Hi Sounds a bit like the problem that I have, as far as network I have about 15Mbs download on a good day and if nothing else is going on, I regularly get 8-10Mbs while doing a get_iplayer download and that is through the same proxy so it sounds like it is probably the app causing the problem.
Anyway Thanks for the feedback. Dave On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 18:16, Nic Siddle <[email protected]> wrote: > > May be totally unconnected, but we have found that i-Player is getting > less and less reliable when just watching catchup TV through a cheap > NowBox.. Buffering issues, often grinding to complete halt leading to > need to re-start. We do not experience the same problems with ITV or > Channels 4 & 5. I have my suspicion that the BBC is a lot more resource > hungry and that our i-net connection struggles to cope. But I am > guessing...... > > Nic > > On 28/02/2020 06:42, Dave Widgery wrote: > > Hi > > For many years I have used get_iplayer very successfully for > > downloading bbc content (thanks to all who maintain it) but a year ago > > I got a firestick and thought that I would be able to use that rather > > than downloading everything with get_iplayer, but I was wrong. ITV > > hub, Channel4, UKtv and many other players all work fine with live and > > replay content (with just the occasional error), but not bbc iplayer > > 75-80% of the time I get the purple worm then it errors, usually with > > a "something went wrong loading this program", also if playing live tv > > it has lots of buffering problems, does anyone else experience this > > sort of unreliability with iplayer. > > > > I am using a proxy server but it is not showing any errors that might > > be associated with that. I am not really asking for a fix, I was just > > wondering if it was just me or is bbc iplayer just not very reliable? > > or at least the firestick version. > > > > Dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > > get_iplayer mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
