Questions about BBC plugin

The BBC plugin (bbc.co.uk) has an option called "Enable Tor" which doesn't affect UK or proxy users.



Can someone please explain what this means, is or does?

Does it use Tor to download if outside the bbc iplayer geolocation? Do I need Tor installed or am I required to do anything else?


Also, what is the "Preferred CDN" and what should I choose?


Thanks,
MrBear

I'm unable to test BBC plugin with Tor plugin at this moment, for technical reason. So this post is based on my past experience.


MrBear Wrote:
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> Does it use Tor to download if outside the bbc
> iplayer geolocation?

Tor is only used to get media selector, not to download the video stream.


> Do I need Tor installed or am
> I required to do anything else?

FRD already has Tor plugin, so Tor program is not needed.


> Also, what is the "Preferred CDN" and what should
> I choose?

It depends on whether you're using UK ip address (direct, or via VPN, or UK socks proxy), or not. And depends on the selected quality.

If you're using UK ip address then Akamai is the safest choice. HD quality streams are only available for Akamai CDN. Streams via Akamai and Limelight are geoblocked at RTMP server level, so they are only available for UK ip address users. Previously non-UK ip address users were able to download from BBC by enabling Tor, and choosing Level3 as CDN, and choosing 360p (or 480p?) as selected quality. I'm unable to test it at this moment unfortunately.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/2017 10:48AM by tong2shot.