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[Brownard]

Hi again
Did you do something?

No I didn't change anything, must have been a temporary issue with your VPN or something.

 

[Brownard]

Also, a somehat older problem, the BBC 3 category no longer shows any content

This should now be fixed. I made some quite substantial changes to the way the site is parsed so let me know if you come across any new issues

 

[joecrow]

@Brownard Hi I'm getting "Unable to Play the Video. No URL" for all BBC Iplayer content, it started around mid morning today, earlier it was OK. BBC Live is still working as is ITV Live and all ITV catchup content I have tried. I can viewBBC Iplayer programs via my browser without problem. How is it looking for you?

 

[Brownard]

Hi I'm getting "Unable to Play the Video. No URL" for all BBC Iplayer content,

I think I've fixed it, update and try again

 

[joecrow]

I think I've fixed it, update and try again

Yes, all working again.
Many Thanks

 

[joecrow]

@Brownard
Sorry to be a pain but since your last fix most things have been working great, just very occaisionally I get a hard error (see screenshot bbc2) when trying to play some Iplayer content, seems to be older vids in the A-Z section (Most Popular section always seems to be 100% OK). With respect to the failing vid. example in the screenshot I thought to try and select a different quality and noted that the "Limelight" version was at the bottom of the list (see screenshot bbc3) which, as I understand it, would be used for auto selection when enabled. Manually selecting the limelight version gave me the failure but the "akamai version plays without problem. From memory I do not believe my set up has ever been able to play limelight content, should it?
The default setting on my HTPC is to auto select best quality for the BBC, so if that were a limelight vid it will certainly give me the error. Having said that I am somewhat unsure since last night I tried several times to play the vid Bikes (Cookstown 100), without success and ended up watching it via the browser, but this morning it plays in OLV and its best quality version is now, at least, akamai.
Any idea what is going on?

 

[cloudyfly9999]

so good

 

[Brownard]

I'll try and take a look at this later today.

 

[huckster2]

Only live TV working for me :-(

Everything else is "Error starting playback. Connection is lost, cannot reopen."

 

[joecrow]

Most BBC catchup content is still working OK for me, the exception is as reported previously, where a "limelight" vid is at the bottom (highest priority) of the list, e.g. that Abba vid.
@huckster2 Try "Have I got News For You" in the Popular section, that works for me.