!!