Tor plugin fails with BBC downloads

KES Wrote:
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> Please help those of us that are not so savvy as
> you.
>
> EXACTLY how to make bbc.co.uk programs
> downloadable. Clear simple easy to follow
> instructions with examples of working proxies and
> port numbers etc.
>
> [www.bbc.co.uk]
> /Rockets_Island_Series_2_The_Mermaids_Song/

For example of working proxies you can google/bing/yahoo (I'm being indifferent here ) it.

Once you have one, you can configure FRD to use the proxy (Options->Preferences->Connections->Configure proxy..).

Now to configure BBC plugin (Options->Preferences->Plugins->Settings), select bbc.co.uk, then press "Options" button. Choose your preferred quality level. You can leave RTMP port with the default value (1935), unless the proxy that you are using blocks port 1935.

As @TVjunkie said some proxies can't connect to Akamai CDN, so if you choose Akamai and you get 0 byte flv, that indicates that the proxy can't connect to Akamai, so you have to choose the other (Limelight or Level3). At this moment, Limelight is unstable, so you may have to try several times before the file can be downloaded.

For the details, you can read @TVjunkie posts, it's very informative.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/29/2014 10:43PM by tong2shot.

Hello

OS: WinVista SP2 x86
JRE 7u60
FRD 0.9u4
bbc.frp 1.1.11
(its settings are:
480p
1935 (default)
Limelight
"Download subtitles" is ticked)
UK http proxy configured in FRD.

Sample TV file:

BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend - 2014: Calvin Harris & Example

The video file does download (eventually) from the Limelight CDN,
but as its file name contains the "wild" character "&",

BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend - 2014 - Calvin Harris & Example.flv

the corresponding subtitle file (.srt) does not have a matching file name;

BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend - 2014 - Calvin Harris &_amp; Example.srt

(I have included an underscore between "&" and "amp;", else the forum software 
wouldn't show it correctly...)

I know this is a very small bug (possibly windows only?), could it be fixed, please?
(I could not figure out for more than 15min why my player wasn't showing the subs...)

Many regards

TVjunkie Wrote:
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> .....
> I know this is a very small bug (possibly windows
> only?), could it be fixed, please?
> (I could not figure out for more than 15min why my
> player wasn't showing the subs...)

Thanks for the report.

Fixed in plugin v1.1.12, also there is option to disable Tor.

Will try but not hopeful as configure of proxy still a mess to me.

Still no work. tried many proxies from [www.xroxy.com] with differing RTMP ports and CDN and cannot get anything that works.

Extremly boring....if others can get it to work why can't they give the FULL details of how.

And if according to plugin settings if TOR is not used when in UK or using UK proxy then does tor work when you're not? because it doesn't seem to.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/01/2014 05:05AM by KES.

KES Wrote:
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> Will try but not hopeful as configure of proxy
> still a mess to me.
>
> Still no work. tried many proxies from
> [www.xroxy.com]
> =&country=GB&latency=&reliability=&sort=reliabilit

Define no work.


> with differing RTMP ports
> and CDN and cannot get anything that works.

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As @TVjunkie said some proxies can't connect to Akamai CDN, so if you choose Akamai and you get 0 byte flv, that indicates that the proxy can't connect to Akamai, so you have to choose the other (Limelight or Level3). At this moment, Limelight is unstable, so you may have to try several times before the file can be downloaded.

How do you know which stream, which CDN get chosen eventually? Start FRD in debug mode, try to download the file, then open app.log. Search for : "Selected stream", CDN is mentioned as 'supplier'.

How to start FRD in debug mode : see "Troubleshooting" section of this page.

Where is app.log? Help -> Browse to log file.


> Extremly boring....if others can get it to work
> why can't they give the FULL details of how.

They already gave the FULL details.


> And if according to plugin settings if TOR is not
> used when in UK or using UK proxy then does tor
> work when you're not? because it doesn't seem to.

It was mentioned several times :

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tor exit node ip address produced by tor network cannot be identified as UK ip address

in short at this moment Tor is not working for BBC plugin. We put the option, so that if in the future Tor is working, you can just enable it without having to use proxy.