BBC iPlayer - Direct Channel Feeds & 4/5/ITV future potential (2 Viewers)

[revs]

Hi - just started using OnlineVideos, works great.

How would I go about getting the direct channel feeds added to the BBC iPlayer categories? I added them manually last night, but then lost them when I did an automatic update! So I guess the correct way of sorting this is by getting them added to the auto-update

The feeds are:

Name: BBC One
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC One programmes

Name: BBC Two
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC Two programmes

Name: BBC Three
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC Three programmes

Name: BBC Four
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC Four programmes

Name: BBC HD
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC HD programmes

Name: CBBC
Feed: BBC iPlayer - CBBC programmes

Name: CBeebies
Feed: BBC iPlayer - CBeebies programmes

Name: BBC Parliment
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC Parliament programmes

Name: BBC News
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC News Channel programmes

Name: BBC Alba
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC ALBA programmes



And - nothing here yet, but a hint at the future - the BBC have just started adding ITV/4/E4/Channel Five/Fiver etc to iplayer. And here are the feeds! (Unfortunately empty for now, but need to keep an eye on them).

Name: ITV 1
Feed: BBC iPlayer - ITV 1 programmes

Name: ITV 2
Feed: BBC iPlayer - ITV 2 programmes

Name: ITV 3
Feed: BBC iPlayer - ITV 3 programmes

Name: ITV 4
Feed: BBC iPlayer - ITV 4 programmes

Name: Channel 4
Feed: BBC iPlayer - Channel 4 programmes

Name: More 4
Feed: BBC iPlayer - More 4 programmes

Name: E4
Feed: BBC iPlayer - E4 programmes

Name: Film4
Feed: BBC iPlayer - Film 4 programmes

Name: Channel 5 (Formerly 'Five')
Feed: BBC iPlayer - Five programmes

Name: Fiver
Feed: BBC iPlayer - Fiver programmes

Name: Five USA
Feed: BBC iPlayer - Five USA programmes

Name: S4C
Feed: BBC iPlayer - S4C programmes

 

[cheezey]

BBC - BBC Internet Blog: BBC iPlayer: find programmes from other on demand services

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

I might be mistaken, but the BBC are only providing links to the third parties website/players (metadata). So if the third party uses a different delivery method to iPlayer, then Online Videos might not work for that content. ie if ITV Catchup doesnt work directly now, then it still wont work through iPlayer.

J.

 

[revs]

That maybe the case.

The main point of this thread was to get the direct BBC channels added to OnlineVideos. In addition to the 'popular','comedy' etc categories

 

[Jay_UK]

Revs,

Agree... I manually add BBC1,2,3,4 and HD to my XML file after each full update - it would be nice to have them properly added.

J.

 

[offbyone]

AW: BBC iPlayer - Direct Channel Feeds & 4/5/ITV future potential

I will add those in a bit: (they are all working right?)

Name: BBC One
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC One programmes

Name: BBC Two
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC Two programmes

Name: BBC Three
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC Three programmes

Name: BBC Four
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC Four programmes

Name: BBC HD
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC HD programmes

Name: CBBC
Feed: BBC iPlayer - CBBC programmes

Name: CBeebies
Feed: BBC iPlayer - CBeebies programmes

Name: BBC Parliment
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC Parliament programmes

Name: BBC News
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC News Channel programmes

Name: BBC Alba
Feed: BBC iPlayer - BBC ALBA programmes

and any other if you guys say they are working.

 

[offbyone]

AW: BBC iPlayer - Direct Channel Feeds & 4/5/ITV future potential

Now updated on Server (with thumbs). So have fun with AutoUpdate.

 

[revs]

Works great - thanks! Will be much easier for the WAF now!!

One quick question - I notice with the iPlayer streams that once you select one, you then get a menu with all the different resolutions/versions, is there any way to get it to default to the highest resolution one? (or default to something). That way it would simplify it, and increase the "WAF".

 

[offbyone]

AW: BBC iPlayer - Direct Channel Feeds & 4/5/ITV future potential

Problem with that is, I don't know which streams actually work beforehand.
I decided to show them all, so you can try all the different ones. If I pre-select one and onyl send its url to the player it might not work and there is no way you can then select other streams...

 

[frying_fish]

Along these lines, is it possible to have the live stream of the channels show up, or is that not appropriate for the way this plugin works. I tried adding the stream url in creating a channel, but think I may have gotten it wrong, as it doesn't seem to fetch. That or I have misunderstood how it is supposed to work.